Help me find this vintage camera strap!
May 12, 2015 9:07 PM Subscribe
Please help me find my husband's dad's 1970s era camera strap online.
My husband just bought his first DSLR in anticipation for our baby's arrival in July. I have a shot of being the coolest wife ever this Father's Day if I can track down a woven camera strap like the one his dad had. I've scoured Etsy and the like, and while I've found many with the same colour scheme, I can't find this particular design. Can any fellow Mefites help me out?
My husband just bought his first DSLR in anticipation for our baby's arrival in July. I have a shot of being the coolest wife ever this Father's Day if I can track down a woven camera strap like the one his dad had. I've scoured Etsy and the like, and while I've found many with the same colour scheme, I can't find this particular design. Can any fellow Mefites help me out?
Awesome photo! The camera strap looks like it's styled after Ace Guitar straps, ubiquitous in the 60's and 70s.
I don't have much time to search, but I did find this seller on etsy.
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 9:45 PM on May 12, 2015
I don't have much time to search, but I did find this seller on etsy.
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 9:45 PM on May 12, 2015
Best answer: The "Vintage Hippy Hendrix" camera strap from Couch Guitar Straps looks darn close.
And doing some Googling of related terms I found Souldier Straps, who seem to have a wide variety of "vintage hippy" fabric available for camera straps (I think you want to look in their "tapestry" styles, but I can't do a direct link there.)
(I've had good dealings with Couch, I can't speak to Souldier, and I'm in the U.S., so I can't speak to cross-border sales, sorry.)
posted by soundguy99 at 10:07 PM on May 12, 2015
And doing some Googling of related terms I found Souldier Straps, who seem to have a wide variety of "vintage hippy" fabric available for camera straps (I think you want to look in their "tapestry" styles, but I can't do a direct link there.)
(I've had good dealings with Couch, I can't speak to Souldier, and I'm in the U.S., so I can't speak to cross-border sales, sorry.)
posted by soundguy99 at 10:07 PM on May 12, 2015
Lots of stuff on Etsy, just by searching for “camera strap”.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 3:33 AM on May 13, 2015
posted by 1970s Antihero at 3:33 AM on May 13, 2015
Hong Kong has pretty similar stuff, real cheap. (But possibly not similar enough?)
posted by Too-Ticky at 4:01 AM on May 13, 2015
posted by Too-Ticky at 4:01 AM on May 13, 2015
(mad props to your dad on the Pentax MX and MX Winder combo. I think I had the identical setup 25 years ago, complete with embroidered strap. They were just the cheap one-step-up strap from the bootlace-thin stock strap of the time. Fine camera.)
posted by scruss at 5:10 AM on May 13, 2015
posted by scruss at 5:10 AM on May 13, 2015
I take that back - I didn't realize you were looking for the exact same strap. Sorry.
posted by maryr at 9:42 AM on May 13, 2015
posted by maryr at 9:42 AM on May 13, 2015
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Can you sew at all? Maybe take a trip to a fabric store and find some woven ribbon that matches and recreate it? I'd probably use two layers of the ribbon and substantial interfacing between.
posted by Beti at 9:33 PM on May 12, 2015