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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3260577" data-attributes="member: 109211">There is clearly a whole world of ways of strapping oneself up of which I was blissfully unaware.For me the issue is complicated by the other stuff I carry. When we go out for a full day in Scotland or France or UK for that matter, I carry a backpack containing food and water (being diabetic and on medication, I have to eat at regular intervals) and sometimes a thin rainproof poncho. The backpack has shoulder straps, a waist strap and chest strap and on the waist strap I have a pouch containing two camera lenses on my left side and on my right a holster-type pouch containing a DSLR fitted with a macro lens.The last thing I want is a harness as well as I feel trussed up enough. My bins are therefore on standard neck straps (they used to be called lanyards) that are kept pretty short and as I walk I always have one hand on them so they are quick to the eyes. When clambering over gates or rocks I always have one hand for the bins and one for me and if one for me ain't enough, I tuck my bins inside my jacket or shirt until I have got over the other side.I did try to construct a harness using small clip-on straps attached to my back-pack shoulder straps so it would take the weight of the bins off my neck but this made taking the pack off to sit down and have a lunch too much of a chore as I needed to not only take care of the photo gear but detach the bins from the back pack.In the end I decided simplest was best and reverted to the old neck straps.I am not telling you where I stuff my SIG-Sauer 9mm.Lee</blockquote>

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