LOSMANDY 3-Leg Spider Dolly w/ Track Wheels

The Losmandy Spider Camera Dolly is the most portable professional camera dolly on the market. Combined with a piece of FlexTrak, the simple 3-Leg Spider converts your tripod into an inexpensive, extremely portable, tracking camera dolly. Add a fourth leg, and you can further accessorize it, as pictured here, to be a fully rideable camera dolly with adjustable center column, a seat that pivots 360 degrees around the column, foot platforms, and pushbar. Both the 3-Leg and 4-Leg version can work on traditional steel track, or on track made of pvc pipe, or on our award winning FlexTrak--a flexible track made of a special rubber compound that not only rolls up into a bundle for easy transport, but also allows you to make straight or curved dolly moves with almost no set-up time.

The rideable 4-Leg Dolly packs into three cases. The largest, which has a fold out handle and wheels, carries the base, the 4 wheels, the push bar assembly, and the foot platforms, and weighs 80 lbs. The Adjustable Column with its Top (either 100mm, 150mm, or Mitchell) goes into the second case which weighs 28 lbs. The Seat Assembly goes is in the third case and weighs 38 lbs. You can now have a rideable dolly system with 40 feet of flexible track and transport it in almost any vehicle.

And what makes the Losmandy camera dollies especially distinctive are three things: 1) the ability to upgrade a 3-Leg tripod dolly to become a fully rideable 4-Leg Dolly, or conversely, to be able to convert a 4-Leg back down to a 3-Leg if one needs to work alone; 2) the floating wheels on one side to accommodate the somewhat arbitrary alignment of the FlexTrak (see below and/or the FlexTrak page for more on this); and 3) the seat which pivots around the column. For a discussion of the advantages of a pivoting seat like ours, see the article "Pivoting Seat vs. Stationary Seat vs. No Seat" on our Learning Center Page.

Also, the Extended Leg Version of the Spider, when combined with floor wheels and the LWT Tripod, creates an easy and safe way to position heavy cameras and jib arms.