{"id":57,"date":"2006-02-06T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=57"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:19:50","slug":"upstrap-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/02\/06\/upstrap-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstrap in action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodbye to the garish, inept horror story that is the Canon strap.<\/i><\/p>\n

Here you can see what I am going on about – fancy being a walking billboard for Canon? Heck, I just paid them nearly $5k for the gear – if they want me to wear that, they<\/i> need to pay me<\/i>. Plus free repairs for when it slips off my shoulder. The Upstrap<\/a> has a broad rubber pad with nipples on both sides. It is far more comfortable and simply does not slip. This is the SLR<\/b> model for cameras over 2.25 lbs. I used to use the lighter RF\/DC<\/b> variant on my Leica M2 and M3.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see how it is threaded so that the ‘tail’ can be folded in between the two sides and retained by the slider. Neat.<\/p>\n

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Recommended without reservation unless, that is, you prefer gold chains displayed on your chest.<\/p>\n

Here are the detailed instructions – there are many incorrect ways to install one of these and one correct one. Follow these instructions and the strap cannot become detached from your eyelets:<\/p>\n

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When threading the strap through triangular keepers be sure that its surface contacts one of the two non-opening sides, as the sharp ends of the latter can gradually wear through the strap material. Triangular split D-rings<\/a> are far better than circular ones as you cannot prevent the opening area rubbing on the strap’s material with those. <\/p>\n


\nYou do not want the strap in contact with the arrowed side of the D-ring.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodbye to the garish, inept horror story that is the Canon strap. Here you can see what I am going on about – fancy being a walking billboard for Canon? Heck, I just paid them nearly $5k for the gear – if they want me to wear that, they need to pay me. Plus free … Continue reading Upstrap in action<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39495,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/39495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}