Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
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So today I was in the hills shooting with a 70-300mm zoom (blame @Lefty !) and just the weight of that lens meant I was struggling to keep it still while standing on uneven ground, quite gusty wind, and at full zoom 300mm I was even struggling to keep it still enough to frame properly. That said - the results I got did not show any signs of camera shake or blur - but it just was a bit tricky to take shots comfortably. I think I'm going to give one a go.
Don't think for one moment that gusty wind will keep a large lens/camera combo steady on either a monopod or on an extended lightweight tripod, in conditions like that you need a much more serious tripod. I had movement issues above Llyn Idwal with @Lefty due to gusts of wind (using a GFX50S and a Manfrotto 055 Tripod), it was so bad @Lefty resorted to lying on the ground and using his tripod with no extension.
Here's a shot of him braving the conditions to get the shot at Llyn Idwal.
And no pod at all!
Indeed! There was no point in those conditions. It was crazy.
Certainly made you feel alive!
Haha - which 70-300 have you got? The AF-P? Have you bought it along with the FT-Z adaptor? As Mr P says, in windy conditions there's no substitute for a heavy tripod. (Although I wouldn't be averse to hand holding and ramping up the ISO if it was the only way to get the shot)
As I did when slipping around on the ice at the top of High Force waterfall one December, alone, no phone signal.
Yes I got an FTZ adaptor on eBay, and the 70-300 AF-P was an open-box discount from Wex. It is definitely a much better lens than the AF-S I had before. Yesterday was my first chance to really use it on a walk over the Pentlands ridge south of Edinburgh. The telephoto perspective compression takes some getting used to.... I might post a couple of shots on the PAW thread.
Be careful with Gorillapods, the legs can be folded beyond their elastic limits where the ball pops out of a socket, breaking the leg. This is particularly true if you wrap the legs around railings, etc, don't want expensive camera equipment crashing to the ground! Used within their limitations they are good pieces of kit though.