Compact, concise carrying of G sys?

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scottgee1

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How do you carry your G system? I use a Contax brown leather shoulder bag and have to believe you've come up with something more clever.

One of benefits of it, IMO, is the relatively small size of the lenses. That said, the G2 body ain't light so it requires something with some holding power.

Your thoughts?

TIA!/ScottGee1
 
I use an Billingham Hadley bag which holds the set as well as filters etc.

At times I also use the aluminium box supplied with the kit.
 
"aluminium box supplied with the kit" :confused:

You must have gotten the Deluxe Version! Mine came in bubble pack in a cardboard box. :eek:

Of course it was used . . . ;)

Thanks!/ScottGee1
 
The Domke f6 is perfect. get the 4 part insert, so you can keep up to 4 lenses, and the camera w/ lens attaches goes in the void outside of the insert. I conforms nicely and feels like you are carrying air.
 
I sling the camera over one shoulder and put some film and maybe another lens in a pocket. Done. I obviously don't carry the whole system around, just pick what I think I'll use that time.
 
I use this pretty small bag which was once intended for a Yashica FX-D with winder and 35-70. All you can see here fits into this bag.

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The pouch on the right behind the lenses has a belt loop and is made for two lenses with 46mm filter size. The 90 needs the hood reversed.
I use this when I go out with one body and feel the need for aditional lenses.
 
I use a small belt pouch for one body, and if need be a second very small one for a lens. For transport I have my film camera collection in one very small Pelican (G1, G2, M6, 7 lenses, space for more) similar in size to a briefcase.
 
I have a couple Pelican cases and like them very much indeed. I always feel like my gear is safest when in one of them.

Of course they're not the easiest to lug around . . .

Thanks!/ScottGee1
 
If I'm working then the G2 and lenses share the day-bag...along with all the batteries, tapes and other bits that go with a location TV shoot.
If I'm just shooting for leisure - as I have been for the last few weeks - then I have a small sony camcorder bag inside my small Arc Teryx pack that protects the G2 bits alongside waterproofs, mobile phones etc.
That's the beauty of the G2 system - it's so small...my Nikon gear needs a bag all to its own - the 70-200 lens alone is bigger than the G2 and all lenses and TLA200 flash combined...

:)
 
I Use my G1 system in the System case if I'm not sure what I need its great as it holds the lot (G1/TLA200/21mm + Finder/28mm/35mm/45mm/90mm).
It does get a bit heavy for day to day use so I shoulder it with an OP/Tech SOS strap.
If I'm out with the body and a lens (not the 21 because of the finder) I have an OP/Tech pro strap to hold the body and Op/Tech made a neoprene case for the G + a lens.
Its a god send.
They take a bit of finding but they come up on Ebay a fair bit, cost about £20 (UK) and they are perfect.
 
As well as the bag and case I would carry the G2 and lens in an ever ready case I bought on Ebay some time ago.
 
Small Timbuk2 'messenger' bag...

Small Timbuk2 'messenger' bag...

Scott,

I use a small timbuk2 messenger bag with a domke insert (FA-230) that has three pouches in a line. Perfect size for the G1, flash, and a couple of lenses. (It also works great for my conpact OM-4 kit) :)

Jim Couch
 
Ha! Coincidentally, I too have an OM-4 kit and one of its virtues is compact size -- just like the Contax G!

Messenger bags usually seem too small, but that's the whole point, isn't it? I'll have to check out this timbuk2.

Thanks!/ScottGee1
 
I might as well explain my solution: I use the D-RES 50AW from Lowepro with an extra Lowepro hip belt. I do cross the shoulder belt over my right shoulder from left of my belly front to behind my right hip with the bag in my rear. It swings freely to the front along its belt.

I use it when walking, travelling (often with a small top backpack). I have changed film and or lenses with this bag on a foot wide fallen tree log across a raging creek below, This is very small as a bag goes, very light, very compact. 23 cm wide, 12.5 cm front to back and 15cm deep.

It carries my G2 with any one lens attached and 4 other G lenses: 16mm f/8, 21mm f/2.8, 28mm, 45mm, 90 mm; the TLA 200 flash. All lenses have hoods and UV filters and caps attached at all times for speed; a small brush, microcloth, string monopod, extra CR 2 batteries, extra lens caps, film, ..

I separate the inside into three compartments: 90mm right side back towards my body, upside down, fully mounted with filter, hood, caps (just comes in at 15 cm tall); in front of it is the 28mm lens above the flash. All of these have velcro soft dividers between them. On the left side I carry the Hologon and its finder, as well as the 21mm finder in their pouches in the back, close to my body. The Hologon 4X filter sits left front bottom in its pouch, accesible from the center of the bag. On top of it the 21 or 28mm lenses, whichever. The 21, 28, 45 lenses all have about the same size with their hoods on and can be interchanged in bag position.

The camera (G2) sits with lens attached in the center between velcroed soft dividers. It sits face down with any lens (plus its hood) of focal length exceeding 20mm. I can keep one finder on the hot shoe at all times. If I keep the Hologon on the camera, it slides right intro the space vertically with its finder on.

I wish the bag was maybe 1cm larger in each of its three dimensions, but i have not found a 25cm by 14cm by 16cm bag anywhere and this fits perfectly small, snug, safe.

This configuration takes a few small vecro pads from Lowepro which Maury Cohen send me free of charge when I requested them from Lowepro.

The messenger bags mentioned above are soooo big, though they may be useful. They are tooooo biiiig for me and my taste and the way I work.
 
For the fancy-schmancy, the leather Hasselblad bag for their X-pan is a perfect fit for 1 body w/ lens, 2 other lenses, and a flash. I have one but think it just shouts 'wealthy', which I'm not. I often use Domke's F-803, looks like a briefcase of sorts, holds my Leica M6 w/ 50, the G2 w/ 45, and either the 75(Leica) or 90(Contax). Doesn't look like a camera bag, hangs on the shoulder nicely, the canvas nice and sturdy.
 
Makes sense to me. The parabolic reflector and the Zeiss optics. Bet you get really nice saturation and smooth skin tones.

Didn't even know that Cullman makes bags! This is turning into an educational experience!

:D/ScottGee1
 
scottgee1 said:
Makes sense to me. The parabolic reflector and the Zeiss optics. Bet you get really nice saturation and smooth skin tones.

Didn't even know that Cullman makes bags! This is turning into an educational experience!

:D/ScottGee1
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I have a Cullmann Mojito Rucksack, it's called after the longdrink I think. They had a bag called Caipirinha as well :)
 
conurus said:
Sorry my mistake!!! It was a Rowi, not a Cullmann... I am so mixed up with German companies...:bang:
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LOL!!

Are you sure it wasn't Leica? Oh, are they still a German company? :confused:
;)

Actually, I took your suggestion a couple weeks ago and found out Cullman does indeed make bags though they're not offered in the U.S.:

http://www.cullmann-foto.de/en/products/bags/index.htm

Now I'm off to check Rowi . . . or is it Leica? :D

Thanks!/ScottGee1
 
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