how do you rest you camera

wfarrell4 wrote in post #13365735
Yep above the power tools.

so where do you have room for the dead body ?

Sikor7 wrote in post #13365556
+1 for Steve. I find it quite natural to set it down on the left side. With the grip facing up there is no fumbling when you go to grab it.

This, mostly. If I'm shooting the 100-400/70-200 w/hood on, I'll sometimes stand it on the hood if I'm just setting it down to muck with something. Otherwise, I'll do the left side w/ grip up mentioned above.

I have a QR plate attached to the camera, but I still set it down "normally" - i.e., on its base. Wouldn't think of resting it on its back with the lens pointing upward - that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, especially with a longer lens.

I have the Canon camera pillow, it's only $799 from the Canon store and is an excellent accessory. They have two versions, "Red Ring" and "Normal", the differences are "Red Ring" is filled with virgin goose down and the "Normal" is filled with rocks. You'll want the one with goose down.

The mighty Drebel XT isn't exactly built to pound tent stakes but if you're worried that setting it down is going to somehow break it, maybe you should have bought a Nikon!

I guess I must be the only 'normal' one here .. I just can't bear to put my camera down

Usually something like this

Expensive gears for grabs!

tomcat7886 wrote in post #13374132
Expensive gears for grabs!

...and not one of them resting on their backs with the lens pointing up.

tomcat7886 wrote in post #13374132
Expensive gears for grabs!

There's no gears there - just bodies and lenses.
The gears are in the cars that were about to come out on the track.

Veemac wrote in post #13374171
...and not one of them resting on their backs with the lens pointing up.

Only because they'd end up rolling down the hill

Well this has been very interesting, i suppose that i am doing things wrongly and from now will improve, but i must confess that i only ever rested camera on its back at home on the table it never gets put down outside unless it goes into ( onto ) bag for lens changing.
I am now going to be using the left side, i like the idea of the " quick grab "

My main concern was the preasure on the lens mount but after reading these replys and more thought i dont see that i have anything to worry about really.

Many thanks for the pointers didgit

rick_reno wrote in post #13365908
I have the Canon camera pillow, it's only $799 from the Canon store and is an excellent accessory. They have two versions, "Red Ring" and "Normal", the differences are "Red Ring" is filled with virgin goose down and the "Normal" is filled with rocks. You'll want the one with goose down.

If you're a CPS Unubtanium member you have the privileged of purchasing the Canon Camera Cradle, a hand made sling crafted from the carcass of a freshly slaughtered baby seal and suspended in a harness of leather stripped from a newborn calf, all carefully crafted by a cadre of indentured craftsman who have trained for just such a task since the boyhood. Delivered via pony express in a box carved as a singular entity from a freshly hewn Giant Sequoia.

Unregistered.Coward wrote in post #13374695
If you're a CPS Unubtanium member you have the privileged of purchasing the Canon Camera Cradle, a hand made sling crafted from the carcass of a freshly slaughtered baby seal and suspended in a harness of leather stripped from a newborn calf, all carefully crafted by a cadre of indentured craftsman who have trained for just such a task since the boyhood. Delivered via pony express in a box carved as a singular entity from a freshly hewn Giant Sequoia.

I am a CPS gold member and have never seen a Canon Camera Cradle.

Riley