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10/06/2005 01:19:41 PM · #1 |
Strap or strapless?
What are your thoughts on camera straps? I hate̢۪em, but I have one on my camera as a last ditch effort in case I should be so clumsy that I actually drop it. I guess I hope that it might be something else to flail for if gravity takes over complete control of my precious camera. The dumb thing just gets in the way, ends up wrapped around my nose (yes I have a big one), and obstructs the view finder nd controls.
I have been looking at one of these and was wondering if anyone else uses something like this. It won̢۪t be anything to grab in case I spill the camera, but it would be something else to hold on to when moving around.
Grip Strap
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10/06/2005 01:27:25 PM · #2 |
Seat belt or no seat belt? There's a reason its called a "safety" strap.
My smaller camera (Olympus) just has a little wrist loop; my Canon has a neck strap, but if I'm holding it, I just loop that a couple of times around my wrist to take up most of the slack and keep it out of the way. |
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10/06/2005 01:30:44 PM · #3 |
On my 300d, I often used the strap...on the 1d I just got, I put the grip strap on it and it's really restrictive. I'll have to play with it a bit to see if I like it.
But definitely, a strap of some kind is good...even just for walking around or moving from one location to another. |
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10/06/2005 01:31:27 PM · #4 |
Well if you drop it on the ground your first thought will be "if I just used the strap".
I dropped mine a few times and always had a wrist strap saving it. I dont consider my self clumsy but there can always be a situation that you can not control. I respect the value of my camera and so I use strap to protect it from gravity. |
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10/06/2005 01:31:38 PM · #5 |
| I changed my straps to grip straps... I was forever winding the neck strap around my wrist so I could carry the camera in my hand and changed to the grip strap and am VERY happy with them .. |
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10/06/2005 01:35:27 PM · #6 |
| I'm a wrist wrapper. I find it comforting (in an odd sort of way). |
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10/06/2005 01:37:45 PM · #7 |
I have a Canon Digital Rebel, I have never used a strap, I find them clumsy. I have never dropped my camera. I have fallen twice but held the camera above my head as I fell and it wasn't damaged (even though I was! LOL) I have never used a strap on any of my previous cameras either.
Message edited by author 2005-10-06 13:38:14. |
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10/06/2005 01:41:32 PM · #8 |
Op/Tech Pro Loop Strap
The "long" part of this weight-reducing strap can be easily detached via the quick-releases. This leaves two little "pigtail" straps which can be clicked together to form a short "carrying strap" or left to "dangle" out of the way (when shooting on a tripod, for example). Best of both worlds.
My "EOS Digital" strap has never seen the light of day.
Message edited by author 2005-10-06 13:46:10. |
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10/06/2005 01:44:48 PM · #9 |
I always us a strap, it is helpful when I am out and about shooting. If I need to change lenses I can hang the camera around my neck and use one hand for the old lens the other for the new.
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10/06/2005 01:45:13 PM · #10 |
I've thought about a grip strap, but if one is using a camera with both normal and portrait grip positions (for example with an added battery grip like I had on my 300D), won't it be a little more difficult to change orientations and thus take advantage of the added usability compared to using a bog-standard neck strap?
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10/06/2005 01:45:46 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
I have a Canon Digital Rebel, I have never used a strap, I find them clumsy. I have never dropped my camera. I have fallen twice but held the camera above my head as I fell and it wasn't damaged (even though I was! LOL) I have never used a strap on any of my previous cameras either. |
you're living dangerously!
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10/06/2005 01:49:58 PM · #12 |
For those of you who don't use a strap, don't cry when you drop your camera.
Aside from securing your camera to your body, a strap can also come in handy steadying your camera by using it the way you would use a rifle sling.
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10/06/2005 01:52:13 PM · #13 |
I have never used the strap but probably should and will start........
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10/06/2005 02:05:17 PM · #14 |
| Well they are useful, when you want to change the lens, or wander thru a strange city you are not familiar with at night, like when I was in Paris, I had mine under my jacket and brought it out only to take pics. Just didn't want to take the chance of having it snatched out of my hands. |
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10/06/2005 02:12:34 PM · #15 |
| I bought my camera for a trip to Australia this past winter. The first day there, I dropped the camera and managed to grab the strap just as the camera was about an inch off the ground. It would have ruined the trip for me if I didn't have that strap! |
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10/06/2005 02:14:42 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by puma:
I always us a strap, it is helpful when I am out and about shooting. If I need to change lenses I can hang the camera around my neck and use one hand for the old lens the other for the new. |
then of course you also have the idiots (points to self) who just sets his camera on the ground when changing lens and card then grabs the camera and stands...oh crap your standing on the strap...camera quickly ripped from hand and crashes to the concrete. Luckily it hit first on my inexpensive wide angle lens and just dented the outer rim, can't use filters on there now but no other damage to camera...can't say the same for underwear. ;)
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10/06/2005 02:16:36 PM · #17 |
| I use the neck strap, and have the leather hand strap with the battery grip. If you hate neck straps, this setup is pretty secure in your hand. |
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10/06/2005 02:17:14 PM · #18 |
Man there goes another 20 bucks thanks.
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10/06/2005 02:19:13 PM · #19 |
I recently dropped my Rebel without a strap around my neck. The 50mm 1.8 on the camera took the force of the fall onto the lip of a flower pot and promptly exploded. Had I had the strap around my neck, I'd still have my favorite lens.
Use a strap. Even the best of us can have accidents. |
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10/06/2005 02:19:53 PM · #20 |
I agree with EddyG.
I shoot with the Op/Tech Pro Loop Strap and it is very handy (not to mention comfortable on a long day of 'tourist' activities with the camera around the neck. |
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10/06/2005 02:34:13 PM · #21 |
A neckstrap saved my 300D from certain doom just last week. I was taking shots on the street without the strap on my neck. The strap was resting on my arm. Some twat comes and bumps into me from behind. The camera feel for a metre or so, but i managed to catch it from the strap.
And it was concrete below.. |
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10/06/2005 02:40:58 PM · #22 |
The Canon strap that came with my 300D is not the best so I purchased a Lowepro - much more comfortable and easier to install!
I tend also to wrap it round my wrist so I am also looking at a hand grip
//www.morrisphoto.co.uk/ProductDetails~productID~5055~categoryid~157.html
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10/06/2005 03:03:24 PM · #23 |
I like the Tamrac strap that has 2 nylon buckles so that I can release the strap if I need to.
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10/06/2005 03:08:18 PM · #24 |
I quite like the neck strap. Aside from stopping the camera falling, it also reassures me someone is less likely to grab it off me (when photographing in dodgier locales), and also gives the thing a nice place to rest. Walking around with hands free can be quite painful (what with the bouncing), but with the neck strap on the weight is taken off my hands so i can have one hand free while walking around at least (20D + 100-400L is not very easy to hold in one hand).
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10/06/2005 03:11:03 PM · #25 |
| I find the neck strap makes changing lenses much easier as well. |
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