Customer Reviews

Hakuba Camera Grip

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Hakuba has created a GREAT product! It attaches to one of the strap loops on the right side of your SLR-type camera and screws into the tripod hole on the bottom. The grip is comfortable, especially for long shoots, and it allows a sense of confidence that you'll never drop your camera. You can actually relax your finger grip on the camera and the Hakuba keeps it in your hand without falling. Shooting one-handed is possible, but it's best for being always able to hold the camera easily when doing walk-around shooting. I hate shooting without it now. Highly recommended.

The Hakuba hand grip is terrific, especially with cameras like the Canon Digital Rebel series with small grips that many find uncomfortable. I use it with the Rebel XT.

Not only can one shoot more easily, but holding the camera all day without a neck strap is a breeze.

Make sure you fiddle with the strap adjustment for a while so it is right for your hand and shooting style.

Highly recommended!

Great for steadying the camera for those shots when a tripod isn't easy to setup. I find it great, but it's too small for my guy friend's hand (he's 6' 7"). Also, it attachs in the same places as my camera cover does, so it's a tight fit.

I bought this strap to use on my Olympus E-520. I do not like long shoulder straps. I wanted a simple, fast grip. It works very well.

The product quality is good and includes instructions. It is simple to install and use. Tripod mount is excellent. It works as expected.

I did find that the strap needs to be looser than I expected in order to be able to place my thumb and forefinger in the right spots on the camera. So, one day I may try the other model with a wrist extension (KGP-01) to ensure the camera feels more connected to me.

There is only a little bit of product literature available at the manufacturer: http://www.hakubausa.com/documents/ca.pdf

This is an excellent product. It makes it so easy to hold the camera with one hand. It's made well, and really does make a difference in making it easier to use the camera. It was delivered quickly and I am very pleased with it.

This camera grip is a nice product and is very useful on my D300, although it fits a bit different than I expected. In order to operate the camera properly I need to loosen the strap a bit and thus bringing the bulk of my palm off of the camera grip. This means you're not really "gripping" the camera anymore, as much as you're wedging your knuckles into the strap to brace your camera.

This sounds strange and my explanation is awkward, but when I cinched up the strap taut right away, as I thought intuitive, I immediately learned that my command of all the features operated by my right hand was greatly mitigated. I have slightly larger-than-average hands, so that is a small part of the issue, but loosening the strap and making a kind-of cup with my right hand restores the utility of my hand on the camera, and still feels very solid.

The only thing I don't like about this is that the buckle loosens fairly frequently. Granted, it takes only about a second to re-tighten it, but it is still slightly annoying tending to it consistently.

I haven't tried this on any other SLR, but based on my experience, I would think that it would be less useful and more annoying (based on body size) on something like a D40, D80, D90, or any of the EOS Rebels. On anything like a 40D, 50D, or any full-frame camera body, I recommend it!

I decided to use a grip on my Olympus E-520 because I have wrist problems and holding a camera with a heavier lens for a long time can be tiring -- and I don't want to run the risk of dropping it.

It took some fiddling around to attach the grip to the camera. The instructions state that the camera shoulder strap should be removed (you will only need to remove the right strap), the grip threaded through the strap fixture and then the camera strap attached to the camera again. This simply didn't work, either because the Olympus' fixture is a bit narrow or because I am using an Op/Tech shoulder strap. So I decided to thread the camera strap first, and then the grip. This worked fine. All that remained was to tighten the screw onto the camera mount. No problem there.

Finding the right adjustment took some experimenting. Too tight and your right hand will probably gangrene -- it lies so flush to the camera body that you lose all mobility to the thumb, making it useless to press buttons and so on. Too loose and the setup just feels insecure. To me, the perfect position is when I can move all my fingers but the strap still steadies the camera safely, close to my hand; it feels natural and there is no muscle strain; and the camera nestles on my hand when I am carrying it.

Now, shooting for a long time is not as tiring, I'm not afraid of dropping the camera (even when my hand sweats) and I can still use my right hand for control -- or even photograph one-handed if I want. The Hakuba grip works for me, and having both the grip and the strap attached to my camera makes me feel twice as safe.

Unlike some other camera grips that make it so you'll have to screw in the basepad for your tripod off-center, this keeps that connection centered. The grip itself is comfortable and works fine. Doesn't come loose with use, and allows enough adjustments to fit anyone.

I purchased the grip so I could lighten my Canon 30D and take the Canon vertical grip with 2 batteries off the camera. I like to use a hand grip for more control and steady the camera. There is a projection on the Hakuba Camera Grip to prevent rotation and help with placement [all after market grips have this projection] . It overlaps the Canon on/off switch [switch is in the same location for 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, etc.]on the bottom of the camera a little. It took about 5 minutes with a file to shave down the projection so that everything fit perfectly. Just returned from 3 weeks in Spain and Portugal and it was perfect, easy to change batteries when I needed. Could not have been happier.

for handheld shooting, this little guy is great. i'm not a big fan of the neck straps but i like to feel like the camera's secure. i can tighten the strap just enough to have it hang on my hand without slipping off.
i'm doing a lot of real estate photography these days so i don't get a chance to use this strap as much.