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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Strap Length
From: Skip Williams <skipwilliams@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:13:56 -0500

I like my straps relatively short for normal shooting, the camera should 
hang right around my sternum,  That's not very good for over-the shoulder 
carrying, but it's superior for Leica-like cameras, IMO.

Skip

At 2/28/00 01:59 PM  -0400, you wrote:
> >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.)


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Skip Williams
Westfield, NJ
skipwilliams@pobox.com
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