Carry it like you mean it

Erik, that is too funny!:)

I am using an Op-Tech on the R4 and just this week on the M3. I love the way it hooks to the rings on the cameras, easy to put on and take off without taking the split rings off. The strap falls down and out of the way as soon as I bring it up to shooting position and the wide strap is very comfortable on the back of the neck.

Come summer, I will most likely go back to a thin strap as the heat in this part of the world is oppressive and sweat is a factor too.:p
 
People think I'm a dork with or without a camera. So I wear mine around my neck, besides it give me hands for meters, filters, cable releases and flash equipment. Now that is really dorky.
 
burancap said:
Likewise on both counts...

After coming this >< close to dropping an M slung over my shoulder -always around the neck, now!
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I just really hate the feeling of all the weight hanging off my neck. And wearing it on a shoulder makes no sense to me. It can never come off your shoulder if you wear it across your chest, and the weight is also off your neck.

That's how I see it, anyway.

And yes, I look like a dork no matter what :). It's function that I'm after.
 
mathomas said:
That's how I see it, anyway.
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Your are correct, so I will try to clarify my previous post (also, after watching your vid).

1.) Neck (classic style): When I am actively shooting. Though, I may lengthen my strap(s) and try your bandolier style at all times.

2.) Neck/shoulder (bandolier style): When the camera is dormant, too heavy, or in particular - when I am carrying two cameras. Again, the dormant one tucked out of the way with the active one around my neck. A quick arm switch and I am good (with no chance of a drop).

3.) Shoulder (purse style): Never! Well, at least not again.

OK... I just put way too much thought into this post... I think that the bottom line is that the neck simply HAS to be involved.
 
I never carry cameras around my neck - I hate the swing and bumping cameras into stuff that way.

I also wear on all cameras the exact same length, modified Leica quick release strap.

I always shoot with two or three bodies and never got the hang of short/ long wearing straps, to stack cameras on my chest - always messy for me.

So, I have mostly one camera over a shoulder, ready, to be picked up, one camera in my hand, I am shooting with and a third or just other stuff in a shoulder bag, which is sized, to easily take three M bodies and lenses.

While shooting, I change the bag and shouldered camera a lot from one shoulder to the other, cross wearing it in tight or highly movable environment (or in the cold, as it provides additional heat insulation).

My neck is only temporary camera holder, when changing film/ batteries/ lenses.
 
I never take more than one body and one lens. The camera hangs around my neck with an old Leitz leather neckstrap made as short as possible. The lenscap is secured by a small strap wich is connected to the clip of the neckstrap.

Erik.
 
Erik, I think, one can see this in your photographs - really simplistic and concentrated to the fact - I like that, but could never do this.

It is funny, as friends poke me about me always needing some warm up time, when going out and shooting.
I always spend about 1h of changing lenses and cameras, playing around until I have my two bodies and lenses for the day locked.
This needs me, to take more lenses and cameras with me in a shoulder bag, than I would need to use, but it strangely is the only way, that works for me, as I found.
 
Long time ago when I made a living shooting press stuff. I always carried two cameras around my neck - one short strapped, usually with a 35 and one "long" strapped underneath the first one. The long strap one was almost always a 21. Unfortunately, if you had to jump around a bit, it usually resulted in "pogo" stick movement. Bottom camera moving upwards, meeting top camera coming down - and exit a 21 finder (or even a top plate on occasion).
Nowadays, I usually carry just one camera around my neck, a second in the bag - or in a largish pocket of the vest. I am also considerably older and move slower. Less defunct finders and top-plate this way.
I like having a strap attached to me! Once I was shooting something and I had decided to just hold one M2 in my hand and shoot, decided to switch cameras and just let go of it! I did expect the camera to just fall to the end of the strap - it didn't - it hit the floor with a rather loud crash. Cured me from the "hand hold" only idea!
 
Neck for my RFs.

If I'm somewhere without my full sizers, I always wear a D-Lux 3 on a lanyard around my neck; it's ready for the quick draw, and hangs the red dot close to my heart. (Hopefully not a target).
 
As a matter of care I *have* to have my RF's around my neck. The alternative would be off my shoulder, with the most expensive part (the lens) most exposed to be knocked against other people or objects.

Particularly in busy Hong Kong, I'm terrified that my glass will be damaged, so I always have it around my neck where it's busy (aka, everywhere).
 
How about this? I like the way HCB is carrying his camera here and I've taken to doing the same. It feels more engaged and natural than hanging it off my neck or shoulder. (Picture of HCB with an M4, strap wrapped around his right hand and wrist, and lens cap rigged with a string he's wrapped around his left palm... if I fail to read the pic over into this file you can find it at http://dariocarusso.blogspot.com/ -- you'll have to scroll almost to the bottom of a long page.) Anyway it's a cool way to carry the camera -- it becomes the most important thing, never secondary.

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