Backpack for 180-600 Lens Mounted to Camera

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Don't (yet) have any long glass for my Z9 but I've used the Think Tank Photo Glass Limo Backpack with my Nikon D6/500mm f/4E FL combo, body attached, with good success.

The 500 f/4E FL lens is a bit longer than the Z 180-600 (15.25" versus 13.5") so on the Z9 it should fit quite nicely.
 
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I’m in same boat, I recently went on hike looking for ibex and stuffed lens with Z8 attached into a Think Tank Digital Holster 30 (without lens hood, and camera sticking out a bit) and carried in a Boundary Supply Errant Backpack (20l). Not ideal, but it worked and size was fairly small overall and still had room for rain parka, hat, gloves, water bottle, first aid kit but not much else. So need to consider what else besides Zx + 186 you want to carry and if you want lens hood in ready to shoot deployment. I don’t find any of the camera specific bags suitable from a hiking perspective and am looking at a ski mountaineering pack with back zipper opening and a third part icu, I’ll post my solution once I have it figured out but curious what others find works. Note, my outing was a bust, never saw an ibex and never took camera out of bag, so thinking I need to also carry at least say a 105 macro so I could at least get some photos of lichen or mushrooms haha.
 
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Patrick M said:
Nikon CL-L2 is perfect for the lens, great size, loads of padding, but sadly not a lot of room for anything else.
You can carry it with hood attached normally as well.
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From what I can tell, the CL-L2 is to carry the lens only. I’m looking for suggestions options to carry it mounted to the camera body.
 
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eaglenws said:
I am looking forward suggestions for a backpack that will hold my 180-600mm lens mounted to my Z6 body. Thanks in advance for your recommendations.
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If you measure the length of the lens and the camera body you can then go to the BH Photo website and use their filters for length, width, and depth to get a short list of backpacks. Takes about 5 minutes to do this and I use this process for every bag and backpack I have bought from them in the past 30 years.
 
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hike2photo said:
I’m in same boat, I recently went on hike looking for ibex and stuffed lens with Z8 attached into a Think Tank Digital Holster 30 (without lens hood, and camera sticking out a bit) and carried in a Boundary Supply Errant Backpack (20l). Not ideal, but it worked and size was fairly small overall and still had room for rain parka, hat, gloves, water bottle, first aid kit but not much else. So need to consider what else besides Zx + 186 you want to carry and if you want lens hood in ready to shoot deployment. I don’t find any of the camera specific bags suitable from a hiking perspective and am looking at a ski mountaineering pack with back zipper opening and a third part icu, I’ll post my solution once I have it figured out but curious what others find works. Note, my outing was a bust, never saw an ibex and never took camera out of bag, so thinking I need to also carry at least say a 105 macro so I could at least get some photos of lichen or mushrooms haha.
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Sorry your ibex outing was a bust. My use case is more along the lines of having the camera and lens packed away while driving to my destination. Once I’m there, I have a shoulder strap that I can comfortably use while in the field. But I’d rather have the lens mounted, so I don’t have to do that after getting to my destination, in case of blowing dust, rain, etc.
 
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Calson said:
If you measure the length of the lens and the camera body you can then go to the BH Photo website and use their filters for length, width, and depth to get a short list of backpacks. Takes about 5 minutes to do this and I use this process for every bag and backpack I have bought from them in the past 30 years.
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Good tip. Thanks.
 
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eaglenws said:
From what I can tell, the CL-L2 is to carry the lens only. I’m looking forward suggestions options to carry it mounted to the camera body.
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THE cl-l2 can very easily carry the lens with camera attached. There’s plenty of room. There’s plenty of thick wrap-around padding and a Velcro strap to hold everything rock solid.

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Eric Yellowstone said:
I realize that you're asking for info on a backpack, but.....Think Tank Photo also makes the Digital Holster 150. It's designed to carry a camera body attached to a 150-600mm lens. I can fit a Z8 mounted to a 180-600 mm lens in the holster. It's snug but it works nice.
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I also have a Thank T 150. Z9 w/186 , hood reversed fits, but barely. A screw-on filter will also fit.

Nikon CL-L2 has plenty of room with hood reversed (stowed position). I don't think it fits overall length-wise with hood attached.
 
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