Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Strap Length
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:02:44 -0800

If I'm carrying one camera, I wear the strap as short as possible (on the M6
strap I just run the sliders up to the pad on both sides).  This lets me
wrap the strap around my palm if I want to hand carry the camera.  For two
cameras I wear the second one so that it hangs a two or three inches below
the top one.  Works for cameras of any colour, or any nationality ;-)

Paul Chefurka

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Cooper [mailto:visigoth@echonyc.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:53 AM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Cc: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Strap Length
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>This may seem trivial, but I'm interested in what kind of strap length
>Leica users generally prefer.  The Magnum photographers all 
>seem to wear
>their cameras just above the belt, and this strikes me as ergonomically
>peculiar.  I keep the strap as short as possible, so the that 
>the camera
>doesn't swing about when I'm running, and the distance from 
>chest to eye
>is minimal.  (It sits on my solar plexus, approximately.)
>
>Rollei TLRs are similar:  I've never understood why anyone 
>would want the
>camera hanging at waist level, when you have to lift it to your face to
>focus.
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>
>Douglas Cooper
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