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 enlarge | Brand: Op/Tech
Category: Photography
List Price: $22.75
Buy New: $11.81
You Save: $10.94 (48%)
New (6) from $11.81
Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
MPN: 5301422
Model: 5301422
UPC: 711554534223
EAN: 0711554534223
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bino/cam harness does its job March 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just back from trip to Peru, utilizing the OpTech bino/cam harness in both jungle and mountain conditions. Worked very well, allowing free access to both binoculars and camera while distributing weight better than original straps for either. The elastic version is a must for better flexibility. The binoculars or camera were easy to detach without removing the harness. Harness was easy to put on or remove.
Works well March 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have only had a chance to use this item a couple of times but it is what it was supposed to be and it makes it much easier to move around with binoculars. I will be curious how long the elastic lasts but for now I like it.
 Terrific Neck Comfort with some limitations June 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The harness really takes the weight of carrying the binoculars off the back of my neck, What a relief! The harness is lightweight and actually will fit into the binocular case for storage. I'm still adjusting the clips to get them correct. The mounting clips make it easy to quickly mount the binoculars and remove them. So far they have held them securly. I have emailed the company and extra clips can be purchased to use the harness with other binoculars or a camera. The only real draw back is that once you install the mounting clips on the binoculars or camera you can not also use a regular neck strap when that would be desired. In my case, my wife does not want the harness and when kyacking I would have to radically adjust the harness to fit over the life jacket.
a big improvement over a strap July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This harness is great for reducing fatigue in the neck and shoulders caused by a traditional camera strap. I use it with my Pentax DSLR with a 70:300 zoom macro most of the time. It does not stabilize the camera with the zoom lens as well as some reviews here would have you believe. It's head and shoulders above a regular strap in keeping the camera still, but on long hikes, it gets uncomfortable to have the camera riding in the same spot the whole time, since the weight of the lens pulls the bottom edge of the camera into your torso. I would have liked to see something that would cause the lens to point down, not out. Perhaps that's a complaint about the strap attachments on the camera and not about the harness itself, but as long as a product is setting out to correct a design defect in a traditional product...
One more drawback might be that you look like kind of a dork wearing this around. It's not subtle, nor does it look cool. It looks like suspenders or perhaps the underpinnings of a prosthetic device. If you're vain enough to care, you might think about a wrist strap or something less obtrusive. If you're the company that makes these, you might think about offering a color other than black. Make it look like hiking equipment instead of like a strange and elaborate garter.
To the good, I have never taken so many pictures on a hike as I have since I got this harness. Shooting a picture is quick enough that, even in low light or with a quick trailside setup, photo-related delays in the hike are nearly nonexistant. If you have ever missed a wildlife shot getting the camera up to your face, you will appreciate having your setup right there in front of you waiting to be used.
surprise-best way to carry a camera for hours... March 7, 2008
I have at home at least 6 different straps for my heavy SLR (Canon 30D with 18-250t Tamron zoom.)
I go a few times a year for trips abroad taking thousands of pictures .
the optech harness is the most comfortable way to carry the camera for hours!!!
in the beginning it took some time to get used to it, but later-I did not feel that I carry the camera...
great product and not expensive!
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