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<blockquote data-quote="blackstar" data-source="post: 820727" data-attributes="member: 47518">Nice setup.According to the photo of yours, I have some questions and suspect (theoretical):1. It looks like you installed both the shoulder strap (single QD attachment to the lens) and the neck strap (attached to the camera). Plus a safety tether is attached to the camera and the shoulder strap. Which brand is the shoulder strap (badge color)? and which is the black neck strap, which is the safety tether?2. How do you attach the neck strap to the camera, single or double attachments? QD or QR?3. Is your shoulder strap a Magpul? How do you get the nice shoulder pad? Is that an add-on?4. The suspicion: The use of a safety tether - according to your setup, if the QD attached to the lens fails and loses attachment to the lens, the safety tether will take over and transfer the attachment point to the camera. Under the circumstances, the loosened heavy lens will swing and pull down the whole system and adversely stress the contact mechanism between the camera/lens. This is why I chose to have two QDs attached to the lens (saved a safety tether) and hopefully, two QDs will not fail at the same time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blackstar, post: 820727, member: 47518"] Nice setup. According to the photo of yours, I have some questions and suspect (theoretical): 1. It looks like you installed both the shoulder strap (single QD attachment to the lens) and the neck strap (attached to the camera). Plus a safety tether is attached to the camera and the shoulder strap. Which brand is the shoulder strap (badge color)? and which is the black neck strap, which is the safety tether? 2. How do you attach the neck strap to the camera, single or double attachments? QD or QR? 3. Is your shoulder strap a Magpul? How do you get the nice shoulder pad? Is that an add-on? 4. The suspicion: The use of a safety tether - according to your setup, if the QD attached to the lens fails and loses attachment to the lens, the safety tether will take over and transfer the attachment point to the camera. Under the circumstances, the loosened heavy lens will swing and pull down the whole system and adversely stress the contact mechanism between the camera/lens. This is why I chose to have two QDs attached to the lens (saved a safety tether) and hopefully, two QDs will not fail at the same time. [/QUOTE]

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