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My Nikon weather cover (blimp) on eBay
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My Nikon weather cover (blimp) on eBay |
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Posts: 4 (12/13/2007 09:38 AM) |
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Posts: 242 (12/14/2007 03:31 PM) |
This blimp was given to accredited photographers and NPS-members at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. The CS-13 Nikon blimp is better, warmer and......black.
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Posts: 242 (12/16/2007 11:11 AM) |
The yellow blimp is larger and has a pocket inside for a DB-2 etc. It can be 'loaded' (with any camera including motor drives) from the top, has more space for changing a (large) lens, has a grip inside for your thumb, but has no cuff in the sleeve. The black one is smaller, should be loaded from the bottom, has a better sleeve and is a bit warmer (better isulation). With the yellow blimp one can hit you from as far as 5 miles and in wildlife you are an easy prey. The black one (Nikon CS-13) is still available in Europe (around 110 euro), the yellow one was made by the US Nikon-importer - some say approx. 60 blimps were made. Regards, nico |
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Posts: 10 (12/22/2007 03:20 PM) |
I believe I still have a couple of these (the yellow blimps) that Nikon gave me back in the day. I carried them with me to events, but I can't recall ever
using them for their stated purpose. I preferred to have totally unfettered access to the camera controls and to the camera back to load film quickly. As far
as protection from the elements, you usually had a very large and very expensive lens mounted to the camera and it was completely exposed. The blimps have an
inside pocket for holding a handwarmer and I think this was key. They were designed to keep motor drive batteries warm when it was very cold outside.
I do recall Nikon claiming that the blimps could be used to muffle the sound of the camera, which struck me as not terribly meaningful when photographing sporting events outdoors. But the only time that I can recall using one of the blimps was precisely for this reason; to muffle the sound of my motor drive so that I could position myself closer to one of the television cameras without being run off. Some of the networks didn't like picking up the whir of motor drives in their shots.
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12/22/2007 03:22 PM.
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