Carry it like you mean it

[sparrow6224]

How about this? I like the way HCB is carrying his camera here and I've taken to doing the same. It feels more engaged and natural than hanging it off my neck or shoulder. (Picture of HCB with an M4, strap wrapped around his right hand and wrist, and lens cap rigged with a string he's wrapped around his left palm... if I fail to read the pic over into this file you can find it at http://dariocarusso.blogspot.com/ -- you'll have to scroll almost to the bottom of a long page.) Anyway it's a cool way to carry the camera -- it becomes the most important thing, never secondary.

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[sparrow6224]

Yeah, I thought I'd fail...

[ChrisN]

Here you go - it's [ I M G ]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qptky8K9Iy4/TrHMWOPJRvI/AAAAAAAACo0/8EuiLHZnYqo/s400/bresson.jpg[ / I M G ] (with the spaces removed from the IMG tag).

[sparrow6224]

Thanks Chris. Now ain't that a mackin' way to weild the camera?

[loquax ludens]

How did HCB rig that string on the lens cap? Drill a hole through it?

[sparrow6224]

Looks like, yes. Did he know they were gonna be $90 apiece?

[leicapixie]

i carry my cameras around my neck. Fine if my Digital point and shoot ,more pain if my Leica M. I am unable to carry more than one camera at a time!
Doing PJ work i often tried carrying a few cameras at a time.. very soon tied up in a bondage scene, that Houdini would have stayed in..
Camera in the open allows folks to know you are snapping. Less invasive.
My Leica M3 so battered and vulcanite missing(soon replaced) makes for conversation.

[B-9]

I tend to have the camera around the shoulder, sitting on my hip. I use one of the original domke grippers, black with no camera branding. I bought this strap back in 2006 for 1$ out of a strap bin at the local swap. Most of the gripper is gone, but its the most comfortable and durable strap in my bag.

I usually have the camera in hand even wile walking, the TA Winder makes for a firm grip. It also keeps that pesky advance out of my eye.