Agree, but sometimes it's difficult to get both on the same horizontal plane without an adjustable mount, thus single point support which seems better to do somewhere midpoint with the heavy Mitty objectives hanging off one end and heavy camera body off the other.ray_parkhurst wrote:Certainly mounting both camera and lens in a 2-point configuration will be far more rigid than either just camera or just lens.mawyatt wrote:Do you think the collar is sturdy enough to mount the camera/lens combo like you would for normal telephoto lens use, and better than just mounting the camera by it's 1/4-20 base.
Please proved the collar details, I might give this a shot since I think the 200mm Nikon AI and "Q" use the same knurled section, at least they look like they might be the same.
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That's one of the things I liked about the Hejnar ARCA plate, you would mount camera as usual to the ARCA plate and the "Y" adapter was mounted at the other end of the long ARCA plate and adjusted to engage the lens assembly to provide support. This worked very well for various 42, 52 & 58mm tube sections and should also work well for Nikon 200mm lenses, although I never tried it with the Nikon 200mm.
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