Neck strap

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Pez

Neck strap
« on: 8 Dec 2011, 12:36 am »
Any suggestions? I have my stock Nikon strap and after a few hours it's like wearing sandpaper. The heaviest load I carry is my D300 w 18-200mm lens and sb900 flash. During RMAF it was painful.  :duh:

Early B.

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #1 on: 8 Dec 2011, 01:16 am »
Eliminate neck strain and put the camera around your waist:  http://www.spiderholster.com/


Pez

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #2 on: 8 Dec 2011, 01:57 am »
I gotta admit that's pretty badass. I am worried that I would drop my camera transitioning from belt to holding.

Early B.

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #3 on: 8 Dec 2011, 02:00 am »
I gotta admit that's pretty badass. I am worried that I would drop my camera transitioning from belt to holding.

I used to own one. It works great.

Don't worry about dropping your camera. Have you ever seen a cowboy drop his six shooter while he was re-holstering it? :)


Jon L

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #4 on: 8 Dec 2011, 02:07 am »
Interesting idea, but that SpiderPro for full-sized DSLR is $135.

Many would prefer the shoulder sling type of system like BlackRapid:

http://www.blackrapid.com/

I also think slings by Carry Speed are very useful at cheaper prices than Black Rapid, like this one for $38 shipped. 

http://www.amazon.com/DLC-Carry-Speed-Camera-Strap/dp/B004G7RD6W

Photon46

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #5 on: 8 Dec 2011, 02:09 am »
Neck straps are evil torture devices. You'll never find one that's comfortable. Good advice has been given, pack it around your waist or use a sling.

Pez

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #6 on: 8 Dec 2011, 02:38 am »
Agreed, these solutions are exactly why I ask you guys rather than just buy something and be disappointed. I would have never known what to look for until I spent a couple hundred in disappointment I might have stumbled on some of these.

I love you guys. I think I'll go with the sling, purely because of price.

Thanks a million!

Pez

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #7 on: 5 Jan 2012, 04:50 pm »
Picked up the RS-7 which arrived yesterday. I really like this strap a lot! very easy to use, but two complaints I have, one it requires you to remove the strap if you need to use a tripod, not a huge deal since for the most part I don't use a tripod very often. Two just like a standard neck strap this strap requires you to basically maintain a vertical posture. If you lean forward you camera goes swinging. That always annoyed me with my neck strap and this strap certainly does very little to cure this problem. It has an on strap 'catch' device that prevents it from swinging too wildly, but you have to secure the thing in such a way that it precludes the ability to glide the camera up the strap as it was designed to do.

Other than these two things this is a great upgrade and will make carrying and shooting much easier.  :thumb:

minotaur

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Re: Neck strap
« Reply #8 on: 5 Jan 2012, 06:53 pm »
Luma Labs soft-launched their new product, the Cinch.

http://luma-labs.com/products/cinch

Depending on your use cases, it might work really well also. It does not seem like it will flop about if you tighten it down.

However, because it seems to be fixed in position, it doesn't function well as a sling when you're wearing a backpack (not sure if you were at RMAF).

I'm waiting on more info and for a lighter-duty version (I use a micro 4/3rds camera) to see if it'll be useful for me.


Pez

Re: Neck strap
« Reply #9 on: 5 Jan 2012, 11:00 pm »
Meh, it looks like a decent innovation, but hardly solves the problem, just adds one more step to do every time you grab at your camera. Uncinch-grab-swing-shoot-swing-recinch... Make that 2 extra steps. As far as I can tell the spiderholster is the only real 'solution' to this, now if they could just come up with a solution for their pricing.  :lol: