How do you carry your camera?
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majid
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- Leica M240: around the neck with the standard Leica neck strap
- Fuji X-T1: around the neck with an Artisan & Artist kumihimo-braided silk neck strap
- Fuji X100S: in my Scottevest jacket pocket, has an Artisan & Artist flat-braided silk wrist strap
- Canon 5DmkIII: in a bag, has a Markins leather hand strap attached to the QR plate.
The bandolier style straps look like you risk smashing your lens against a wall or something, specially with long SLR zoom lenses.
kuuan
loves old lenses
Ricoh GXR M and NEX5n, either one in a waist bag together with one or two more RF lenses, camera themselves 'bare'
sreed2006
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These days, usually handheld with no strap. If I have two cameras or multiple lenses, then I take along a camera bag and put whatever I'm not using at the moment in the bag.
This may just be a passing fad for me, though. On occasion, I still use an over the neck strap, especially for the TLR cameras.
This may just be a passing fad for me, though. On occasion, I still use an over the neck strap, especially for the TLR cameras.
michaelwj
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My preferred way is in my left hand with no strap, the lens between my thumb and index finger, with my index finger on the baseplate. Despite how it sounds it's actually quite natural. I take it with my right hand to shoot, and my left hand moves to under the lens for focus/aperture adjusting.
In reality, I'm usually shooting as an aside to other activities, usually with my 4 year old. So with the need to keep my hands free I use a long AA cloth strap, in what I know now thanks to a quick trip to google is 'bandolier' style. If I'm carrying a bag it goes under the camera strap. When I'm not using the camera it sits on my kidneys well out of the way. I've almost knocked out my kid when the camera was on my hip and I bent down to give a some food and my camera swung around and just missed her face. That would have been a bad thing.
I recently got told by a fellow RFF member that I had "weakened and now use a strap". I have to agree - I hate using it. It gets in the way and catches on things. I even have it in my photos some times.
In reality, I'm usually shooting as an aside to other activities, usually with my 4 year old. So with the need to keep my hands free I use a long AA cloth strap, in what I know now thanks to a quick trip to google is 'bandolier' style. If I'm carrying a bag it goes under the camera strap. When I'm not using the camera it sits on my kidneys well out of the way. I've almost knocked out my kid when the camera was on my hip and I bent down to give a some food and my camera swung around and just missed her face. That would have been a bad thing.
I recently got told by a fellow RFF member that I had "weakened and now use a strap". I have to agree - I hate using it. It gets in the way and catches on things. I even have it in my photos some times.
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I carry two, three or four cameras when I'm street shooting, and always hanging off my shoulders and around my neck.
the ones hanging off the shoulders are kept from slipping off by the velcro sewn onto the straps that mates with the velcro on the epaulettes of my vest. Done and done.
the ones hanging off the shoulders are kept from slipping off by the velcro sewn onto the straps that mates with the velcro on the epaulettes of my vest. Done and done.
Contarama
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Which is why mine is just long enough that I can tuck it behind me...I also run with it this way one hand holding it if possible but always behind the hip. I made my own strap with web belt and a couple of key rings.
konicaman
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Small cameras in a wrist strap, larger cameras around my neck in a slim leather strap or in a shoulder bag when not in use.
I hate those broad "guitar" straps that most SLRs come with and I have a tried a Sniper strap but carrying an SLR with a big lens that way is not pleasant; it keeps bumping against my hip and I bang the lens against doorframes, walls and other people...
I hate those broad "guitar" straps that most SLRs come with and I have a tried a Sniper strap but carrying an SLR with a big lens that way is not pleasant; it keeps bumping against my hip and I bang the lens against doorframes, walls and other people...
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Carrying bodies with long lenses attached is much simpler when you turn the camera backwards before slinging it over your shoulder so that the lens is resting across your butt with the rear of the camera facing out. I always carry my 180, 80~200, or even 300 2.8 this way, and the lenses never bump into door frames, other people or whatever as I walk around.
AlwaysOnAuto
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I just changed out the strap on my Nex-7 to a shorter Nikon strap I think I got with my EM. It doesn't hang as low now so doesn't bang around as much when I'm on my bicycle.
barnwulf
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I have an UP Strap on both my Sony A7r and my NEX 7. I have the strap over my head and camera at my chest but I hold the camera in my hand all the time. The strap is mostly just for a safety strap in case I stumble or accidentally drop the camera. Sometimes I use the strap bandoleer style but still holding the camera in one hand. - jim
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Since I started using Velcro on my shoulder straps, I no longer worry about cameras falling. Even if a clip fails, the Velcro keeps the strap from sliding off my shoulder.
I've been extolling the virtues of this "system" for years, but I've yet to meet anyone who has followed suit.
Ljós
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In the hand. No strap, no nothing.
majid
Fazal Majid
I'm surprised no one uses a chest harness like that used for binoculars by some birdwatchers.
lukitas
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Ah! Bien sur!
When out shooting, I wrap the strap around my right wrist.
When I work, I sling it on my left shoulder, under my coat, so it can't fall off. Works best with a pancake lens, but the zoom is reasonable well protected by the coat, even though it looks like I have a timer on my left hip. And I am too fat for bandolier to work well, especially under a coat.
danielsterno
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M6/M5/Fuji x100 each have their own neck strap by the strap & half case Master Maker Artisan: Luigi Crescenzi LeicaTime.com
mdwsta4
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Pfreddee
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Neck strap. I understand that it looks a little dorky, but it wouldn't be the first time...😀
With best regards.
Pfreddee(Stephen)
With best regards.
Pfreddee(Stephen)
DNG
Film Friendly
Thin Leather Neck Strap... like the old timer kind about 1/2 wide, no padding
Manuel Patino
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Thin leather neck strap for the M240 unless It's mounted on the big old Bogen tripod in which case i carry it over my shoulder as I scramble over rocks and hiking trails. I found a small Swiss Army backpack that can hold a couple of L mount lenses and the body with the 50mm Lux as well as ND filters, extra battery and other small accessories. I find the backpack to be the most comfortable and convenient way to carry the camera in hikes and such.
For street shooting I carry the M240 either in my hand or around my neck also a messenger type bag with extra lenses and such.
Here is the bag withe the body & 3 lenses and assorted stuff in it. That is a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper next to it.
Here is the bag the lenses/body outside. I put the lenses in neoprene bags to protect them and the camera
For street shooting I carry the M240 either in my hand or around my neck also a messenger type bag with extra lenses and such.
Here is the bag withe the body & 3 lenses and assorted stuff in it. That is a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper next to it.
Here is the bag the lenses/body outside. I put the lenses in neoprene bags to protect them and the camera
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