Bill Owens wrote:
>I don't have any experience with shoulder stocks. However I do
>have an SKS rifle stock I've sometimes thought about modifying
This reminds me of some items I saw on my last trip to a small camera repair
shop downtown. This fellow has a lot of old Nikon stuff, and among his
collection of used optics are three or four telephoto lenses with built-in
pistol grips, rifle stocks, etc. Looks like they came from the factory this
way. Perhaps made originally for military or police use? I can't imagine
anyone using something like this in a crowd nowadays. From more than a few
feet away, from a quick glance, perhaps in dim light, you'd think the
camera-lens combination was some sort of firearm. I suspect you'd be cut
down in a fusillade of small-arms fire from the local police before you had
a chance to say "It's only a lens!" I've seen shoulder supports for
monopods, and I'd be a little leary of using even these around people who
might miss the 'pod and mistake the stock for some sort of firearm. But
from a kinematics point of view, a shoulder stock on a monopod sounds like
an excellent platform for mounting a camera and lens.
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
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