P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3636

[JNorman805@xxxxxxx]

George writes:

<< For eleven years now I have been carrying cameras (stereo &
 mono) without a case and without a strap.  I use a camera bag
 and take the camera in and out of the bag.  The camera bag is
 also used to store a flash, lightmeter, batteries, etc.  Do you
 really need to have the camera hanging around your neck??? >>

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.  Like George, I don't use a 
case either (gets in the way), and I also use a camera bag.  But I would 
NEVER risk doing without a strap.  I like the security of looping it around 
my neck when shooting.  It's just too easy to lose your grip on the camera in 
too many situations.  Has this ever actually happened to me?  Maybe three or 
four times in many, many years of shooting -- but all you need is once.

I don't happen to feel too comfortable with straps that attach to cases, 
rather than to lugs built into the camera itself, because the leather often 
deteriorates over time.  It's false security.  So, Lincoln, maybe you could 
fashion a bracket from light aluminum stock that fastens into the tripod 
socket and extends up the sides of the camera, then hook a good strap into 
holes drilled into the aluminum bracket.  

Good luck.

Jim Norman