The Pisshook®

[Biggles]

At least, that's what I call it. A little something I came up with in Manhattan two years ago, while I spent a few days walking the city with a wrist-strapped CL and using a variety of restaurant, bar, hotel lobby, and other semi-public restrooms. Sometimes one needs both hands free, NOW, but there's just no time or room to take the packsack off and bag the camera, and with some lenses and hoods, it won't always fit in a pocket, either....

Seems obvious, but I've never seen anyone else do it.

Don't have a mitten-ring on your Gore-Tex parka? Or, it's summer and you're not wearing one? Well, does your packsack have daisy chains along the fronts of its shoulder straps?

I've even hung the carabiner from the belt loop of my jeans, during one museum visit where packsacks had to be left at hat-check.

All it takes is some sort of cheap carabiner and a tear-proof ring in the strap hardware, one big enough to clip into the carabiner easily. Makes it easier for this wrist-strap user to stop to use the bogs, get the wallet out, buy and eat a hot dog from a cart...

Hope this is of some interest and use.

 

[back alley]

i've used the carabiner on the jean's belt loop before but had forgotten about it lately.
great reminder, thanks.

joe

 

[sepiareverb]

Now this could finally make a wrist strap an option. Duh. The simplest things one can't figure out for oneself eh?

And I do this already with my water bottle!

 

[ray_g]

Carabiners are very useful. I use one to secure my camera bag strap to my chair or table when I sit down for coffee or to eat. Thanks for the tip!

 

[back alley]

Carabiners are very useful. I use one to secure my camera bag strap to my chair or table when I sit down for coffee or to eat. Thanks for the tip!

very clever! never thought of that one.

joe

 

[nikon_sam]

Great Idea...I'll have to try one or two or...

 

[amateriat]

Biggles: Great idea! Certainly filing this one.

What I've done on my SLING'd Hexar RF is "Tuco-loop" the original strap around the opposite lug for tossing over the shoulder while the other Hex is around my neck. Works for sudden calls of nature too, of course.

- Barrett

 

[dmr]

I don't know what you call those hooks, but they are very handy. I use a small blue one to hook my umbrella to a ring on my purse strap on days it looks like it might rain.

Yes, I can imagine all kinds of camera uses for them too.

 

[back alley]

barrett, how do you like the sling.
i was gifted with one but it feels too confining.
is that a feeling that fades with use?
joe

 

[Biggles]

I don't know what you call those hooks...

Mountaineering shops will know them as "carabiners".

I see the little ones more and more on checkout counters, where they're sold as expedient key ring clips. The hardware store, gunshop, camping store, and locksmith might call them "snaplinks".

 

[c.poulton]

What a great idea - I was resorting to using both the neck strap AND the wrist strap at the same time which is plain stupid. :bang:

 

[RML]

barrett, how do you like the sling.
i was gifted with one but it feels too confining.
is that a feeling that fades with use?
joe

I bought myself one too and had the same sense.
It doesn't feel right to me.
I've tried using it for a while but in the end I took it off as I wasn't putting my fingers through it most of the time.

 

[teo]

I've tried using it for a while but in the end I took it off as I wasn't putting my fingers through it most of the time.

just keep it in the palm of your hand, open the lever using your thumb and index.

 

[amateriat]

barrett, how do you like the sling.
i was gifted with one but it feels too confining.
is that a feeling that fades with use?
joe

Joe: I liked it pretty much off the bat since getting it aver three years ago, and it's stayed on that camera body ever since. Sometimes I've needed to hurriedly grab the body and shoot without taking the time to put my fingers through the loops, and in those instances it didn't get in the way. I like it lots.


- Barrett

 

[Simon Larbalestier]

I bought myself one too and had the same sense.
It doesn't feel right to me.
I've tried using it for a while but in the end I took it off as I wasn't putting my fingers through it most of the time.

I find them very useful in hot sticky climates where the extra grip adds reassurance when working fast.