Lowepro Transporter Camera Strap
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Lowepro Transporter Camera Strap
Customer Review: It's a strap. For a camera
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, the camera hangs off it. I'm not sure it's any better than the stock canon one, to be honest.Customer Review: Very comfortable, quick release is a little TOO quick but can be fixed
Summary: 3 Stars
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).
Customer Review: good strap / OK release mechanism
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Customer Review: comfortable and handy
Summary: 4 Stars
I got this together with D300, as a free deal.
then it is really easy to use. I tend to put my D300 with 18-200 VR lens in a small package to disguise when travelling. The click removable strap really serve the purpose well.
I give it 4 star because the clip is made of hard plastic. It clanks to my D300 body or lens. It could be wrapped with some kind of rubber.
Customer Review: Very good strap
Summary: 5 Stars
This a very good strap, I especially like that it can be easily detached from the camera when needed, and is comfortable around the back of the neck. My only very slight complaint is the ladder-buckle attachments, would rather there something less obstructive.