Camera strap

My Nikon shooting buddies showed me how they can use a "D" ring to hook their straps to one side of the camera so the strap doesn't hang in your face when you shoot in portrait mode. Has anyone found a strap that will fit the Canon strap mounts? Please don't suggest Black Rapid. I have one and don't trust it to stay connected.

Lots of choices in straps. Personally I use the supplied Canon straps with my cameras and they work fine but I wrap the excess around my right wrist (landscape or portrait) and there doesn't seem to be any issues.

See https://www.adorama.co​m …d-Cases/Straps-and-Slings or https://www.bhphotovid​eo.com …46734082&origSe​arch=strap.

I haven't seen complaints on Black Rapid products for nearly 5 years now. It seems they have made their products very reliable.

That being said, you can buy metal rings that mount to the tripod mount, and then use a carbiner on a strap to that loop to create an all metal solution much like the Rapid Strap design. If you want to be very safe, I would employ a double sliding ring design where the other slider ring connects to one of the camera strap lugs as a failsafe. But then this will make the strap a hindrance again.

Some other ideas:
https://www.instructab​les.com …-DIY-Black-Rapid-R-Strap/
https://www.cnet.com …-10-gliding-camera-strap/
https://www.diyphotogr​aphy.net/the-diy-r-strap/

Such nonsense.

Kind of like saying the 6D can't focus on moving objects.

saea501 wrote in post #18720664
Such nonsense.

Kind of like saying the 6D can't focus on moving objects.

The 6D can focus on moving objects? Wwhhhatttt?

I like the Peak Design straps with the anchor links. I use their plate and have the "Clutch" hand strap most of the time. But I also have 2 anchor links on camera's left side where I can attach the "Slide" strap for when I need to have my hands free. If you can imagine it, I'll have the strap on me cross-body on my left shoulder, the camera at my side, lens face downward, camera grip side hangs out for my right hand to grab.

James P wrote in post #18720641
My Nikon shooting buddies showed me how they can use a "D" ring to hook their straps to one side of the camera so the strap doesn't hang in your face when you shoot in portrait mode. Has anyone found a strap that will fit the Canon strap mounts? Please don't suggest Black Rapid. I have one and don't trust it to stay connected.

One way to deal with the strap is to always assume that someone may accidentally jostle you, knocking the camera from your hands...so a wise man would wind the strap a couple of times about one arm so that the strap does not dangle in your face but serves as a 'safety' to prevent the camera from falling to the ground (a few feet or hundreds of feet)

No, it's not nonsense in the least. I had a Black Rapid strap come loose from the tripod mount and so did a friend of mine. His camera fell to the ground causing a lot of expensive damage. If all you have to offer is insulting my question as "nonsense", perhaps you'd do better to not comment at all. This forum is to ask and answer photography related questions, not for you to talk down to people who've had different experiences than you.

So the mount ring came unscrewed from the tripod mount, I assume. That can happen, but isn't a flaw with the strap system, those ring grommets have to be really screwed in tightly. Also it is always good to use a safety strap from the lug to another ring on the strap as backup.

James P wrote in post #18721131
No, it's not nonsense in the least. I had a Black Rapid strap come loose from the tripod mount and so did a friend of mine. His camera fell to the ground causing a lot of expensive damage. If all you have to offer is insulting my question as "nonsense", perhaps you'd do better to not comment at all. This forum is to ask and answer photography related questions, not for you to talk down to people who've had different experiences than you.

I am sorry you took offense what I legitmately offered as a constructive comment! I wrap the strap around the tripod when folding the legs and transporting the rig without dismounting the camera from the head, too -- for exactly the same reasons as wrapping the strap around one arm...PREVENTATIVE precaution. I have had the camera come off the head due to a (brand unnamed) QR system leg go of my camera by accident, and if the strap was no wrapped around the tripod, it would have gone plummetting to the hard ground. And I have shot portraits while on a suspension bridge hundreds of feet above a canyon floor with a river flowing...not a place to fumble your gear.

Wilt wrote in post #18721156
I am sorry you took offense what I legitmately offered as a constructive comment! I wrap the strap around the tripod when folding the legs and transporting the rig without dismounting the camera from the head, too -- for exactly the same reasons as wrapping the strap around one arm...PREVENTATIVE precaution.

perhaps you need to look at the reply to tag at the top right of his reply...

TeamSpeed wrote in post #18721159
perhaps you need to look at the reply to tag at the top right of his reply...

OK, thx, that reply-to tag is too dang small and not apparent enough to force you to go looking at every message and see which one was 'reply to'.

I also haven't had problems with Black Rapid straps. It has a thick rubber grommet: that means you can screw it very tightly (you don't have to be diminutive in securing it ). But if you'd like another option....do you also have an arca swiss tripod? One system I like that's a flush arca swiss mount and loop for shoulder strap is a small company called CAMS (Carry and Mount System)...you mount it with an allen wrench:

Carry And Mount System

I have a shoulder strap that's a point for when I'm shooting portrait mode with my battery grip, and then I also have a hand strap going through the loop with the battery grip for landscape shooting.

I use the Peak system. The locking mechanism is easy to use and there are complete or wrist straps to choose from. They disconnect when not needed so once you've gotten the camera secure on the tripod you can simply disconnect, then reattach once ur ready to remove from the mount.

As for the dangling in the way, I found the wrist strap most helpful. However for longer term use, the traditional strap would be more beneficial, and yes, wrapping it around your hand takes up the slack.

I am using the Peak Design Leash and Clutch. You may want to look at their Slide too.
I usually don't use straps unless required. the system is easy to "declick"