Jan Christian
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Sling-style camera straps are all I use now, they're great. I also like the PacSafe camera strap for its slimness and low profile shoulder pad, so I combined them! Unfortunately, the strap may not be long enough for some people after this mod. I would've liked a few more inches but it's just about perfect as-is (fully extended).
For those who don't know, the PacSafe has steel cables running through the piping on each side of the webbing. No slash-and-grabs with this strap! I also like how the snaphook locks.
To do it, just remove the stitching at each tri-bar slide (see the "remove_stitcing" photo), disassemble everything, then with one end of the strap, reattach it to the middle bar of the tri-bar slide, as seen in the "sewn_side" picture. The part of the strap that goes over the middle bar wont have the steel running through it, the steel terminates just before the TBS. You can duplicate the hourglass stitching pattern or just use lines. For mine I went with three perpendicular lines of kevlar (yes, overkill :) ) thread.
After that, the other end of the strap goes under the TBS, over the middle bar, then down and out through the other side. You can play around with different configurations. Here, I have the TBS positioned above the shoulder pad.
completed_strap
Sling-style camera straps are all I use now, they're great. I also like the PacSafe camera strap for its slimness and low profile shoulder pad, so I combined them! Unfortunately, the strap may not be long enough for some people after this mod. I would've liked a few more inches but it's just about perfect as-is (fully extended).
For those who don't know, the PacSafe has steel cables running through the piping on each side of the webbing. No slash-and-grabs with this strap! I also like how the snaphook locks.
To do it, just remove the stitching at each tri-bar slide (see the "remove_stitcing" photo), disassemble everything, then with one end of the strap, reattach it to the middle bar of the tri-bar slide, as seen in the "sewn_side" picture. The part of the strap that goes over the middle bar wont have the steel running through it, the steel terminates just before the TBS. You can duplicate the hourglass stitching pattern or just use lines. For mine I went with three perpendicular lines of kevlar (yes, overkill :) ) thread.
After that, the other end of the strap goes under the TBS, over the middle bar, then down and out through the other side. You can play around with different configurations. Here, I have the TBS positioned above the shoulder pad.