Getting around with large lens (Page 3): you might want to look into wheeled camera bags. i use one for my 5x7 technika and with lenses, light meters and film holders, not to mention...

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

Stevenwillemse wrote:

Thank you but I need to drag / carry mine for about 4-5 km with tripod before setting up. Even been practicing with weights in my backpack as if the birds won't come to me ....
And it's over pretty rough terrain

you might want to look into wheeled camera bags. i use one for my 5x7 technika and with lenses, light meters and film holders, not to mention ye olde tripod, it makes it much easier for me.

RRS Loc: Not sure

Stevenwillemse wrote:

Does anyone here use super telephoto lenses if so I would love to see how you get around with them. I am not talking about the smaller lenses but the extreme lenses like the f/4 500mm or 600mm or even the 800mm 5.6.

Thank you
Steve

Hi Steve,
I bought the Lowepro 600 from B&H and it holds a 600mm f/4.0 with a 1.4 TC and a pro body. I'm 71 and I can carry it on my back for about two miles and yes I am able to set up and still shoot and even walk back, LOL. I carry an RRS tripod with a gimbal by hand. Go to B&H and look up the bags from Lowepro for the long lenses. Good luck.

bigjb3

I use a Black Rapid R-Strap screwed into this Really Right Stuff clamp. I then attach it to the lens foot of my Canon 500mm F4 lens. I can also attach the shoulder strap to my RRS L-bracket on my camera when need a strap.

http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/B2-FABN-38mm-Screw-knob-clamp-with-strap-bosses

ronaldmilne

I use a cotton carrier vest and just carry the tripod and find it ok for a couple of miles more than that I would use a back pack

Jerry Green Loc: Huntsville, AL

I shoot with the Nikon D810 and Nikon 600 mm lens. For short distances I carry it like some of the other posts mention. For longer distances I use a modified jogging stroller to carry all my gear. Picked it up at a thrift store. My camera bag is a diaper bag also found at a thrift store.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Stevenwillemse wrote:

Does anyone here use super telephoto lenses if so I would love to see how you get around with them. I am not talking about the smaller lenses but the extreme lenses like the f/4 500mm or 600mm or even the 800mm 5.6.

Thank you
Steve

Backpacks.

I use a couple older Lowepro... Mini Trekker handles up to Canon 300/2.8 or 400/4 DO (and will fit into the overhead bin in an airplane). My larger Photo Trekker can handle Canon 500/4, 200-400/4, and 800/5.6.

I don't have 400/2.8 or 600/4, either of which would require a larger lens case. There are several designs of those from Lowepro and others.

Sigma 200-500/2.8? Hire a Sherpa.

It is extremely risky to carry a big lens mounted on a tripod or monopod and propped over one's shoulder... Yeah, I do it for short distances too. But I've also seen some big glass end up on the ground hauling it around that way. There's lots of torque on the quick releases and tripod/monopod head, as well as the bolts holding it all together.

Shooting at race tracks, I see more than a few photographers zipping around in golf carts... some even have drivers assigned to them! Out in the field, they're probably the ones with ATVs.

twillsol Loc: St. Louis, MO

Stevenwillemse wrote:

Does anyone here use super telephoto lenses if so I would love to see how you get around with them. I am not talking about the smaller lenses but the extreme lenses like the f/4 500mm or 600mm or even the 800mm 5.6.

Thank you
Steve

I have a wonderful wife who goes with me and carriers it. Recently though, she bought a bag on wheels and my 150 - 600 S fits perfectly in it. she now pulls it around instead of carring it. I carry the tripod and everything else. Sure glad I married her.

Paul J. Svetlik Loc: Colorado

Those really big ones impress the crowds around the scenic parking lots providing usually only so-so images while other, more convenient, quicker and even larger range bridge camera zooms do the work.
However, they offer an occasional, loving dust brushing for the owner - like me.

Bill_de Loc: US

Paul J. Svetlik wrote:

Those really big ones impress the crowds around the scenic parking lots providing usually only so-so images while other, more convenient, quicker and even larger range bridge camera zooms do the work.
However, they offer an occasional, loving dust brushing for the owner - like me.

That's really funny. :lol:

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

I have made use of (what I call) "The Remington Support System".....

It is a plastic Rifle Stock with a Wire cable release in place of a trigger (and where the trigger would rest on the stock)....

NOW Please NOTE >>

This support is NOT recommended in places where the use of such would cause "suspicions" of others ( Namely = The Law Enforcement Organizations. )

It is a bit "top heavy" however, It Will allow good support and almost total movability for flying birds and other moving objects.

This works well for me.....

Others here will = and should = have their own take on this....

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bcrawf

Haydon wrote:

Construct a piece of closed cell foam with velcro closures for your shoulder. Lenscoat the tripod legs as well. They offer a level of comfort

Very neat accommodation! The choice of foam would be important. Generous of you to share.

chaman

James R wrote:

I have made use of (what I call) "The Remingt... (show quote)

Now that is pretty cool!!

Photocraig

10MPlayer wrote:

As a land surveyor I'm quite used to hauling a total station survey instrument or GPS unit, wooden tripod,bipod with glass prism, metal detector, wooden hubs, lath, 60d nails, notebooks, plumb bob, calculator, extra batteries and anything else I may need over all kinds of terrain from flat central valley to Sierra Nevada mountains. Compared to that, carrying a camera and aluminum tripod is nothing.

I was about to comment along these lines, too. I'm a 3rd generation surveyor (lower case because my career was doing something else) and my son is a 4th generation Surveyor in NV and CA. Carrying, in my day, a Transit or level, rods, brush hook or machete for the thin stuff up, down and beyond yonder was all in a day's work.

My chagrin is that by the time many photographers can possibly afford a monster tele lens, they're less than excited about carrying it. There are many real life parallels--hmmm. The creator does, indeed, have a sense of humor!

C

Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

alandg46 wrote:

They become parking lot queens. They get hauled out of a vehicle, dragged 100 feet or so, picked up by a crane and mounted on a tripod.

Truly, they do become parking lot queens. I know. I've had a couple of 9-10 pounders.

Hence the appeal of bridge cameras

chaman

Shutterbugsailer wrote:

Hence the appeal of bridge cameras

:roll: :roll:

Just one after the other....must be one of those days.