Ok, I bit the bullet and after looking around I bought one of these, along with some spare attachments. I currently have it installed on my 1DX and used it over the weekend for most of the day. The strap itself is about the width of a car seatbelt and made of the same sort of material with an invisible padding internally where it sits on the shoulder.
I was using it with the 1DX, 100-400L and 1.4 Tele Converter and found it very comfortable, on one side it has a silicon none slip finish added so you can simply flip the strap over and it stayed put on my shoulder not slipping off my shirt. Additionally, when used across the chest and attached to the lower and one side mount on the camera, the camera and lens combination hung comfortably down on my hip or just round by my back. the strap attaches by quick release fasteners that are simple and strong, though could be a bit longer in my opinion, they are also of strong plastic so shouldn't mark the camera body.
They don't say it in the advertising, but the camera attachments can fray over time, so these are made of a triple coloured weave, when the outer goes an inner colour tells you they need replacing, it then has a final warning when the inner shows to tell you it is now unsafe, I have one on each mount point so you can simply move the strap around as desired. Length adjustment is ever so easy by lifting the metal adjuster on the main strap, though a couple of times I did find it trying to fold up on itself going through it, but that was probably down to me.
Not cheap, but it does the job and has had a lot of positive reviews on line, it comes with a bag to hold the spare attachments in etc, I didn't use the mounting plate it comes with as I have plenty of strap attachment points, ohh and I bought the wine / red coloured version..
see advert below for more.
I was using it with the 1DX, 100-400L and 1.4 Tele Converter and found it very comfortable, on one side it has a silicon none slip finish added so you can simply flip the strap over and it stayed put on my shoulder not slipping off my shirt. Additionally, when used across the chest and attached to the lower and one side mount on the camera, the camera and lens combination hung comfortably down on my hip or just round by my back. the strap attaches by quick release fasteners that are simple and strong, though could be a bit longer in my opinion, they are also of strong plastic so shouldn't mark the camera body.
They don't say it in the advertising, but the camera attachments can fray over time, so these are made of a triple coloured weave, when the outer goes an inner colour tells you they need replacing, it then has a final warning when the inner shows to tell you it is now unsafe, I have one on each mount point so you can simply move the strap around as desired. Length adjustment is ever so easy by lifting the metal adjuster on the main strap, though a couple of times I did find it trying to fold up on itself going through it, but that was probably down to me.
Not cheap, but it does the job and has had a lot of positive reviews on line, it comes with a bag to hold the spare attachments in etc, I didn't use the mounting plate it comes with as I have plenty of strap attachment points, ohh and I bought the wine / red coloured version..
see advert below for more.
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