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and even if you had a strap, if you dropped it while holding it in your hand / shooting, it will >not help you much ...
I wrap my strap around my hand and carry the camera. It goes over my shoulder in crowds. It gets bashed about but it doesn't get dropped.
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Ditto. Best of boat worlds. Strap wrapped around the wrist a few times looks srs too.
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Yea I did that wrap-strap-around-wrist for a while as well.
It did do the job, but it also did drive me crazy, just always this fucking strap.I did use this kind of grip with a 40D -
...if the thing fits you don't really need to hold on to the camera much, as your hand is sort-of wedged in there even if you let go of the grip.
This is cool for walking around and having the camera ready long periods of time.
Not cool if you have big body or grip, if you're switching to portrait and back often.
Plus you kinda look like a tool.So, for me, the easiest and best solution is to have none of this shit, just "not let go" of the camera, and put it in a proper (read: easy-access) camera bag when it gets heavy / you're not shooting soon.
over my shoulder in crowds. It gets bashed about
One time a guy bumped a borrowed camera and lens hanging from my shoulder.
He himself had a tote bag with a glass bottle over his shoulder.
photoben
salad
Ah, shit..
But what do you mean, you "dropped" it?
Sorry, not trying to be a smart arse - it's really just that I was thinking about a fellow photographer here in Berlin again yesterday, who always shakes his head and tells me to "please get a camera strap - what if you drop it ?!".
I get that straps are comfortable with heavy cameras, but can't stand the thing dangling on my side - also, when it's crowded, people bump on the lens all the time - so I either have the thing in my hand, or in the bag.
My point / question being - you don't need a strap "for safety", as nobody's just "dropping" cameras (and even if you had a strap, if you dropped it while holding it in your hand / shooting, it will not help you much, if you didn't put it around your neck like a tourist)... so what did you do?