AP-608 Replacement Lens Foot

I bought this foot to use on my Sony 100-400 GM, with the Wimberley MonoGimbal Head and my Benro Mad38C monopod to support my Sony a9 during long sessions of surf action photography and bird photography. The foot is well-made, light, low profile, and set up to use safety screws with the arca-swiss system. Having an arca-swiss compatible lens foot makes attaching the camera/lens to the MonoGimbal Head super quick and easy. Because of the small clearance between the lens foot and the lens, mounting the MonoGimbal on the left side made it difficult to access the lens switches. So I moved the MonoGimbal to the right side of the lens. The switches, zoom and focus rings are then completely unobstructed and the system works perfectly.

ottimo prodotto ,ma la cosa che non va bene e' che la scatola era parzialmente aperta,probabilmente non sapevano cosa farsene di questa staffa

今回、初めてウィンバリーの三脚座を買いました。元々は他メーカーの製品をよく使っていた私が趣旨替えをしたのは理由があります。今まで使っていたゴーヨンから新規のニーヨンヨン（ちょっと違うけど）に変更したのです。社外品でアルカ互換の三脚座は幾つかありますが、レンズ本体との接合部が共通なのが災いしてか、最近は焦点距離を問わず共通化されてしまっている三脚座があります。純正品が各レンズ毎の相性によって変更している場合は、当然合う合わないが出てきますよね。さて、ニコンの180-400/4（+ｘ1.4）の場合、純正の三脚座はニーニー用を参考に新規に作られてます。小ぶりで高さも低めの純正はなかなか良いのですが、いざアルカ互換のものを探すとなると、某社の製品はゴーヨン等と共用なので取り付け高さが随分と上がってしまい、その座面の高さと長さが邪魔をしてしまってズームリングの操作に支障が出る始末でした。純正が専用品を作ったんだから、共用に無理があるのはちょっと考えれば判りそうなものなのに、ねえ・・・仕方ない、と色々と探して調べた結果、今回のap-551が一番良さげに思えたので購入した次第です。高さは純正とほぼ等しく、長さも程良いので操作の邪魔には感じません。ただ、滑り止めになる部位が無いので、フィールドで手持ちで使う場合には不安なので星４つまで。対策として、私は屋外用のステップの滑り止めテープを一部張り付けています。本格的なテストはまだですが、なかなか良さげな感じですよ。

This replacement foot is very well made, and I liked the fact that it was Arca Swiss compatible for mounting on a tripod or monopod, but the clearance between the foot and the lens is so small that it was too difficult to use handheld, and I don't have big fingers. I did return this. I am thinking that this would be great if you aren't using your camera handheld and just using on a tripod

This has the same fit as my SmallRig Plates so I can swap this in and out of all of my tripods without having to adjust the set screws. The only issue is that I would have appreciated a small amount of thread locker installed in the screw to keep it locked to the body, but I picked up a tube for a few bucks and solved that myself. Also, the screws that prevent it from sliding out of an Arca-Swiss Quick Release plate are screws and I would have preferred the pins found in Small Rig Plates, that are spring-loaded, But in the Grand Scheme of things, neither of these nitpicks are enough to drop my rating. Excellent Product and works Beautifully.