Nikon AN-D3X Replacement Camera Strap for the D3X Digital Camera
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Manufacturer: NikonModel: VXA16020
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Customer Review: A Strap Worthy of the $8k Camera It Holds
Summary: 5 Stars
I've grown to understand that camera straps and bags will always force uneasy compromises. The SLR form factor simply offers too many lens / accessory combination possibilities of too many different sizes, shapes, weights, centers of gravity, etc. for any single solution to hold it all at the ready with stability and security.
I'd been a long-time believer in the Black Rapid R-Strap Black Rapid Strap RS7 Black Fabric, Curved Ergonomic, with ConnectR-2 and FastenR-2, which holds your SLR by its tripod socket on a padded bandolier. The R-Strap is highly secure, holds your gear at an instant quick-draw ready, and actually works best with the largest body/lens/flash combination you can hand-hold. But its beefy, bandolier design means it doesn't play well if you carry a shoulder / sling bag or work with two bodies (though Black Rapid does make a goofy-looking and expensive suspender-like double harness for that RS DR-1 Double Strap). I found it tight and awkward when framing vertical shots. Worse, since the R-strap uses your lens tripod foot to hold your system with larger telephotos or zooms, swapping lenses to your smaller wide zoom or prime becomes slow and delicate work: unscrewing the carabiner, un-latching, making sure you carefully support the body, re-hooking the carabiner to the body, etc. Things get even slower if you carry a tripod: you'll have to unscrew the system's (necessarily) tight "Fasten-R" from your body or lens foot before locking in. In short: if you're climbing a mountain with your Nikon D3 / Canon EOS-1 + 70-200 f/2.8 and nothing else, it's perfect. Want to carry a bag of anything else, too, swap lenses, or use a tripod? Get ready for the awkward--the Black Rapid remains black, but loses all the rapid.
Sometimes, the camera manufacturers actually know best. A strap permanently affixed to the camera body's top gives you steady support during lens swaps; it allows quick and easy tripod use; and, though perhaps not as quick-to-the-draw as a Black Rapid bandolier, it allows you to hold your SLR system in a variety of ways most comfortable to you and the situation--over the neck, the shoulder, "bandolier" style, or even wound around your arm for drop-safety in close quarters (in this last style, you'll easily outdraw a Black Rapid shooter, especially if you're framing a vertical shot.) You'll also be able to carry two bodies+lenses and a shoulder or sling-bag simultaneously.
In the Nikon system, the AN-D3X is the Cadillac of straps: wide with durable, rip-stop seat-belt-like nylon weave construction and a soft, supple non-slip side that'll keep a heavy system on your shoulder without chewing up your clothes. It coils and folds oh-so-easily into your camera bag, but it won't crease. It's also cheap--half the price of a Black Rapid strap or a more conventional UP strap, 1/3 less than substandard stuff from Tamrac or Lowepro.
I see pros and cons to the broad graphics advertising you as a shooter of Nikon's top-of-the-line system--good for bolstering your professional cred among wedding, portrait, or commercial clients who know a D3x from a D40, perhaps bad if you're working a PJ story among enterprising criminality. If Canon doesn't have anything this slick for the EOS-1, then tying on a Nikon strap adds protest to respectable function.
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