Packaging / delivery:
The belt comes in a super-packing, without frills, in elegant matt design, not a simple cardboard rather special erinnendes to board game boxes material. The inner box is created as a "drawer" and also covered with a black cloth tape, a hole above it easier to pull out. A bedilderte instructions and a matt Catty Speed stickers round out the cause. The packaging is extraordinary. Content: 1x Neoprene, 1x Kamerahaltegurt, 1x camera plate, 1x Allen and 1x D-1 PIN (second PIN for another camera - for free there!), User manual and a sticker in noble matt design.
Belt:
The belt itself is in two parts: A 5-6 cm wide shoulder strap made of neoprene and another of classic Gurtmarterial, which includes the camera mount.
The bieden belts are connected to two high Kunstoffklammern. The belt of "neoprene" makes a high impression, is inside gummed and daruch very slippery. A sewn "Carry Speed" logo evaluates these visually. The seams are precisely and cleanly. Nothing is over, everything knotless. The staples of plastic acting very high and stable and can be opened only by bilateral hand use. A great safety feature! The buckles for quick adjustment of the length and the eingentliche holder buckle for the camera are metal! The knurled nut for fixing the "Pins" is secured by a "seal", which can be easily pushed back when you want to re-release the knurled nut. The fastening of the belt is done jerk-twitch!
F1 camera plate:
Included is the "F1-plate". This is massive, with one side rubber and metal is also very high. The metal mounting spin can be folded forward, allowing stowing in the camera bag or, as in my case, in a backpack or a simple "putting down" the camera. The attachment is mittele a flat screw with the Allen key or a coin o. Ä. Through an oblong hole the seat is variably selectable. Are accessible from below 6x threaded holes for mounting of tripod plate to the plate itself. In addition, the F1 camera plate is compatible with the ACRA-Swiss system - a nice side effect. This is also the really great thing about the F1 mounting plate - you can set up the camera to tripods despite belt because the PIN can be vergeklappt forward by 90 degrees! Awesome and unique! This has no other belt!
Practice:
Once installed, the camera now depends on the belt. Draped there is first an unusual but good feeling, because the camera unfamiliar right at waist level with the lens backwards depends but little umherbaumelt. A short train at the Metallverstellschnalle and the belt is shortened by about 20 cm, if you want. Will you take a picture, you simply engages with the right hand down (or these "swings" in any case right next to the camera) and uses this along with the belt and feeds it to his face. The camera "slides" on the harness with absolutely no hooks on the belt up - exemplary. The comfort is excellent, so good that one does not even notice after some time that since the right bit depends ... this is perhaps the only drawback of this belt systems, from which manufacturer whatsoever. One must be careful something that the camera is not to propose somewhere. But the camera does not swing much back and forth, but sitting, probably by the dead weight of the camera, even while walking almost always on Hip level must.
Conclusion:
It's my first shoulder. The standard straps of my two DSLR's I have now disposed of! The comfort grows through the use of this belt by 100%! Even the rapid switch between different cameras, if you have several in use, done easily and quickly. I have now ordered another Arca Swiss compatible tripod head and am excited to see how well the F1 quick release plate will make the stand ...
I will now carry out a long-term life test and then report in a few months about.
For RD. EUR 60,00 a very clear Kauftip, super price / performance and a "must have" for any ambitious camera friend (in)!
