repleo wrote:
If you use one lug and it fails, the camera will fall. If you use two lugs and either one fails, the camera will fall. Two lugs doubles the chance that one of them will fail.
The question is - the load. If you use two lugs and the camera is balanced evenly between the the two, you are sharing the load between them so less likely to fail. As long as the single lug is strong enough to take the full load, then the single lug is less risky.
Good point. It's like the "weakest link" idea. a standard camera strap attaches at tw3o points, but a failure at either point will let the camera fall, unless you can grab the strap fast enough.