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Nop, I'm not troubled with this at all. I'm used to have custom-made tools for photo, actually in many cases I make my own, as many of my colleagues do. IMHO photo is a combination of art, science, and engeneering (and also it is a business, and I need to keep it profitable).Don't you find it terribly troubling that on a $7,700 lens, at suchJust collar? There is an easy way to fix it. $80 Wimberley, forAdditionally, the Nikon
400/2.8 AFS suffers from one of the poorest tripod collar designs
in recent history
example.
a critical fulcrum point on a lens that weighs nearly 10lbs (it
would be even more with the camera attached, and at such a levered
postion, too), it's held together with a few removable screws!!!
Why is it even removable at all? And I find it gauling that it
would need replacement in the first place! Even with the Wimberly
replacement, it's still held together with screws, with the whole
rig teetering on an area that probably isn't much more than one
inch square. All of Canon's tripod collars are single solid forged
units throughout the load-bearing leg-portion of the collar.
You spend your time and money as you please. I was merely pointing out one of the reasons why so many telephoto users have made an exodus from Nikon. I guess they're lazy; they don't want to be sitting in a machine sho custom-making their own modifications to their equipment.Nop, I'm not troubled with this at all. I'm used to have
custom-made tools for photo, actually in many cases I make my own,
as many of my colleagues do. IMHO photo is a combination of art,
science, and engeneering (and also it is a business, and I need to
keep it profitable).
You mean you put the combo of camera, lens, and gyro on a wheelbarrow and go shooting, don't you? Sorry, external gyros are un-needed extra weight. (They stabilize by way of a large spinning fly-wheel rotating at high rpm in a cylindrical housing.) These lenses are heavy enough as it is. And gyros are not very quiet, which I'm sure is just great for wildlife photography. Not to mention that they're extra cost, too! Seems like it's an awful lot of trouble to go through when a much simpler, more elegant, and more effective solution is readily available.Re gyros - the model you've suggested are not the only available.
They do not replace IS, but actually give you more, as with them
you gain more stops. You put the combo of camera, lens, and gyro on
a bench so that it resembles a rifle, and go shooting.
I'm sorry, you do not get it.Seems like it's an awful
lot of trouble to go through when a much simpler, more elegant, and
more effective solution is readily available.
--Both these lenses are optically superbe, definitely of the highestJust take both 400 lenses, shoot the same real film, not MTF, and
judge the difference.
caliber. For the record, the Canon 400/2.8L IS scored a 4.4 at
photodo, a truly excellent score. In fact, there are no other
Canon lenses that exceed that score, except for one: the Canon
200/1.8L with a score of 4.8, which photodo claims is the highest
score of any lens they have ever tested. The Nikon 400/2.8 AFS,
unfortunately, is not tested. Of the Nikon lenses that photodo has
tested, there are no scores higher than 4.4.
But testing in controlled conditions aside, in the field you will
see the real-world performance edge going to the Canon simply do to
the vibration-cancelling effects of IS. Additionally, the Nikon
400/2.8 AFS suffers from one of the poorest tripod collar designs
in recent history, as discussed here:
http://www.naturfotograf.com/tripod_collar_rev00.html
Mounting a lens onto this lens is somewhat like being on the
business end of a diving springboad. Compare that with the Canon
400/2.8L IS lens's design, which has a much shorter, lower tripod
neck, that is positioned in a position of better balance, closer to
the camera body. Additionally, this effects how it handles with a
monopod, too, because it allows you to position the head and
monopod much closer to your body rather than farther out, as the
Nikon 400/2.8 tripod collar design requires.
