Tamrac N25 Neoprene QuickRelease Camera Strap (Blue)

I very much agree with the leading review here that the quick-release buckles on the strap can potentially scratch your camera's exposed LCD, especially in travel-storage situations. I currently use this strap on a Canon T3i/600D with a fold-away screen in a Tamrac Aero 50 bag. The design of the bag (and many other Tamrac offerings) allows the strap on the camera to be put away well to the side, and the fold-away screen on the T3i allows the LCD to be doubly protected as well in those travel-storage situations. I also use a screen protector on the LCD. All the same, when I put the camera away quickly in the bag, I have to be careful with the strap. The quick-release buckles are, for me, a calculated risk.There are two general, obvious purposes to buying into the Tamrac quick-release buckle system and putting up with the risk. The obvious purposes are:1. If you have multiple camera bodies and want to use the same strap with different cameras easily, this feature gets the job done.2. If you want to carry your camera(s) in multiple ways, you can switch out different straps in the Tamrac line easily.Getting back to THIS strap, there are two specific reasons why these buckles are useful.This is a traditional neck strap. It is not a sling/bandolier/crossbody strap. It is not a shoulder strap. It is far too short and narrow for that. There are two ways to use this strap and others like it: around your neck and wrapped around your hand as a quick wrist strap.1. The buckles allow you to quickly wrap and tie the strap around your hand for additional security when using it as a wrist strap.2. The buckles allow you to detach and easily clean the strap.Mostly beyond the buckles, I've seen these benefits with this particular strap.1. As mentioned earlier, I own other Tamrac gear, and have never been disappointed with the build quality of the products. This strap is no exception. Some reviews here have complained about the strap coming loose. I don't think that's particularly likely if the strap is attacked correctly the first time, which is not particularly easy.2. The neoprene helps significantly on long vacation days when I use a heavier zoom lens on the T3i's light body, as I tend to do. Because the lens tends to pull the camera body down and around, straps with no give or stretch to them tend to dig in high on the neck and chafe, especially on hot days. It's a feeling like "400-grit sandpaper on your neck" as another reviewer described it, and that's unfortunately a very apt description.3, The neoprene is two-sided. If I get one side sweaty on a hot morning and I still have hours of carrying the camera to go, I can flip it around (using the buckles) and use the other side. This really helps cut down on chafing.3. The Tamrac branding is discreet, and the main brand label can be hidden by turning the strap or flipping the strap around. This is important to me. Late-model stock DSLR straps, with their loud, obnoxious branding, help mark you as an easy target for occasional hustlers and thieves in vacation areas. Any camera hanging off your neck is bad enough.In conclusion, I couldn't be happier with this product. But I understood what I was getting and I had specific reasons for wanting this particular strap with these features. I tend to go to hot, sunny places well off the beaten track on my vacations, where I spend most of the daylight hours walking around and filling up memory cards. This strap is exactly what I needed to do this more comfortably.

I purchased this strap based on recommendations from a photography blog, I loved the elasticity of the material and was initially very pleased. I bought the strap for a brand new Nikon D7100 and took it with me on vacation. This was the first time i was really using the camera or this strap, after just a few hours of walking around Vancouver, the strap had come undone and my camera fell to the ground, putting a quarter-sized hole in the camera body and damaging the SD Card door and attached lens.I continued to try using the camera and strap for the rest of the trip, but was constantly re-tightening the strap as it worked its way loose again and again. I would strongly recommend looking at another strap, or continuously checking the connections to the camera if you go ahead and purchase this one.

I ordered this strap for my SLR camera prior to going to Disneyland. The strap was initially very comfortable, but it took me two days of wearing it all day to figure out that I was allergic to the neoprene in the strap and it was the cause of the severe blotchy rash on my neck. I contacted Amazon and they are allowing me to return the strap free of charge and said they would notify the manufacturer for me.Ok editing the review for the morons that feel it's necessary to complain about my review. I will give it 3 stars. it gets that much because it holds the camera securely around the neck. So securely that it makes for a horrible rash if you happen to be allergic to the chemicals that they use in manufacturing. Good grief. I guess I am not supposed to be unhappy about that and don't have a right to complain. Yes, people...Amazon is a great company and they stand behind what they sell. I have bought other products from Tamrac and have been happy with them. That doesn't mean that I need to be happy with the product since it took six weeks to heal from the severe reaction to it.

Its name says it all! - I assume N25 refers to its width in millimeters, just right for an SLR, and black so you are not a walking billboard for the camera manufacturer. The soft and stretchy neoprene makes carrying a camera much more comfortable, though it does not slide so easily as other materials. I could do without the quick release - it just adds clunkiness to the strap and though the quick-releases seem strong they could be a weak point? The rest of the construction seems very well-made and I particularly like the way each camera attachment strap has two friction buckles - other straps I've had with only a single buckle have sometimes slipped and become detached. So, streamline the thing doing away with the quick releases would earn five stars, but in the meantime it's four and I'm still looking!