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ranked #247,395 most helpful out of 571,544,897 reviews
★★☆☆☆
Am I crazy, not liking this thing?
there are 505 reviews averaging 4.5 stars for this thing as of today (unless Altura has a similer wrist strap that Amazon has unfortunately grouped with this one (which doesn't just happen sometimes, it's Amazon's S.O.P.)) Anywhoooo, here's what I don't like about this thing. 1. I thought it would be a quick on and off of the camera. I definitely don't want to use this all of the time and thought I'd be able to pop it on and off. Nope. You have to thread it through one side of your camera's clip things in order to make it snug to your wrist. Which takes more than a minute, which is all I'm willing to commit to using a wrist strap. It took me 3 minutes to get it on the camera. Even if it's faster to get it off, it's too much time. Why can't they make a clip built into the strap that can clip on and off of the camera clips? I mean, it would've been so easy to do that. 2. I saw that one reviewer had written that he had trouble getting this thing off his hand, and though I can see that being a problem as well, I'm more afraid that it's going to pop off my wrist and my camera's gonna fall off my hand. I bought this thing because I'm getting some tendinitis or some muscle spasming in my camera forearm, and I need to be able to loosen my grip on my camera at times, just to let my arm relax. Maybe most purchasers of this thing only want it for the extra security but have no intention of letting the grip loosen. If that's the case then this reason won't pertain to you. If you as well bought this looking for some relief from constantly gripping your camera, then this is a big one. I mean, the only things keeping the camera on my hand are the snap buttons (snap fasteners?) that snap on the outside of your wrist. The entire well being of my $3000 camera I'm gonna trust to two button snaps? Not a chance. Again, they could've easily could've used clips here, but they didn't. 3. I'd agree with an earlier reviewer that when you start to take it off your wrist, the plastic parts slam into your camera. I mean, it looks nice. It even feels nice. I really want to like it. But it's not a quick on and off of the camera like it should be, and with the button snaps as the only line of defense to stop my camera just falling off of my hand (if I were to not be gripping it tight). 505 other people think it's great. Or at least that's what they'll have you believe. In which case, grain of salt me and see if you like it. That's it.
June 2019 · Electronics · verified purchase
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