Product Description

Technical DataHeader / Product LineCanonTechnical DataHeader / ModelE1Technical DataHeader / ManufacturerCanonTechnical DataAccessories / Accessory TypeHand strapTechnical DataAccessories / Compatibility (Product Type)CameraTechnical DataAccessories / Compatibility (Camera Model)Canon EOS-1Ds

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16918 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 2344A001
• Released on: 2003-08-14
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 3.80" w x 6.40" l, .10 pounds

Features

• Produkt Version: 60,00

Manufacturer's Description
Canon is a leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. By developing innovative, high-quality business solutions Canon makes it easy to create, manage, and share images and information better, faster, and more efficiently.

Customer Reviews

A perfect partner to the BG-E3 battery grip
This really is the perfect partner to the BG-E3 battery grip that I purchased with my Canon 400D.

It's nice to be able to shoot without the neck strap getting in the way of the eyepiece every time you try and shoot in the portrait position, but without the resultant fear of dropping the camera through having removed the neck strap.

Simply remove the neck strap and instead fit the E1 strap. This runs over your knuckles in the manner of many camcorder straps and means you can let go of the camera completely and so long as your hand is not pointing reasonably directly at the floor with fingers straight, you are not going to drop it.

A web search will show many people such as the previous reviewer who don't know how to fit the strap because no instructions are provided with it. Rightly or wrongly the answer is to read the instructions that came with the battery grip. It is here that you will find crystal clear pictorial instructions that saw me fit and adjust my E1 strap quickly and easily.

Recommended?
Absolutely.

I must have a different strap to the others...
All the other reviewers must have received a different strap to the one I received. I admit that you do need a battery grip (or high end EOS camera) to accommodate this.

But contrary to the others have said, you DO NOT have to completely remove the neck strap to fit this hand strap.

There is a small metal double bar webbing bridge behind the usual plastic single bar webbing bridge. The metal one is so you can alter the neck strap fitting and attach it through the second bar (as you would attach the neck strap to the camera). So you can have both straps on at the same time.

Never mind the battery pack, what's the strap like?
Ok, just to get it out of the way, you do need the battery grip to use this item. If you look on the underbelly of your camera you'll see there is nowhere to attach the bottom half of the strap. The second eyelet is provided on the battery grip.

The strap itself is nicely made with a leather exterior and a difficult-to-describe foam/grippy interior that grips it to your hand nicely.

As a previous reviewer said, instructions on attaching the strap to your camera are included with the battery grip. These are very clear and if followed correctly actually include instructions on attaching a normal camera strap AS WELL AS the leather battery grip. There are six small pictures. The first 5 show you how to attach the leather strap, the 6th image shows very clearly how to attach a normal strap to the camera as well. Just follow them closely and you really can't go wrong.

For those just skim reading:
***YOU CAN ATTACH THE WRIST STRAP AND NORMAL STRAP AT THE SAME TIME USING INSTRUCTIONS THAT CAME WITH THE BATTERY GRIP***

The reason I've only given this 4 stars is because I'm not sure how much it adds to my photography. Having my hand glued to the side of the camera isn't as natural as you might think when shooting landscape and of course 50% of the reason I bought a battery grip in the first place was so that I had greater stability shooting portrait due to the added buttons so I have to take my hand out of the strap anyway when shooting portrait. That does make requiring a battery grip in order to use a wrist strap a little odd. If I have the strap really nice and tight so that it's very secure, my index finger overreaches the shutter release button by nearly an inch which means I have to bend my finger a little uncomfortably to press it. Some will love this strap, others will hate it I suspect. I'm undecided. Some of my problems here may be down the the shape of the camera not being ideal of those of us with large hands, although mine are by no means unusually large! (I shoot with a Canon 40D).

I can't fault the quality of the strap though and its problems are inherent in a wrist strap I would imagine. It does what it does as well as could be expected.