When I use to with my old SLR, I had it attached to a large retractor, which was good bcuz when in need, you can just let go the camera and do your stuff with your hands and not have to think about it. Then I got one of these pro-am digital cams, I just used the wrist strap, and still didn't worry about where the camera is when I needed to use my hand. Later, I got a strobe and even though I got a brass clip for it, I was grabbing the strobe arm's handle so much that I did not use the strap anymore. One of those dives, I got into the water and was making all sorts of adjustments on the surface and when I am ready to grab my camera, it was nowhere to be found. We were in around 30 ft of water and didn't see anything nearby. Good thing when somebody descended on from the surface to the bottom, which was around 30ft, they saw this whole setup lying on the reef. I guess we drifted around 15 ft on the surface, thus when looking below me, I couldn't see my gear, plus the red parts of the camera housing/strobe became completely black looking at 30ft below. Tried my old retractor kind of in the wrong side of the BC, so definitely will move it to the side of the strobe arm in the future.