On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jan Steinman wrote:
:> From: Richard Schaetzl <Richard.Schaetzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:
:>... I agree with the person who wrote
:>that he needs no strap, which needs more space in the bag than the camera.
:
:The only time I dropped a camera was when it was sitting on the edge
:of a desk, with the strap dangling, and the strap got caught in
:something and pulled the camera off the desk. My dad did the same
:thing.
:
:I take about 4" (10 cm for the rational world) of boot-lace, stick it
:through the eyelet, and tie a square knot in it so that my second and
:third fingers snugly slip through, leaving the first finger free for
:the shutter. Then the camera becomes an extension of my arm, and is
:every bit as secure as having it on a strap.
Or, for those with slim pinkies, you can partially slip it into the
circular eye where you'd attach the strap. Uh, that wasn't clear, was it?
Let's see: On the body, there are two protuding eyelets, with those small
keychain like rings, which hold a leather strap an inch long (or 2.54cm
for the "rational world" ;)), which have another larger ring where one
would attach a strap. Dunno if that's standard fare or not on other
bodies.
A strap, however, does help when you need to quikly change or re-arrange
something in the field and you don't want to put the camera on the ground
<OM content> Doing so brasses the aperture ring and bottom plate, as I've
found out the hard way...the lovely mint 200/4 has some flecks of paint
off the aperture ring, and bottom plate edges of the OM1n have been
brassed too :-(
<nomex suit on> that's what I did today when a co-worker wanted me to take
some macro shots. Used N8008 and Micro-Nikkor 60/2.8 I like that camera,
but can't see the viewfinder LCD at all, so I have to keep glancing at the
LCD on the top to see what the aperture was (shutter priority) Nightmarish
AF system too. Everyone uses it in MF. <nomex suit off>
/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
--
"And time yet for a hundred indecisions / And for a hundred visions and
revisision." --/Prufrock/
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