It's difficult do astrophototography with the camera's strap around the neck.
Reference to my initial post re: when the camera dropped, I was attempting astrophotography and I had just removed the camera from the back of the SMCK 1000/8, placed it on a nearby table and was about to remove the SMCK 1000/8 from the equatorial mount and ultra mega tripod. It's hard to do this teardown with the camera hanging around the neck. I experienced a sharp, piercing, debilitating pain in my left hip - a leftover from my motorcycle accident in October. When I began to fall, I automatically reached for the table and knocked the K10D off to the concrete tripod mounting pad. Regards, Bob Blakely --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." - Robert Frost ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No, a neck strap won't keep a camera on a table, but I find when I'm using > a neck strap, I rarely put a camera down. No need to in most situations. > Then, when I am forced to park it somewhere, It's a very conscious > decision. But I was being a bit facetious. I know a lot of photographers > can't stand neck straps. I became accustomed to them early on while > shooting motorsports with two cameras. > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> You can't have the neck strap on when it's sitting on the table. >> >> Regards, >> Bob Blakely >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------------- >> "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, >> and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." >> - Robert Frost >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >A neck strap would serve you better. >> > >> > On Jul 18, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Bob Blakely wrote: >> > >> >> Wish I'd had this Saturday night when the K10D took a dump to >> >> concrete. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
