Around the wrist or neck?

Around the wrist or neck?

  • Wrist strap

    Votes: 148 27.7%

  • Neck strap

    Votes: 239 44.8%

  • Hippy strap

    Votes: 8 1.5%

  • Depends

    Votes: 96 18.0%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 43 8.1%
  • Total voters
    534
I only use the leather version of this strap (Matin Hand Grip):

http://perlyinc.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=48

It is designed for slr-type camera's with a different grip but that doesn't matter. What I like most about it, is that the "behind the thumb" click-strap actually allows me to let go of the (heavy) camera, but still have much more control over it than a regular wrist-strap would.

The price listed on that website is $40. I got it for 600 TW$ (down from 800), that's I guess about 18 or 20 US$. I would not have bought it for $40, although I know now that it might actually be worth that much money.

The attached picture comes from the website I linked above (so you don't have to actually go there to find out what I'm talking about)

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I have just read this entire thread, and it seems I am the only one using not a wrist-strap but a hand-strap? I suppose that is kind of neat actually 🙂
 

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Neck first

Neck first

There are security issues for the photographer :
- at times (for instance in mountains) you need both hands and wrist strap is dangerous because it may hamper.
- wrist is better with specific circumstances and subjects suddenly feeling asocial (a full-metal M is fine hand complement against controversial or anti-photographic people) ; if they grip your neck strap, other people have a way to force you.

Security issues for the camera :
- I do not like strap on shoulder since my Hexar sliped to the pavement (happily it coutinued to work OK many years)
- Neck : the lens may kick (e.g. bridge parapet in front of you, or rocks climbing mountains). Shade should have rubber in front of it.
 
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shutterflower said:
Wrist strap. Trouble with neck straps for me is that the camera is swinging from side to side or back and forth, and gets banged on things. If I'm out taking pictures in town, I have the camera either around my wrist and in hand, or in my bag with the flap down.

http://www.electricedge.com/gordy_s_straps/store/gallery/index.htm
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That's because your strap is too long adjusted. Have it at minimal lenght, long enough to twist the camera for a portrait, but no more, and your strapped camera will never bump again against your body. At that lenght you will be able to have it around your shoulder too, your upper harm holding it behind you and defending it from people passing by and whatever. It's all an issue of proportions. And personal customs too.
Cheers,
Ruben

PS: Thin strap only.
 
clarence said:
I'd like to see someone try to use a TLR with a wrist strap (not hand strap).

Or a Koni-Omega, or a Mamiya Press.

Clarence
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Obvious, and not to speak about carrying two TLRs simultaneously.
 
Richard Black said:
😎 I received a Vivitar 35ES with a wrist strap and liked it. So I bought a black strap with red wrapping from Gordy and put it on the Bessa R, see the photos. I think I like it for RF cameras. Seems they are ready to use and the weight is not that great. The question now is right side or left? I never liked the position that the Bessa R hung with small or light lens, always tilted back.
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That is the type of camera a wrist strap will work wonderfully.
 
BJ Bignell said:
For RF cameras, I'm definitely a convert to wrist straps. For my TLR, a neck strap still works best... What say you, guys and girls?
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To end my already long intervention at this thread, my opinion is:

a) For small and light cameras, nothing better than a wrist, provided size and weight of the camera doesn't enslave your wristed hand.

b) For all others, adjustable strap, rather short according to season, convertible to wrist through hand wrapping, and preferable not around neck, but hanging from the shoulder.

c) For mammouth cameras of the like of Mamiya TLR, strap of course, but at somewhat more extended lenght, imposed by camera size.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
shutterflower said:
Wrist strap. Trouble with neck straps for me is that the camera is swinging from side to side or back and forth, and gets banged on things.
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With a neck strap, I hang my camera over one shoulder, so the camera is on the side of my belly. It's much more secure because you can hold it comfortably in crowds, it doesn't swing around and it doesn't pull you down all the time. Also, an elastic neck strap takes away about half the pull of a bouncing camera. I have one glued to my SLR.

For my RF, I have a Gordy wrist strap, though.


Peter.
 
Comrade Peter,
Thank you for your posting. I was worried that upon mine I killed the thread. Truly.
Cheers,
Ruben
 
I prefer not to use a strap. I used to use a neck strap untill it killed my hexar rf (RIP) by catching in a corner and catapulting the hexar to its death....
 
Sorry to hear that, Hilmersen, but somehow, I can't stop laughing at the idea of a camera being catapulted in a nice swoop through the atmosphere 🙂 My elastic neck strap would be capable of doing that, but I'm sure the camera would hit me first and knock me over or something silly like I always seem to end up doing.


Peter.
 
I find that wrist straps are handy for small digital cameras, but, for my Leicas and my SLR, I prefer neck straps. I use a short strap to carry the Leica on my lower chest, and a longer strap to carry my SLR at waist level, preventing the two cameras from bumping each other.

Jim N.
 
I always used neck straps for my Nikons because they are too heavy for wrist straps; but wrist straps seemed right for RFs, so I got a couple of good ones and never got used to them. I currently use UP straps for everything (see here:
http://www.upstrap-pro.com/ ) and think that they're about the best strap that I've ever used. I keep the strap about medium length and carry the camera over my shoulder, either in front or in back, depending on the situation. If I have two cameras, I carry one on each side. If I'm in crowds, where I worry about being jostled and maybe ripped off, I carry it in front. When I'm trying to be a little discreet, I carry it in back. The only time I carry it around my neck is when I anticipate a lot of shots in a fairly short time. The UP strap can be slipped off your shoulder, but it's hard to do. You can prevent that possibility be sewing a button on the shoulder of your shirt. When people ask what it's for, you tell them it's God's Button for the Ethereal Buttoning. They'll let it go at that; although I couldn't recommend this answer in Saudi Arabia.

JC
 
Wrist strap for RF sized cameras. One of the inexpected benefits over a neck strap is you dont have all that mass to stuff back into the camera bag between shots.

Rex
 
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