How to secure a quick release neck strap

You can buy little cable ties like this can't you?! I wonder if they would work...

A bit like this:
http://www.tecratools.​com/media/productImage​s/46125.jpg

I'll seriously try this idea because I use the op/tech straps (without the strap part) to hold my camera to a shoulder harness thing and I'm a little worried it will come apart as I'll scaling a wall or jumping backwards up into a tree.

That Cotton Carrier stuff sure looks interesting to me. BTW. I might have to pick up one for christmas.


Though you can get those side holster things here (non-Cotton Carrier) I'm pretty sure... Time for Mr. Ninja to get inventing (I love inventing stuff... once I invented a camera that stole people's souls, I tested on some tribes people, but they got cottoned onto me and I gave up the idea).


Here is the Hong Kong version:
http://www.663studio.c​om …93603ea11b8410c​5ce16a931b

Looks scarily plastic.

Stealthy Ninja wrote in post #9214179
You can buy little cable ties like this can't you?! I wonder if they would work...

A bit like this:
http://www.tecratools.​com/media/productImage​s/46125.jpg

I'll seriously try this idea because I use the op/tech straps (without the strap part) to hold my camera to a shoulder harness thing and I'm a little worried it will come apart as I'll scaling a wall or jumping backwards up into a tree.

Nice.

I stopped using my optech out of paranoia, but recently I started using it again as I like to just have the short bits attached together and add the neck bit when i want to use it. I was thinking how to make it more secure also, more or less came to the same conlcusion about using velcro, so thanks for posting the pic, time to go and do the same. Just nice to have that peace of mind

I have never had a single failure in the 5 years I've used the POTN Optech strap. I carry heavy set-ups all the time, and not only with the strap around my neck. I usually attach the extra extensions and rest the strap on my shoulder. The quick release has been great, making my life so much easier depending on which camera, and which strap I need for any shoot. The only fear I have is that my 10 year old unclasps it before I tell him to so he can take the camera from me. They learn so young.

Ade H wrote in post #9211772
The photo of the broken buckle was good evidence, Ed. Not exactly confidence-inspiring.

What photo are you referring to?

msowsun: Please read the whole thread, particularly the quote in Ed Rader's post.

Ade H wrote in post #9215501
msowsun: Please read the whole thread, particularly the quote in Ed Rader's post.

Which gives us no idea as to where this photo may appear. Failing specific links we're still left with what Ed described as third-hand reports of such failures. I have no memory of having seen any such photos around here. I've had strap hardware fail on several occasions in the past, but it's never been the QR connectors and always under what I'd consider to be normal operating conditions. Likewise, the strap failures I've seen reported here have been with hardware other than the plastic clips as used in the OpTech straps. In particular, the R-Strap appears to have had a troubled history that's well-documented in the various threads on it.

Ade H wrote in post #9215501
msowsun: Please read the whole thread, particularly the quote in Ed Rader's post.

I have read the whole thread and I have read the quote in Ed's post. I still see no evidence of an actual failure.

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msowsun wrote in post #9215670
I still see no evidence of an actual failure.

I'm not going to do anything to assuage your cynical attitude. I can't point you to an old thread that was posted many months ago, by someone other than me, to which I didn't reply (so it isn't in my subscribed threads). I don't know why it's apparently so hard for some folk to accept the concept that products can break sometimes and that some products are inherently less strong/indestructable/​durable that others, or are more prone to mishaps or misuse.

Ade H wrote in post #9215913
I can't point you to an old thread that was posted many months ago, by someone other than me, to which I didn't reply (so it isn't in my subscribed threads).

Yes, I have a cynical attitude. I don't blindly believe everything I read. Especially when it has an element of doubt or believability.

Are you referring to this old thread?

https://photography-on-the.net …php?p=6117488#p​ost6117488

No: that thread is from summer '08 and doesn't show a picture of the damage (only an example of a clip posted by someone other than the OP). Let's just forget about it. I have to get on with more important things.

I have never been in a serious traffic accident, but I still wear seatbelts.

I've never had a clip come undone, but I still like this idea (for certain situations).