>> I love lenses that come with their own metal case... makes you >> feel like you're carrying around a thermonuclear device :)
> Yeah but as an outdoor photographer the cases are totally useless > until it comes time to sell the lens. I had to buy a backpack to > haul around my 600. A nice solution for a really big lens (a 600/4, for example) is to use the Lowepro Street and Field Lens Trekker 600 AW. It's a really clever design, which I picked up to try carrying my A* 600/5.6 around in (instead of its rectangular metal trunk case). Unfortunately, the "slim" A* 600/5.6 seems a little lost in the Trekker - it sort of "swims around in it" (the terminology that my mother used on me when describing how I looked in my latest "hand-me-down" clothing - <g>). (I guess I should put the Trekker on eBay.) In any event, the Trekker would work really nicely with a 600/4 lens, or with the "no bidders" lens that KEH has been listing on eBay for weeks already now... Fred
