Today i'm going to talk about four different camera straps got the basic one and three others
and also another way of attaching the camera to you without even having a
strap when you first buy a camera it does come with a strap this is pretty much what you get
they are quite good because they're lightweight so this means when you are using the camera
it doesn't get in the way too much but when you do have a bigger camera or a bigger lens on this
it starts to pull on your neck it starts to get quite uncomfortable and it can give you
a quite a bad back and a bad neck and i know a lot of photographers they're a lot older
that do have this problem now the advantage with this is that it's free and you pretty much get
one with every camera that you'll ever buy now there are downsides and one of them is you look
a little bit like a tourist so i'll only ever use this if i'm out in a place there are security
guards and i'm trying to blend in with the tourist but apart from that i don't use it and it stays
in the box that i bought the camera in now one disadvantage to this strap is that if you've got
your camera on a tripod and the winds are high this could flap around and knock the tripod and
it might not seem like much but that little bit of vibration can transfer into your shots especially
when you're doing long exposures so the next camera strap that i have is one from peak design
this is a step up from that standard one that comes with the camera and it has a few advantages
but also a few disadvantages now the advantages are that it has these little clips on the side so
you can remove it really quickly from your camera so you can pack this away and when your camera is
on the tripod you don't have that strap flapping around in the wind one thing i don't like about
these is if i'm recording video or i'm trying to get audio these will clack around quite a bit
so that's one thing i don't like about these but the design of these is really good
you can attach them and detach them from your camera strap really quickly
this strap is a lot thicker than the one that comes with the camera
so it does kind of spread the weight around your neck but one thing i don't like about
it is how bulky these clips are and these bits are especially when it's attached to the bottom
of the camera they do seem to get in the way quite a lot now the one good thing with this
is you can make it a lot longer than that standard camera strap so you can have your camera a little
bit like a sling and also there's a mounting point that goes on the bottom of the camera
so you can have it mounted a little bit like the shoulder sling that i'm going to show you next
now one disadvantage in having it in this position is when you bring it up it rubs on your neck
and if you don't have collars it can kind of chafe your skin a little bit so that's one thing i don't
like about this it does slide to a certain extent but it does feel awkward if you bring it up again
it feels like there's a lot of strap in your way and if you have a camera with a flippy screen
again this will get in the way you can mount it on the bottom so that will get these straps out
of the way a little bit but then you've got two mounts on the bottom so again there's a lot of
material coming off the bottom of your camera so the next strap is the shoulder sling i shoot
with this all the time and i really like it one thing you find is you can change the length of it
like most of the other camera straps so depending on how tall or short you are you can change it to
suit you can have it up quite high or down low it's up to you the one great thing with this is
it's got this buckle on the bottom which slides backwards and forwards along the strap so instead
of the whole strap moving it's just the camera that moves and also you have these locking points
so you can lock it into place if you want to now when i'm shooting a vent
which hasn't been that often recently because of you know what what i'd normally do is have
a double set up of these so i'll have a camera on each side then i'd have the 16 to 35 on one side
and the 70 to 200 on the other and because they're strapped together it holds it nice and solid one
thing with this single strap is that at the moment i've got my rucksack on so it's holding this bit
solid but if you just have the strap on sometimes this can move down you can end
up with the pad down here so sometimes when i am shooting without a rucksack on this does happen
i have to kind of shuffle it back into place that's one of the downsides with this strap
the other downside is that it uses up your mounting point now this is annoying because
you have to take it off and then put a quick release plate on to attach it to a tripod
however with this l bracket i've got this quarter 20 thread on the side so if i attach it to the
side instead sits on my hip really nicely i've got that thread free on the bottom and
i can use it on a tripod as normal that mounting point won't get in the way of when i attach it
to that arca swiss plate so next i've got the hand strap and this mounts on the bottom and on the top
camera strap it basically attaches your hand to the camera now if you are shooting a lot with this
it works really well because you're taking photos it's always in your hand you can actually just let
go of it and let it sit in your hand and you won't drop it now the downside to this is that if you
need to use that hand say if you're right-handed and you need to write something down you then have
to take it out of the hand strap and then you have to put your camera down it's not attached to you
the other downside to the one that i have is that it covers the actual battery case so if you have a
camera like the a7r ii with the smaller batteries this will be a bit of a pain because you have
to take it off every time you change a battery personally i don't really like these hand straps
because you've got to have them tight for them to be secure but then it takes a while to get your
hand out of that strap you can buy better ones and i bought quite a cheap one but they're not
really for me they might be for you but they're not for me now for this next one you don't even
need a camera strap and if you watch thomas heaton or gavin over on photo tripper you'll
know exactly what i'm talking about and it is the peak design capture clip and this means that
i can attach my camera to my rucksack or bag strap and i don't have to worry about it it's nice and
secure and it's there locked in nice and solid when you're taking photos you just take it off
you take a shot and once you're done you click it back in now the great thing with this is that
the plate that you mount to the bottom of your camera that's arca swiss compatible
so if you have an arca swiss mounting plate on the top of your tripod this goes straight onto
that without any worry at all also if you use any of the normal peak design camera straps it does
have these little loops that you can attach those little red tags to so again you can have one of
these mounts on the bottom and the strap and it clicks on here now the only downside to that is
when it's clicked on there with the shoulder strap you've got things dangling off but again with that
peak design strap you've got those little clips where you can take the strap off really quickly
now if you really like this capture clip but you don't want a camera without a strap on
you can put this hand strap on and use it while you're shooting then you pull your hand out and
then click it in there that kind of gives you that double security it does take a little bit longer
to get back on your hand and off your hand but if you're unsure about shooting with the camera with
no strap on this is the way to do it ultimately how you carry your camera around is up to you
i really like the shoulder strap or this capture clip but what do you like let me
know in the comments below it'll be great to hear your thoughts one thing with this singles
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