12€ Camera Strap
A certain type of camera straps has become popular recently. These straps are worn diagonally over your chest and allow the camera to slide freely on the strap. If you’re not shooting, the camera rests on your hip, doesn’t strain your neck and leaves both your hands free. If you need it, you can grab the camera quickly, without strangling yourself with the strap.
Two products are build after this principle: the R-Strap and the Sun Sniper. Both have two big disadvantages though.
First, they attach to the tripod mount of your camera using a special screw. The tripod mount is not build for stress like this! Having the camera dangle and bounce from a strap attached there might very well destroy it. Further, the screw can come loose if the camera twists around. Both products take measures against this, but a certain risk remains. Second, both straps are pretty expensive at around 50€
In this post I’ll give instructions on how to build such a strap by yourself with material for 12€. This strap not only works similarly to its 50€ brothers but is of very high quality as well and can be trusted with heavy equipment.
