I hate these clips

[kshapero]

I hate these things. They are a pain in the butt to remove (although I am getting good at it.). Of course, I could just stop buying old cameras......Nah, but seriously who uses these clips?

 

[farlymac]

I do. And "hippy" straps instead of the skinny artificial leather/plastic ones these were designed for.

But sometimes I don't bother to put anything on a camera that comes with no rings. It just depends on how confident I feel in handling it. And how much it cost me.

PF

 

[Timmyjoe]

I love them, have them on all my Nikons, old and new, digital and film.

Yeah, they're a bit tricky to take on and off, but they stay well, and the little black plastic part keeps them from scratching up the body.

Best,
-Tim

 

[kshapero]

Pretty impossible to put on a strap that has its own rings.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

That explains it.

I don't like hand straps, BTW 🙂.

 

[Robert Lai]

I like the Nikon triangles. They hold well, and have the plastic liners that prevent scratching, as Tim says.

My preference is always to mount the strap on a leather half case, if available. The Nikon half cases are the best here. There is a metal liner for the ring. The leather strap also has a metal liner where the strap meets the fastener, so the leather is never cut through. The rest of the strap has an internal nylon or vinyl core. The straps on my Nippon Kogaku F case are still perfect for that reason, as well as the cases and straps for my two F2.

Kodak was second best with the Medalist II. The leather strap has a vinyl liner sewn throughout its length. My Medalist II case and strap are still as intact as ever.

Leica and Rolleiflex don't do well here. Their unreinforced leather straps are useless by now. I routinely cut them off. For Leica cameras, I use Leica's current nylon strap on the half case. For the Rolleiflex, the Fotodiox nylon strap with the scissors clips are my strap of choice.

 

[Dogman]

I'm a believer in the triangle shaped clips. Years ago, when I worked at a daily newspaper, several of us photographers had problems with camera straps coming loose while on assignments. New cameras (at least Nikons) didn't come with straps or rings back then, you always had to buy one separately. We all used wide straps with those big round split rings and they had a habit of becoming unsprung and unthreading themselves through the camera lugs. It's unsettling to have the camera almost fall from around your neck. The triangle clips alleviated this problem. That may be why camera makers started using them and providing straps.

 

[kshapero]

Once again we prove the old adage, different strokes for different folks.

 

[Highway 61]

Those Nikon triangle clips with the black plastic liners are the best out there. And the Nikon strap eyelets have indestructible steel inserts.

 

[Freakscene]

Buy a pair of split ring pliers for fishing, they open those things and make handling them simple.

Marty

 

[bluesun267]

I like them, I wish I had more of them

 

[Bill Clark]

Never use straps.

When I operated my business, I considered my camera to be part of my hand. Or I had it on a tripod, which was usually the way I used my cameras.

I’ve been exercising one of my oldie Hasselblad cameras, a 500C with a 50 f4. No straps, no tripod! Nice exercise!

 

[kshapero]

I like them, I wish I had more of them

PM me your address and I will send you a bunch of them.

 

[css9450]

Never use straps.

When I operated my business, I considered my camera to be part of my hand. Or I had it on a tripod, which was usually the way I used my cameras.

I often take the strap off if the camera is on a tripod. The wind tends to catch it like a sail! My D750 sees little else but night photography and the last thing I want is the strap shaking it on a four-minute exposure.

 

[madNbad]

Those Nikon triangle clips with the black plastic liners are the best out there. And the Nikon strap eyelets have indestructible steel inserts.

The stainless steel insert came in 1970. Up till then, the strap lugs were just brass and would wear out with the added weight of motor drives plus heavy lenses.

 

[Chuffed Cheese]

Love 'em. They sell for a bit of cash too on eBay. Weird.

 

[sepiareverb]

Should one come upon an MP-3 then these are necessary to prevent the ends of a round ring from eating away at the soft brass Buddha ears.

 

[mdarnton]

I get small split rings in the key department of the hardware store. They aren't as thick as the original ones of 50 years ago, but they're good enough. Those triangle things go right in the trash when I see them.

I've been using split ring straps since around 1960, including 4 years as a news photographer and haven't had a single one drop a camera in all that time, or even come close, or even get started undoing itself.

 

[icebear]

Split rings for salt water fishing are the best but certainly a pair of pliers comes handy to open these as they are really tough...

 

[Rob-F]

The ones that came with my Fuji X10 were supplied with a plastic tool for spreading the ring. It worked fairly well.