Quick access holster for long zoom camera

[Tom_is_Learning]

I am looking for some way to carry my 450D with a Sigma 150 - 500 OS lens attached. I would like to be able to carry it while riding a bicycle and yet have it fairly quickly accessible. This camera/lens combo is 13 in. (33 cm.) long and not something I can just hang from a strap around my neck while biking/hiking. Can anyone give me some help?? I have already seen the "Cotton Carrier" and it is definately in the running.

Thanks!

[canonloader]

I bought the CC and it's not going to work with my Bigma, too big. If you decide you want one, I'll send you mine for $100.

[Tom_is_Learning]

Thanks Mitch... but if it won't work for your Bigma, it wouldn't work for my Bigmos :D Did you find anything that DOES work?

[canonloader]

Yes, I'm going to buy a 70-200/4. LOL

I also wanted my CC for my bike rides. I built an Electric bike and can get into the wetlands with ease now, and all over town without peddling if I want to. But, the roads are so damn bumpy here that I don't want to pack the camera and lens around on it where the vibrations will damage it.

[ducklabdad]

REally disappointed to hear that you felt the CC and Bigma did not work well togather, I was hoping you were going to love it.

I was really hoping that it would be the ticket. Did the weight of the Bigma still just pull too much, is there any way you think it would work??

[canonloader]

Others have used it with the Bigma, but it's a 4 pound lens and it's big. Also, I am using a 1D MkIII. Overall, the weight was not that excessive, but the camera and lens together felt like I had a spare leg growing out of my chest. Just too much in the way to ride comfortably. Also, the angle thing was on the tripod shoe, not the camera mount. I don't want a 4 pound lens hanging off the mounting ring.

[DDCSD]

Interesting. I carried my Bigmos on my MkIIn regularly and now carry my 120-300 f/2.8 on my MkIIn and MkIII with little worry. I had no worries riding around Western South Dakota on an ATV with the MkIIn and Bigmos combo.

I've personally never had any worries about the mount, but I can understand the worry. POTN user katodog had a great solution for that:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=8666803#post8666803

[canonloader]

I saw his fix and that would work. In fact, I am a little surprised some company hasn't come up with something more professional, maybe even on a dovetail rail system so you could balance the whole thing better, from one point on the rail. I have something similar in the back of my mind, but waiting for my brother to get the drillpress set up. :)

[DDCSD]

I saw his fix and that would work. In fact, I am a little surprised some company hasn't come up with something more professional, maybe even on a dovetail rail system so you could balance the whole thing better, from one point on the rail. I have something similar in the back of my mind, but waiting for my brother to get the drillpress set up. :)


Eagerly awaiting the result! :lol:

I think the biggest problem is that every lens and camera combo would be a little different and might not line up well without basically making every bar custom-fit.

[canonloader]

I think the biggest problem is that every lens and camera combo would be a little different and might not line up well without basically making every bar custom-fit.
We went to the moon 41 years ago next month. I'm sure someone could come up with an adaptive kit that would work at least as well as the one Katadog made. ;)

[DDCSD]

We went to the moon 41 years ago next month. I'm sure someone could come up with an adaptive kit that would work at least as well as the one Katadog made. ;)


I'm sure someone could as well, I'm just not sure they could do it for a price that anyone would be willing to pay.

I would think it would be more practical for someone to make on for themselves, or find a welding shop that could make one up for them.