Originally posted by Blue Carry a 6x7 around for 2-3 weeks. Then switch to a k200d and you won't worry about it too much!
Ain't that the truth!
I was at Canada's Pacific Rim National Park one day and wandered, camera and tripod in hand, backpack with the other lenses on my back, to where we had a good view of the California Sea Lion haul out. It wasn't quite big enough to be an island. To get there the only way is down the cliff on a sandy trail, then across the sandy beach for quite a way. There I found a gentleman with a rig that I really drooled over. Pentax 67 II, 200mm lens, surveyor's tripod. He must have been a body builder to drag that down there. And now he had to take it back up again. IIRC, there was a bag with some extra lenses in it, just in case. I don't think my KX, 50/1.8, 28/3.5, 70-210 and 1.4X weighed what his tripod did, let alone the rest of it. But what a gorgeous viewfinder!.