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farmersteve

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That's funny... I put a Digital EOS strap on my Canon Elan 7e because it's what I had laying around. I don't think 99% of the people know by looking at my camera that it's not digital...
 

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Vaughn, you ought to attach a camera strap to your 11x14 and walk around with it hanging from your neck. That would be funny!...

I have already lost an inch and a half in height over the last 20 years! The only reason I can carry a 60+ pound pack is because the hip belt acts as a back brace!

:cool:
 

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I hate writing on my camera straps mine are all plain black.
 

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Personally, I have never been a fan of the gaudy logo straps all these cameras come
with...I put black Domke straps on my cameras...they're better.
 

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No such decisions needed here. None of my cameras have provisions for straps; they're all monorails. KISS, I say.
 

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Man, I'm tame compared to you guys. Most outrageous thing I've done is to put the new Nikon center pinch lens caps on my Mamiya 645 lenses. They're way better than the old Mamiya lens caps, which fall off easily...

Dale
 

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I've not paid much attention to straps having the brand name or being all black - I've got a mix of both. I do like having a strap - if only to wrap it around my wrist while holding the camera. I don't like holding onto a camera body all by itself. Also, if need be I can sling the camera over my neck and be hands free.

But I wouldn't mix bodies with a strap from a different brand - it's a proven fact that that affects exposure or micro-contrast or something. After all, the strap was designed for that camera.
 

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Man, I'm tame compared to you guys. Most outrageous thing I've done is to put the new Nikon center pinch lens caps on my Mamiya 645 lenses. They're way better than the old Mamiya lens caps, which fall off easily...

Dale

My 1940's 14" Kodak Commercial Ektar sports a Nikon pinch cap. Works great!
 

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I mess with folks when I take a picture of them with a 35mm camera. As they're used to d-cameras, they come to me immediately to check the image on the LCD... I turn the back of the camera their way, they come really close and I start to laugh! They get all confused and take a couple of seconds to remember I shoot film, but then it's too late. :D


Cheers,
Flavio
 

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The strap on my Fuji GW690III proudly proclaims it to be a D300.

People seem to get more worked up about the fact that I'm using the side strap lugs so the camera hangs vertically.
 

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I don't know about messing with other people's minds, it seems to me that this idea is so juvenile that adults doing this sort of thing need their minds "messing with".
 

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I don't know about messing with other people's minds, it seems to me that this idea is so juvenile that adults doing this sort of thing need their minds "messing with".

I've never grown up then.
 
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I don't know about messing with other people's minds, it seems to me that this idea is so juvenile that adults doing this sort of thing need their minds "messing with".

Adulthood is vastly overrated, and many of us have given it up as a bad idea whose time has passed.
 

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Adulthood is vastly overrated, and many of us have given it up as a bad idea whose time has passed.

I've chosen to act like an adult only when strictly necessary.

Life's too short to take everything seriously all the time.


Cheers,
Flavio
 

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When my children became teenagers and were learning to use logic, I told them that using logic and thinking through the results and consequences was import to learn and use as a teenager. Once they became adults, they could throw logical thinking out and act like most adults.
 
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When out shooting in public....i.e "street photography" I tape an old SD card to the bottom of the F5. Just in case someone wants to be belligerent and I'm in no mood nor position to fight about it. The surprise when they get home and look is the images on the SD card are uncomfortable to view.
 

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When out shooting in public....i.e "street photography" I tape an old SD card to the bottom of the F5. Just in case someone wants to be belligerent and I'm in no mood nor position to fight about it. The surprise when they get home and look is the images on the SD card are uncomfortable to view.

Best one I've heard yet. I think I'm going to use this.
 
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When out shooting in public....i.e "street photography" I tape an old SD card to the bottom of the F5. Just in case someone wants to be belligerent and I'm in no mood nor position to fight about it. The surprise when they get home and look is the images on the SD card are uncomfortable to view.

this is not a bad idea --- stick it in the slot for the film box end, and if challenged for taking pictures on a train, or wherever, show some resistance, then give in slowly, and with great reluctance and anger remove the sd card from the slot and hand it over.

What do you put on it -- undressed members of this or that opposite sex? 400 pictures of paint drying?
 
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Nah just a local farm (actually my neighbor) at slaughter time. People should know where their food comes from. It was every bit as uncomfortable to shoot as to view. I hunt and it's (butchering) the worst part of the hunt. Never have gotten used to it.

My F5 has the MF-28 multi-function back and looks like a modern digital to Joe Public. Makes it easy. Not that I do street often but when I do.............
 

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There's a name for people who do this sort of thing "kidults".
 

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My Canon FTB has a Canon ESO strap and sits in a Praktica LTL case .Hows that for living dangerously i just dont care .LOL
 

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A friend of mine has an EOS 80D strap on her Diana. Makes me giggle.

Someone asked me once how many megapixels my 4x5 Speed Graphic is. I looked at him for a moment, trying to decide whether he was serious, decided he was, and then said, "one."
 
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