I am still acquiring film cameras, but...

[mike_wagner6]

<p>do I still have to buy a neck strap for each and every camera at $20 a pop?</p>

<p>Any ideas? Twine???</p>

[Rick_van_Nooij]

<p>If you really want to invest in neck straps for every one of them:</p>

<ul>

<li>You could get one of those wrist straps that screws into the tripod socket. Least amount of hassle switching (unless you use a lot of cameras that have different size tripod socked treads... 3/8th Vs. 1/4th )</li>

<li>Get some leftovers at a local leather company, you know the guys that make handbags, wallets. I got a meter long x 1cm wide strap for free. I cut it up for a Rolleicord neck strap and a few box camera handles.</li>

<li>Look for neck straps by "SLR Magic" on Ebay. Those are pretty & cheap. </li>

</ul>

<p>Me, I don't use that many straps. Unless I'm carrying more then one camera at a time do I tend to hook one up to a strap. Otherwise the camera goes into the bag.</p>

[craigd]

<p>This is the deal I like: Six of my favorite straps for less than $13 each.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.adorama.com/DMST1000BK6.html">http://www.adorama.com/DMST1000BK6.html</a></p>

[Rick_van_Nooij]

<p>Better then $20 a pop, certainly.</p>

[gnashings]

<p>guitar straps work. you can find them cheap at garage sales, etc. I have several and they certainly don't feel like they are about to give under the weight of any camera. Don't know if I would recommend choosing that route and going out of your way to get them, but if you can get your hands on them, they work great. </p>

[bueh]

<p>I use one very nice shoulder strap from a bag on pretty much all my cameras (it has two small "carabiners" and I simply put metal rings on my cameras). It is conveniently broad and long enough to carry the cameras at waist-height and does not have that "grip material" so I can "slide" it around my shoulder as I like it. This way I have the same carrying experience with all my cameras... from a pre-WW2 rangefinder, to a 1980s SLR and my digital 5D.</p>

[andylynn]

I have those Grippers on my F3 and FE2. They're excellent, simple straps.

[Tony Evans]

<p>Same as Bueh. Strap (I have only two) with spring clips and rings on cameras.</p>

[lauren_macintosh]

<p><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=4009954">Tony Evans</a> <a href="../member-status-icons"><img title="Subscriber" src="../v3graphics/member-status-icons/sub4.gif" alt="" /></a>, Jun 29, 2011; 08:56 a.m.</p>

 

<p>Same as Bueh. Strap (I have only two) with spring clips and rings on cameras.<br>

I have two older straps the Hippy type that clip on and off any camera I have :</p>

 

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Check out KEH.com. They sometimes have bulk deals on used straps. A few years ago I got a pack of 5 Tamrac straps for some silly low prince, and they were all nice. They don't appear to have any great deals today, but it's worth checking in from time to time.</p>

<p>I have a few of those "hippy" guitar-style straps with metal clips, but be careful with those if the camera is something you don't want to mark up. OK for carrying, but the metal clips are death on camera finishes if you store the camera in a bag, etc.</p>

[User_502260]

<p>When I need more straps I go to a local camera store and pick up five or six. </p>

[bob_miller4]

<p>Polyester or nylon clothesline from the hardware store works fine for me. I make a full loop, anchored securely to one metal ring on the camera and passing through the other ring. This makes the "strap" two strands wide for comfort. </p>

<p>Don't try an old silk tie, though! I did that once with my Canon TL-QL camera with FL 50mm/3.5 macro lens, and the tie suddenly snapped, sending the camera down onto an asphalt parking lot. However, the rugged equipment sustained only minor dents.</p>

[mukul_dube]

<p>Not having a strap on a camera makes me feel as if my pants are about to slip down: and moving straps from one body to another is a needless bother. I always carry a bag for whichever camera I am using; and when the camera is in use, the strap is wrapped around my right wrist. Narrow black straps of synthetic fibre are eminently functional. The last one I bought, some five years ago, cost the equivalent of 80 US cents. It came with a pair of split rings.</p>

[mark_medin]

<p>I have one of those guitar-type straps with the metal clips. I really hate it and only use it with my TLR only when it's in the leather half-case. Those narrow OEM straps are less damaging but annoying for digging into my neck when I have a heavy lens on an SLR.</p>

[steve m smith]

<blockquote>

<p>Don't try an old silk tie, though! I did that once with my Canon TL-QL camera with FL 50mm/3.5 macro lens, and the tie suddenly snapped, sending the camera down onto an asphalt parking lot. </p>

</blockquote>

<p>I have an old tie on my banjo for a strap. Unfortunately, in the last twenty years, it hasn't snapped and sent the banjo crashing to certain destruction!</p>

[jean_yves_mead]

If your cameras have proper strap lugs then the basic Leica (14312) strap is an excellent choice. It's tough, non-slip, flexible enough to fall out of the way when one raises one's camera, reasonably priced, and quick to swap from one camera to another once one gets the knack of the quick-release mechanism.

[mfophotos]

<p>For most of my cameras I use Tamrac or Domke straps. However, I bought some soft nylon webbing that was 1" wide at a local store and some O-rings at the hardware store and my wife sewed some excellent straps that (a) do not bind (b) at the length I want and © look great. The cost was maybe less than $2.00 per strap. </p>

[User_502260]

<p>I meant used ones.</p>

[donnie_strickland]

<p>I just have a few straps. I can't carry but one or two cameras at a time, so I never bothered with getting a strap for all of them. I just move the straps from one camera to another.</p>

[rick_drawbridge]

<p>A strap on every camera? OMG...I can't imagine it. One really can't <em>display</em> cameras with straps draped around them, and I just fit split rings to the old cameras I want to take for a walk and use my nice soft Op/Tech straps with the gentle nylon fixings. Takes only a second...</p>

[tom_price1]

<p>I buy neoprene neck straps from Ebay for about $5 including shipping. They are a bit short so I make extensions from strips of belt leather with loop ends reinforced with 1/8" pop rivets and backing washers. The rivets and washers are available from Lowes and other home/hardware centers. I attach the leather extensions to the cameras and the straps to the extensions. Each camera gets a neck strap...</p>

[flatulent1]

<p>I had an optech strap for each camera, until the accumulation grew past a dozen. Now I buy <a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/485767-REG/OP_TECH_USA_1301012_System_Connectors_Uni_Adapter_Loop.html">these</a> and grab a spare compatible neck piece from another camera as needed. $8.</p>

[gnashings]

<p>It is a good point about the guitar straps, metal clips are nasty - but most guitar straps attach via leather strips. Actually, it seems that I have more straps than I know what to do with, they seem to outnumber working cameras in my accumulation, which is probably damning evidence of the things I am willing to close my eyes to when engaging in my compulsion:)</p>