> I understand a wrist strap when there are two lugs on one end of the
> camera. Are talking about a loop fastened to one lug in the style of
> point and shoot cameras?
That's what I'm talking about, certainly.
> You really have an OM and a possibly heavy
> lens like a 90/2 or 35-80/2.8 dangling from one lug and your wrist,
> all the time?
That's the thing -- I don't have the camera in my hands all the time. For
me, at least, I take photos in one of two basic modes:
1. walk and point and shoot. In this case I'm going to use the XA or
equivalent, because having a large camera dangling around my neck is more
effort than it's worth, and if I'm doing walk-and-shoot, I'm taking
snapshots, so I don't really need any more camera than that.
2. thinking about the shots -- in this case, I'm not walking around with
the camera, I'm either moving around (say) a flowerbed, or the camera's on a
tripod, or something else where I just want to make sure that if my hand
slips, the camera won't fall to the floor; thus a wrist strap.
> I suspect the camera with wrist strap is always in the never
> ready camera bag.
yup, that's basically it. I don't really find this to be a problem, though;
even with a generic rucksack and the camera rattling around in there, it's
still just a couple of seconds to open it and pull the camera out. With a
more specialised bag that keeps things handy, no problem at all.
I guess I'd make a lousy photojournalist, but that's not the sort of photos
I take..
-- dan
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