nerwin
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I was at an event yesterday (well a car show...where else would I be?) and these bring in a lot of photographers since its a pretty big NSRA show with couple thousands cars on display including ours and as I'm sitting with our car, I'm watching people I saw one photographer was carrying a full frame body with battery grip and a 24-70 2.8 using the cheap strap that come with the camera and the guy is walking and he is leaning so far to the right it looks like he is going to fall over trying to compensate for weight of the camera.
This just cannot be good for your spine.
I saw another one with very similar setup but with a speedlight and hanging the whole thing of his neck with neck pushed forward and it looked painful.
This can't be good for both spine and neck.
I felt so bad seeing them like that, I just wanted to give them my spare black rapid straps but they probably wouldn't take them. They rather suffer in pain and then ask later why their back and neck hurts.
People can say what they want about sling style straps, I really like them because they distribute the weight across my body and allows me to walk straight and keep my spine straight and have no weight hanging off my neck and this is what quite a few doctors recommend for photographers.
I just think we really need to pay more attention to how we carry our gear, it may not bother you now..but about tomorrow?
Just a thought anyways.
This just cannot be good for your spine.
I saw another one with very similar setup but with a speedlight and hanging the whole thing of his neck with neck pushed forward and it looked painful.
This can't be good for both spine and neck.
I felt so bad seeing them like that, I just wanted to give them my spare black rapid straps but they probably wouldn't take them. They rather suffer in pain and then ask later why their back and neck hurts.
People can say what they want about sling style straps, I really like them because they distribute the weight across my body and allows me to walk straight and keep my spine straight and have no weight hanging off my neck and this is what quite a few doctors recommend for photographers.
I just think we really need to pay more attention to how we carry our gear, it may not bother you now..but about tomorrow?
Just a thought anyways.