Tripod collar for 'push pull' lens

HelineB · 2 Aug 2010

Hi everyone,

I hope I can get some advice from you!

I've bought a nikkor 'push pull' lens and was wondering if anyone can give me some tips or an idea of a tripod collar I can use on the lens. It's so heavy that it makes me very uncomfortable when I'm thinking of the strain of the lens mount.

Thanks!

puddleduck · 3 Aug 2010

push-push?

Looking at your other thread re: Sigma vs Nikkor, if you bought the lens everyone was recommending*, you should have got a tripod collar already.

"push pull" sounds like you bought the earlier version.....?

*apart from the blind Sigma fan boys

puddleduck · 3 Aug 2010

This is the lens you want:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/80200.htm

HelineB · 3 Aug 2010

I bought the older one. I found one in really good condition.

Is everyone going to yell at me now?

puddleduck · 3 Aug 2010

HelineB said:
I bought the older one. I found one in really good condition.

Is everyone going to yell at me now?

The optics on the older one are still excellent.

Having said that I reckon if most of us had realised you were talking about the older version I think the Sigma would have got more votes (inc mine!)

Not sure you can get a collar for that too be honest as I'm not sure how you'd fit it. I assume you got the 80-200 AF-N "one touch".

HelineB · 3 Aug 2010

puddleduck said:
I assume you got the 80-200 AF-N "one touch".

I'm not sure! :shake:

This is it:

taz · 3 Aug 2010

I don't think you are going to get a collar for that lens

puddleduck · 3 Aug 2010

HelineB said:
I'm not sure! :shake:

This is it:

Thats the AF-D, "AF-N" means a Nikkor AF lens without "D" (distance) encoding.

As Ian (Taz) says, you can't get a tripod collar for that. I can recommend a Dean Lewis beanbag (see his thread in Advertisers forum) which is handy for resting the lens on natural support things like fences / rocks etc without scratching it.

HelineB · 3 Aug 2010

I wonder if something like this could work? Something the front of the lens could rest on.

HelineB · 3 Aug 2010

puddleduck said:
Thats the AF-D, "AF-N" means a Nikkor AF lens without "D" (distance) encoding.

As Ian (Taz) says, you can't get a tripod collar for that. I can recommend a Dean Lewis beanbag (see his thread in Advertisers forum) which is handy for resting the lens on natural support things like fences / rocks etc without scratching it.

Thanks for the info

I wish all the 'abbreviations' didn't confuse me so much. I guess you only really learn these things when someone points out that you didn't really get the correct lens. Or this is my experience anyway!

trevorbray · 3 Aug 2010

HelineB said:
I wonder if something like this could work? Something the front of the lens could rest on.

Looks pretty front heavy/unwieldy to me.
Looks like you'll need to do arm strengthening exercises !