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I first saw your product
at the Christie Sports store in Fraser on a ski trip to Winter Park. I thought that if I ever went back to
using an SLR camera, your product would be pretty nifty. I purchased a Nikon D90, went back to Winter
Park and that store . . . and they no longer carried your product. I put the camera around my neck on that trip.
I didn't take many pictures.
This past July, we took a Boy Scout Venture Crew on a backpack trip ... in Montana.
I knew I couldn't put the camera around my neck and make it through the ten day trip. I surfed.
I checked Christie Sports. I eventually remembered the keyhole word and there you were.
I
love your product. I wore the Keyhole with my Millett backpack and never, ever knew that I had any weight in the
front of my pack. All I knew was that when the mood struck or something caught my eye, the Nikon was available.
I shot pictures without missing a beat on the trail. Because of your product, I was able to document the ten day
trip ... in over 1200 pictures - while "peaking" on a number of fabulous mountains.
When I use your
product on the REI Flash day pack ... I am not quite as deliriously happy. I am a small person - five feet and
a hundred pounds. I'm also pretty creative and crafty, so I understand why I'm less pleased with your product
when I use the day pack. I wear the keyhole as small as it can possibly be, but it is still too big for my frame,
particularly on the less sturdy straps of a day pack. The clips are probably as small as you can get
them. If you could shrink the length of the webbing or shrink the size of the keyhole . . . even just an inch
. . . I'd be deliriously happy every time I used your product.
Don't get me wrong. I love
the Keyhole. I'm going to recommend it to everyone I know. If you ever find a way to make it a little
bit smaller, I'd buy the petite version. Thanks for a totally fabulous product. I can't
wait to use it in the winter when we go skiing. Karen
Thanks Karen. Christy Sports has the KEYHOLE stocked
again. Sorry they ran out. As for making a petite size, we made the plate as small as we could
without compromising its design features. May be suggest trying to tighten all the other straps on the pack and then
adjust the KEYHOLE straps. If we are able to make it smaller in the future, we will certainly do so - Backcountry Solutions.
This is Kevon, a very
happy keyhole-harness customer for more than two years now. I've posted pix of your product on the light-hiking
forum that I post on (Backcountryforum.com). I have shown the product to anyone who asks me about it on the trail
and believe this is the best harness on the market.
Received my keyhole camera strap and am pleased with the engineering and materials.
Just ordered a second strap for my wifes pack. Just so you know, your keyhole strap works quite well with an ArcTerex
Bora 95 backpack. In fact, the camera strap is an improvement over the ArcTerex breast strap (which) is
a little elastic and lets the pack shift a little too much, your strap firms up the feel of the pack. Job well done.
- Allen
Just used the Keyhole to photograph a folk
music festival here in Tucson. (I was the official photographer.) In two days, I photographed 41 acts on four stages. The
Keyhole, combined with my Mountainsmith Borealis AT backpack, saved a lot of wear and tear on my neck. - Martha R.
I received my keyhole harness just before I went to the Grand Canyon
for a two day hike to the bottom and back up. I wanted to bring my camera but I didn't want to have to deal with
it swinging and the weight of it on my neck. The keyhole thing seems like the perfect answer. Unfortunately,
just as we started the hike, I was still trying to get situated when I dropped my camera. It landed on the camera attachment
and broke the red knob. The red knob actually saved the camera (thank you very much). There was just enough of
the red knob left to hook into the keyhole and it worked. I love this dorky looking thing because it saved my neck,
my camera and it worked brilliantly! But the broken red knob ruined my shirt (a small price to pay) and I would like
to replace 'the red knob' if possible. Is it possible to replace the camera attachment without buying a whole
new harness? Martha P.
Thanks
for the great comments from Martha. Replacement knobs are available on our purchase page. - Backcountry Solutions
Just letting you know I love
this devise. I've hiked twice now where we had to rock climb, and it has worked perfectly staying in place -
Penney
A friend
sent me one of these as a gift when I lived in Miami (last March), before I moved to Denver. I've used it on several
hiking trips, the most recent a segment of the CT last week. It is a fantastic thing! Before I got this thing,
I couldn't handle a camera banging on my chest by the strap, so I had it in my hand that often went "to sleep"
from holding it. (It isn't easy taking a quick shot with your fingers numb.)...
It truly is a great product
and I recommend it to everyone, including the people on my UL hiking forum...This has proven to
be the greatest invention since the hydration bladder (for thirsty hikers) or wag bag (for pooping climbers), except it's
for obsessed hiking photographers. It's a "local" Colorado product. - Kevon
The Keyhole worked absolutely
fabulously for us on our trip. We actually improved upon the setup by running the camera strap through one side of the backpack
strap, attaching it with a carbineer on the back side of the shoulder. I think it was even more secure, and there was no annoying
strap around the neck at all! ...I would love to see the Keyhole in a more neutral color - black or khaki? - Lynn
Lynn, we will add black to our product line in our next production
run - Backcountry Solutions
I am SO happy
I found your site! There simply is no comparable product on the market. I look forward to many happy
hours backpacking with my dSLR now. - Chris
Want to write and say thanks. Just got back from a week
of cross-country sking and snow shoeing, the strap was great,better that I hoped. - Ed
My Keyhole just arrived (without any
problems with customs) and today I performed a quick field test of the thing. I'm still getting used to it but it works. I tried some jumps around tree trunks etc.
and my camera stayed close to my body without dangling. The weight of the camera is no longer entirely on my neck.
In a couple of days I will go for a longer
trek. I'll report the results of a full day test. I hope I'm not going to miss a shot of wildlife this time. Thank you very much for you invention. Piotr
I received it yesterday and can’t wait to put
it to use. What a great product. Thank you so much. - Bruce
I certainly hope this works as good as your ad and website indicate. I’ve struggled
with hiking and snow shoeing with my camera bag attached to the waist belt of my backpack. One of my hiking buddies
gave me the article from the Rocky Mtn News last Friday when we went snow shoeing and I was tickled to see a camera “contraption”
was available. For several years I have checked with photography stores to see if they carried any special gear
and apparently they gave that up years ago. - Barb
My husband noticed your article in the Rocky mtn. (News) and show(ed) it to me. I thought what a great Valentine's
present! It's very frustrating at times while hiking and having to get your camera and I'm looking forward very
much to receiving the KEYHOLE. - Janice
FYI. I went
to (****** Camera shop) asking for such a holder. They never heard of one and anything like it. This was 3 days
ago. I know there is one made for binoculars and I was hoping a camera shop would have one for cameras. I was really disappointed
but three days later your product appeared in the Rocky Mtn News. I was really excited and ordered one right away. Thanks
for thinking and developing the product. - Ralph
I've been looking for quite some time and happened to come across your website last night. I backpack/hike
regularly and it's always a chore with the camera (DSLR) I'm heading back to the Grand Canyon in a
couple months and hopefully this will work out much better. - Brian
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