Hand strap for 35mm

[Mike Kennedy]

I saw a chap this afternoon with his 35mm SLR attached to some sort of wrap around hand strap.He was gone before I could ask him what it was.Looks like the perfect solution for quick draw street photography.Anyone know what I'm speaking of?

 

[BradS]

how about the wrist wonder

 

[phaedrus]

I'm doing that with my regular neck strap. The part coming from the left attachment point goes under the lens, hand through the loop, give the strap a few turns to take up slack, et voilá!

 

[RobertV]

http://www.leicagoodies.com/

 

[markbarendt]

Hand straps are really cool. I don't use a neck strap at all.

I haven't actually had to buy one but this link will get you where you can. This ones I use are skinny and work fine. Two were made from the tails of a neck strap that I got with a camera I bought.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...mxp=0.0&sortDrop=Relevance&sb=ps&sq=desc&pn=1

 

[Mike Kennedy]

Thanks for the link Mark.
Pray tell,how did you fashion the hand strap for your camera (using 2 bits of neck strap).

 

[markbarendt]

Thanks for the link Mark.
Pray tell,how did you fashion the hand strap for your camera (using 2 bits of neck strap).

All you are really trying to do is create a loop. My tail (that sounds weird) was long enough and I just re threaded the adjuster to make the loop.

 

[nsurit]

Some manufacturers make a hand strap for their cameras. Olympus, the 35mm system I use, had a dandy one for their OM system. Others probably do or did. What 35mm are you using? Bill Barber

 

[Mike Kennedy]

I have 8 Nikon's,7 Pentax and 4 Cannon.
Right now I'm using my new-to-me Maxxum 7000.
The Nikon hand strap is priced.................Well it's priced like all "name brand" products.Too expensive for this church mouse.

 

[One_DaveT]

A hand strap is my preferred way of carrying a 35mm camera. Even when I had a neckstrap, I always wrapped it around my wrist. I took the strap off of an old lens case, trimmed it down and made this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2930693392_d3862118ef.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2930699042_bc4da962d0.jpg

 

[Mike Kennedy]

Nice set up.

Great solution.It gave me an idea for making one myself.Rummaged through a box of 40 P&S cameras and found this strap.Cut down to size and attached to a Maxxum 7000.Works!

 

[Stephen Prunier]

I use an Op/Tech neck strap with the quick connect ends. I keep the two short straps that attach to the camera connected together. I can then use it that way as a modified wrist strap and when needed I connect the padded neck section to make the complete neck strap. So this way I also get two straps for the price of one