Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul, If you ever carry the lens/camera by a strap get the strap for the lens as the screws on the lens mount are not made to carry around a lens as heavy as the 280. Also try the hand grip this is one of the neatest things about the Leica 280 lens IMHO...it makes holding this lens easy...I have made many thousands of images hand holding lenses of this length..many of them at basketball. Harrison McClary http://www.mcclary.net - ---------- >From: "Paul Bolam" <Paul@bolam67.freeserve.co.uk> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] 280mm F2.8 APO-TELYT-R >Date: Tue, Oct 5, 1999, 2:13 PM > >Also, there are two lugs on the lens body above the aperture ring. I guess >they are for some kind of strap. If so, is it worth trying to track one >down? So far, I've only used the lens with a monopod. >N.B. the case also contained a handgrip that I don't think I would use. This >beast is too cumbersome to be handheld IMHO.