I recently bought Nikon Monarch M7 8x42. For the most part I followed the official tutorial for the Nikon camera strap.
It's my second pair of binoculars and I've realized only now that the rainguard can be attached to the strap too. I did that to the best of my abilities, however I keep thinking there has to be a better way to do this, I just couldn't really found any good video on that on the internet.
The problem with my current setup (see attached pictures) is that when it comes to the left part of the strap, the part that comes back under the keeper (annotated with blue arrow and a circle) makes it so that the rainguard strap lug has to go through three "layers" of the strap. This is a little bit too thick. Sometimes when I put on the rainguard and then stretch the strap by letting go of it and just letting it hang on my neck, the rainguard comes off because it's being lifted up by those three layers of strap.
Other times I'd make the buckle be too close to the binos so that when looking through them the rainguard would be too close to my face which is somewhat uncomfortable.
Anyway, I'm just not very good at this and I worry that by experimenting more I'm just going to screw up my current setup which is not the worst after all. It just makes me think that perhaps there's a better way to do this, so here I am asking other, more experienced bino owners if there's some secret technique I don't know about.
It's my second pair of binoculars and I've realized only now that the rainguard can be attached to the strap too. I did that to the best of my abilities, however I keep thinking there has to be a better way to do this, I just couldn't really found any good video on that on the internet.
The problem with my current setup (see attached pictures) is that when it comes to the left part of the strap, the part that comes back under the keeper (annotated with blue arrow and a circle) makes it so that the rainguard strap lug has to go through three "layers" of the strap. This is a little bit too thick. Sometimes when I put on the rainguard and then stretch the strap by letting go of it and just letting it hang on my neck, the rainguard comes off because it's being lifted up by those three layers of strap.
Other times I'd make the buckle be too close to the binos so that when looking through them the rainguard would be too close to my face which is somewhat uncomfortable.
Anyway, I'm just not very good at this and I worry that by experimenting more I'm just going to screw up my current setup which is not the worst after all. It just makes me think that perhaps there's a better way to do this, so here I am asking other, more experienced bino owners if there's some secret technique I don't know about.
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