Last week I mentioned the new 180-600 proved to be very sharp and well made except for the foot which is not Swiss-Arca compatible. I fixed mine and hope this will be informative for some who also want to have a Swiss-Arca foot on their lens.

First I ordered a plate which is about 1 1/2" longer than the Nikon foot. The Nikon foot has two holes -- a 1/4x20, and a 3/8". The plate opening for the mounting screw will only allow the 1/4x20 screw to be used. I ordered an insert to reduce the Nikon 3/8 opening to 1/4x20. I also ordered new screws that attach with an allen wrench which I deem more secure than a regular screw. By doing this I was able to use two screws to mount the new plate to the Nikon foot. This makes an extra firm mount that will not slip like a single screw could. Below are photos of the items I used.

The total cost of this project was around 25.00.

I will add this one comment: Someone mentioned Nikon may use the foot they do for comfort and I will agree with the attached plate its ridges do make carrying it by the foot less comfortable.

Hi. I was born in this igloo base hospitol in 1955 n have pic of me n my mother on the front pg news paper for igloo...my mother said she worked on the base as n ammunition handler...n my dad worked there too but she never said what he did. I never really knew how mindblowing her job really was till I read about Igloo n it's purpose to support the war effort...i.only then did I realize the significance of the job she did for our country! Wow! She never bragged abt what she did or say much abt it or talk abt her time there.... she was a young native American woman from the Cheyenne River reservation. Her name was Zerilda Mesteth n her husband was Henry(hank)Mesteth.

VASA was developed by Microsoft, but it hasn't been released. Heaven help us if and when they do release. Imagine this. You take a picture of a face and add any audio text to it. the face moves and speaks the text file perfectly. They tried it with a drawing of a Japanese face speaking Japanese. Although MS did not train it to speak Japanese, it performed perfectly. As an added feature, you can specify serious, happy, concerned, or angry. If this becomes available, we will never be able to believe what we see and hear.

Take a look. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

Besides the very good advice you have been receiving as responses to your query. There is a good reason to consider this: Consider buying an inexpensive pocket camera, as Paul has mentioned, take a lot of photos with it, and when you find what it limits you to, take note and this will be a feature or features you will need to have in the camera you purchase for your use.

You may find that the pocket camera does everything you need and you have not spent a lot of money. Also you may find that photography is not something you want to invest a lot of money into, you haven't done that. There are a lot of really good pocket cameras for under $500.00, and used ones for very low prices.

There are times you may want to have a camera, but don't want the hassle of carrying a large camera and lens(es), just throw your pocket camera into your pocket and you are ready to go.

You, like most people nowadays, probably have an iPhone or Android which could serve the same purpose. Find out what you are limited with, on your phone, and use those things to determine what you really want in a camera.

I haven't suggested a brand, but the big three are the best ones to stick to. Use your own judgement to determine the camera you would like. One point is you may have friends who have and use cameras they could help you if you can't get satisfactory responses here on UHH, but the responses I have seen are very good advice.