Wife Steph took this shot...considering her illness, thought she did rather well!...well, she did use my 1D mk ii with my 70-200 2.8 IS USM...didnt know until I loaded the card onto pc tonight...but, after looking at this shot, thought I would mention how I hold the 500mm unaided...as you can see, it has a large tripod collar attached, so, hold that in the palm of my hand...not that heavy, get used to it, but certainly hand holdable (spesh with the image stabiliser). ps...the grey hairs is stress throughout the yrs but, gotta grow old gracefully :)...and happy my face isnt view :)