Our big lens (500) with tripod can get a bit heavy when I sling them over my shoulder...my 300 does get heavy too on the tripod...but maybe I'm just getting old...
anyway...
There are a lot of things out there for sale, but they seemed pretty thin to me.
I have tried football shoulder pads, pads used for shin guards, but the sticky spray only worked for one use, and it is slippery...
So I found some really soft rectangle-shaped kneeling pads at K-Mart in the garden center. (Liked K-Mart better than Walmart or Target because they were thicker and softer.)
I used two and glued them together, but I suppose some strong shoulders could probably use one.
(I even tried folding the one and that works, except when you want to get the rig further back away from your neck.)
Then took some wide velcro, stuck one side to the top of these kneeling pads by the hand grip (on both sides of the pads). Then I took a thinner "second" side velcro and threaded it thru the tripod mount and back to the other side of the kneeling pad. Very simple, inexpensive, but very helpful when I need to carry and rig on my shoulder.
Made these several months ago, and have found they really help when hiking.
Hope this can help someone else...
anyway...
There are a lot of things out there for sale, but they seemed pretty thin to me.
I have tried football shoulder pads, pads used for shin guards, but the sticky spray only worked for one use, and it is slippery...
So I found some really soft rectangle-shaped kneeling pads at K-Mart in the garden center. (Liked K-Mart better than Walmart or Target because they were thicker and softer.)
I used two and glued them together, but I suppose some strong shoulders could probably use one.
(I even tried folding the one and that works, except when you want to get the rig further back away from your neck.)
Then took some wide velcro, stuck one side to the top of these kneeling pads by the hand grip (on both sides of the pads). Then I took a thinner "second" side velcro and threaded it thru the tripod mount and back to the other side of the kneeling pad. Very simple, inexpensive, but very helpful when I need to carry and rig on my shoulder.
Made these several months ago, and have found they really help when hiking.
Hope this can help someone else...