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How heavy a camera can the Cotton Carrier hold?
Last Updated: 01/06/2010
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The Cotton Carrier is designed to hold digital SLRs of any size and lens configuration. There are two sets of hard anodized Camera Hubs that are available with your Cotton Carrier; two (2) regular (flat) and two (2) 20 degree angled hubs.
The regular hubs are designed for typical, non-professional, non-battery gripped cameras. The 20 degree angled hub is designed specifically for use with professional series (full bodied) and battery-gripped cameras. This hub ensures the additional offset created by the extended distance of the camera due to the battery grip is angled slightly to reduce stress placed on the tripod mount of your camera. A properly fitted Cotton Carrier using the 20 degree offset will have the camera lens lightly, and comfortably, resting against your abdomen.
Other notable restrictions for the different Cotton Carrier models include:
1.) The Side Holster, which can be kept on your Cotton Carrier or mounted on the waist strap of your camera bag or used on your pant belt, is best used with non-battery gripped cameras and shorter lenses (e.g. 24 – 70mm, 135mm). Due to dynamics of walking, the hip tends to cause mild swinging even when walking, which is why we recommend smaller camera and lens combinations for this unit.
2.) The Vest Harness is designed for both professional series and battery gripped cameras, as well as non-battery gripped cameras with longer lenses, PROVIDING you use the appropriate Camera Hub as detailed above. Due to the human torso staying relatively stable when walking, longer lenses are easily, and comfortably carried with the benefit of eliminating neck and shoulder strain caused by traditional neck straps.
Although the Cotton Carrier is designed to carry weight loads of essentially any camera and lens combination, providing you use the right camera hub, we still strongly recommend using your camera neck strap as an extra measure of security whenever using your camera under active situations (e.g. mountain bike riding, skiing, hiking).
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