Strap or no strap?

miha · Jan 4, 2019

Helios 1984 said:
To protect the lug mount areas from wear caused by lug rings & quick release metal clips.

PS:
I made mines with the leather scavenged from a Zenit TTL case.

I see. The straps I use have the lug rings at least partially covered in plastic so there is no metal to metal rubbing.

GRHazelton · Jan 6, 2019

Having once, decades ago, dropped a camera I ALWAYS use a strap or such. I'm partial to the Rapid sling, but it does take a little time to put it on. Yesterday at the Atlanta Botanical Garden I noticed two attractive young women snapping away with a Nikon DSLR (model unknown) without a neck or wrist strap. I wonder if the shooter felt that a strap just wasn't "cool." I doubt that the camera would survive a drop to the stone or concrete walks without probably significant damage. Not cool!

Luckless · Jan 6, 2019

GRHazelton said:
Having once, decades ago, dropped a camera I ALWAYS use a strap or such. I'm partial to the Rapid sling, but it does take a little time to put it on. Yesterday at the Atlanta Botanical Garden I noticed two attractive young women snapping away with a Nikon DSLR (model unknown) without a neck or wrist strap. I wonder if the shooter felt that a strap just wasn't "cool." I doubt that the camera would survive a drop to the stone or concrete walks without probably significant damage. Not cool!

I often don't use a neck strap on my DSLR because I don't want it to fall on the ground... I've had my camera snagged on things and dragged towards an untimely impact due to the strap many times, while I've yet to randomly forget about it being in my hand and stop holding my camera...

Sirius Glass · Jan 7, 2019

Luckless said:
I often don't use a neck strap on my DSLR because I don't want it to fall on the ground... I've had my camera snagged on things and dragged towards an untimely impact due to the strap many times, while I've yet to randomly forget about it being in my hand and stop holding my camera...

But then you are know as "Luckless". Go figure.

slackercrurster · Jan 12, 2019

Another fail for serious street work...

Fair use

slackercrurster · Jan 12, 2019

Luckless said:
I often don't use a neck strap on my DSLR because I don't want it to fall on the ground... I've had my camera snagged on things and dragged towards an untimely impact due to the strap many times, while I've yet to randomly forget about it being in my hand and stop holding my camera...

I would have dropped my cams numerous times without a wrist strap.

Peltigera · Jan 12, 2019

The last time I was on Mull, there was a young chap skipping from stone to stone in a rather fast stream holding a Canon EOS 1D (not sure as to the model) held in one hand with no strap. I suppose that if he fell in, the camera would be shot, strap or no, but losing his footing and not falling in would have put his camera at grave risk.

I can drop anything, anytime, so I always use a strap unless the camera has no strap lugs in which case it needs to fit in my pocket.

Luckless · Jan 15, 2019

Peltigera said:
The last time I was on Mull, there was a young chap skipping from stone to stone in a rather fast stream holding a Canon EOS 1D (not sure as to the model) held in one hand with no strap. I suppose that if he fell in, the camera would be shot, strap or no, but losing his footing and not falling in would have put his camera at grave risk.

I avoid working around both water and unstable footing if the depth of the water is greater than the distance from my left hand to by right elbow or so...

If I'm going down in an unplanned fashion, then my right arm is going Up, and taking the camera with it. I, in theory, heal reasonably well, and can happily survive being under water for a few seconds, or several minutes with a bit of prep, but the same cannot be said about most of my cameras. (However I do kind of wonder how resistant most of them are to water these days, given that nearly all my cameras are fully manual without a hint of electronics. That said, I'm still in no hurry to find out for sure...)

Strap or no strap?

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