Has your neck strap ever snapped or come undone?

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

03/01/2007 03:36:53 PM · #1

Has your neck strap ever snapped or come undone while around your neck?

I wonder about this whenever I'm walking around with camera & lens hanging from my neck. It would be a sever bummer if it fell & broke.

Does it never happen?

digitalpins

Canon EOS-60D

03/01/2007 03:40:36 PM · #2

never happened to me I even wrap it around my hand sometime as a strap and it never broke or I ever worry about it breaking.

soup

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

03/01/2007 03:50:35 PM · #3

i would imagine it would depend on the quality of the strap being used, but probably pretty unlikely. more likely would be not hooking the connectors together fully, and having one of them let loose - causing a swing and fling type of deal.

i am using the same strap i had when i was 15yrs old - i'm 33 now...

Message edited by author 2007-03-01 15:51:12.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

03/01/2007 03:55:44 PM · #4

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Has your neck strap ever snapped or come undone while around your neck?

Only on my guitar, not a camera ...

CEJ

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

03/01/2007 04:02:58 PM · #5

SteveJ

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

03/01/2007 04:16:08 PM · #6

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Maybe it does?? But reports of the event are hushed up, another conspiracy! Or perhaps, like the tree that falls in the forest when no-one is there, does it make a sound?? (Is there really a tree or a forest when no-one is there?)

Or maybe it doesn't? I have never had it happen to me, but then I have not had a tree fall on my head when I am in a forest!

option

Nikon D200

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

03/01/2007 04:17:31 PM · #7

Mine feels pretty sturdy, but I usually have a hand on my camera anyways to keep it from bouncing around.

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

03/01/2007 04:30:29 PM · #8

You wear a cat on your head and you're worried about your camera falling off?

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

03/01/2007 04:40:15 PM · #9

Originally posted by yanko:

You wear a cat on your head and you're worried about your camera falling off?

The cat has claws to keep itself affixed to my head. It's not coming off no matter what.
:-D

Apple iPhone 5

03/01/2007 05:00:33 PM · #10

Every time I see the thread title my eye skips past the word 'strap'...

faery

Olympus E-400

Olympus 14-42mm f.3.5-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom

03/01/2007 05:38:39 PM · #11

Confession time - slightly off topic but a warning re. straps and catches: This happened in pre-digital days...I have a Nikon FA - and in the height of a family visit I raced past the lounge, meaning to do a clean-sweep tidy up of the area. The camera was in it's bag, BUT the clip wasn't clipped... As I swooped it up, by its strap off the couch, the bag flipped upside down and the camera fell to the floor. The magnificent 28-85 Nikkor Lens hit the floor, snapped off the body of the camera and lay there is two pieces!! The horror, misery and shame that swept over me was enormous.

I did find a magician who was able to stitch the lens together again, not after watching him stand there and shake his head wisely, saying "a lens should not be in two parts".... He could not repair the electricals though, so the lens itself will never work for me on my Digital journey.

Now 2 years later, you can guarantee that my no. 1 phobia with my SLR, is that I check and recheck with Obsessive Compulsive fixation that the bag catch is CLIPPED!!

Message edited by author 2007-03-01 17:43:09.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

03/01/2007 05:43:04 PM · #12

Originally posted by faery:

Confession time - slightly off topic but a warning re. straps and catches: This happened in pre-digital days...I have a Nikon FA - and in the height of a family visit I raced past the lounge, meaning to do a clean sweep tidy up of the area. The camera was in it's bag, BUT the clip wasn't clipped... As I swooped it by its strap off the couch, the bag flipped upside down and the camera fell to the floor. The magnificent 28-85 Nikkor Lense hit the floor, snapped off the body of the camera and lay there is two pieces!! The horror, misery and shame that swept over me was enormous.

I did find a magician who was able to stitch the lense together again, not after watching him stand there and shake his head wisely, saying "a lense should not be in two parts".... He could not repair the electricals though, so the lense itself will never work for me on my Digital journey.

Now 2 years later, you can guarantee that my no. 1 phobia with my SLR, is that I check and recheck with Obsessive Compulsive fixation that the bag catch is CLIPPED!!

I put my camera down on a table at a GTG and the strap was hanging off the edge, ready to be hooked by something and yanked off.

Pidge was nearby and she put the strap up onto the camera and gave me a scolding look. :-O

Message edited by author 2007-03-01 17:44:10.

smellyfish1002

Canon EOS-20D

03/01/2007 05:44:34 PM · #13

I bought a new Nikon CP5700 in 2002. I put the strap on, walked outside to do a test shot, and the camera fell on the ground and bounced a couple of times. I did not attach the little slider things over the strap, and the whole camera fell off the strap.
Not good for a brand new $1200 camera that I hadn't taken a single photo with yet!

Telehubbie

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/01/2007 05:45:21 PM · #14

I got a Boomerang strap with the quick disconnects and I've worried time to time about the connects coming undone while walking around, so most of the time I keep my hand in the handstrap I have on it. I went out looking for short steel fishing leaders with the snap swivels to act as a safety backup but couldn't find short enough ones.

eschelar

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

03/02/2007 05:10:52 AM · #15

My friend offered to me the chance to upgrade my strap to a EOS 1 strap and I turned him down. The point however is that I did notice that the material was roughly the same as what I have on mine. Hence I don't worry. My camera and my heaviest lens with all the gear attached is only about 8 lbs or so. I think I could pull on that strap for a couple hundred pounds before it started to get worrisome.

Bobster

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

03/02/2007 06:13:50 AM · #16

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Has your neck strap ever snapped or come undone while around your neck?

camera strap is never round my neck.. always wrapped around my wrist

Marc923

03/02/2007 06:38:48 AM · #17

When I let one of my old cameras go and it fell to the pavement. My first thought (after the "OH Sh--!") was why didn't the strap hold it. Then I realized the strap was not around my neck. Oops. Oh, and the camera still works.

ralph

Nikon Z9

03/02/2007 07:27:48 AM · #18

yes -
was using plactic clips on the end
D200& 80-200f2.8 landed face down on ashfalt ..
was able to deflect most of the inertia by my foot but the lens hood has a dmn good gouge out it ..

now using a standard strap (which i test... )

LanceW

Nikon Z9

Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D

03/02/2007 07:32:52 AM · #19

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Yep. I had one snap in half with my N70 (1997'ish) hanging on it. The camera hit the ground, but no damage was done. I stick with "Domke Gripper" straps now and don't have any problems.

KarenNfld

03/02/2007 08:07:25 AM · #20

Never happened to me because I have never used a neck strap. I don't use any type of strap on my camera, I hate them.

GoodEnd

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

03/02/2007 08:09:52 AM · #21

Many straps are made of Nylon, a fiber very resistant tro traction and abrasion. But... I saw old Pentax cameras with straps broken sometimes. The strap cam in the camera body made the worst to the health of the strap. Inspect it when you go to extreme conditions and when you got home.

To think about: If straps never broke, why did you see hundreds of it hanged up in the camera stores wall?

rossbilly

Nikon D200

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

03/02/2007 08:12:12 AM · #22

Apparently there is something magical about THIS strap... at least, there'd better be for the price!

Never had a problem so far (knock on wood).

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

03/02/2007 08:26:13 AM · #23

My strap slipped away once but luckily I caught it, good reflexes! I fell off my bike though :P