Wimberley AP-555 Replacement Lens Foot for Nikon 400 f2.8 FL, 600 f4.0 FL, 800 f5.6 FL - Arca-Swiss Style - Made in USA

You can not use as a handle ... to close to the barrel.

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.

But it fits to close to the lens.. makes it impossible to use the foot as a handle which a lot of us like to do. Ultimately I returned it.

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.

Pricy, but worth it. It’s perfect.