On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:14:07PM +0100, Cotty wrote: > On 16/7/05, P?l Jensen, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >That depends how heavy it is. Noone I know can held a 600mm lens > >still....It is too heavy... :-) > > Agreed. Even a 300 2.8 is pushing it too much. I'm thinking of a 70- > 200 2.8 zoom, with maybe a teleconverter as well. After half an hour, my > muscles feel the strain.
There's at least one regular amongst the photgraphers I see at race meetings who hand-holds a 400/2.8 (on a Canon megabody, no less)