[Leica] No strap!!??

["Michael Darnton" <mdarnton@hotmail.com>]

     Like a lot of stragegies, this one seems to have less than universal 
application. I guess it works fine if you only actively use one camera at a 
time, never change lenses, and rarely change film on the fly, but for a 
working photographer in a fast and changing situation I can't see it.
     I just spent a week's vacation using only a Fed 1 with its own 50/3.5 
and a 15mm Heliar, and am about to hammer some screweyes or something into 
it on my own! I spent half the time taking pix and the other half trying to 
figure out how I'd hang a strap on it when I got home. :-) Being able to 
slide it into my pocket was very slim compensation for the inconvenience (in 
MY opinion, which obviously is not universal :-)
     Re: the velcro problem: Maybe the guy with the new M-6 needs to put a 
2x6" patch of velcro on the back of his camera, and nail the mating strip to 
his bare chest--would that work? I still think the strap is a better idea, 
though.
     --Michael Darnton



>>Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 23:32:02 -0500
From: Harrison Mcclary <harrison@mcclary.net>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: just put the strap on and get going.
Message-ID: <B53A5BF2.42CE%harrison@mcclary.net>
References:

once upon a time Mike Quinn wrote:

>No, your definitely not alone in that wise opinion.
>
>Straps belong on bags, not cameras.
>Most strap stories I've heard are anecdotes about how the strap caused
some
>disaster or other.

A fellow PJ student in college was of your opinion on straps...that is
till
he dropped his brand new F3 and totally trashed it....from that day on
he
always used a strap.

- - --
Harrison McClary
http://www.mcclary.net

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