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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 144717" data-attributes="member: 9240">The more I stare at this the more I have to think that if this had anything to do with the strap it would be on the back end, not the front since that's the closer point to where it attaches and all the weight is in the front.<img src="http://www.dpreview.com/files/t/E~7a023d3995cd447b963f8bf37d88fb4a" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />If 5 semesters of Physics has taught me anything it's that in order for that gap to open up in the front the bottom plate needed to be secured and something pushed up on the front of the camera. Stick it on a tripod/monopod with a lens of any type and have something come up underneath it against the lens. Only strap scenario I can come up with has the camera on its back (like that) and something on top of the mounting screw (i.e. camera bottom flush against something with substantial weight) and you grab the camera by the lens to pick it up and it rotates on the prism.&nbsp; Or maybe the guy is jumping up and down with the camera at his side since the weight is all up front causing the torque.&nbsp; I see nothing here that would make me worry about a strap mount.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 144717, member: 9240"] [FONT=Verdana]The more I stare at this the more I have to think that if this had anything to do with the strap it would be on the back end, not the front since that's the closer point to where it attaches and all the weight is in the front.[/FONT] [IMG]http://www.dpreview.com/files/t/E~7a023d3995cd447b963f8bf37d88fb4a[/IMG] [FONT=Verdana]If 5 semesters of Physics has taught me anything it's that in order for that gap to open up in the front the bottom plate needed to be secured and something pushed up on the front of the camera. Stick it on a tripod/monopod with a lens of any type and have something come up underneath it against the lens. Only strap scenario I can come up with has the camera on its back (like that) and something on top of the mounting screw (i.e. camera bottom flush against something with substantial weight) and you grab the camera by the lens to pick it up and it rotates on the prism. Or maybe the guy is jumping up and down with the camera at his side since the weight is all up front causing the torque. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I see [/FONT][B]nothing[/B][FONT=Verdana] here that would make me worry about a strap mount.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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