Do you use a camera strap?

[ChrisR]

Just took the strap off my camera because its always getting in the way. Wondered how many of you use a strap or prefer it without.

[airfrogusmc]

I usually work with two cameras. One on each shoulder.

[New Hobby]

I had someone drop my P&S. I now always use a strap.

[bbqKing]

Do you use a camera strap?

NO.
Dropped my camera twice last month with the 24-70 on concrete so now i'm getting a handstrap

[SuzyView]

Dang! I have a handstrap and the POTN neck strap on my 5D and getting a handstrap for my new 40D to go with the nice new red POTN neckstrap. Yes, the straps can get in the way, but dropping a $3500 set-up is worse.

[juzthewy]

Safety first, I always strap up ;-)

[Anke]

Where do you hang your camera when you need both your hands free for a few seconds/minutes?

[Hikin Mike]

Strap for me. Hard to carry my camera and the wheelchair!

[SuzyView]

I see people with whimpy straps all the time and that kills me. Invest $22 on a good strap, that has the great quick release and you're set. I use 2 cameras most of the time, so both are on. If I didn't, I'd drop both of them.

[jdizzle]

I don't like the hand strap at all and it gets in the way. I'd rather have straps slung over my body and shoulder instead.

[mellowd]

Neck strap gives me a headache after extended use so I've ordered a hand strap

[SuzyView]

This is the one I got at B&H two weeks ago. It's great and not too expensive.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=cart&A=details&Q=&sku=194968&is=REG

[jdizzle]

This is the one I got at B&H two weeks ago. It's great and not too expensive.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=cart&A=details&Q=&sku=194968&is=REG
Does that strap screw right under the body?

[ChrisR]

Where do you hang your camera when you need both your hands free for a few seconds/minutes?

Easy, you squat a little and stick it between your legs. :)

Invest $22 on a good strap, that has the great quick release...

Now that's something I hadn't thought about. Think I'll have a looksy.

[SuzyView]

Yes, it screws into the tripod thing under the camera body (does not need the grip), and then it has another part where the tripod can be put on. So, it's win-win.

[jdizzle]

Cool!

[SuzyView]

The POTN strap has a very sturdy quick release. I have never seen it fail. Sometimes with 2 cameras on me, I have no choice but to remove one with the quick release. It's been so much easier. I don't have stock in POTN, but I think that the strap is one of the best accessories you can get for an expensive and heavy camera.

[SuzyView]

Oh, forgot. Because I have 2 cameras all the time, I ordered the extended (longer) attachments to the camera. I carry the 40D across the chest and needed about 3 inches more and the POTN store has those as well.

[Riff Raff]

I use the hand strap only at the moment. I just recently bought one of those Op/Tech Pro Loop neck straps though, so I'll be trying that out shortly. In the past, I haven't really cared much for neck straps.

[kuanyu]

I consider my strap cheap insurance against being fumble fingered at times

[cowpix]

I can't stand neck straps. Always carry in hand.

[midget]

e1 handstrap + neckstrap.

[Mark_Cohran]

I use the easily detachable POTN straps. Easy to take on and off as needed.

[Tumeg]

I put the strap on my camera right when I got it, but I end up not using it... (except when outside, lol)

It has caused more harm then good, it is what made me pull my camera off my desk and break my 50mm 2 days after I got it :mad:

But I still have it on there... :lol:

[Just Be]

No straps.

I finally took them off because I was constantly fighting with them while shooting.

It's more comfortable to just pull the camera out of my holster and shoot and then return it. Hanging a camera around my neck all day is a drag. Always worried about banging it on something or laying it down to eat unprotected.

If I bring two cameras the other is in my backpack.

[Glenn NK]

It is a real nuisance on a tripod, but for genral handling, I wrap it around my fingers and it's fail-safe.

Actually considering converting it so it can be quickly "snapped" off for tripod usage.

[GilesGuthrie]

The POTN strap is excellent for comfort and convenience. I quite often use it without the foam section so it works as a loop holder. I can't see that I'd ever take it off.

I use the Canon strap as a shoulder strap for my tripod.

[Jim G]

Yes. I use a strap and a handstrap when I have the grip on and just the neckstrap when I don't.

Almost never goes around my neck, though. Gets wrapped around my wrist twice.

[LotsToLearn]

Neck and hand strap here. Neck strap has quick release thingies.

[johneo]

I always use the camera strap ... I'm guessing it's no fun to drop a 5D with the 'brick' , onto a concrete surface. It's also easier to let it hang from my neck than to just carry this thing around.
When I've got both the 5D (w/ 24-70L) and 10D (w/100-400 L) with me, the 10D goes over my shoulder and I clip the strap to the 5D strap so it doesn't slide off my shoulder.

[gooble]

I have the stock Canon strap on the camera but do not hang it around my neck unless I can't set it down and need my hands free.

More often than nought it is in the way if I have it around my neck and I feel that even single-handed holding is secure.

If I had a large telephoto on without a tripod or monopod for a long time, like at an airshow, then I'd use it around my neck mainly to give my arms a rest every so often.

Also if I were an event photographer, especially with more than one body, I'd use the straps.

