Your favorite camera strap?

tom_micklin · Feb 16, 2009

I only use Gordy's - the wrist strap with the pad.
It's perfect for me.
http://www.electricedge.com/gordy_s_straps/store/wrist-pad/index.htm

Larry.Manuel · Feb 16, 2009

New Deluxe Voigtlander Camera Strap, Black high strength fixed length 3/4" rope fabric, reinforced leather on the neck and ends, leather inserts to protect camera body from strap rings, "Voigtlander Germany Since 1786" on leather insert, much nicer than the standard strap. Fits most RF cameras.

<from Cameraquest website> US$35. I love mine on my M3.

patrickjames · Feb 16, 2009

On smaller cameras I use something like the Y-strap, only I just go to REI and buy the strap and split rings myself for a total cost of $6. On heavier cameras I use a wide polyerethane strap for the give and comfort. THe nicest one I have I have been using for ages, but the name escapes me right now. It is made in Germany.

C A Sugg · Feb 16, 2009

A non-slip Hassy strap. The only down side is that the only camera I have that it fits is a Kiev 60.

Mark Fisher · Feb 16, 2009

Excalibur2 said:
Well I don't care which one I use.........but the one I hate is the bright red one with large "Canon" in white printed.........supplied with AE1 etc cameras at the time.

I had the same feeling about the EOS straps...until I put it on my Diana...

DWThomas · Feb 16, 2009

I got a "Pro" version of the EOS strap that permits removing the main neckstrap portion and snapping the camera attchment straps together as a sort of wrist strap. For some things I like it, but I admit to contemplating a hour or so some day with a stitch ripper to remove the lettering!

Hmm - and if one positions a barbed-wire strap just right, it should never slip off the shoulder.

DaveT

KingJon · Feb 17, 2009

Artisan and Artist for my Leica and Olympus OM's and a LowePro for my MF stuff.
Jon

Poisson Du Jour · Feb 17, 2009

DWThomas said:
I got a "Pro" version of the EOS strap that permits removing the main neckstrap portion and snapping the camera attchment straps together as a sort of wrist strap. For some things I like it, but I admit to contemplating a hour or so some day with a stitch ripper to remove the lettering!

Hmm - and if one positions a barbed-wire strap just right, it should never slip off the shoulder.

DaveT

Why, prey tell, would you be troubled with removing the lettering, which I presume is "Canon", embroided on the T3 grey/black strap? Unless, of course it's a dreadful Chinese fake with plastic, plastic relief lettering and Godforsaken flimsy stitching. But if it's the genwine article, wear the strap and Canon's logo with satisfaction!

Poisson Du Jour · Feb 17, 2009

KingJon said:
Artisan and Artist for my Leica and Olympus OM's and a LowePro for my MF stuff.
Jon

I've just noticed that Mainline Photographics here in Australia (New South Wales) stock Artist & Artisan straps and will have a look at these; I believe they've got a good following amongst the blue-ribband collectable set (medium and large format collectors). Off around the web to scout for a cattledawg (sorry, catalogue...).... I'm a bit uncoordinated here at the moment after a 154km ride to the beach and back; got my 3km swim in; just need a lay-up for the rest of the day...............

fotch · Feb 17, 2009

None. Never could get use to a strap on heavier cameras like a SLR. Only seem to work on the modern box camera. To each their own.

BobbyR · Feb 17, 2009

Pinholemaster said:
http://www.wapitistraps.com/

Made in Montana.

Thank-you.
Bobby

Vilk · Feb 17, 2009

another vote for AN-4B--the silk-smooth, lightweight, invisible neck strap-wrist strap combo

Palantiri7 · Feb 18, 2009

Op/Tech USA superpro B for the Rollei 6003.

Domke gripper for 35mm. No complaints.

nsurit · Feb 18, 2009

Another vote for none. They just get in the way. Bill Barber

Chazzy · Feb 18, 2009

nsurit said:
Another vote for none. They just get in the way. Bill Barber

Until a camera slips from one's fingers. Then I'm very happy that it can't fall to the ground. For me, straps are a form of insurance and a must.

