The Strapateer Camera Strap Type A

The Type A strap will carry all 35mm and digital cameras with standard style strap lugs - which means pretty well any 35mm camera and most digital cameras. We can also supply the strap with looped ends secured by buckles for cameras like the Leica SL. Please email us that you want SL style strap ends.

The strap can carry your camera hidden discreetly under a jacket - with the snap quick release used to pull the strap out from your shoulder to be snapped back together around your neck when a photo-opportunity arises.

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.

With the buckle slipped closest to the snap link on the main strap, the complete 'classic' (since 1958) Type A strap is approx 104cm long. Slipping the buckle as far away as possible from the snap link makes the shortest length of the whole strap about 68cm… If you want the strap to be longer - to approximately 120cm in total length (so that, for example, you can sling the camera lower across the body), you can order the 120cm version.

A note on the snaps we use for the neck/shoulder pad - sourcing the high grade Newey brand snaps - and, crucially, the press tools to fit them to the leather proved an epic hunt. We also needed to find a sufficient quantity to be confident that we could offer the shoulder pad to anybody who wanted one. Daft 'limited editions' are not our thing. And, of course the bonus with the Newey snaps is that they are nickel plated true vintage - and thus go perfectly with the rest of the nickel plated hardware used on our straps.

By using the fast-acting slip buckle, the Type A can also be shortened into a hand strap - the perfect set-up for fast street photography. Garry Winogrand was a big fan of using The Strapateer this way. See also our dedicated 'Type D' wrist strap.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LEATHER, METAL PLATE AND PAINT 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.

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