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Spider camera holster

Spider camera holster

- In many cases you might find that you want to be able to go hands-free with your camera. Maybe you're photographing in the studio and you need to make some adjustments, or you're out in the field and you're hiking up a trail and you just don't want to have your camera in your hand. You can certainly just use a camera strap, but there are some accessories that make it a little bit safer to go hands-free. Here I have the Spider holster, for example, and this enables me to simply put my camera into a holster and then go hands-free. And it has a locking mechanism, so that when I put my camera in, it's not going to come out unless I press the release or lock the release so that I can go in and out freely. There is, of course, an attachment for the camera. It has a little ball joint here, and so with the plate securely attached to the camera, I can simply insert into the holster, and then decide whether on not I want to lock. So if I'm just taking a moment to adjust the model's hair, for…

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