If you can handhold or not would be dependant upon the prevailing light and how much dof you are after. If you need to use a small aperture and hyper-focal focusing to increase your dof you won't be able to handhold unless the foreground is a long way off.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html