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A friend of mine (not into photography but knows I am a photographer) sent me a link and asked me what I think of it...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/friidesigns/trilens-change-lenses-in-the-blink-of-an-eye

I'm not 100% sure about it. If it was up to me, I wouldn't want it. I'm just one person, so I was wondering what some of you think of it, so I could let my friend know a general option from different photographers. After all, we all have our different options. For all I know there could be some photographers out there who would love it, and some out there who don't like the idea.
 
I'd say, that's what a bag is for. It's not the only piece of kit designed to make changes lenses 'easier' but I've personally never had any issues with just using a bag and switching between lenses.
 
Also, any photographer that genuinely needs to switch between lenses within seconds would more likely be using multiple bodies (e.g. shooting weddings with two prime lenses). For an average hobby photographer, I don't see how taking 20 seconds to change a lens using a bag is going to be deal breaker. Personally, I wouldn't want to have three lenses attached to my belt because they're just going to get in the way.
 
There's a cheaper and possibly slightly faster alternative, less clumsy, and holds more lenses. Get a suitable sized open top shoulder bag, put a firm flat bottom in it, glue to the bottom a few lens backend caps, and screw on the lenses you want to take out. To change lenses, take lens off camera, screw onto spare backend cap in bag, unscrew wanted lens, screw onto camera. Then, for two lenses only, there's Lowepro's lens exchange bag, which is almost as fast. The trouble is, when you need a fast lens change, most of the time the fastest lens change humanly possible is way too slow, in fact just extracting your camera from an already open fast draw holster style bag is too slow.

Of course a lot of the time the need to change lenses quickly is only because you're a lens snob who can't bear the idea of fitting one of those nasty wide range zooms like Tamron's excellent 16-300mm. Of course the image quality is inferior to the two or three f2.8 zooms you have which cover the same range, but few are going to be able to see the difference on less than an A2 print.
 
A friend showed me this on Facebook a few weeks ago and I couldn't see the point of it TBH. Seemed to be being shared around Facebook quite a bit though...
 
Son_of_Thor said:
A friend showed me this on Facebook a few weeks ago and I couldn't see the point of it TBH. Seemed to be being shared around Facebook quite a bit though...
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I would image that those sharing this all over Facebook are not really photographers, whether experienced amateurs or professionals, but more like just people who thinks it's cool to have a DSLR, and most likely beginners who haven't yet built up enough experience in using photo equipment, changing lenses, and camera bags. Just a thought.
 
Either this is the second attempt to float this product, or it's been floating around for a couple of years going nowhere because I'm sure I've seen this (or something very similar) before.

Looks less practical than either two bodies with two lenses and a Holdfast style strap system, or a belt/web with two or three tactical-style pouches.
 
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