Heavy Lenses
Apr 5, 2024 07:09:30 #
PhotoMono123 wrote:
If your lens has a mounting foot, then you might try a leather pliers holster that fits on your belt. I use one with my Sigma 150-500 — a big, heavy lens — and it works fine. You can pick one up in the tool department at Home Depot or your local hardware store for less than $15.00.
It works best if you have a "sling" type camera strap. All the weight is taken on your belt. See the two photos below.
It works best if you have a "sling" type camera strap. All the weight is taken on your belt. See the two photos below.
This idea I like
Apr 5, 2024 08:21:06 #
Sidwalkastronomy
Loc: New Jersey Shore
NormanTheGr8 wrote:
i would not want to attach the strap to the camera... (show quote)
I love my cotton carrier vest
Apr 6, 2024 00:11:59 #
cbg photos
Loc: Warren, New Jersey
I totally agree with the method of carrying your camera by attaching it to the lens foot and using a black rapid strap. I have the same lens and it works perfect, very comfortable! 👍🏻😎
Apr 6, 2024 20:06:53 #
wandering star
Loc: Hillsborough, NJ
Hiking for a couple of hours with a heavy camera around my neck is painful... and that is with a 55-250 mm lens. I now use a harness instead of a neck strap. Mine just attaches to the camera body straps, but for a bigger lens, you need one that attaches to the camera with a tripod mount attachment that holds the camera to your front, and takes the weight off the camera strap points. The lens will be heavy, the camera light, so it is better to hold the lens snuggly anyway.
This will take the weight and put it on your shoulders like a pack, not your neck, and it stops the camera from swinging around at all, You just lift it and it is free- but still secured from being dropped by secondary straps going to the camera points.
There are many available on Amazon. Many have TWO camera points, so you can carry the main one on your chest and a second on your hip. Some have a couple of pockets for batteries and SD cards. With a wide lens on one camera and a zoom on the other, spare batteries and cards, you do not usually need a bag.
Save your neck, get a harness.
This will take the weight and put it on your shoulders like a pack, not your neck, and it stops the camera from swinging around at all, You just lift it and it is free- but still secured from being dropped by secondary straps going to the camera points.
There are many available on Amazon. Many have TWO camera points, so you can carry the main one on your chest and a second on your hip. Some have a couple of pockets for batteries and SD cards. With a wide lens on one camera and a zoom on the other, spare batteries and cards, you do not usually need a bag.
Save your neck, get a harness.
Apr 8, 2024 15:54:02 #
Hi, I attach a monopod to the lens and I rest it on my shoulder when I walk. The lens is the Pentax HD D FA 150-450mm F4.5-5.6. Heavy lens, but nice results!
Apr 13, 2024 20:28:53 #
I'm reviving this thread to show what I just built for my heavy lens. It's made from a piece of aluminum from Lowes, and the bolt and wingnut I had kicking around. It's mounted with the foot on the lens bottom, so that the plate is pulling up against the foot, rather than hanging from the bolt. I'll carry it with the lens sideways against my chest rather than sticking straight out.
Right now I have attached it to my official Canon strap that came with the camera, and I can really feel the weight on my neck. If it works out on an expedition to a local Audubon reservation, I'll order some additional straps to adapt it to my Optek system.
Right now I have attached it to my official Canon strap that came with the camera, and I can really feel the weight on my neck. If it works out on an expedition to a local Audubon reservation, I'll order some additional straps to adapt it to my Optek system.
Apr 13, 2024 22:47:59 #
Apr 14, 2024 06:38:55 #
Check out a Peak Design Slide strap which is use to carry your rig cross chest and take the load off of your neck. One end connects to your camera strap lug,and the other side connects to your lens via t plate on your lens foot. The best part is that the camera and lens do not bounce around when moving about and leaving your hands free. Avail at B&H and most others around 65 USD BTW..I'm now 80,and have been using it with my D5oo with a Tamron 150-600 G2 for4 years now!!
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