The DR-1 works by having a sling on each side of your body and the camera straps hang straight down your sides. The camera is attached to the straps at the tripod mount. For those who use tripods, Blackrapid makes a replacement bolt for the tripod plate so you can keep the mounting plate attached to the camera and still use the sling. The cameras move freely up and down the strap to shoot and there are adjustable stops on the front and back of each camera strap to limit movement. One of the cool things about this system is you can disconnect each side and use them as two single camera slings if needed. It is very adjustable and BlackRapid makes 2 different sizes of the Double.
I carried a Nikon D5300 with a Sigma 70-200MM f2.8 lens and a Nikon D90 with a Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 lens on for the majority of the time with the equipment weighing in at 19.8lbs. I wore the strap for about 30 hours over the last five days with 2 very hot very long 10 hour, 98 degree days thrown in for good measure and another 6 hour wedding shoot the week prior. The DR-1 made this a very easy carry and distributed all that rather weight nicely. The only weird thing about the sling was when using the left camera in the vertical position the strap ends up in your face depending on the length you have adjusted it to. This to me is not a big enough deal to complain about it and I will try different lengths of the sling to feel it out.
Overall I would say this is a great product if you need to carry two cameras and would highly recommend this to anyone.
As always, thanks for reading,
E
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