Originally Posted by
roscoetuff-Skip Mersereau
Guys:
Thank you all. Love the back-and-forth and appreciate the passion. Wow! and do you folks have some! This is great. Thanks especially for all the advice, and willingness to stick your individual necks out. I think most of us are multiformat in some ways even if we might think of ourselves or our preferred image making as falling into one category like LF. I love shooting just about any camera, but LF is more fun even just taking one shot even if only every now and again. Conclusion as I'm reading this and as I think of it is to keep the 400T as a specialist with the longest practical reach on my Shammy, but pickup a 300mm for more common use. FWIW, I don't run lenses longer than 200mm telephoto in 35mm or any format simply because they scale out and/or price out in the BIGLY department. Been there, done that, and it ain't really my thing. If I need to, I'll rent one in that sort of longer than 200mm (35 format equivalent) length.
Last night, I weighed my LF carry kit - everything all in from tripod, head, film holders, meter, camera, cable releases, etc. and adding up the whole, I'm looking at 20 pounds - all in. Not including "lunch", "water", etc. so far 'cause that doesn't really apply, but that's not going to break the mule's back (me being the mule). But as much as its not the end of the world at 80 degrees, but when its 95... it's time for something else. Yes, you can offload a bunch of that in a very defined approach for a single shot or two, knowing EXACTLY what you want, but getting below 10 pounds.... probably not. Tripod and especially the geared Manfrotto head.... that's a real paperweight. Some weights... I don't begrudge... and until someone plops a ton of money on me for an "air ride" type of geared head, it'll do as the right tool for the job. The rest is fungible.
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