Opteka Professional Wrist Grip Strap for Digital and Film SLR Cameras
The Opteka padded camera grip wraps around the hand, and is designed to stabilize a camera or camcorder when shooting, and to alleviate fatigue during extended sessions of photography or videography. Compatible with all Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, and Samsung DSLR cameras that feature a standard 1/4″-20 tripod socket .
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Love this strap!
I have a wonderful new Panasonic Lumix micro four thirds DSLR, which I purchased – in part – for its small size. I wasn’t happy with the shoulder strap, and couldn’t seem to find the kind of small strap I’d used on my old Minolta APS SLR.
When I came across this Opteka wrist grip strap, it turned out to be the perfect solution! It screwed into the mount on the bottom of my camera (with a duplicate mount on the bottom of the wrist grip, so I can still use a tripod), and with a few adjustments fit my hand perfectly. Due to the design of my particular camera, the base covers my battery/card door, so I need to unscrew it to recharge the battery; that is hardly a fault of the wrist grip.
The strap puts the camera into a perfect shooting position to use the LCD and controls, and to have the best no-shake grip of a digital camera I’ve ever experienced. Overall, this is the best $10 camera accessory I’ve ever bought.
4 Stars Like it but BE CAREFUL!
I like this strap but I was using it with my new Canon 7D with vertical grip and using the tripod mount attachment. This causes the camera not to sit level, so when I set it down it fell over due to the position of the 580EX flash that was attached to the 7D. It damaged the shoe on the flash but fortunately I think everything else is undamaged and I can get a new shoe for the 580EX. This incident caused me to stop using the tripod mount attachment and instead I use the anchors provided by the 7D and the vertical grip. I like this much better. The camera can now be sat down level and shouldn’t fall over like it did before.
3 Stars Forces awkward hand position
I’m not wild about how this fits on my Canon T1i. When you have the strap tight enough to be effective, it forces your hand into a position nearly perpendicular to the camera body. This is uncomfortable, makes it difficult to reach the buttons easily, and makes it very awkward to raise the camera to your eye. It is also awkward to shoot with the camera oriented vertically.
Based on some other reviews, it sounds like this strap might work better if you have a battery grip. I think that the battery grip would give you some extra room inside the strap, and that would allow you orient your hand in a more natural position.
The quality of the strap seems good. If you know that you like using this type of strap, I think this one would be a good choice.
1 Star Thought I’d give it a try
Not really designed well and uncomfortable – just like so many reviewers said. Guess I had to see for myself. If you have large hands I wouldn’t recommend this strap. Would probably be a better fit for a woman’s hand.
5 Stars Hand Strap
I am using my on a light weight Nikon D40 DSLR and it works fine.
