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The other day I tried taking a few snaps with a friend's Canon 1DX coupled with his 100-400mm lens. My goodness, I think I can count that as a full day's upper body training - what a weight! Made me glad I didn't have to lug that about each time I went climbing. I'll never again complain about the weight of my puny Nikon D7000.

How do you folk who use heavy camera equipment cope? Don't your neck / arms / shoulders ache after a day's shooting? (assuming you don't always have a handy tripod)

In reply to Fraser:

I met a photographer in the Julian Alps once who was shooting pics for a coffee table book. He had a mate carrying a load of his camera gear for him

In reply to davidbeynon:

I do like the sound of that, but even just the act of raising the camera to eye level and shooting a quick burst (@14f/s!) was enough to exhaust my arms!

In reply to Fraser:

Wimp! Try shooting with a Penta 6x7 or a hasselblad+tele lens...

In reply to dek:

pfttt.. thats not a knife

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In reply to Removed User:

That's like comparing apples and ... marrows. Very large marrows at that!

In reply to Removed User:

'Snort'.....I bet the wimp has wheels on its case...

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I want to see this with a telephone lens with an equivalent field of view of the OP's 1DX setup. Might need more than two tripods.

In reply to Fraser:
When I was shooting motorsport, I carried:
1d iv
5d II
400 f2.8 on a monopod and with a 1.4x extender for extra reach
70-200 2.8
24-70 2.8
50 1.4
17-35 2.8

Spare batteries for both, plus cards and sometimes a laptop as well for on the go editing.

All in all, it weighed a lot and it all made for long days!

In reply to Fraser:

Very lightweight stuff

When I was doing my mountain books I had a Hasselblad 6x6 with 3 huge Zeiss lenses (sometimes a hired 400mm lens too), a teleconvertor, a Wista 4 x 5" Field view camera plus three lenses, a Fuji 690 6 x 9 roll film camera, and a Fuji 645. On my last book, a Horseman Superwide 6 x 12 replaced my Wista field camera. Some days I would have about three of these cameras with me. On one photoshoot on High Tor I had both the Horseman and the Fuji 645 with me (probably the biggest format cameras ever used on a static line at High Tor??) The Hasselblad would come with me on many an abseil/prussik. In addition to all the above I had a massively heavy Manfrotto tripod for the landscape plate camera work in poor light. Plus a separate spotmeter (weighed more than many modern digital cameras!)

In reply to Fraser:

In a word Fraser, yes!!! Lots of trapezius/shoulder/back issues over the years from hanging two heavy cameras/lenses around my neck for long periods. Although recently started using 'sunsniper' straps instead of the standard type and so far I can feel a huge difference, not only easier to sling the camera around when on jobs it spreads the load a bit better and I dont 'hunch' as much to try to keep the strap on my shoulder.Worth the £40 in my opinion.The cost of one physio session.

Hope you are well.

Sean

In reply to Fraser:

I use a D7000 and a 150-500mm lens quite often and think it's a bit heavy and cumbersome.
Then I think back to my army days of carrying a SLR of the 7.62mm variety, plus all the ammo, plus all the other stuff and smile to myself and consider myself quite fortunate...