SpiderHolster Black Widow Spider Camera Holster for Lightweight DSLRs and Point-and-shoot Came
- Easy quick-draw access to your lightweight DSLR camera, brought to you by SpiderHolster!
- No more dangling cameras from your neck and shoulders
- Finally, the fun of photos without the hassle of dangling cameras and twisted straps! No more strap trouble when bending down.
- Ready to travel.
- The Black Widow fits in the palm of your hand, can easily be packed in a travel bag or purse and is rather discrete when worn. Get your shots while keeping a low profile!
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Good idea I think…,
This thing is a great idea, as I hate straps and hip holsters. It seems to be a simple solution, but worries me with a D7000 and a big lens. Is the camera tripod socket strong enough? I feel way better using it with my almost disposable P&S P7000. I think the Widow itself is fine, quality is there, however my very heavy gun belt is too thick and stiff to fit the Widow;s belt loops. I need to change to a lesser belt. I would have liked to have known that it would not fit heavy duty gun belts. The heavier duty model would be no guaranty that the camera”s weak point tripod socket could break and splat several thousand dollars! I would like to see some failure tests with destruction load graphs. Sorry, I was an R&D lab rat for 30 years. I got paid to break things.
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|Simple, well designed alternative to neck straps,
I hate camera neck straps. I hate them on my DSLR, and I hate them on my Olympus PEN E-P2. The straps are bulky, clumsy, and prone to snagging. I much prefer to hold the camera using a wrist loop of some sort, but that leaves me with a problem: how do I carry the camera when I need to use my hands?
Well, there are bags. Indeed, there are some very nice bags, such as the Domke F-5XB – but sometimes, all I want is the camera, and I want easy access to it. The SpiderHolster is made for this.
The design is straightforward: there’s the “holster” and the “pin.” You loop your belt through the two slots in the holster, which secures it to your hip. You secure the pin to your camera’s tripod mount. You can then slip the pin into the slot in the holster, and the pin will secure itself at the bottom of the slot, locked in place by a little retracting tab. To remove the camera, you have to apply pressure to the tab, and then you can simply lift the camera out.
When clipped in, my E-P2 (a small mirror-less interchangeable lens camera) rests upside down with the display panel flush against my hip. It’s very secure and comfortable in this configuration, and its size makes it unobtrusive. Larger cameras, such as DSLRs, appear to be a bit more awkward; they rest with the lens pointing backward and the rear panel/viewfinder facing forward. I have yet to try this on my DSLR, so I can’t comment on how that works in practice.
There are a couple of negatives with this system, though.
Firstly is the spider pin; it has to be secured tightly to your camera, making switching between the pin and a tripod difficult in the field. Spider sells a plate with a pin attached that can sit between a tripod plate and your camera; if you’re doing tripod shooting, this would be a good thing to have. The pin also means that the camera can no longer stand on its own.
Secondly, you have to really think about where the camera rests on your hip when moving about. It’s very easy to forget that it’s there, or forget just how much space it requires; if you’re not thinking, you might just bang the camera into something by accident. It also has a bit of “sway” to it when you move quickly, and intense physical activity really might be a bad idea.
Still, this is exactly the solution I wanted for my µ4/3 camera. The price is high for what you get, but there are few alternatives here so it’s somewhat understandable that you’d have to pay a premium.
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|Exactly what I wanted,
This is exactly what I was looking for my Panasonic DMC-G2 (micro4/3 mirrorless camera) when using 20mm, the 14-140mm or anything in between.
I tried numerous strap and sling solutions but never liked how the camera swings around and how the strap restricts your flexibility when using a camera with a well articulated LCD. I looked at numerous clip style solutions prior to settling on this one. What appealed to me about this solution is that the ball allows you to position the camera wherever you like – balancing comfort with sense of security. I prefer to position the camera so that the body and lens kind of hug my leg and the grip is in the perfect position to grab it.
I recommend picking up the dedicated belt. There is a definite pull when using the clip on a normal belt, whereas I don’t notice any when using the dedicated belt. The belt can easily be hidden under an untucked shirt or jacket. Even when worn totally exposed the best isn’t near as obvious as I thought it would be. I also picked up the pad since I am always wearing jeans with large rivets and I didn’t want the camera to get scratched. I am not sure if the pad is all that necessary otherwise.
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