I've found it incredibly difficult to find proper info or recommendations, so I thought of asking.
My preferred method for carrying gear:
A shoulder strap for camera 1
A neck strap for camera 2
I currently use Sun Sniper shoulder strap. I wore one strap down and then got another. They have been really good with the only surprising downside on my current one being the screwing mechanism. It does not fasten completely. I added secondary security and it saved my ass few times.
For neck strap, I've been using the ones which comes with the camera. They are really bad and my neck starts to give painful burning sensation after a while. I now use one which came with a second hand body I bought. It looks a very very much like this one:
Practical Neoprene Camera Neck Strap for Nikon for Canon for Sony All SLR DSLR YKS Special Gift-buy at a low prices on Joom e-commerce platform
It is much much more comfortable but the quality is bad. The rubberish part is wearing off and ruining my brighter shirts.
I also own Black Rapid dual straps but don't like this setup at all. It's too constraining, noisy because of more metal parts and gear moves around more - and wearing a Blazer on top doesn't work well though that's a minor detail. It also also wears me down faster because I'm kind of forced to have both bodies on me at all times - and looks incredibly ugly. Money Maker strap looks way better and although I could combine Peak Design anchors with it for fast cam removal, I still don't think I'd like using dual straps (but I could be wrong?).
I've looked at Peak Design Slide, Slide Lite and Leash. Leash seems too thin and I bet would not be comfortable throughout a day. Slide Lite looks like it has the desired width, but no padding. Slide gets lots of praise but I found very few snippets here and there about it being too wide as a neck strap and can hurt after a while.
But, there's also the metal parts thing and I'm wondering how it would be when using 2 straps. Would the camera hanigng from the neck be hitting metal from the other strap? Can't find anything about anyone having tried 2 straps at once.
Also, I'm not convinced any of them would be comfortable when using for many hours in a day.
I could easily go with a new Sun Sniper Strap (screw mechanism seems to change all the time so current "issue" might not be there anymore). The very thick padding part doesn't really bother me, and actually helps keeping the strap from sliding. But I wouldn't mind something thinner. Black Rapid is way thinner and wider, but doesn't do what it should and comes off shoulder all the time (when I use just one strap). I do not like those smaller aiding straps for the purpose of elimination sliding.
The biggest question is: which neck strap should I go with? But in general, what to look at for 2 cameras.
Last edited by Zafar Iqbal; 08-05-2021 at 05:49 AM.