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I never use the strap that might come with a photographic camera. They normally are worthless and weak, and worse, advertise a camera with no benefit to me. A "NIKON" or "CANON" strap makes you stand out in a crowd to criminals, which you never want to do.

I leave new camera straps wrapped upwards in their boxes for eventual resale, and buy superior straps to employ in the field.

Here's what I use. Dissimilar weights of cameras demand unlike kinds of straps.

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I e'er clothing cameras over my neck and shoulder.

Wearing a photographic camera directly over your neck non only makes you look like a goober, information technology hurts your neck. Wearing it around the shoulder as well equally the neck distributes the weight.

When you wear it like this, yous tin can grab your camera with your elbow confronting your waist. Catch and go!

I don't trust myself to sling a camera strap simply over my shoulder, and so I can't comment on that.

Pocket Cameras pinnacle

These stay in my pocket. I don't use a strap for them.

I might use the wrist strap that came with them, otherwise, they live in my pocket and merely come out to shoot.

Straps for Lightweight Cameras (up to about 2.5 pounds or ane.2kg) pinnacle

Nikon SP

Leica M7.

Fuji X100V

Fuji X100V .

For low-cal cameras, like a LEICA, Olympus or Contax Chiliad, I prefer Leica'due south standard 14312 strap. It sells for about $l, and is a German engineering curiosity once y'all become used to it. Information technology really is Made in Deutschland.

The Leica strap has quite a few benefits:

ane.) Ingenious design that allows the strap to be fastened and removed immediately without tools and without scratching the camera. This is swell for me, since I'm constantly being loaned new cameras to test, and so demand to remove the straps when I photograph the cameras to illustrate my reviews.

two.) Ingenuous blueprint that incorporates rash guards to prevent brassing or other wear to the photographic camera from extended utilise.

3.) Narrow strap materiel doesn't make it your style every bit you lot concur the photographic camera to your eyes.

4.) Perfect width and grip permanently fixed shoulder pad. It'south non too big and not also small. It's not too glace and not too grippy. It feels perfect for lite cameras.

5.) Much suppler than other strap material. The strap lays beyond your mitt like a soft shirt; non at all similar well-nigh other stiffer straps.

6.) Ingenious pattern that has no loose strap ends to poke you in the eye or chafe your easily.

seven.) Ingenious design that tin't perhaps loosen or untie itself. The strap is sewn back into itself.

viii.) Ingenious design that makes it fast and easy to adjust the length.

9.) Ingenious design that keeps the strap at the length yous prepare it.

10.) No junk hanging off the strap or your camera: information technology'southward just a strap, a modest pad, and ingenious fixation devices on each end.

11.) Even if you pause one of the plastic buckles, no problem: they were but strap-end keepers. If one breaks, no big bargain, since the clips at each terminate are what concur the strap.

12.) Even if you pause i of the plastic clips at each end, no big deal, since the camera volition be held by the plastic buckle in the middle of each side.

As you can see, the bright simplicity of this strap means yous take to pause at least 2 different things before you drop a camera.

This strap'south just weakness is that it only works with pro cameras expecting to work with divide-rings. Information technology won't work with cameras with slots for straps similar the Nikon D40.

Midsize cameras (about 2~3 pounds or i~1.5kg) top

Nikon D5100

Nikon D5100 .

For midsize cameras, which ways only about any not-pro DSLR or 35mm camera, I have ii favorites.

Your favorite volition depend on how grippy you lot like your pad, and how tough you want your strap.

I've been using the at present obsolete Tamrac N25 (nigh $25) since the 1990s. They are fabricated of neoprene wetsuit prophylactic! They make it comfortable to carry a midsize camera all 24-hour interval long. I haven't bought any for a while, and all mine are made in Chatsworth, California, United states of america. As of 2020, all mine are still working like new.

The Tamrac N25 isn't grippy; your camera will constantly slide around to seek the lowest indicate.

The Tamrac N25 is a fun strap. I've used the same strap for xx years and it's held whatsoever camera to which its been fastened, but it has numerous points of potential failure. Information technology has a lot of places information technology tin can break and drib your camera. Still, I apply i on my D40 and love it, and as of 2020 my strap is notwithstanding AOK.

