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product_id: 2266108
title: "Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness, Black"
brand: "keyhole"
price: "$80.52"
currency: USD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 5
url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/2266108-keyhole-hands-free-camera-harness-black
store_origin: US
region: United States of America
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# Hands-free shooting Secure lens cap Durable for adventures Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness, Black

**Brand:** keyhole
**Price:** $80.52
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> Capture the moment, hands-free! 📷

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness, Black by keyhole
- **How much does it cost?** $80.52 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/2266108-keyhole-hands-free-camera-harness-black)

## Best For

- keyhole enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted keyhole brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Lens Protection:** Cap keeper prevents lens cap loss and keeps your gear safe.
- • **Seamless Transition:** Easily switch from hands-free to shooting mode without hassle.
- • **Lightweight & Durable:** Crafted from high-quality materials for long-lasting use.
- • **Adventure-Ready Design:** Sturdy construction keeps your camera secure during any activity.
- • **Universal Compatibility:** Attaches effortlessly to any 1" webbing backpack or harness.

## Overview

The Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness is designed for photographers on the go, allowing for quick transitions between hands-free positioning and shooting. Its durable construction ensures your camera stays secure during outdoor activities, while the cap keeper prevents lens cap loss. Compatible with any 1" webbing harness, this lightweight yet robust harness is perfect for adventurers and professionals alike.

## Description

The Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness (Black) offers you a way to hike, bike, ski or snowshoe while holding your camera safe and steady, solidly against your body. The harness is unique in design since it provides a way to prevent what usually happens to cameras when attached to typical backpack or chest harness straps. Traditional harnesses don't eliminate "swing" so you find yourself trying to both hold your camera steady while trying to use trekking poles. Or, if you're scrambling up a hill, your camera bounces any which way while you're trying to grab a rock to make it to the next ledge. The Keyhole is designed to hold your camera and lens firmly attached to your backpack or chest harness, with the lens facing downward and held steady with no swing. The design includes a special cap keeper attached to the Keyhole that prevents your lens from swaying from side to side. Yet, when you're ready to shoot, there's no complicated hardware to unhook or adjust to get your camera into shooting position. Perhaps one of the best features of this system is its ability to limit the strain of your camera on your neck. In addition, with your lens held tightly against your body, there's less chance of it banging into a rock, bush or the ground. The Keyhole attaches quickly and efficiently and is made from durable polypropylene straps and a hard plastic plate into which your camera slides. Screw the included Keyhole knob into the camera's 1/4 - 20 tripod socket. This knob then slides neatly into the slot of the hard plastic Keyhole plate. Use the included quick attach sternum strap adjusters that attach the Keyhole harness to your backpack or chest harness straps. The buckles come with four male connectors that mesh with the female connectors found on your backpack's straps. Adjust the straps so the fit is tight and comfortable. Finally, hook up the touch fastened cap keeper to your existing lens cap.

## Features

- Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness - Knob - Cap Keeper - Keyhole - Keyhole Warranty
- Accessibility: Quickly allows you to switch from hands-free positioning to shooting stance; there's no fancy or complicated hardware to readjust to use your camera
- Protection: The Keyhole holds your camera steady against your body using your backpack or chest harness. The included cap keeper with touch fastener holds your lens facing downward and prevents it from swinging while hiking, skiing or walking; cap keeper also prevents your lens cap from getting lost
- Simplicity: The Keyhole attaches to any backpack or chest harness that uses a 1" wide webbing on the shoulder straps. Quick-attach sternum strap adjusters attach to existing backpack/chest harness straps
- Materials: Made from durable polypropylene straps and a hard plastic plate; includes touch fastened cap keeper that secures to your original lens cap

## Images

![Keyhole Hands Free Camera Harness, Black - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ArTRGsVIL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

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    The best currently available solution for carrying a full size SLR to hike
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2014*

