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I recently ordered a couple of custom made rain covers for my two long lenses. The covers are made from fully a waterproof nylon lattice weave printed with a camo style which is pretty close to the "forest green" pattern used by Lenscoat for their protective covers.
The covers are extremely light and store flat. The objective lens end has elastic sewn in to snuggly grip the lens whilst the camera body end has a semi-flexible wire hoop shaped to the size of the body. The underside of the cover has a long slit sealed with Velcro to allow the tripod foot to protrude.
There's also an optional tripod shelf which is a small triangular piece with three elasticated loops to fix over the legs of the tripod and hold a few sundry items (a tin of Golden Virginia in my case)
The quality, whilst not up there with the proprietory brands, is excellent for the price and makes this a valuable edition to the bag when there's a chance of showers (or a bit of camo for those folk who don't have Lens Coats wrapped around their tackle).
Ruth (the lady who has supplied this) will make the covers based on your own given sizes and she will provide a simple skecth with dimesnions A, B, C etc to be returned. She's also building up a database of standard body/lens combo's for simplicity.
Price?...well, I paid £40 (inclusive of delivery) for covers for my 600/4 and 300/2.8 and a tripod shelf. This all equates to about a third of the cost of one cover from the proprietory brands. It was 4 days from ordering to delivery which is darn good for a made to measure item. Ruth's hubby Brian is an avid bird tog (Ruth also gets out with him when she's not knocking up covers) and the prototype was simply to fill their own needs.
Ruth can be contacted at brianwardell1@btinternet.com if anyone would like to grab one of these bargains....I'm glad I did.
Bob
The covers are extremely light and store flat. The objective lens end has elastic sewn in to snuggly grip the lens whilst the camera body end has a semi-flexible wire hoop shaped to the size of the body. The underside of the cover has a long slit sealed with Velcro to allow the tripod foot to protrude.
There's also an optional tripod shelf which is a small triangular piece with three elasticated loops to fix over the legs of the tripod and hold a few sundry items (a tin of Golden Virginia in my case)
The quality, whilst not up there with the proprietory brands, is excellent for the price and makes this a valuable edition to the bag when there's a chance of showers (or a bit of camo for those folk who don't have Lens Coats wrapped around their tackle).
Ruth (the lady who has supplied this) will make the covers based on your own given sizes and she will provide a simple skecth with dimesnions A, B, C etc to be returned. She's also building up a database of standard body/lens combo's for simplicity.
Price?...well, I paid £40 (inclusive of delivery) for covers for my 600/4 and 300/2.8 and a tripod shelf. This all equates to about a third of the cost of one cover from the proprietory brands. It was 4 days from ordering to delivery which is darn good for a made to measure item. Ruth's hubby Brian is an avid bird tog (Ruth also gets out with him when she's not knocking up covers) and the prototype was simply to fill their own needs.
Ruth can be contacted at brianwardell1@btinternet.com if anyone would like to grab one of these bargains....I'm glad I did.
Bob
