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01/12/2004 12:01:46 PM · #1 |
I know this sounds very basic, but I'm curious if dpc photographers tend towards the neck strap, wrist strap, or maybe no strap? I ask because for some reason a camera bouncing off my belly from a neckstrap just screams out GEEK! I cannot picture my heros, Henri Cartier-Bresson
or Sam Abell, bouncing around town with their Leicas hanging from a neckstrap, but in all honesty I have no idea if and how they secured their cameras to their body.
Anyway, I'm curious how others here keep their camera attached to their person.... |
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01/12/2004 12:05:08 PM · #2 |
I like the way the thick strap that came with the 300D feels. It distributes the weight nicely so it doesnt feel too heavy either. I can't imagine carrying the 300D + 75-300mm lens on a wrist strap...
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01/12/2004 12:05:48 PM · #3 |
I'm paranoid and use the neck strap 90% of the time. I don't think Geek has anything to do with it. Most photographers on the side lines at games have their neck straps on. Of course they are changing cameras all the time. Don't worry what you look like, worry about dropping your camera! With my tripod I use the wrist strap 100% of the time.
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01/12/2004 12:10:53 PM · #4 |
I stay away from the neckstrap that came with the camera only because it is emblazoned with the words "Canon" and "Digital" and I can't think of anything that might scream "STEAL ME!!" any more prominently.
I do use a neckstrap with my rig
(black neckstrap is close to my collar so its difficult to see here)
But I've found that when I turn the camera on end for vertical portraits the strap can get in my way and I have to hold it with my right thumb (which also works the buttons on the back of the battery grip -- busy thumb). Anyway, I figure I look like so much of a geek with all this crap I'm approaching coolness again. Aww, heck. I'm cool anyway.
;)
Message edited by author 2004-01-12 12:11:44.
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01/12/2004 12:23:15 PM · #5 |
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01/12/2004 12:30:00 PM · #6 |
No strap.
I'd prefer a wrist if I could, but Nikon hasn't come up with a nice combo the way Canon has. My thinking on the Neck Strap. If my camera doesn't deserve my full attention, then it should be in the bag.
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01/12/2004 12:32:00 PM · #7 |
I have to change my "Digital SLR ... Come and steal me" strap. I'd really like to have a hand strap, but I need the battery grip for that. Maybe this Summer.
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01/12/2004 12:33:24 PM · #8 |
Neck straps are like tripods. Use it unless you have a specific reason not to :)
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01/12/2004 12:33:27 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
I have to change my "Digital SLR ... Come and steal me" strap. I'd really like to have a hand strap, but I need the battery grip for that. Maybe this Summer. |
While you're changing your strap, you should find some way to make your camera invisible incase someone sees it :P
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01/12/2004 12:34:44 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by justine:
I'm paranoid and use the neck strap 90% of the time. I don't think Geek has anything to do with it. Most photographers on the side lines at games have their neck straps on. Of course they are changing cameras all the time. Don't worry what you look like, worry about dropping your camera! With my tripod I use the wrist strap 100% of the time. |
I guess I'm not as worried about what I look like as I am about the affect that the camera hangin on my chest has on the people I am trying to photograph. It's not that I am going to sneak a photo of someone, but sometimes the camera grabs some unwanted attention or reduces the spontaneity of a situation. |
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01/12/2004 12:38:19 PM · #11 |
I assume when you guys are saying wrist strap you are talking about this?
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01/12/2004 12:39:20 PM · #12 |
Yup! Can also ben worn as a leather thong. rofl.
Originally posted by wackybill:
I assume when you guys are saying wrist strap you are talking about this? |
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01/12/2004 12:40:06 PM · #13 |
| I use an Op/Tech Pro Strap. The comfortable, stretchy strap can be quickly removed from the camera because of the quick-disconnects, leaving just the pigtails to hang freely (and out of the way), or the pigtails can be clipped together to form a short strap (which is how I have been using it most of the time lately). |
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01/12/2004 12:43:33 PM · #14 |
i've got a nice grippy neck strap, and cant imagine not using one.
also i dont find that it gets in the way with vertically oriented shots.
could be the strap is longer?
on my kodak point and shoot - just a wrist strap... its a lot lighter
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01/12/2004 01:00:49 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by EddyG:
I use an Op/Tech Pro Strap. The comfortable, stretchy strap can be quickly removed from the camera because of the quick-disconnects, leaving just the pigtails to hang freely (and out of the way), or the pigtails can be clipped together to form a short strap (which is how I have been using it most of the time lately). |
That's basically what I use too (a different brand, but the same thing) With the 'pigtails' clipped together, making the short strap it acts almost like a wrist strap, or you can clip the neoprene insert back in and have a neck strap - works out as a good trade-off between the two options, though a bit of a pain with the battery grip |
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01/12/2004 01:20:41 PM · #16 |
I use the neckstrap that came with the camera. It's grippy, it's nice and strong. I like it. The only time I don't have the neckstrap on is if the cam is on a tripod.
