Goodman Digicam has introduced the Goodman Digicam Strap with Magazine-Lock, which mixes the tensile energy of Kevlar wire with a quick-release magnetic locking harness system hooked up to a home made leather-based digicam strap.
Goodman Digicam is probably most well-known for its open-source, 3D-printed medium format movie cameras in addition to its hand-crafted customized cameras made by the corporate’s founder, Dora Goodman.
However Goodman’s firm doesn’t simply make cameras, but in addition hand-made equipment. The corporate’s newest is a leather-based strap that makes use of an modern magnetic locking system that permits the strap to be simply hooked up or unattached from a digicam due to a magnet-powered interlocking system.
Goodman says that its magnetic locking attachments, referred to as Harness Hyperlinks, set its straps other than others available on the market due to the modern harness system which makes it each quick and easy to connect a brand new strap to any digicam in a group.
Every Harness Hyperlink is totally interchangeable, and extras will be bought in 7cm (about 2.7 inches) or 12cm (about 4.7 inches) lengths, which gives a few choices and permits photographers to buy sufficient to place them on all their cameras.
On the strap aspect, Goodman says that every is meticulously hand-crafted and whereas the strap itself is leather-based, the binding is Kevlar which it says was chosen to be an ideal match for the magnetic Harness locks. The result’s a quick-release system that’s each simple to make use of and “extraordinarily safe.”
The connection is comparable in idea to the favored Peak Design Anchor Straps, however seems sooner to clip on and off. Goodman appears to grasp that the concept of a magnet holding a digicam to a strap doesn’t sound probably the most safe, and is engaged on a strategy to higher reveal the design in a means that can assuage issues.
“Presently, we’re engaged on some extra content material to show how sturdy it’s, as a result of we all know individuals is perhaps petrified of magnets, however the Fidlock buckles that we use are literally tremendous sturdy and dependable,” Goodman tells PetaPixel. “You possibly can relaxation assured that your favourite digicam will all the time be secure round your neck!”
The Goodman Digicam Strap with Magazine-Lock is on the market in two colours (Asphalt or Clay) in both 95 or 125-centimeter (about 37 or 49-inches) lengths and begins at $68. The selection of lengthy or brief Harness Hyperlinks doesn’t change the worth of the general strap.
