Peak Design Anchors
Peak Design Anchors
Whenever I post pictures of our cameras, I get asked about the little red tags hanging onto them.
Are they a form of AirTag? Are they anti-theft?
These are Peak Design’s anchors, and they are the single best way to attach a camera to a strap, leash, cuff, backpack, harness or photographer. Yes, I wish they were all black, but that’s splitting hairs.
They’re a little plastic disk that attaches to a camera with some form of waxed thread that is strong enough to 100 lbs. Each. Or at least, that’s what they used to say. Now I notice their website doesn’t mention how strong they are, probably on the advice of their lawyers.
Peak makes a variety of very good straps and cuffs that clip onto the plastic disk, and I love combining their cuff with their slide strap, but it’s the ability to use them with other brands gear that make them truly indispensible.
After 20 years of wedding photography, I can’t hang mulitple cameras around my neck anymore. So I use a harness system, which keeps the weight on my shoulders, and off my neck. But most harnesses have a weak spot in how they attach to a camera. Usually there’s a plug that screws into the tripod mount, both making it impossible to use the tripod, and likely that the plug will eventually unscrew.
Peak Design sells the anchor mounts (I think they call them links) as well, so you don’t have to use their straps, and can attach your camera to anything!
Two years ago while planning for a photo trip across Italy I wanted to be able to keep my camera in front of me and in my hands at all times (both for convenience and for security in busy streets), while still having nothing around my neck. Two Peak Design straps attached to my backpack with carabiner clips meant full days of shooting without pain or missed shots.
I don’t work for Peak. I’ve never gotten anything for free from them, and I don’t think all their products are worth the money. But these little anchors and the clips that work with them are the only way you should ever attach your camera to anything.
The images below are from Peak’s website, and were not shot by me.
