Camera Bag Fetish...

[jaypolaski]

My carrying a bag is a beast of necessity. I walk with a cane and need my other hand for other things, so a bag (now a Domke F5xb) rides with me at all times. It keeps the camera du-jour and lens, my Holga (because you never know) my pocket model release briefcase (modeled on a leather 3x5 card holder) medication and glucose testing kit, along with some film and a vivitar 2800. It sounds like a lot, but it all fits rahter perfectly and lightly. With this setup I don't have to worry about much except walking. When it comes time to take ANY picture, being on a cane it requires thought, so the bag really isn't hindering anything.

 

[bmattock]

I use a camera bag because of the things which I put in it. Batteries, memory cards, lenses, flash, meter, remote trigger release, expo-disc, cell phone, car keys, etc. I keep the camera in it too, until I get to where I intend to shoot.

As to the bag itself, I find endless discussions of bags tedious and insipid, I'd sooner discuss my latest psoriasis scabs. Endless back-and-forth about things that cannot possibly matter in the least, which I more than half-suspect are for the net effect of demonstrating that one has ready capital or a high-limit credit card.

But I try to avoid telling people to duct tape their bag to their foreheads now. Joe says it's not nice.

 

[jaypolaski]

I'm not sure I totally agree with you. Discussion of the bag you select and why may give insight into a product that can fit your needs better than the item you have, or answer questions that keep a potential buyer on the cusp, and nothing is more honest than the review of a shooters time worn gear. While some may be slightly jaded from a love affair with the equipment itself, it's definitely more honest than the marketing hype companies force down our throats to make us spend our hard earned cash. In fact, my decision to get my Domke was shaped in no small part by the opinions and testimonials of the people here who use them every day. I am the kind of person that buys something to last a lifetime, and I feel that what everyone here has said about Domke products has convinced me that one of their bags is a worthwhile investment.

Oh, and what tape would you reccomend? 😉

 

[TheHub]

I've gone through a bunch of bags. I like small, over the shoulder ones that are easy to carry. I don't like carrying around a million things with me since I walk long distances on my photo walks. (like 6+ miles in an afternoon.)

Back when I used my S1 Pro (along with my S2 Pro, the best digital cameras I've ever used) I had a Polaroid bag that I got for $1.69 (seriously) at Ritz Camera in Boston. They had a clearance sale and a bunch of bags were piled up on the floor. It fit my S1 Pro, 35-70mm & 70-300mm lenses. That's all I needed at the time.

That bag eventually fell apart (surprise, surprise) so I went with a Nikon bag instead. That bag was better but the hot shoe on my dSLRs started riping into the fabric and it almost fell apart.

Now I'm using a National Geographic bag. It fits a 35mm & medium format camera nicely (usually a TLR, but lately folding cameras.) There's also plenty of space for my iPod, Zaurus and plenty of film 🙂

 

[bmattock]

I'm not sure I totally agree with you. Discussion of the bag you select and why may give insight into a product that can fit your needs better than the item you have, or answer questions that keep a potential buyer on the cusp, and nothing is more honest than the review of a shooters time worn gear.

Yes, true, but it seldom happens. What one gets is a rote recitation of one's favorite bag. So you end up with yet another thread with eleventy-dozen responses, all of which say the same thing - the bag *I* bought is the best, you should buy that.

While some may be slightly jaded from a love affair with the equipment itself, it's definitely more honest than the marketing hype companies force down our throats to make us spend our hard earned cash.

Don't deflect. If we're the jerks, the fact that there are bigger jerks out there is hardly cogent.

In fact, my decision to get my Domke was shaped in no small part by the opinions and testimonials of the people here who use them every day. I am the kind of person that buys something to last a lifetime, and I feel that what everyone here has said about Domke products has convinced me that one of their bags is a worthwhile investment.

Oh, and what tape would you reccomend? 😉

I guess whatever the rich people say is best. I am not equipped to think for myself, and I would wither under their disapproval if I bought the wrong thing.

Frankly, I buy my gaffer's tape at B&H, because they had a big roll of it sitting out when I visited there several years ago. Still have it, considerably smaller now, but it seems to work fine. No idea what brand it might be.

 

[back alley]

...I guess whatever the rich people say is best. I am not equipped to think for myself, and I would wither under their disapproval if I bought the wrong thing...

that's a loud of crap bill and you know it! this plce has never been about that and frankly i resent your cynical attitude being spewed about. if anything, it's you trying to show disapproval for others for talking about something in which you seem to have no sincere interest other than to mock and make others feel bad.
this is the road you travelled before your previously self inflicted hiatus.
but this time it will not be self inflicted if you persist in this negative crap.
joe

 

[bob cole]

Camera Bag Fetish

Camera Bag Fetish

I pick up camera bags all the time as part of camera collections I buy and discovered long ago that it's a big waste of time and money to list a camera bag on Ebay unless it has a well-known name, like Canon, Nikon, Leica, Domke, LowePro, etc., in which case it moves fast...

As a result, I either use no-name bags myself or just let them gather dust on the top shelf...

 

[bmattock]

that's a loud of crap bill and you know it! this plce has never been about that and frankly i resent your cynical attitude being spewed about. if anything, it's you trying to show disapproval for others for talking about something in which you seem to have no sincere interest other than to mock and make others feel bad.
this is the road you travelled before your previously self inflicted hiatus.
but this time it will not be self inflicted if you persist in this negative crap.
joe

You're right about my cynicism, Joe. I'm sorry.

 

[Matthew55000]

...I guess whatever the rich people say is best. I am not equipped to think for myself, and I would wither under their disapproval if I bought the wrong thing...

that's a loud of crap bill and you know it! this plce has never been about that and frankly i resent your cynical attitude being spewed about. if anything, it's you trying to show disapproval for others for talking about something in which you seem to have no sincere interest other than to mock and make others feel bad.
this is the road you travelled before your previously self inflicted hiatus.
but this time it will not be self inflicted if you persist in this negative crap.
joe

PLEASE learn to start using the QUOTING featuture - your posts where you 'quote' people without saying whose quote it is is VERY annoying.

 

[erikhaugsby]

No. To BackAlley who keeps 'quoting' people by just copying and pasting some lines from people posts without saying who posted it - and there is a perfectly fine quote function.

Where isn't Joe giving credit to those whom he quoted? I genuinely cannot find an instance in this thread...😕

 

[back alley]

PLEASE learn to start using the QUOTING featuture - your posts where you 'quote' people without saying whose quote it is is VERY annoying.

i'll quote however i please. after 40 posts here i think telling me what to do is annoying.

and as far as the quote was concerned the person who it was directed to understood it and that was what counted to me.

joe

 

[Matthew55000]

i'll quote however i please. after 40 posts here i think telling me what to do is annoying.

and as far as the quote was concerned the person who it was directed to understood it and that was what counted to me.

joe

How many posts does one have to have before you take suggestions seriously?
Quite an elitist attitude you got there. Considering that you're in the wrong.

 

[Matthew55000]

Where isn't Joe giving credit to those whom he quoted? I genuinely cannot find an instance in this thread...😕

Post #28 for example. What he does is to just copy and paste the first sentence from someone and then contines writing under it. Makes it almost impossible to understand when he is 'quoting' or not.

 

[back alley]

How many posts does one have to have before you take suggestions seriously?
Quite an elitist attitude you got there. Considering that you're in the wrong.

elitist? perhaps...though i like to see it as proven vs unproven.

time will tell.

joe