It's never crossed my mind what people might think. Usually you'll find me on some mountain hiking trail with camera bag slung around me, backpack on and camera hanging around my neck. (Of course, I'm usually the last one in the group too!) :-)
I thought briefly about the neckstrap saying "Canon" and "Digital", but if that's not there, the camera itself with lenses look expensive enough. Besides, if it's around my neck, I'm not too worried about the 'steal me' probability.
Message edited by author 2004-01-12 13:21:58. |
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01/12/2004 01:23:41 PM · #17 |
I personally use a neck strap and always have.
I'm not so vain that I'm going to worry about looking geeky or whatever. I use the "steal me" strap that came with the camera for right now. I have other equipment on my list that is more important than a strap to support my vanity.
My old EOS film body has a Native American strap I bought but it is old and needs replacing.
I have invested a lot of money into my hobby and the camera does not leave my sight. The only time I set the camera down it to change a lens, battery or memory card otherwise it is around my neck or locked in the car.
I use the swivel connections so that it does not get in the way when I switch from horizontal to vertical shots.
I can not imagine spending roughly $3,000 for camera equipment and not using a strap.
We were doing a shoot this past weekend and I ran into a photographer that was 1 of three things:
1. Spoiled rich brat
2. Stuck on himself pro
3. Stay away I don't know what I'm doing photographer
We were at a local park and this photographer and older lady came along with a nice little back pack and his high dollar camera gear. It was a digital SLR, and several very expensive looking lenses. one lens was white in color but it could have been one of those new low priced Phoenix lenses :).
He wasn't using any strap wrist or neck. Did not seem to smart considering we were climbing around rocks and water. Some of us walked up and tried to strike up a conversation with the fellow photographers but they both had this stay away attitude, so we did just that :)
So I guess it boils down to "What ever floats your boat" or whatever you wallet can afford :)
Message edited by author 2004-01-12 14:07:38.
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01/12/2004 02:03:22 PM · #18 |
I always have at least the neckstrap on. I have a "harness" made by Op/Tech Harness that really makes for steady shooting. Basically a 4 pt harness, over the shoulders and under the arms, then clipped to the camera (or bag). Works perfectly for backpacking and hiking. I think there is a mesh vesst type thing out there that is pretty much the same idea.
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01/12/2004 02:12:11 PM · #19 |
Now that's a pretty cool idea. We were going to try and fashion something to keep the camera from bouncing when I'm hiking so I don't have to hold the body the whole time.
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01/12/2004 02:39:09 PM · #20 |
| Instead of keeping the neck strap short, make it a little longer and wear it diagonally across your body (e.g. right shoulder to left hip). The camera will bounce less and it's fairly easy/quick to swing it up for a shot. I've found it easier to carry a second camera this way too. |
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01/12/2004 02:53:50 PM · #21 |
I carry my camera bag this way now, I should try this with the cam too. Only thing that would worry me is the lens bumping on the rocks as I crawl over, around, under in the tight spaces. Still though, a better solution to holding the body all the time.
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01/12/2004 03:01:11 PM · #22 |
One thing about getting out-of-doors is that when I'm walking around I figure my zoom probably isn't fast enough to catch something on the move so I keep the little 50mm f/1.8 on it and I don't worry so much about bangin' the camera into things as the lens isn't a zoom so I don't have to worry about screwing up the gears as much (plus its a lot shorter than a 70-300). I used to have problems when I'd walk undersomething because as I leaned forward/down to get under something the camera would fall away from my body to hang straight from my neck and if I had to move very much (like between branches or through some rocks) I could easily hit something from the swinging of the camera. Putting the strap around my body like dwoolridge mentioned is just easier for me now. Once I get to more steady ground I find it easy enough to just unsnap the quick releases and put the strap back together around my neck so I don't have to wiggle into/out of the strap while carrying a camera bag or backpack. When I have to head down an embankment or think that the odds are decent I might lose some traction and have to sit down fast, I always pack the camera away in the bag.
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01/12/2004 03:02:40 PM · #23 |
my camera's cost is peanuts compared to what some people's cameras cost, but it's still peanuts that i can't afford to re-spend if i break this thing. i have a thick grippy neckstrap from Tamrac that i picked up at a camera shop, and i always use it.. even when i'm using my tripod. the only time the neck strap isn't around my neck, is if i put it on the tripod and want myself in the picture. even then, first thing i do before i take the camera off the tripod, is put the strap back over my neck.
i don't think it makes you look like a geek, when you're carrying a really sweet camera :) (now all i need is the super sweet camera!)
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01/12/2004 03:14:42 PM · #24 |
| I used to only use my Optech neck strap. Now it looks like I'm wrist strap only. The Optech strap makes the camera feel so much lighter around your neck than the Canon strap but I found myself holding the camera anyway because the bounce and sway was so annoying. With the wrist strap I'm a very happy camper most of the time. |
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01/12/2004 08:40:15 PM · #25 |
All I have to do is hang my camera around my neck and speak Chinese and no one bothers me. All I need is a group of my friends and a bus :P
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