On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 at 16:41:14 -0500, John Mustarde
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed, to the delight of the assembled
multitude:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 13:49:42 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >John, I was wondering what about the sideway support is of concern to you? I use
> >the Kirk King Cobra head with my 600 and haven't run into anything that I'm
> >concerned about with it yet. Ken Waller
> I believe the foot/collar assembly is just cheap cast
> metal, very strong when handling compression loads but
> relatively weak at handling loads in other directions.
>
> I guess I would be afraid the tripod collar, under a
> sideways or uppermost load scenario, would simply break
> off at some point in its construction, sending the lens
> crashing to the ground.
The F* ED(IF) 300mm f/4.5 tripod mount fits into a ring with detents
on the lens body, so you can turn the camera on its side without
flipping the tripod mount out of its normal position.
Is the lens under discussion engineered in the same way?
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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