Camera Strap

+ another for the UpStrap. Ask them and they may be able to do one for you in Kevlar reinforced webbing. Good for the fox though (despite your strap loss), but they have been given a bad press in the UK recently in a case of a fox attacking a baby! That may just be caused by the proto domestication of urban foxes, where they feel less threatened by people but still behave as a fully wild animal.

Steve
 
dogberryjr said:
I thought they only ate buy-bees.
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We don't talk about that any more! :p

The same Dingo also used to steal my boots ... and occasionally garden tools! One day I found this small clearing up in the bush behind my house where he had his secret stash ... there was a lot of other people's stuff there as well! :D
 
For me the perfect strap is something soft and flexible and not very wide. The upstrap works as advertised but the pad is stiff and it is so clingy it tends to catch at odd times and has threatened to upset my grip on the camera. I do use one on the dSLR. However with rangefinder I like to have it in my hands when shooting, not hanging from neck or shoulder. If I'm not shooting the camera is in the shoulder bag. The only time I want the strap around my neck is when changing film. The best straps I've found so far are the original ones for the GA645 (narrow soft cotton) and the one that came with the Hexar RF (very narrow nylon). Both these are easy to wrap around my left wrist for security. If anyone has spares of these please let me know!

Edit: correction - the GA645 strap is nylon, with a very nice feel and texture.
 
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For me, there are only two straps, that work:

- original Leica strap with removed rubber pad - I am choking by the price, you have to pay - here it costs slightly less at 22 GBP (I bought a batch last time in Hong Kong for 260 HKD each).

- the Nikon slim camera strap (I can't remember the name) - it is mighty cheap (about 8 EUR), is similarly shaped to the thin original Leica strap (this is not a wide SLR strap, but more targeted to smaller cameras), has no brand name - just plain black with a black soft, very thin leather pad sewed on for the neck, and feels a bit softer and nicer, than the Leica strap.

It has only one downside - you have to find some triangular attachment rings, if you don't like the cheapo keyring solution like me OR: you could reuse your original Leica quick release ends with the cheap but very nice Nikon strap.
 
Keith said:
We don't talk about that any more! :p

The same Dingo also used to steal my boots ... and occasionally garden tools! One day I found this small clearing up in the bush behind my house where he had his secret stash ... there was a lot of other people's stuff there as well! :D
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Well Keith,

he must've been sprung from a dingo - magpie cross-bred experiment then? Don't you guys also have these animals with the beaver body and duck snout over there?

Things are seriously upside down there!

We have a comedian in NL that sat down during a show, talking, and a waiter (his lookalike brother) served him a bottle of beer, opened it upside down and put it on the table upside down. Glass next to it. Then left. During the talk, said comedian casually picks up the glass and then turns over the bottle. Beer instantly launches towards the ceiling. Crowd roars. Reads the label: "Hm. Australian beer".

:D
 
Steve Bellayr said:
Pacsafe/camsafe makes a strap with metal in it so that it can not be cut or chewed.
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I'm not after a chew proof strap, I just want a basic, unpadded & cheap camera strap to go with my basic, manual rangefinder camera. The fox story was just a lighthearted background story.
 
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