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How to carry a camera

How to carry a camera

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How to carry a camera

- Let's talk about camera straps. You might be thinking, well, what is there to talk about? It's a strap, it holds your camera. What else is there? Well, turns out, there are a lot of different types of straps that allow you to carry your camera in a lot of different types of ways. Let's start off with the most basic. This is a simple strap that comes with the camera, and let me show you the wrong way and then the right way to carry it if you're using a strap like this. Starting off with the wrong way, that would be something like this. This is the wrong way. This is something that we call the tourist hold. You don't want to be carrying your camera like a tourist. Now here's the problem with this. First of all, all the weight in on your neck. This is gonna start to hurt and it's not gonna take long before it does. This is a lot of weight in a big camera like this and this strap is not that comfortable. So this is really not ideal. Plus, it's banging around out in front of you, hanging…

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