They also made some funky tripods on the Kickstartes.
EBH
I’ve been using PD straps with version 4 anchors for about 5 years now. I have spare anchors and check the ones in use annually and have not had to change one yet.
I read they had an issue at one time. I just checked their site and they are still using version 4 anchors so it looks like they got past any problems. Version 4 anchors have thicker cables.
I also carry my gear with an arca plate attached to the lens foot. One PD anchor is attached to the foot and the other to the body. Currently I only have the RF 100-500 but I did carry my 400 DO II around like that for a few years and would not hesitate to carry a big white with that system.
p.2 #5 · Supporting big whites with a camera strap.
lighthound wrote:
Nope, I wouldn't hang any great white off a body with the strap attached to the body and not the lens itself. As Jim pointed out above, our lenses have lugs built into them for a reason. I only use the camera strap lugs with my 100-500 or lighter lenses.
I don'r see a lens lug on my RF 100-500. Is yours the RF?
p.2 #6 · Supporting big whites with a camera strap.
My PD method. I've been using the Camdapter hand strap for over 15 years. At one time when I was younger I would walk around with it all day with no other strap when I had a smaller lens like a 24-105 attached. While it is not necessary for this set up if I remove it things just don't feel right.
I'm set up the same with my R6II where I do use my RF 24-105 so the hand strap is still vital to me. Sometimes I also attach the PD strap and sometimes I don't.
As you can see in the 3rd image I have the anchor connected to the Arca style foot which the hand strap is attached to. I could use the camera lug but I like this set up.
p.2 #9 · Supporting big whites with a camera strap.
Alan Kefauver wrote:
I wrote to PD to ask if they have any anchors with longer tethers because the lugs on some lenses are so thick that the anchors are so close to the lens it's hard to get the strap to clip on.
PD responded:
"I am sorry but we don't have anything longer than that. We always recommend folks attach our plates and anchor mounts onto the camera body as that will be the best way to use our products. Lens bayonets are actually very strong and are designed to hold upwards of 200lbs. The collars and feet that are on many larger lenses are designed to be used more so for balancing on a tripod than “strength" -- this is why they are also referred to as Tripod Collars or Tripod Foot. -- many of us at Peak have this lens and we attach the strap to the body and not the lens itself."
How do you feel about this statement? I am leery of hanging a 600mm f/4 on an R5 and then using a sling strap only attached to the body. This means the lens is only supported by the bayonet mount on the body.
Thoughts?
ps: cross posting this to the M43 forum as the question originally arose about the Zuiko 150-400 f/4.5 w 1.25TC on an OM-1 body.
p.2 #10 · Supporting big whites with a camera strap.
Zenon Char wrote:
I don'r see a lens lug on my RF 100-500. Is yours the RF?
I think you misread what I wrote. I only use the camera strap lugs with my 100-500 or lighter lenses. The 100-500 doesn't have lugs. My 500II does and I use them whenever I'm out without my monopod. Which is then just slung over my shoulder when on the move.
p.2 #11 · Supporting big whites with a camera strap.
lighthound wrote:
I think you misread what I wrote. I only use the camera strap lugs with my 100-500 or lighter lenses. The 100-500 doesn't have lugs. My 500II does and I use them whenever I'm out without my monopod. Which is then just slung over my shoulder when on the move.
p.2 #12 · Supporting big whites with a camera strap.
Alan Kefauver wrote:
I wrote to PD to ask if they have any anchors with longer tethers because the lugs on some lenses are so thick that the anchors are so close to the lens it's hard to get the strap to clip on.
PD responded:
"I am sorry but we don't have anything longer than that. We always recommend folks attach our plates and anchor mounts onto the camera body as that will be the best way to use our products. Lens bayonets are actually very strong and are designed to hold upwards of 200lbs. The collars and feet that are on many larger lenses are designed to be used more so for balancing on a tripod than “strength" -- this is why they are also referred to as Tripod Collars or Tripod Foot. -- many of us at Peak have this lens and we attach the strap to the body and not the lens itself."
How do you feel about this statement? I am leery of hanging a 600mm f/4 on an R5 and then using a sling strap only attached to the body. This means the lens is only supported by the bayonet mount on the body.
Thoughts?
ps: cross posting this to the M43 forum as the question originally arose about the Zuiko 150-400 f/4.5 w 1.25TC on an OM-1 body.