[dave kadolph]

Always

Most of my rigs have both a neck strap on qd's and an E1

[Just Be]

After replying "No", I had second thoughts. Can't change my vote, but...

I bought a nice padded strap at Kits/Ritz. I like it better than most others including my POTN strap (sorry), because the connector straps that attaches to the camera body can be shortened to almost nothing. This keeps them out of my way when the main part of the strap isn't connected.

So...I'm back to a "Yes" vote. :D

[bwolford]

Just took the strap off my camera because its always getting in the way. Wondered how many of you use a strap or prefer it without.

One drop and you'll put it back on.;)

[Bill Roberts]

Virtually always. It sometimes gets in the way but I feel it's safer with a strap than without.

[ST77]

I never used a strap for the longest time, then I watched a guy get run over by a couple of kids screwing around at the zoo, his camera hit the ground hard from that point on I always have a strap on my camera. I tend to wrap it around my forearm as around my neck gives me a head ache.

[dfoo]

I dropped my old 5D in the ocean and ruined it because I didn't have the neck strap around my neck. Now I have both a hand-strap and a shoulder strap -- and I always use one or the other religiously!!

[bigsue19]

I always have my neckstrap on the camera...just don't feel safe without it. Granted, it can be a nuisance when on a tripod, but I'd still go for safety first.

[cowpix]

I guess for those of you with small hands, a neck strap provides some protection from a drop. For me, it's just in the way.

[peatoire]

E1 all the way.

[Denny G]

I use a Domke Gripper (Canon Professional) neck strap. Not around my neck.

I snake the strap around my right arm and I can shoot portrait or landscape.
I've used this strap and in this fashion for so many years that it is just second nature. The strap is nerver in my way.

When I'm finished shooting I hang it around my neck and move on. Beer gives me a headache, camera straps never have.

[Woolburr]

"I have a professional camera...straps make you look like a tourist. 'Nuff said."

:rolleyes:


:lol::lol:

[goldboughtrue]

I use the included strap and just wrap it around my wrist.

[bwolford]

I guess for those of you with small hands, a neck strap provides some protection from a drop. For me, it's just in the way.

You and my wife always talking about small hands. Can't a guy get a break? :rolleyes:

"I have a professional camera...straps make you look like a tourist. 'Nuff said."

:rolleyes:


:lol::lol:

I know what you mean. Look at all those tourists on the field at professional football, soccer, baseball, games. Rank amateurs every one. :p

[ChrisR]

I've decided to leave the strap off for now. The camera feel so much different without it.

Think I'll get myself the E1 thought.

[Perry Ge]

My strap is used exclusively for holding my RC-1 remote, 99% of the time I'm holding the camera using the handstrap.

[tweatherred]

I have always used the neckstrap, sometimes wrapped around my arm. After lugging around a 5D and 20D together one day I invested in POTN straps and have not regretted it a bit. They are much more sturdy and comfortable than the stack straps and are probably one of the best photography investments I have made in terms of value for my money.

[Tixeon]

Neck strap = no
Wrist strap = Yes

[sando]

I usually wrap it around my hand, or have it dangling off my wrist - Im soon to be getting another body so I suppose I'll have to!

[Bobg1]

All the new straps seem way to short for me. The straps I used in the 70,s and 80's were much longer.

I like to wear the strap on my left shoulder and the camera down by my right hand. That way I can comfortably keep my hand on the camera for a quick shot, unlikely to slide off my shoulder when walking my 3 dogs. And then there is the safety factor of walking around taking pictures in cities like NY in the 70's and 80's. Like women are told to carry thier puses to avoid a snatch and grab. Picture this, today actually GPS in one hand camera hanging off the the right shoulder. I must have looked like a criminal's dreams walking the water front in NY.

So who makes the longest Camera strap that will work on my XTi? The Canon one woold be great if I could just figure out how to hold and shot with my elbow. LOL!

[slimninj4]

I have a neck strap that the XTI came with but I think I am gonna get a hand strap for times when I dont want it wrapped around my head.

[Tandem]

I have neck straps on all my cameras but the only time they are around my neck is when shooting over a railing either from a height or on a boat. I like the little extra security and peace of mind.

Otherwise I use them on my shoulders often with the camera reversed and the lens behind my back.

[samckitt]

I use a wrist strap on my 30D, but not the neck strap.

[Sam442]

I use the neck strap, but never round my neck,
its either wrapped round my forearm or round my elbow,
doesn't get dropped, can use in either orientation and it doesn't have a horrible bolt on the bottom making portrait uncomfortable like I'm imagining the wrist strap would.

[ChrisR]

Ok, so I lasted about a week without my camera strap. I love not having the strap on when shooting, but for walking about and doing things with your hands, it's just too inconvenient.

[Bill Roberts]

Ok, so I lasted about a week without my camera strap. I love not having the strap on when shooting, but for walking about and doing things with your hands, it's just too inconvenient.


