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 enlarge | Brand: Lowepro
Category: Photography
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.99
You Save: $7.00 (35%)
New (15) Used (2) from $12.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Clothing Size: One Size
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 2 x 0.3 x 41.3
MPN: 34958
Model: 34958
UPC: 056035349584
EAN: 0056035349584
ASIN: B000H7GFWS
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's OK, but that's about it. January 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I only gave this thing 3 stars because I'm only partially impressed by it. I like the fact that it's padded but that's all that I like better than the Canon strap that comes with the camera. I haven't used the memory card pouch but that's a pretty good idea as well. The thing I dislike is the bulky and complicated attachment hardware and quick release hardware. There are plastic pieces on the strap that don't seem necessary and they just get in the way or hit the camera when it's not on your neck. The quick release, lets talk about that. It's worthless, if you unhook the neck strap you are left with two 3-4 inch pieces that dangle from the camera with nowhere to go. At the end of these pieces are the quick release buckle that bangs on your camera body. When the strap is on the camera these same pieces are constantly scraping against the body when you put it in your bag.
If Lowepro wants to improve this product, just take the generic Canon strap and throw a pad on it with your logo and a memory card pouch. Price it at $20 like this one and you'll make more money and have a better product.
Was not the first to use January 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this product when I purchased the Nikon D80. I really like the strap, it's very comfortable. Unfortunately, I was not the first person to use it. When I received it from Amazon, the strap was just wrapped around the cardboard - obviously not how the manufacturer packages it. It seems to be fine; however, I bought a new product, paid for a new product, and expected a new product. A tampered product is what I got. The strap works great and I'd buy it again, but whoever sent it from Amazon obviously tried it out first.
It's a strap. For a camera January 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, the camera hangs off it. I'm not sure it's any better than the stock canon one, to be honest.
Very comfortable, quick release is a little TOO quick but can be fixed January 25, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This strap was a free promotion included with my Pentax K10D. I find it much more comfortable than the strap that came with in the box with the Pentax. Unless I am carrying extra lenses, this (with minor additions/modifications) is all I need for the day. I have the extra memory card pouch on one side of the strap, which can also be used to hold the lens cover (I recently hit the age of reading glasses, so they now live in my shirt pocket and putting the lens cover there as well would scratch them). I purchased a very small point and shoot camera case which I have threaded onto the other side of the strap to hold an extra battery and the USB cable for 'field downloads' at client sites without benefit of a card reader.
After reading cautions about the quick-release feature, I tested it out. I agree, the quick release is touchy. The straps will release with only light pressure on the sides. Since I will not be switching cameras around, I solved the problem by simply 'weaving' the two halves of each clasp together with the black twistees originally used to hold the strap in its packaging.
Regarding length and adjustment complaints - yes, the padded sleeve and the pouch use up a lot of the length, limiting how much you can shorten the strap. But I am 5'3" and I had no problem getting a nice fit. I have always worn my camera over one shoulder, though, (under an unzipped coat if I'm wearing one) so I can quickly tuck it around to my back when ducking through brush or around the side so it's under my coat in rain. I also thread a metal hook-eye into the tripod mounting hole and use that to attach a carabiner so I can clip the camera to a belt loop and keep it from swinging around when I'm climbing up rocks.
If you wear your camera around your neck, you probably will have a difficult time getting the strap short enough. I just never wear it that way. My K1000 survived 20+ years without a case being carried in a similar fashion, including multiple trips to the top of Mt. Katahdin, ME and the length of the Knife Edge trail, up the Beehive and Precipice trails in Acadia National Park, Maine, throughout Glacier National Park in Montana and all sorts of other places in between. Carrying the camera this way, without a case, means I can get the shots I want even hanging by one hand off the side of a steep trail (if I had to fuss with a case, those shots would not happen and if the camera was swinging loose around my neck, it would have been a hazard to me and and probably quickly been wrecked).
good strap / OK release mechanism January 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The camera strap is perfect. good length, easily adjustable, doesn't slip easily.
The quick release mechanism, however, is not ideal. It is a little too easy to release. Since I now know how easy it is to break free, I am very careful not to touch one side of the release, then the other.
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