The Type B is the 'heavy lifter' - with a thicker neck strap than the Type A (1" wide instead of 1/2") and bigger snap hooks designed to carry the weight of your medium format film or digital camera. It can be supplied with the standard split rings for heavier 35mm/digital cameras or with Hasselblad or Rolleiflex clips. And we can also supply loop ended Leica SL type straps.
STOP PRESS - we are now supplying this strap with double-riveted camera clip ends. The single rivets on our other straps will easily carry the weight of pretty much any hand-held cameras but we have decided to add another rivet just to reassure all! See last picture for this double-rivet detail.
And check out our shoulder pad also listed here on The Strapateer site.
Like the A strap, there is enough leather in the strap for it to be adjusted to be carried across the body as well as around the neck. Across the body is ideal when the camera has to be carried for long periods - or where there is a chance of the camera being swiped from your shoulder.
Please make sure you select which camera you want clips for - 35mm / Hasselblad / Rolleiflex. We can also supply the strap with looped ends secured by buckles for cameras like the Leica SL.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LEATHER, METAL PLATE AND FINISH ON THE RIVETS WILL ALL WEAR WITH USE - JUST AS ON THE ORIGINAL STRAPS. WE LOVE THE WAY THIS PATINA DEVELOPS WE HOPE YOU WILL, TOO.
A note on our nickel plated split rings - to the credit of quality manufacturers like Nikon and Leica, who knew that their products were going to get a real workout in the hands of professionals, both manufacturers (and plenty of others - Pentax for example) made sure that they got things right with controlling the wear on their camera lugs.
The engineering logic behind the Nikon and Leica lugs relies on relative material hardness. The lugs are hard chromium plated and because chromium sits much higher on the Mohs hardness scale than the nickel plating and the underlying tempered spring steel used on the original Nikon and Leica split rings (and on our own at The Strapateer) the intention is that the rings act as the sacrificial wear component, slowly wearing away their nickel plating against the much more resilient hard chrome of the camera lug... Which should last for many years.
...Leica did not always get things right however; black paint Leica M2 and M3 cameras came with black painted lugs - with no hard chrome to protect the brass lugs... Consequently, these painted lugs wore out faster than the standard hard chrome versions. It is interesting to note that by the time Leica started making the black paint M4, the company went back to supplying the camera with hard chrome lugs.
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EU buyers please note that our straps are individually handmade custom-ordered products produced to your requested requirements. This means that we are not in a position to offer as a matter of course, the so-called EU 14 day 'cooling off' period. However we do respect the customer's right to return a faulty or damaged product - but we do urge all buyers to be sure of their need before placing an order with us. Rest assured that we are a company that is very proud of the quality of our products and devoted to providing the finest service to all you photographers that we are so proud to serve.
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