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just a quick question/comment-

i noticed in gene's self portrait (in the gallery) that he uses a wrist strap for his camera. and a very nice one at that!

i too use wrist straps for my smaller fixed lens rf cameras. it seems more comfortable, easy to carry the camera, ready to use and out of the way.
and with a larger camera i quite often use my short next strap as a wrist strap, just wrapping it a couple of times around my wrist.

do others here use wrist straps and i'm curious if you have found some interesting variations?
mine are quite plain but i very much like the look of gene's.

input? and thanks!

joe
 
I also use to carry my cameras with the strap around my wrist. The Sling looks interesting so I may give it a try someday.

Together with the Hook seems the ideal package, as you can easily put on the strap when you want to hang the camera on your neck/shoulder.
 
I'm using an Op/Tech neoprene wrist strap on my Bessa R and Fed 4. Comfortable, works great. It's called a "Cam Strap QD". The QD is quick disconnect.
 
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Having found the strap blocked the viewfinder in more than one occassion when the shoulder strap was wrapped around my wrist during shooting, I decided a wrist strap is better.

My wrist strap is a cut-short neck/shoulder strap with both end hooked onto one strap lug; the one close to the shutter button.

Sorry, no digicam so I can't show you how it looks like but you should be able to imagine.
 
I tried using a wrist strap but found that I missed the convenience a shoulder strap gives me. When I want to hold the camera in my hand I simply wrap the strap around my wrist a couple of times - and when done it goes back up on my shoulder :)
 
i have a very small bag, the tamrac traveller, which i sometimes use as an over the shoulder bag. if i keep a camera on a wrist strap and need my hand or just don't want to carry it anymore, i simply put the camera in the bag. best of both worlds...

but my wrist straps are small and light, fine for the fixed lens rf cams but i want something stronger for the bessa r and soon canon p.
i think the op tech or hakuba (gene's brand) may be the ones to look for.

thanks guys!
joe
 
I do the same, Joe. I carry a bag over the shoulder (around my neck and slung down my side courier style). I have a number of different bags ranging from very small to medium, depending on whether I'm travelling light or carrying several lenses and sometimes multiple cameras. There are a gazillion choices of camera bags and I'll bet we all have a closet full of them. I have quite a few different Lowepro models and I like the way they're compartmentalized and padded.

Gene
 
"My wrist strap is a cut-short neck/shoulder strap with both end hooked onto one strap lug; the one close to the shutter button."

kris, this sounds like a good idea for a homemade set up. i'm wondering about how you connect both ends of the strap together. i just took a old strap and started playing with it. if i loop the strap through an o ring on the camera's strap lug i could use the strap's own plastic/metal gizmo to loop both ends together and connect them.
hope this is clear.
i assume if this is how you do it also that you put the end of the strap with the plastic/metal gizmo closer to your wrist rather than the camera? and if so, how does this work for you?

gene,
i too have several bags that i use depending on what i'm carrying and where i'm heading and how long i'll be gone. but i only have the one small tamrac that was originally designed as a camera bag. i have an now ancient beat up canvas book bag and a very nice looking similar bag, also canvas, that i use. years ago i special ordered an insert from a camera bag that i transfer from one bag to another. keeps my bags from looking too much like camera bags.

joe
 
dwpayne said:
I'm using an Op/Tech neoprene wrist strap on my Bessa R and Fed 4. Comfortable, works great. It's called a "Cam Strap QD". The QD is quick disconnect.
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I have one of those as well - and I kind of like it - but I've quit carrying it.

Two problems for me:

1) When the neoprene is around my wrist, I well...sweat under there. Icky. My wrist ends up smelling like feet.

2) I have been known to be expressive when I talk - meaning I throw my arms around with abandon. More than once, I nearly brained myself with a Yashica GSN that was attached to the end of the arm I was gesturing with.

I agree that it has certain advantages over a traditional neck strap, though.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Hihihihi! I can just imagine Bill crushing his brain with his strap-attached camera. :)

Wouldn't be the first time that something like that happened to me as well. I bashed my brain with my FED2 in my hand while giving directions to a tourist.

(--- Mental note: NEVER scratch your head in wonderment while holding a full-metal camera in my hand. ---)

I kept a brave face but it hurt like hell! I had a sore bump on my head for days. :)
 
well, i made my own strap 'a la kris' and it works great, feels secure and looks pretty good too!
i tried it out on the bessa this afternoon and am pleased with the results.

joe
 
Sorry to post a reply to this thread rather late Joe.

The way I connect my wrist strap to the camera is by attaching both O rings to a single lug. It's rather tight, but it works. Each end of the strap has its own O ring. No metal part in the middle of the strap so there's no possibility of scrapping my skin off.

Sorry, I have no digicam at all; not even a D-P&S so I can't show you how it looks like. I'll use one frame in my current roll to show you how I do it and post it sometime next week You may have figured it by then anyway.
 
Kris is your strap something like this ? I've cut a very very cheap (1 euro?) strap in two, then rolled around itself one time to make it even shorter, and so that both ends are hidden under the rubber shoulder piece.

Then, one o-ring on the strap lug and the other acting as a tightener to make the wrist part itself tighter or looser.

Again sorry for the bad quality of my digis, works better with a loupe or a 50mm lens in front, but then can only take very macro shots :eek:

Btw, the Rollei is there not only as atrezzo, but also 'cuz I think everybody should try a TLR at least once :p

PS: the image of Bill with the camera flying to his head made me really laugh, but probably Bill's brain didn't find it that fun ! Even less with a GSN, man that surely hurts !
 
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i didn't do it like either of you guys.

i used 1 o ring in the camera lug and one of those metal/plastic thingies to put the strap through to hold it together. (the thing in oscar's pic, left, front)
it works great and the metal part strap doesn't move about so i wasn't hurt by the metal thing.
(does anyone know whay that damn thing is called?)

anyway, it works and didn't cost me anything cause i have a few extra straps around.

joe
 
I carry my little QL-17 on my chest with a Burris Pro Staff Binocular strap system. It kind of reminds me of a Bianchi shoulder holster for Dirty Harry's S&W Model 29 .44 Magnum.

Anyway, the straps go over both of your shoulders and the camera rests in the middle of you chest on elastic cords that allow you to raise camera to your eye and then just let go of camera and it rests on your chest again. you can bend over and the camera does not swing away from chest and belt you in the face or fall to the ground. I'll try to post some photos in the next couple of days as this description probably isn't very clear.

I've tried wrist staps, but some times I like to have a beer in one hand and a brat in the other.

Wayne
 
i wonder who that model could be...hhhmmm?

looks kinda bulky - at first look i was wondering where the 38 snub nose went to. :)

joe
 
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