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Any R-Strap users here?
- Thread starter taylorwilsdon
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#1 was that you can't use a tripod without removing the R-Strap. Six months later, it's still the case. How near is this future of which you speak?
from all that I can gather, the R-Strap is designed as a street shooter or photojournalistic tool. Rapid fire stuff. The only photo on the R-Strap web site that shows a tripod is one in which the photog has a long telephoto with the tripod in a lens support mount and the R-Strap in the camera base.
The only way this device could be designed for tripod use would be for the base of the R-Strap connector to have a hole bored in it to accept a tripod mount plate. The only firm contact between the camera and tripod would then be the base of the R-Strap. Not very steady.
They could develop a strap mount that was a tripod plate. The strap could connect to something like the D ring that locks the plate to the camera, but with the D ring large and connected to the sides of the plate rather that the center. Then it could fold back out of the way when the camera is placed on the tripod. Like this.I think I just invented something.
Dale
The only way this device could be designed for tripod use would be for the base of the R-Strap connector to have a hole bored in it to accept a tripod mount plate. The only firm contact between the camera and tripod would then be the base of the R-Strap. Not very steady.
They could develop a strap mount that was a tripod plate. The strap could connect to something like the D ring that locks the plate to the camera, but with the D ring large and connected to the sides of the plate rather that the center. Then it could fold back out of the way when the camera is placed on the tripod. Like this.I think I just invented something.
Dale
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Try a new BosStrap Camera Sling. Much less expensive than other quality slings. www.BosStrap.com
Try a new BosStrap Camera Sling. Much less expensive than other quality slings. www.BosStrap.com
If your Tripod head takes Manfrotto plates there is this
http://www.blackrapid.com/product/hardware/fr-t1/
Must admit my black rapid strap is really growing on me, only had a couple of weeks but really liking it.
http://www.blackrapid.com/product/hardware/fr-t1/
Must admit my black rapid strap is really growing on me, only had a couple of weeks but really liking it.
Hence the SPAM thread. No chance I'm trusting my 1D4 or 1Ds3 to an R-product. Back when the product was "broken" you had no problem still selling it, and exactly how many guys with dropped gear were reimbursed? Let me guess - zero? Fixed, or not, you knowingly sold a defective product, and it shouldn't have taken 5 generations worth of sales and pissed off customers to get it right. Hell, back in the early versions you were even charging customers to update their defective hardware. Still double-dipping?