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SilverPenguin said:
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Couple more ND filters
Decent (read, lighter) tripod
600 VR seeing as the 200-400 will be just that on full frame! (this one won't be had for a long while yet though)
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Lol, you really care about the weight of your tripod when your going to be hauling a 600mm around?! Id recommend adding a golf buggy to that list to help you move your kit around. ;) :p
 
messiah khan said:
Lol, you really care about the weight of your tripod when your going to be hauling a 600mm around?! Id recommend adding a golf buggy to that list to help you move your kit around. ;) :p
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lol, its BECAUSE of the weight of these big lenses that I want a lighter tripod.

Carrying my 200-400 and heavy tripod around all day is just about on my limits for not getting the hump lol. Anyway that 600 won't be mine for some time to come yet (I'll just use my friends one in the meantime hehe).
 
I'm some how doubting the ability of anyone to carry around a 600mm lens all day. They're absolutely massive and very heavy.
 
xolotl said:
I'm some how doubting the ability of anyone to carry around a 600mm lens all day. They're absolutely massive and very heavy.
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My friend does, puts the lens on the tripd and then puts the tripod over his shoulders, with one leg resting on his chest, one on his back and then he holds the third leg which sticks out to his side. It is a mission though! I lugged it up a hillside in Scotland earlier this year and was sweating like a pig when I got to the top haha

You'd be amazed how you adapt to carrying these big guns around. At first they seem HUGE but once your used to them they don't seem half as scary. I thought the 200-400 was a beast at first but now I don't give it a second thought to carrying it around everywhere.
 
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