Here’s a quick little product announcement: lug bumpers!

If you use a strap with metal split rings, you’ll probably know the issue. After a while, the metal rubs against the camera body and starts to wear the paint or finish around the strap eyelets.

These lug bumpers sit between the ring and the camera, acting as a soft barrier. They’re cut from offcuts of leather from strap production, so it’s a nice way to use material that would otherwise just sit in a box or get thrown away.

They’re available in both genuine leather and vegan leather options, and in a mix of colours.

One of the interesting things about the vegan leather is that they’re not made of “PU leather” (aka plastic), they’re 95% olive, produced from the waste left over from olive oil production. It’s a more sustainable leather alternative that looks and feels nice, whilst also being strong. As it is quite a thin leather I’m not convinced it would work as a camera strap, but it’s very suitable for lug bumpers and hopefully some other accessories too.