Neewer® 6 Pack Black Sand Bag Photography Studio Video Stage Film Saddlebag for Light Stands Boom Arms Tripods

These sandbags are so cute! I got the yellow and black striped set so they'd look like caution flags so everyone would know to be careful with the equipment around them. They can lay around my tripod legs and wrap around for better holding or hang from my tripod center column hook at the bottom. These really give the extra weight I need to keep everything from toppling over. Works with all kinds of materials and holds twenty pounds, easy. Double zippers, double layered for no spillage. Good set and they get the job done even with high winds.

I just got around to filling these. I opted for pea gravel as it is all and all cleaner and easier than sand. I wanted to review to say the design on these bags is really, really good. They are double zippered; the zippers go in opposite directions, so there's very little chance of leakage of whatever you fill them with. The material is very durable and the saddle design will work perfectly over any style of stand legs. Great product for a small price!

It's a sandbag. Need a sandbag? These saddle-style Neewer sandbags are probably adequate. Overall construction is good, material is excellent thickness, stitching is good, and the double zipper design is really bad. The inner zipper broke on one of my four bags even while very gently trying to zip it up, and getting the stupid inner zipper to work on the other three was a matter of having long, skinny fingers at my disposal. There's no allowance in the outer zipper to let you do it easily, but zipping up the inner zipper is a matter of flattening the bag out so the crappy garbage-tier zipper runs perfectly smoothly. (You may also need some kind of small prying tool to get the inner zipper pull someplace you can reach it to begin with.) If you're using inner Ziploc bags to respect your clients and corral your sand, comfortable capacity is around 10 pounds and maximum capacity is shy of 15 pounds. Anything beyond that and you're really fighting a losing battle with the badly-implemented double-zipper design. Forgoing the Ziplocs, you could probably cram in Neewer's listed 20 pounds, but these bags do leak and dust moderately. If you need something more durable, or that does a better job holding more sand/shot, or you want to strap your bags around your equipment, step up to Tenba's Heavy Bag Small (10#) or Heavy Bag Medium (20#). They make these cheapies look like an absolute bargain, but they have far more mounting options, can be used where these Neewer bags will hang too low, and they're in studios and rental houses the world 'round for a reason. But if you just need to pad out your G&E kit and are okay with lighter bags? It's hard to beat the value of the Neewer bags.

Durable Sturdiness Good size

We live in a very windy area of Arizona and were using fire dept sandbags to weight down our patio furniture from blowing over. Those sandbags not only leaked over time but were very unattractive. I found these bags on Amazon and they work perfectly for weighing down our patio furniture. They hold as much sand in each two pouches as a fire dept sandbag (half filled). They are durable canvas with a double zipper so they will not leak and a handle which makes it very easy to hang over the bar on the back of a patio chair or table. They work perfect and they look good and no mess. These chairs are not going anywhere with these bags in place. Would highly recommend them if you have similar issues with wind and patio furniture.

You will need 70-80lbs of sand. 1 50lb bag could possibly do it if you don't fill them up to the max. I put the sand in double-bagged gallon ziplock bags first before inserting into these canvas bags. It kind of looks like slipping bags of contraband into a hidden compartment, so you might want to do it where passers by won't wonder what you're doing. :-) Filling up this many bags (with the ziplocks) is time consuming...factor about an hour, plus the trip to your local hardware store to pick up the sand. The quality of the canvas and zippers isn't the best ever, but it's more than adequate for this application. The bags look clean and professional once filled....excellent investment for securing whatever gear you need to weigh down.

20180904: I've had these for about a week now, and used them twice. Basically, they are two zippered bags sewn together with a handle. They DO NOT come with anything in the bags. The bags are empty. You must provide some kind of weight to put in the bags. I used BB's. The first big, I simply poured in a container of BB's. The other bags, I put the BB's in plastic bags, and then put the plastic bags in the pouches. A container of BB's at WalMart fills the bag nicely. It appears that the intention is to place the bags over a leg on a light stand, but I don't find that works very well, mostly because there isn't anything on the lightstand or the bag to keep it from slipping off. The bags are too big to lay across the leg braces, so I put the neck of the light stand through the handle and let the pouches hang to either side. The handle doesn't work great this way, since it is parallel to the union of the two pouches, but it puts the weight in the center and keeps the stand supported... I have not used these in high wind yet. I'll report back after a windy day. The material seems of moderate thickness. Not extra-heavy, but heavy enough. The stitching seems sturdy enough. All in all, the bags are serviceable, and I've not found anything better thus far for weighting down light stands.

I've had these for a little while and have been using them for ballast on a camera jib. They don't get a lot of abuse, just tossed into a corner when I'm not using them. The set up I have is pretty static, so that might be why they hold us so well for me. Either way, I like the construction, they don't feel like they will break any time soon, but who knows. I filled each bag directly with sand, each weighs about 6 lbs right now. Since they're soft, when I take them off I just drop them on the floor and they stay where they landed. The double zipper keeps the sand and dust in even when I toss the bags on the ground. Pros: +Durable +Double sipper keeps sand and dust in tight, no leakage +Easy to fill and hang on a camera jib Cons: -None so far. I would recommend these if you need a set of sandbags for weighing down a tripod or as ballast for a camera jib.