Camera & lens

I have the D7100 and the 70-200 F/2.8 lens and use the BlackRapid curve strap, so i will be doing a sports shoot in a few weeks which will last about four or five hours, so as the lens is pretty heavy for long use am i better to attach the strap to the camera or the lens? if its to be attached to the lens how can i do this?

Have you considered using a monopod?

To be honest i didnt, if i was to use a monopod, how do i attach camera and lens to it?

Usually a lens of that weight comes with its own tripod collar/mount. The reason is because the body's mount can only tolerate so much weight. My Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 has a tripod foot. Best to use that to support the weight rather than the mount on the bottom of the camera's body.

^^^ What Hark said!

Did you buy the 70-200mm used? Like the others said, there should be a collar attached to it with a foot and tripod screw hole. If it doesn't have one then get on.

I would also suggest the use of a monopod. That's how I shoot games.

I bought the lens used and it did come with a foot, i read that the Nikon foot was not of great quality though,

I don't know about that, but you need to support the weight by the lens.

Yea i now know that, so i guess i need to buy a monopod?

Another vote for Monopod here........

bikeit said:

Yea i now know that, so i guess i need to buy a monopod?

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I have used the strap on both t he camera and the lens. I use a monopod from time to time but typically i hand hold. Whether you use the monopod or not depends on how fast the action is going to be, and how strong you are.

Monopod or attach the black rapid to the lens foot.

So how does a monopod attach to the camera / lens?

bikeit said:

So how does a monopod attach to the camera / lens?

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The monopod will have some kind of head on it, most commonly a "ball head". If it doesn't come with one -- and the more expensive monopods do not -- you'll need to buy a head separately. The head will have a removable plate that screws into the tripod socket of your camera. The plate, with camera connected, then connects to the ballhead. With the knee-joint connected to the hip-joint, and the ball-head connected to the monopod joint, you're off to the races.