When you carry a larger camera to hike, you want:1. Quick access: otherwise why lug around that weight?2. Reasonable security3. Minimal weight and fussIn my opinion, the Keyhole camera strap harness is the best available solution on the market, as of 2014.Why? Because it does achieve the three criteria I listed above. I used a Sony full-frame SLR (A99), combined with a dust/moisture resistance lens for the camera (Sony 16-50mm, 2.8). It is a great camera for the outdoors (great image quality, element resistant), but weights about 4 lbs. I have tried 3 different chest packs, a number of camera straps, protective covers, before I found this. I learned about this little device from Backpacker magazine gear guide.In short, it is a plastic plate with a keyhole that allows you to slide the camera in and out. The plate is secured to the shoulder harness of your backpack by 2 or 4 quick release connectors/straps. The camera is secured to the plate via an adapter that you have to fix to the tripod mount on your camera. You still loop the camera strap around the neck, but the weight should be on the plate when you hike, the strap is an additional layer of security in case the camera slide out of the keyhole. It is simple.In practice, it serves the purpose admirably. Access is as easy as sliding the camera out of the plate. It is quite stable. The best part about this system, when compared to a chest pack setup is the simplicity and integration with your own pack. A typically chest pack or other similar design requires you to "wear" another vest-like thing, or at least some straps around the shoulder, while the Keyhole doesn't. The problem with additional vest, or straps is that they chaff, especially when the harness of your pack is over the straps. Very uncomfortable, particularly in summer when clothes is thin.Minor drawbacks experienced by me include:1. Need to have a backpack with appropriate nylon straps incorporate on top of the harness "pads". In some backpacks, the nylon straps don't extend all the way down the "pads" to the arm pit area. That means the plate and the camera will sit uncomfortably high, can close to your neck. I have to use my Mountain Hardwear SummitRocket 40 and not my Vaude daypack because of the strap length issue.2. When the camera is mounted, the lens touches my belly when I walk, annoying at best. (I don't have a big belly, 6'2, 180 lbs)3. When taking off the backpack for a break, you have to remember to take out the camera, release the plate from the harness (one side), before it is possible to take off the pack. This takes a little getting used to. And I only use the top two connectors for the plate (so I only need to release one connector) to make this process quicker.4. A little expensive for what it is.2.

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    Very useful but it has it's short comings
  

*by J***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2013*

I chose this rating because the short comings I anticipated to exist were as I expected them to be.  I have used it once when attending an indoor activity and have yet to use it on an outdoor adventure.What I like:The camera is very secure in the key hole mount with little or no camera flop or sideways sway.The camera is easy to access when needed and easy to store when shooting is complete.The key hole strap mount fit perfectly on my "Lowepro" DSL camera backpack.What I don't like.You have to maintain constant awareness of the camera on it's mount. The cameras position on your chest makes it somewhat vulnerable to brushing up against or bumping into something you get too close to, encumbering you when in a crowd or in a confining space.I am using an AF-S NIKKOR 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED Nikon lens on my D40X Nikon camera and as a result, because of it's weight, I have been reluctant to carrying it with the lens pointing down.  The barrel of this lens is somewhat weighty and as a result, I have had the lens "Zoom" extend to it's maximum extension because the lens is pointed down when in the mount.  I don't think this would be a problem with a lighter weight lens.  I may be able to compensate this "Zoom Creep" by adjusting the length of the lens cap holding strap to prevent this from happening.With the camera pointed down and the screen on the back of the camera pointing up, the screen is more vulnerable to damage.I researched all the camera carrying devices I could find on the internet before purchasing the Keyhole carrier and felt it would best suit my needs.  Hopefully more use of the item will help me to deal with the things I don't like about it.  I have already recommended this carrying device to several of my cousins.

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    A very handy bit of gear!
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2013*

I bought this to use with my Rebel t4i, which I had not yet had out on any kind of real excursion.  I tested it out on a hike up Guadalupe Peak in Texas.  It worked as advertised.  You just need to be sure your backpack has the right straps in front for it to anchor to.  (Common 1-inch straps.)  It completely saved my neck from the strain of the camera strap, and it was so simple to reach down and pull the camera up to snap a picture.  I even liked the lens cap keeper strap.  The camera did not bounce around, but held steady, and it was really simple to slip it back into place.  I can't imagine taking a long hike like that without this harness.  It does make taking the pack off a little more complicated, because you need to lift the camera out and unbuckle two more straps than normal, but considering the benefit, that's worth a couple of extra seconds.The only thing I wish it had was a screw hole in the knob you screw into the bottom of the camera.  Then you wouldn't have to take the knob off to mount the camera on a tripod.  Also, it would be nice to have some kind of keeper for the knob when the harness is being stored.  I was afraid I'd lose it before I got there to use it.Great product!

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