Do you leave on or take off your L-Bracket?

I have one on every camera and leave it on at all times.

My straps are connected to the L bracket. The way I have the ends of the hand strap tucked away make it a pain to undo. I do have other lighter tripod plates if I need to travel light. I'm just too lazy to swap them.

I always take off the 'L' bracket when not using it, but tend to keep the normal (flat) one fitted as this gets used quite a lot.
Because it's a nice smooth/fitted bracket it doesn't cause me any discomfort or problems.

I don't use a grip, but my L bracket had never been removed from this camera or my previous ones. I like the way the camera rests on a table, especially with a long lens with a tripod ring. I have no problem with the weight, size, or feel of the bracket.

On all the time. You don't want to strip the tripod thread taking that thing on and off.

I have a gripped 5D3 and leave my Kirk L bracket on all the time as most of my shooting is indoors. Depending on what I want from the shot, I may or may not use an RRS bracket-mounted 580EXII, hence the L bracket.

However, one a recent short city-scape shooting for personal enjoyment, I took off the L bracket, and grip, to reduce overall weight for carrying the camera all day. When I got home, I put it all back on to be ready for my next shoot.

100% always mounted... It's a rarity that it'll come off... Probably just to clean (inbetween the camera and L-bracket) when I want to, but for the most part it doesn't come off my camera body...

I leave them on my pair of cameras. I use a monopod or a tripod for a lot of my shooting and my monopod has an Arca Compatible quick release as does my tripod.

I just switched to the Arca-Swiss compatible quick release design. I couldn't be happier. I was able to get a one piece L bracket from Kirk for my 60D with grip and I also leave it on all the time. I'm still a bit giddy over my RRS purchase with all the Kirk plates, etc.

DavidR wrote in post #15918793
It never comes off, weighs next to nothing and actually helps protect the camera.

+1

Great protection and my black rapid strap is set up with a small Kirk arca Swiss clamp that I use to attach the my step to the camera or to the lens tripod ring clamp.

Also I always keep a tripod in the car so unless I travel by plane without one I always want to be able to connect to my ball head quick release clamp.

never comes off.

I'm in the phase of carrying my travel tripod everywhere, so it's damn handy to have it on.

It doesn't feel uncomfortable?

On all the time.

Somebloke wrote in post #16646119
It doesn't feel uncomfortable?

Nope. I don't use a battery grip. The L bracket doesn't get in the way at all.

I use to take it off when I didn't need it. After taking it off and putting it back on a few times it stripped my tripod mount on my 1D MK II. Since then I leave it on and it stays on.

Wow, this thread has sprung back to life!

Somebloke wrote in post #16646119
It doesn't feel uncomfortable?

Not at all. You get used to it quickly and the advantages are great, unless you never use a tripod.

Bryan