Originally posted by Philoslothical Ouch. Was it totaled? I always, always use the neck strap with my K-r, the only exception being if I'm laying on the ground with it for macros, or tripod work (and I put the strap on before I release it from the tripod! Yes, I'm paranoid ). People like in the pic I commented on look like they think it's a fashion accessory, I've never understood that.
It bounced on his leg and hit his model's foot so the biggest damage was a dent on its underside, near the battery door. Still shoots, but I'm afraid its build has been quite compromised (and the sealing too). I'm also paranoid enough with the strap. Even with it on my neck, I clip it to my shirt collar to make sure it won't slide up my neck in case I have to duck.
Originally posted by Mike Cash No strap at all is preferable to a neck strap if the user isn't religious about keeping it around his neck. Wrapping it around the wrist is false security, unless wrapped around so many times or in such a way that losing your grip on the camera doesn't result in a drop....which I have my doubts about.
Originally posted by Louicio I put my wrist through, twist and then through again; makes a loop around your wrist. Always works really well for me
Same here, works for me. And also, when I do have to wrap the strap around my wrist (forearm actually), I never, like
never put the hand with the camera down at any occasion, except if it's to unstrap it or put it back in the bag.
Originally posted by keyofnight I haven't run into a single Pentax user in my entire life. I've run into people who've found a 35mm Pentax body in their closets…and sold them to buy a Nikon…
True. Sad that most newbies today just throw out the window of opportunity from their ancestor's Pentax of having another lens within their first months. My friend with his old D40 (the one who had his accident with his D7000) was on kit lens for a year before he got his 50 1.8D. He was well into 7 months of ownership when I got my K-x, and in the first month already had an M 50 1.4. Next month the FA 100-300 silver. Today I have 5 (if I didn't sell the others I acquired, 8), kit included, and he still has 2 (sold the 1.8D for a 1.8G). Not that I'm saying it's better to have more lenses to shoot with, but looking at the perspective of having fun with lenses early, it's better to go Pentax.
Originally posted by elpolodiablo Well I went on the Google+ photo walk back in 31st of March, a world record number of 225 photogs turned up, guess how many Pentax I saw? 5, yup, FIVE, I think we were rarer than Leica users lol
They must be somewhere shooting on their own (or doing their best at being ninja, lol
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