3 steps to attaching your camera strap - stylish!

This isn't specifically for the Fujifilm X-T1 camera, but actually any camera model and make out there. It's just that I noticed yet again this strange and unattractive way of attaching a camera strap when I started reading the X-T1 manual (and yes, a field test of that camera is coming here soon!). Why I don't know, but many camera manufacturers tell you a way of attaching your camera strap that just doesn't look good... You end up with both ends of the strap just hanging there, and it looks both unstylish and unprofessional.

So how do you do it then? Well, it's not that diffucult really, and it only takes you three steps to do it right. The secret is to make an inside loop of everything. The last part of the threading may be a bit fiddly and take you a minute, but it's definetely worth it!

Before you start, make sure the little plastic sliding thingy is the last part attached to the strap, and that it comes after the plastic thing where the strap goes through in an S-shape (notice the professional terminology used here...).

1) Start by pulling out some of the strap from the S-thingy, so there's a little room in there. Then pull the strap from the underside and upwards on the camera, and then through the sliding thingy. Picture 1#3.

2) Pull the end of the strap through the upper opening of the S-thingy, inside the little slack you got by pulling out the strap from the S-thingy, and then through the lower opening of the S-thingy. Picture 2#3.

3) This is the fiddly part, but now that the end of the strap is inside of itself, it also supposed to go through the sliding thingy, so it is hidden on the inside. Picture 3#3.

Before you tighten everything up, make sure the length of everything is how you want it to be.

The last step is to take your right hand and shake your left hand, and congratulate yourself on attaching your camera strap in the most stylish way possible!