Spider Camera Holster: Redefining 'shoot from the hip'

Bags and backpacks may be efficient ways to carry your equipment, but even the slingiest of sling bags can still be hard to manoeuvre, and neck straps can chafe after a while. Photographer Shai Eynav felt the pain and did something about it: he's developed what looks like a variant on a mobile-phone holster that lets you hang your digital SLR from your belt.

The Spider Camera Holster takes a veteran design -- a post that slides down into a well, leaving the attached object to dangle and rotate freely -- and adapts it to work with the tripod socket on a camera.

It's a novel approach with some merit, although we think our trousers would be around our knees if we tried it with a lens as heavy as the one pictured. We can also imagine the bruises on our thighs caused by a large pro dSLR like the Nikon D3.

Slated to ship this summer, the Spider Camera Holster is currently priceless. You can see the creator's video below.