My 300D neck strap seems to be always...

so that if you are bungee jumping off a bridge with your camera, and someone on the east side of the river takes your picture while lying on their left side, the words look right. It's part of as very clever marketing program to get free publicity. The only thing that can thwart this program is if the shore-based photographer uses the battery grip, then they have to lie on their right side.

Marcio Ferrari said:

My 300D neck strap seems to be always...upside down, doesn´t matter
the way I attach it to the camera. If "EOS DIGITAL" is correct,
then "CANON" is upside down. If "CANON" is is correct, you know
the rest. Is it only my strap like that?

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Marcio Ferrari said:

I can´t see any reason to be like this. I´m sure on my other EOS
straps all words are in the same direction.

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It obviously makes sense for Canon marketing (or if you want to show off) -if they faced in opposite directions, people looking at you could not easily read one or the other part. This way they are all oriented consistently, like two lines in a book and are easily readable.
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photoguynorth said:

Marcio Ferrari said:

My 300D neck strap seems to be always...upside down, doesn´t matter
the way I attach it to the camera. If "EOS DIGITAL" is correct,
then "CANON" is upside down. If "CANON" is is correct, you know
the rest. Is it only my strap like that?

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-My Canon G2 had a nasty thin strap which cut into my neck, I tucked it away in a drawer a couple of years ago in case I ever want to sell the camera.

My new 300D has a sharp edged plastic strap which is even more uncomfortable. On the' Canon Talk' forum I described the G2 strap as cheap and shoddy and I'd use the same words to describe the 300D strap.

Robert H

I got a strap made of what feels like wetsuit material, padded and stretchy. It is
much easier to keep the camera and a heavy lens around my neck with this. The
strap that came with the camera just sucks.

Doug Kerr said:

Making allowance for the unreversed mirror image, both "Canon" and
EOS Digital" read from top to bottom, likes the spines on American
(but not British) books.

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Off topic, but the vast majority of british books have titles on their spines printed top to bottom, so that they read correctly when the book is laid with the front cover top-most...

Hi, Kier,

Kier said:

Doug Kerr said:

Making allowance for the unreversed mirror image, both "Canon" and
EOS Digital" read from top to bottom, likes the spines on American
(but not British) books.

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Off topic, but the vast majority of british books have titles on
their spines printed top to bottom, so that they read correctly
when the book is laid with the front cover top-most...

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Didn't know that - it used to be the other way. Must have been a while since I bought a British book!

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

Marcio Ferrari said:

Marcio Ferrari said:

Eric Bond said:

Yes, this is normal.

When you look down at the camera strap while wearing, each side
looks like the bottom of the word is towards you, or at least
towards the center of your chest.

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