Category: Photo

In this article I talked about how useful the PacSafe straps were. I still feel this way, but I discovered that there is a trade-off in the design.

(click any image for full size) The problem is flexibility. In order to make a strap flexible, it needs to use a wire rope that it made of lots of thin strands. The problem is that with these small strands, they will break off of the rope. A good design anticipates this and either coats the wire rope in plastic, or covers the rope in a material that the little strands can’t poke through. Unfortunately, neither of these precautions exist in the PacSafe CarrySafe 100 camera strap.

Right where the strap has to make a 180 degree turn, it is most vulnerable to fraying. When this happens, you will bring the very thin wire strand across whatever part of your body it is closest to. It is so small that you will never notice it-until it cuts your skin. And fray it did:
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I got a nice email from PacSafe, and thought I’d share it with you all:

personal stuff to me mercifully removed

We are developing a whole range of products only dedicated to photography. The Camera Shoulder Bag (handy camera bag) easily accommodates your SLR camera, and the multiple pockets ensure all your small and delicate accessories are well protected and organized. I’ve attached a picture of it.

Continue reading “PacSafe – New Bag, and Blog, on the way!”

I think that in photography how you carry your precious gear is a complex, personal, and probably hotly debated topic. My solution to a good in all cases need was the straps from PacSafe. Their Photography section has two products in particular that I’ll talk about today:

–CarrySafe 100 – For cameras
–CarrySafe 200 – for camera bags

The 300 is to lock the bag to a pole, chair, etc.

One of the nice things about these straps is that they are made of steel cables. Not the heavy kind, but light, flexible stranded cable that cannot be cut. They appear completely normal and unimportant on the outside. The other significant thing about their design is that they each have a way that prevents the strap from being disconnected from the camera or bag. In the 100 it is a nifty block for the D ring, and the 200 is literally bolted on.
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