POTN Neck Strap - How much of the QR link remains when you detach the strap?

I'm looking for a camera strap solution that will enable me to quickly remove and re-attach the strap while leaving as little as possible - ideally an inch or less of connector - on the camera body.

From everything I've seen on the POTN and Op/Tech websites it appears from the photos that there are several inches of connector link to be left dangling from the body when you remove the main strap. Is this the case? If so this seems kind of annoying and stupid. The descriptions are less than informative.

Is there a strap that is good quality, comfortable etc. and leaves very short "tails" at the camera end of the quick release system?

I just measured mine, and the shortest I could get the connector pieces was 10". Hope this helps.

Using the quick release , mine still has about 3 inches left on each side .
The POTN strap is better than the Canon , but with the bottom battery pack , after a couple of hours it gets heavy and annoing .

Thanks for that. So just to confirm, when you detach the strap you have connectors dangling from each side of the camera that are 10" long. Is that correct? If so it just seems a ridiculous design.

tdodd wrote in post #4081083
Thanks for that. So just to confirm, when you detach the strap you have connectors dangling from each side of the camera that are 10" long. Is that correct? If so it just seems a ridiculous design.

That is correct.

tdodd wrote in post #4081083
Thanks for that. So just to confirm, when you detach the strap you have connectors dangling from each side of the camera that are 10" long. Is that correct? If so it just seems a ridiculous design.

Correct, but it does mean you can join the two ends to make a hand/wrist strap.

Tootall180 wrote in post #4081285
Correct, but it does mean you can join the two ends to make a hand/wrist strap.

The two ends do join together, but seems like there would be too much strap to use it as a hand strap. But I have small hands, so maybe it would work for someone else.

Here's what it looks like with both ends hooked together, which is my normal configuration. The second pic would be how I hold rhw 20D using the ends as a hand/wrist strap.

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Makes a nice strap to pull the camera out of your bag also.

Nice pics. That makes things very clear. The thing is, for me, when I want to remove the strap it's because I don't need the strap - e.g. shooting in the studio or on a tripod - and thus I don't want trailing connectors hanging all over the camera, especially when in portrait orientation.

I really can't see what use the mini strap could be, when you join the two connector ends together. I certainly wouldn't want the camera swinging around from that little strap with a 100-400 lens hanging off the end. It would just be an accident waiting to happen. The purpose of a strap, for me at least, is to allow me to keep both hands free, for lens changing, for example, or to make a phone call or fish for some money.

I really think there must be a market for a neck strap with 1" connectors at the camera end. To be honest a nice simple sprung metal clip is all that is needed, to clip onto the existing camera lugs. I can't see the point of leaving permanently attached connector links, especially 10" long.

Is it just me that has this weird requirement to leave the camera body "clean" when the neck strap is removed?

^yes

I'm very care free about things like this. Not saying as a consumer I should work around something I buy and that there shouldn't be a product for my needs, but I think sometimes you can get too specific. Like I said, I'm adaptable and that's really just based on how you can work with them.

I don't have to work around them, they don't get in the way.

If very short residual 'bits' on your camera are the aim, you should be able to use the POTN strap with a set of Optech Uni Adapter Loop connectors - see here for details.

David

Thanks for the link. Even the short connectors look super ugly and ungainly attached to the camera in this diagram. I'm not bothered about the looks so much but they just look like they'd be annoying, flapping around and getting in the way of my hands or eye or cheek etc.. This is not an elegant solution to quick removal of the neck strap.

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Your objection is to the QR pieces that make the strap so flexible.

Nevertheless - there may be another way. Would the Utility Loop connectors on the camera together with the Swivel Hook connectors on the strap work? (I don't know how well these two items work together - but it's a thought).

David

I'm not looking for "flexibility" other than the simple ability to quickly attach and detach the strap from the camera. I'd actually be happy enough with the standard Canon strap if it didn't take 2-3 minutes per corner each time I want to attach it to or detach it from the camera, with the tedious threading and unthreading of the webbing through lugs and buckles.

Perhaps the simple answer is just to buy my own sprung clips and slip them on the ends of the Canon straps.... or the Optech/POTN connector loops. Then I can just clip and unclip them as required in a couple of seconds.