Cinch
Cinch Availability
Cinches are currently being crafted to meet demand. Orders placed today are expected to ship in 2-3 weeks. Thank you for your patience.
Designed for your SLR, Cinch provides a new balance of stability and long-term comfort with unprecedented flexibility and versatility.
Cinch lets you easily change how you carry your camera on the fly from snug against your back to comfortably at your side, ready to slide up to your eye at a moments notice. It lets you carry your camera across your body, off of one shoulder, or just around your neck. Whatever the current moment demands, Cinch provides.
It’s like no other camera strap ever made. Watch our first look video to see it in action.
Quick Size Adjust
The breakthrough in Cinch’s design is its friction-based pull-tab adjuster. You can grab the tab and instantly tighten or loosen Cinch on-the-fly to suit your current mood. Want your camera close while walking through a crowd? Grab the tab and tighten. Want a bit more comfort? Loosen things up by pulling on the tab again. About to climb up some rocks? Pull the tab and rotate your camera onto your back and it'll stay glued to you.
No matter how you have your Cinch adjusted, your camera is always ready to bring up to your eye for the shot. Cinch has been designed to move around you with a minimum of fuss. We've even watched some of our testers tighten their Cinch as they bring the camera up to provide stability for their shot.
Comfort
Cinch features is a soft, stretchy and strong neoprene shoulder pad. Our unique CZZ (Center ZigZag) construction allows Cinch to conform to any curve and distribute weight. Other shoulder pads attain comfort by being curved around a specific portion of your body; Cinch’s pad is comfortable at any position and with no need to center it on your neck or shoulder. Its rolled edges make it comfortable against your neck. It’s comfortable on bare skin. You’ve got to feel it to be believe it.
Stability
Cinch carries your camera in a different way than traditional straps or slings. It attaches to a top bracket—left or right, Cinch is ambidextrous—and the tripod socket. The result is that your camera in a “down and in” position that hugs your body and keeps your camera stable. It uses the same proven and reliable 10mm webbing connections you’re used to using from other straps and the low-profile CinchMount socket adapter (one is included with every Cinch) fastens securely and won’t twist loose.
Have a tripod quick-release plate? Many plates from Really Right Stuff, Kirk, and other quality quick-release plate manufacturers have convenient strap mount points that Cinch can connect to directly.
If you have a plate that doesn’t have a strap mount point, such as the popular Manfrotto RC plates, check out our optional Membrane Connector which fits between your camera any quick release plate to create an additional camera strap mount point.
Easy Sizing and Fit
We know that photographers come in all shapes and sizes and we want everyone to be able to use a Cinch. So we make Cinch in three sizes. Most people will be comfortable with a Regular cinch. If you're on the small or big side, then you should get the small or big Cinch.
Put another way, if you wear an adult M, L, or XL shirt (either male or female), our regular Cinch will do the job just fine. If you’re smaller than that, you should probably get a Small Cinch. If you wear XL or larger shirts, then get a Big Cinch. But don’t stress out too much about your choice. We've given the sizes a considerable amount of overlap so picking the right size is easy to do.
Once you have it in hand, fitting Cinch is easy. Just put your Cinch over your shoulder, loosen the pull tab adjuster and the use the rear metal adjuster until your camera is positioned just right. If needed, you can also tighten or loosen the 10mm webbing that connects to your camera to adjust things to perfection. Once set up, the front pull tab adjuster gives you just the right amount of on-the-fly adjustments to keep up with any day of photography.
Quality
Cinch is like no other camera strap available today and we've never built any of our products like anyone else. Cinch's shoulder pad is reenforced with mil-spec mechanical stretch webbing and easily holds over 250lbs. Edges are all finished with die-cut, full grain American leather. The polymer camera connectors and webbing are all the same kind that NASA specifies and flies. Our metal hardware is all CNC machined aerospace grade aluminum. For the geeks out there, it’s 6061-T6 that’s been Type II anodized. CinchMount is black-oxide finished ordinance steel.
We don’t skimp on anything. It’s simply not in our nature. Even the smallest of details has been lovingly designed for maximum utility and enjoyment.
One more thing we should mention: Each and every Cinch is crafted in our hometown of Portland, Oregon USA.