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Protecting Your Knees

Started Jul 28, 2019 | Questions thread
RavRad
RavRad Regular Member • Posts: 133
Re: Protecting Your Knees

charley5 wrote:

Just wondering how macro photographers deal with the fact that they may be on their knees a lot, leading to sore knees? I am at the age when such considerations have become more prominent. I was thinking of getting gardener's knee pads, but I am not sure that will help since my body weight would still be on the knees, and I am not necessarily kneeling on hard surfaces (earth, grass).

Thanks.

-Charles

I use these when I'm out shooting Macro. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BPWV83H/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

People will give me the crazy eye, but it doesn't matter...they'll give you the crazy eye for bing on your knees with a camera shoved into a bush or flower or grass anyways.

I know plenty of people in their 70's that get along just fine with their knees in all sorts of activities that require being on them because of my other primary hobby of metal detecting.  The main difference between those that are good and those that suffer is those that are good usually tend to exercise regularly.  The old guys that rode their bodies hard and put them away wet usually have issues, but still get by and do great with a good set of knee pads.

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