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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Strap Length
From: "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:50:49 -0800

If a camera above the belt strikes you, aren't you glad it is suspended
above the belt?
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Albertson <chucko@siteconnect.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Strap Length


> As a rule of thumb, it should be just long enough to reach the camera.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Douglas Cooper
> >
> >
> >
> >
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