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Good evening,
So the tripod collar on my sony 100-400 lens was turning but not loosening or tightening the collar at all to allow vertical shots when mounted on a tripod. I took it apart and managed to use some pin style players and could loosen it and tighten the mechanism, but that's not ideal in the field really. It's the little screw that is doing nothing. So in my infinite wisdom I tried to glue the screw into the hole and glue the knob to the screw with some really sticky gorilla glue stuff. It worked for a few turns but the same outcome now occurs so turns out this bit of genius didn't really have the desired effect.
Now any suggestions on shooting vertical on a tripod given this predicament? The lens is a heavy bugger and I don't fancy just attaching the camera to the tripod with this lens and just trying to hold/balance the tripod. Since the collar mechanism does not come off I am all out of ideas. Is it a case of send it to Sony (not in warranty so god knows how much that would cost) or just hand hold any vertical shots and bump the iso, shutter speed and hope for the best.
Cheers
So the tripod collar on my sony 100-400 lens was turning but not loosening or tightening the collar at all to allow vertical shots when mounted on a tripod. I took it apart and managed to use some pin style players and could loosen it and tighten the mechanism, but that's not ideal in the field really. It's the little screw that is doing nothing. So in my infinite wisdom I tried to glue the screw into the hole and glue the knob to the screw with some really sticky gorilla glue stuff. It worked for a few turns but the same outcome now occurs so turns out this bit of genius didn't really have the desired effect.
Now any suggestions on shooting vertical on a tripod given this predicament? The lens is a heavy bugger and I don't fancy just attaching the camera to the tripod with this lens and just trying to hold/balance the tripod. Since the collar mechanism does not come off I am all out of ideas. Is it a case of send it to Sony (not in warranty so god knows how much that would cost) or just hand hold any vertical shots and bump the iso, shutter speed and hope for the best.
Cheers