Camera Bag Suggestions

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I'm looking for a camera bag that can hold two M bodies with lenses, but doesn't scream "I'm carrying a camera!

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
 
I'll go w/my standard recommendation of any non-camera bag (briefcase, manpurse, messenger bag, backpack, etc.) that you like & fits your lifestyle that's big enough to allow a camera/photo insert.

Personally, I like the Chrome bike messenger bags.
 
I use a beat up LL Bean Bag with a domke fxb as an insert for my cameras, then the rest of the bag acts as film storage, chargers, flash, notebook, pens, bla bla bla.

The fxb is a little too small to be manly enough for me (it's a little purse-like) and it's just a bit too small anyway for carrying around what I need, but it makes for a darn nice insert into any non-camera bag.

I also, from time to time, use an orvis bookbag/laptop bag with the same domke bag as an insert.

Neither bag looks anything like a camera bag
 
Google KAKADU shoulder bag, and throw in a couple of Domke inserts...

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BBB is pretty low key, though I think black is a ridiculous colour for a camera bag -- no offense Stephen! Personally, I like Domke bags, and the satchel series does not scream camera.
 
Another vote for the Kakadu. I just received mine and I like it a lot...but I use padded pouches to protect the gear.

~ Hibbs
 
Domke f 5 bag

Domke f 5 bag

I can put one body with a lens attached 4 lenses with there own compartments and a body without a lens no problem small flash and film in front pocket
 
I looked at all of them, and I like all your suggestions :)
The Kakadu is nice. Domke inserts...I need that. Where to buy it?
 
Army surplus can be a great source of assorted bags. Gas mask bags used to be quite popular with photographers thirty or forty years ago. They sold for about $2.95 back then as the war in Vietnam was winding down. It's been years since I've been in a surplus store but there's one about 10 miles from here. I should check it out again.

Olive drab bags aren't the most elegant looking thing to carry when you're wearing suit and tie though, and they're not padded.
 
mark-b said:
I looked at all of them, and I like all your suggestions :)
The Kakadu is nice. Domke inserts...I need that. Where to buy it?
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You can buy Domke inserts at the larger camera stores like B&H Photo or Adorama. There are several kinds. An RF body + lens fits nicely into the one-compartment type -- see below.



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billingham makes the leica combination bag, which is specifically made to hold two bodies and extras. it even holds a pentax 67 and 200mm, if you take it all apart.
 
I don't understand all this bag fetishism.

The bag becomes nothing but an outward extension of personality. It's jewelry even more so than the cameras are, having little to do with the carrying of cameras.

I think a lot of people like putting the "right" camera into the "proper" bag, and packing and unpacking them, and marching around with them, more than actually taking pictures.

People want to accessorize with appropriate fetish totems. They like the idea of having the proper "kit" which matches their image of themselves as an "artiste".

How about a Birkin bag?
 
BBB (figital revolution) seems to be an option that many here favour, I'm tempted myself, BAS, BAS, BAS ....;).
 
Ahmed, no need to be a sissy! Heaven forbid, NO! Just get a custom bag in a nice pretty floral print, perhaps a bit of lace trim, with big letters saying PINK. If anybody makes any nasty comments about it just say "Yeah, and I had to beat the crap out of her to get the dang bag!"
 
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