L supertele body rotation

[prep]

A quick check; do the big Ls have a rotable rear section so you can rotate the
camera bosy without having to rotate the lens?

[Pete]

I don't think so. But what you'd do to take a portrait telephoto shot is rotate the tripod collar around the lens (or more properly, the camera and lens rotates within the tripod collar).

Does that make sense?

[GyRob]

the lens and body rotate around the tripod collar as said not one or the other.
Rob.

[prep]

I wonder what lenses I'm thinking off. They had a silver release button a the back, press it and you could rotate the body 90deg . Could it have been the late FD Ls?

[SimonG]

... Could it have been the late FD Ls?
Yes, I believe that this is what you are thinking of. Several of the "new" FD super-teles had an integral foot for mounting to a tripod, and a small section of the lens (often coloured black) that permitted camera rotation.