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Bean bag or not on safari in East Africa

Started Sep 18, 2018 | Discussions thread
Chizuka
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Re: Bean bag or not on safari in East Africa

DarrenChef wrote:

I've been to Kruger and Sri Lanka safari's with lens, if you are lucky you won't have a full jeep, allowing space to move about and get a decent resting place. If normal/unlucky the jeep will be full, everyone will be moving about ,the resting positions in jeep will be limited.

we will be the lucky ones!!!

I found with G9 and 100-400mm the IS is suitable and as its a lighter long lens it'll be fine handholding.

I too hand hold the G9 and 100-400mm for a while but I thought that a bean bag would allow me to rest my arm and probably add stability.

You can use rucksack/spare fleece to rest on rather than a specific bean bag.

Good luck

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