nerwin said:
So are they really nice as they say?
I'm not sure who "they" are...it's a strap...it's well-made, and just the new variant of the older Nikon straps of yesteryear, it's not really much different from the Nikon-supplied
big-glass lens straps that were designed to go onto the lens barrel lugs on the Nikon 300/2.8 and the early 200/2 and so on...it is what a company with decades of experience considers its best strap design to make a heavy 7- to 12-pound load bearable by a human neck...if you want comfort and lower felt weight, look into the neoprene strap designs from OpTech. I dunno...I grew up when the 2-inch wide "hippie strap" was a camera strap, but then by the time I started shooting seriously, SKINNY straps of less than 1/2 inch to about 1-inch were common.
Straps are a personal matter. Some people like a skinny strap attachment area down by the lugs, so the strap can be wrapped around the right hand's palm and back of the hand 1 or 2 times, and then they like the strap to be relatively SKINNY (1-inch or narrower)around the central widest part of the strap, so it's
out of the way, and the camera is sort of
strapped to the hand.
A 2-inch wide strap is good for a 300/2.8 or 200/2, where you put the strap on the LENS, and put that around your neck for short periods of time when you are hand-holding the lens at an event, or when toting the lens when it is not on the camera, and not in its case. The 2-inch wide Nikon-made straps for the 200/2 and the 300/2.8 are fine for what they are designed to do. The 2-inch AN-6 straps for cameras are liked by some people: do a search--that one Nikon guy has his D3 and D2x and three smaller Nikons, all five of them, rigged up with the AN-6-model of strap...he obviously LOVES that strap design.
The old Nikon AN-series 1-inch strap is one I used for 15 years on an F3-HP with MD-4...it's a great strap for that, for me. Some people want a strap to "wear" the camera, some people want one that gets out of the way when the camera is being used--I fall into that second category, but I've used the Nikon 2-inch wide straps, and they do have a purpose. There are about five basic strap types that I can think of, and what one guy says is awesome another person might ridicule. That's basically the story...
"...different straps for different chaps..."
