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Subject: [OM] Re: Hiking (trekking) pole
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:02:07 +0000
Not if ya focusses and zooms and sets the f-thing before ya puts the lens in 
the yoke!  Only takes a second.

Seriously, that's rarely much of a real problem, particularly with longer 
lenses, which are the only justification I can find for using a monopod in the 
first place.  I have done it this way with the 50/2, 35-80/2.8, 100/2, 180/2.8, 
300/4.5, 400/6.3, and 500/8 Zuikos, 28-105/2.8, 90/2.8 1:1 macro and 80-200/2.8 
Tamrons.  I've never tried the 300/2.8 Tamron this way, since, if I've got to 
lug it out of sight of the OM-4Runner, I might as well tote a real tripod too.  
But never more than 500 yards.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
> 
> >I find using the "Y" yoke generally every bit as sturdy and far more 
> >convenient 
> than actually physically attaching the camera or lens to the 'pod via the 
> screw, 
> much less to a ball head.  
> >
> Doesn't that interfere with moving the focusing and/or zoom rings?
> 
> Moose
> 
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