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Best way to store Camera & mounted lens in bag?
I recently got a heavy lens and realized I need to be more careful about my
mounts. I do a lot of shooting outside, therefore like to go out with my main lens I am going to use attached. When I was using prime lenses or short telephoto, I was just setting it down in the bag as if you were setting it on a table with slight padding under the lens. With my new heavy (around pound+) lens, I was told to put the in the bag with lens pointed down. In my computer bag, I have side dividers, so the lenses are protected, but nothing to really hold the weight of the camera. I was told by a person that this is fine as there no bad pressure on the mount. Any advice and thoughts would be very much appreciated! |
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Best way to store Camera & mounted lens in bag?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:52:47 -0800, Mike Jenkins wrote:
With my new heavy (around pound+) lens, I was told to put the in the bag with lens pointed down. In my computer bag, I have side dividers, so the lenses are protected, but nothing to really hold the weight of the camera. I was told by a person that this is fine as there no bad pressure on the mount. Any advice and thoughts would be very much appreciated! It sounds like reasonable advice to me. First consider an unusual, perhaps unreasonable case, where you want to store the camera while attached to a 20 lb. lens. You'd probably want to have the relatively small body perched atop the gigantic lens rather than the other way around. The lens would make a nice secure base for the lens, and I don't see that the weight of the camera on the lens would in any way cause a problem. Probably the worst position for a mounted lens would be when it is being used to shoot pictures, since it would usually be held horizontally, and the torsional forces are probably much tougher on the mount. But who has ever had that cause any kind of problem? Nobody, I'd guess. The only position in a bag that *might* make a difference that I can think of would be with some of the small P&S cameras that have moderately long, fragile lenses. Some of these have been known to be easily damaged by relatively light taps to the lens. Maybe it's due to the use of cheap plastic or nylon gears or other parts in the lens, aided and abetted by loose tolerances. For them, it might be better to put the camera in the bag LCD down, with the lens pointed straight up, touching nothing. With a DSLR and heavy lens such as you have, I'd try to do the opposite, storing the combo with lens pointed down, preferably with the lens resting on the padded bottom instead of hanging from a securely mounted camera. But this is only a preference based on an assumed convenience, and any orientation of the camera in the bag is probably just fine, as long as the camera and lens are secure and protected (with padding) from being jostled by any other dense or heavy objects also stored in the bag. |
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Best way to store Camera & mounted lens in bag?
Mike Jenkins wrote:
I recently got a heavy lens and realized I need to be more careful about my mounts. I do a lot of shooting outside, therefore like to go out with my main lens I am going to use attached. When I was using prime lenses or short telephoto, I was just setting it down in the bag as if you were setting it on a table with slight padding under the lens. With my new heavy (around pound+) lens, I was told to put the in the bag with lens pointed down. In my computer bag, I have side dividers, so the lenses are protected, but nothing to really hold the weight of the camera. I was told by a person that this is fine as there no bad pressure on the mount. Any advice and thoughts would be very much appreciated! Perhaps you should look at your choice of bag. A computer bag is hardly the suitable choice for a camera. I bought an excellent flight bag in Tesco for around £8, and it is absolutely superb. I also wrap my Nikons in large chamois leathers before storing them in the bag. Dennis. |
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Best way to store Camera & mounted lens in bag?
Mike Jenkins wrote:
I recently got a heavy lens and realized I need to be more careful about my mounts. I do a lot of shooting outside, therefore like to go out with my main lens I am going to use attached. When I was using prime lenses or short telephoto, I was just setting it down in the bag as if you were setting it on a table with slight padding under the lens. With my new heavy (around pound+) lens, I was told to put the in the bag with lens pointed down. In my computer bag, I have side dividers, so the lenses are protected, but nothing to really hold the weight of the camera. I was told by a person that this is fine as there no bad pressure on the mount. Any advice and thoughts would be very much appreciated! Don't worry so much. A camera is a tool, not a member of the family. As a tool if you worry too much about the tool you are more likely to miss the object of the exercise, the image. -- Joseph Meehan Dia 's Muire duit |
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