At 02:53 PM 2/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
The 180/2.8, when mounted on a teleconverter, makes a rather long and
heavy lens - I would hesitate to put the camera on a tripod, I'm not
certain the lens-teleconverter or teleconverter-camera junction would not
break.
Is there a solution to this problem? The 180/2.8 has no tripod ring. Are
there tripod rings that could be mounted on it? In addition I don't see
much space on the lens where such a ring could fit...
Bogen/Manfrotto makes a telephoto cradle device for the top of your tripod
and works fine for long lenses without ring mounts.
Winsor Crosby
The telephoto lens support (3420) works very well with the 180/2.8 and 2X-A
doubler, especially because the lens focuses internally. It's not quite so
good with a 200/4 because it doesn't focus internally.
Unfortunately, the tripod mounting ring that comes stock with the 85-250
and 300/4.5 has slightly too large a diameter for the 2X-A. Somebody once
suggested getting an innertube and stretching it around the 2X-A to
increase its diameter. That might just make it of a sufficient diameter to
hold the tripod mounting ring in place, but I've never tried it.
Joel W.
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