We could probably have told you that Chris! :lol:

Realistically one of the quick release types would be a reasonable compromise. Either the Optech / POTN or the UpStrap would be fine. You end up with a few inches of strap still connected but not really enough to get in the way. And it only takes a moment to connect the complete strap back on.

cheers
Bill

[ChrisR]

We could probably have told you that Chris! :lol:

Realistically one of the quick release types would be a reasonable compromise. Either the Optech / POTN or the UpStrap would be fine. You end up with a few inches of strap still connected but not really enough to get in the way. And it only takes a moment to connect the complete strap back on.

cheers
Bill

I know I know - it was good while it lasted. I might look into the quick release strap.

Chris

[Stime187]

No straps attached to either of my bodies.

[freaking102]

neckstrap always on camera. neck strap is usually a wristtrap when shooting continuosly. don't trust plastic quick releases, which is about all sold these days, so when windy and camera is on tripod, the strap is rubber band wrapped to keep it from flapping in wind.

[Riff Raff]

I use the hand strap only at the moment. I just recently bought one of those Op/Tech Pro Loop neck straps though

I tried it out and had just about despaired of actually using it, when I came across this thread: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=247029. I'm now using the hand strap on the right, and the Pro Loop neck strap attached (on both sides) to the left lug. So it's secure, while not getting in my way. Most of the time. At any rate, I'm liking it. This is for actual shooting by the way, I don't really do much walking around with a camera around my neck.

[Bootlegger0173]

Always use a should strap- though it rarely makes it all the way around my neck.

[DVS_WiNdz]

I like using strap.. I don't want to always holding my camera.

[René Damkot]

Shoulder strap ;)

[wayne_eddy]

I'm generally nude though have a neck strap and a hand strap.

I have no idea how to attach the hand strap in a secure manner without the addition of the Batt Grip.

[René Damkot]

I have no idea how to attach the hand strap in a secure manner without the addition of the Batt Grip.

I think there are some (Arca Style) QR plates with a strap attachment. Nice excuse for getting one ;)
You could also fix something yourself to attach to the tripod mount if you're not using a tripod...

[Big WIll]

i use the POTN strap with a Canon E1 :) Works like a dream!

[Robert16]

If I'm running around with 2 cameras both have neck straps - one long and one short so that they don't bounce off each other like a couple of coconuts:). I bought a handstrap and just couldn't get used to it. :confused:

[Lester Wareham]

Always use the strap, either round my neck or wrapped around my wrist. Best anti-drop device there is.

[bryank930]

I use this one. ---> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/370771-REG/Tamrac_N505901_N_5059_Leather_Padded_Strap.html

[yogestee]

Yep always...I just bought a you beaut Lowepro quick release number in Bangkok for about 5 bucks..

Check it out http://products.lowepro.com/product/Speedster,2043,41.htm

Jurgen

[tupper]

I have never used a strap. It just doesn't feel right. I love to hold the camera at all times.

[Blue Deuce]

I wish there was a yes / no option.

No with the MKIII which is always on the 500 since a strap serves no purpose and gets in the way.

Yes with my other bodies and lenses.

[Bootsie]

I do not use a neck strap, I have a Camdapter hand strap that I love, but the neck strap is always in the bag just in case I find that I need it.

[mellowd]

Well, I'm quite annoyed. Just received my E1 handstrap and found out only now that you need the battery grip as well in order to use it. Anyone know a way I can get around this?

[wayne_eddy]

Well, I'm quite annoyed. Just received my E1 handstrap and found out only now that you need the battery grip as well in order to use it. Anyone know a way I can get around this?

Same thing happened to me.

There should be notice on the product indicating another accessory is required for use.

[Mark_Cohran]

Well, I'm quite annoyed. Just received my E1 handstrap and found out only now that you need the battery grip as well in order to use it. Anyone know a way I can get around this?

A company makes an attachment that screws into the tripod hole on your camera that will allow you to use the E-1 handstrap. I've seen a few threads about it, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the device. You could probably do a forum search and come up with an answer though.

[Bootsie]

Well, I'm quite annoyed. Just received my E1 handstrap and found out only now that you need the battery grip as well in order to use it. Anyone know a way I can get around this?

You can use just the adapter part of the Camdapter.

Here is their site.....

http://camdapter.com/

[wildcard1257]

I can end this by quoting my Basics of Photography instructor in college..."A camera without a strap, is a dropped camera."I believe that says it all!!!

[ChrisR]

I can end this by quoting my Basics of Photography instructor in college..."A camera without a strap, is a dropped camera."I believe that says it all!!!
Does that mean a camera with a strap never gets dropped?

[Robert16]

My friend thought it would be funny to wave his hand in front of my lense as I was composing a shot, misjudged, hit the end of the lense knocking it out of my hand.I dropped my camera - luckily the strap was around my neck. Two things came to mind - 'the strap' and 'must get insurance'.

[wildcard1257]

It's a lot less likely ChrisR, to drop one when it's hanging on your neck, wrapped around your wrist, or hanging on your shoulder.

[CaptainCutler]

I always hated carrying a camera around my neck. For the past 30 years I have used a strap attached only on the left side of the camera and carried it over my shoulder. Now I use the same on the left and a Camdapter hand strap on the right.

[rowdyred94]

I find myself chuckling at the "I dropped my $1gazillion camera in the lake/on the concrete/in the mud!" threads.

It's so simple.