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| Location: | St Louis, Missouri USA |
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Dave I fell your pain, and I still use those style ball heads with the hexigon plates, but I never carry a tripod/camera combo anywhere!! The locks can be disabled?? When I'm in a hurry they always seem to get in the way..
The only time I carry a lens/camera combination is on a monopod, and I always wrap the shoulder strap for the lens around my wrist when doing that!!! I usually do it with the 500 f4 or the 200/400f4, big beasts, but they have substantial shoulder straps on them too.. You never can be too safe!!
I take it the camera suffered no damage???
From now in I'll have multiple straps looped around my neck and waist, and toss pillows on the ground all around me just in case the straps fail.
Yes, the D800 was undamaged. I sent the lens back to Nikon Wednesday.
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