If any of the six plastic buckles, ii metal buckles, stitching at whatever of twelve points, any of the neoprene, either of the ii places where there'due south some weird vinyl holding it together, or either of the two quick-releases intermission, y'all drib your camera. Contrast this to the unproblematic Leica strap higher up, which won't driblet your camera unless at least two things fail at once, and on which at that place are simply 2 buckles and ii places with stitching.

Some other weakness of the Tamrac N25 is that there always seems to be a pointy hot-wire-cut strap cease trying to poke me in the eye.

A 1,285g camera (Canon 5D Mark II, fifty/1.viii II and 220EX) feels smashing wearing all solar day and night with an N25. 1,470g (Canon 5D Mark II, 28/1.8 and 220EX) is fine. 1,580g (Catechism 5D Mark Two, 100/2 and 220EX) is achievable, but becoming less fun.

By the time a camera weighs 1,700g (Canon 5D Mark Two, 28-135 IS and 220EX), information technology'due south not comfy with an N25.

For a tougher strap for a midsized camera, utilize the regular or smaller UPstrap, covered next. It's indestructible.

Large Cameras (three pounds or 1.5kg and up) acme

Nikon D3

Nikon D3.

For my big Nikon D3, I use an "SLR Classic" UPstrap ($39). Information technology's the strap of the pros.

I wouldn't trust any weaker strap to concur my D3. The UPstrap is indestructible Made-in-USA tough. It's ane continuous tough (but thin) strap with a big, fat safety pad in the middle. Its only buckles are solid stainless steel.

The UPstrap is tough, and the large, fat pad makes the D3 feel lighter. The upstrap isn't going to drop your camera, if anything, its going to drop y'all if yous go information technology defenseless on something.

The big, sticky pad keeps my D3 where I put it. Information technology doesn't tend to slide back down.

The only disadvantages to the UPstrap are that the pad is and so sticky. If you live in a resort similar San Diego as I do and wander around in Price Guild silk shirts all day, the grippy pad can chew up your shirts. The grippy pad also can get in the fashion as you're pulling the camera to your eye, unlike the thin, not also glace pad of the Leica strap, which conveniently seems to disappear every bit y'all bring the camera to your eye.

For lighter cameras, if you prefer a strap this tough and grippy, UPstrap makes a smaller model for lighter rangefinder cameras, chosen the UPstrap RF. It'south the same thing, with a smaller pad.

Weaknesses:

1.) It'southward a tough strap. It'due south not a lot of fun trying to break free of the grippy pad as yous pull the camera to your eye.

ii.) It's a tough strap. No 1 is going to slip it off your photographic camera without you knowing about information technology, and likewise, it's a pain if you want to adjust the length. Once you gear up the length, you lot exit it alone, and its non budging either.

three.) It's a crude strap. The tough webbing isn't soft and supple like the Leica strap; the UPstrap webbing is fabricated of much rougher and tougher material.

4.) In that location'southward more junk forth the strap than the Leica strap. You'll experience the buckles every bit y'all slide the strap through your hands, and depending on the length to which y'all adjust it, y'all may have large holes created where the strap, wound back over itself near the lugs, carve up into two pieces of webbing. The Tamrac N25 doesn't have whatsoever long runs of only strap doubled over to split into ii pieces of strap. The sublime Leica strap is and then advisedly designed for such a narrow range of cameras and able-bodied users that there isn't always much slack, and the magic strap material somehow seems to bend together so there are never any openings where the strap doubles-back to the buckle.

The UPstrap is long enough so y'all can accommodate information technology to whatever length, just you might accept some free ends popping out.

A D3 and 50mm f/ane.4 AF-South weighs 1,770g, and feels fine to article of clothing all day with an UPstrap. With a heavier lens, like a 24-70mm f/2.8 AF-South, the whole thing weighs ii,390g, and isn't much fun to article of clothing. Mount the beastly Nikon xiv-24mm, and it weighs 2,490g. That's wearable, but not fun.

UPstrap makes a lot of other straps in all sorts of sizes and shapes; cheque them out. Run by an American innovator, they ever have something new.

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