AutumnJazz · Feb 18, 2009

I can't stand advertising which camera I use, I would hate a strap that yelled CANON or NIKON in large, obnoxious letters. (I even have gaffer's tape over the Nikon logo on my camera.) To each his own, I suppose.

Straps also make it easier to run around with a camera, which is why I love to sling it over my shoulder.

MikeSeb · Feb 18, 2009

Upstrap QR version. I have a couple of the QR straps that have the rubber pad with gripper surface, and they DO NOT slide off. They don't work too well for round-the-neck use; they are shoulder straps.

I also have a couple of their "bandolier" straps, which are just webbing without the rubber pad. I like these for lighter gear; I wear them cross-body style. They are great when you have two cameras with you, since this one allows you to rotate the secondary camera out of the way. I like to be able to interchange the straps between cameras, or easily remove them for on-tripod use.

Great customer service from owner Al Stegmeyer; and good products. My only connection with them is as a satisfied customer.

DWThomas · Feb 18, 2009

Poisson Du Jour said:
Why, prey tell, would you be troubled with removing the lettering, which I presume is "Canon", embroided on the T3 grey/black strap? ... But if it's the genwine article, wear the strap and Canon's logo with satisfaction!

I'm certainly not ashamed of my Canon gear, I just don't like to be more conspicuous than necesssary. It's got "Canon" in white and "EOS" in red big enough for even my aging eyes to read it from many yards away.

I used to work with a guy who used a technical drafting pen with black India ink to overwrite the white-filled logo and model engraving on his Nikon gear.

DaveT

matthewbetcher · Feb 19, 2009

my favorite strap is the old beat up gnarly stitched one from the sixties that my mother used when she was exploring photography. I love it and there is some serious energy in it! I've tried to go "new", but every time i try it seems like the kit is just missing something... corny i know, but in the end, it's all about how you wield the stuff. Hell, just look at all the amazing holga images that come from this group!

and my strap is always worn with a little panache

... or is it the strap that give me the panache?

BWKate · Feb 19, 2009

I have an old Leica strap that was given to me as a going away present almost 20 years ago. It's a bit beat up but it has seen me through my entire photographic experience.

Alexander Ghaffari · Feb 19, 2009

I love the OpTech straps...especially on those heavier cameras *cough* RB67 *cough*.

Strokebloke · Feb 19, 2009

What I would like is a strap that doesn't get in the way [particularly when I'm concentrating on composing a shot, only to find that the strap is hanging in front of the lens & I'm left wondering why I can't get the dark object in the viewfinder into focus]. I have an old FM2n which has the conventional Nikon triangular rings attached to the body anchors. There's never a problem with the FM2n. It's the F601 (USN6006) that's the problem!! It has stupid flat cheap lugs, one of which is horizontal to the body & the other inclined at 45 degrees. The strap passes though a slot in the lug. And the consequence is that when you move/tilt/rotate the camera body, instead of gravity working as it should on the strap, it has to go wherever the body goes [before it decides to hang in front of the lens] Where can I get rings that will fit onto the stupid flat lugs, so that my strap can simply respond to its natural subjection to Newtons Law?

cowanw · Feb 19, 2009

A corollary to Newton's law.
on each side, have the strap go from the flat lug a very short way to a swivel ring or snap tab then attach to the rest of the strap.

Strokebloke · Feb 19, 2009

Hi Bill. That's exactly the sort of thing I have in mind. What I have no knowledge of is how to source swivel rings or snap tabs in this country [UK]
There's no rush. I'm sure I'll eventually find somewhere that supplies them. In the meantime my vocabulary will increase by leaps and bounds

Regards,
Jack

Chaplain Jeff · Feb 20, 2009

Hello,

I use the Domke straps.
Good rubber gripper built into the underside of the strap, unobtrusive and very utilitarian.

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