How do you carry your camera?

If I'm walking, say streets etc, and using it every couple of minutes or so, I carry it in my hand but with a chain attached to it and to my camera bag shoulder strap. The chain is a length such that I only have to hold the camera lightly, and can let go without it falling. It also dissuades anybody from snatching it and running.

I also use a Lowepro Slingshot, so I can put it away easily too.
 
Over the shoulder(s) - using R strap(s).
Works well and is very comfortable.
 
If it isn't round my neck then I twist the strap around my wrist as much as possible and firmly grasp the camera grip. If it's round my neck in a crowded place I put my left hand under the lens to protect it from being knocked.
 
It depends.

With the flashgun on top, it's round my neck, but with no flash, it's over my shoulder.

Sometimes though, i wrap the trap around my wrist, and just hold it in my hand.

It all depends on what i'm shooting.
 
used to have a grip or wrap the camera strap around my hand

bought a R strap since...really rather like it

great for event photography and walking around being a tourist
at your hip for easy access, and doesn't bump against your chest every step
 
Always on the shoulder
 
Round me neck. I need both hands free to ride my scooter :lol: I'm trying to come up with a solution though, as the blasted strap keeps chaffing on my hair line at the back of my neck, and my hair seems to think it's a good excuse to create dreadlocks! I'm going to try and make some sort of hammock for it I think.
 
If I'm shooting, or expecting to shoot any moment, around my neck. If I'm just carrying the camera about, but not actively shooting, then hanging off my shoulder or in a bag.

I find the neck pain I used to get has vanished, now that I am more used to lugging gear around, and I can do 4-5 hours at the zoo with a 1D3, 100-400 and 580EX hanging round my neck from a standard Canon strap, with only the odd break for a quick sit down and chimp session.
 
I'm usually slinging it across the shoulder. Having it around the neck is tiresome unless I'm constantly taking pictures and so the weight is more in the hand than dangling from the neck.
 
D40 round my neck, normally with another lens in a small bag or stuffed in a jacket pocket.

Big difference from film days when weighed down with a contax rts3 and 85/1.4 lens round my neck and another heavy body and lenses in a bag too !!
 
either in my kata rucksack or in my hand with homemade very strong wrist strap that i can safely drop to my wrist if need be.

makes useing the camera quicker to use and steadier

there is a big strong karabiner on the left ruckstrap strap i can clip the wriststrap securely too when i need booth hands. :)
 
im my hand with the canon hand strap (E1)
 
as tight as I can . With both hands whilst looking over my shoulder
 
I'm a bit of a shoulder man too - at least when I first venture out. But once I start shooting I tend to hold it with the strap wrapped poorly and ineffectively around my wrist. :|
 
Finally found a decent pic of how we dress in theatre...Not me though - they are the Combat Camera Team in Afghanistan last year...
On the right is my mate Jim Hennessy...

Imagine all of that kit, plus all the camera kit I've previously listed...

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And the ENG cameraman hard at work...

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Some more randoms of and by my colleagues:

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Hats off to you guys.


Me, I usually have a skivvy to carry mine.... lol - I wish!
 
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