how do you store your gear?

[2REP]

I leave them in my camera bag ... with a dehumid sachet

 

[Ash]

Well I have one RF with collapsible lens in my bag (small courier or indie style "manbag"), 2 RF's on the shelf in the dining room looking pretty - currently the 10x8 camera is on the shelf above with a few lenses. Upstairs theres my Deck stand (Numark TT1650's with DM100 mixer? can't remember now) and on the lower shelf I have a camera bag with old Minolta MD lenses and my Cokin filters, next to that is 2 TLR's and a Zenit, at the back theres a tripod and a fed-4. Oh, and at the foot of the bed theres my half-plate camera.

And in the fridge is all the film... Basically all the camera gear is scattered around the house. It's meant to all be on the lower shelf of the deck stand.

 

[peter_n]

In a locked filing cabinet. One camera and lens in my briefcase every day.

 

[VictorM.]

On shelves, in bags, in boxes. But by weight and by the space they take up, cameras are a distant second to photo books.

 

[MinorTones]

An FED 2 and Zorki 4 along with my Bessa R sit on a bookshelf looking nice.

My M6 is with me at most times in a Tamrac bag, sometimes the bessa makes it off the shelf with my 90/4 Elmar.

I do have a little moisture packet thing in my bag, not sure how much it does though. Do those things have a shelf life?

-Mitch

 

[chug]

I just chuck it on the couch and hope for the best. Built like tanks these fancy cameras!

 

[clarence]

I'm back in Singapore, the land of 99% humidity (it's an island just above the equator), and my stay is far too short to purchase a dry box for, so I've currently stuffed my important lenses into a few airtight plastic boxes with some silica gel in them.

Does anyone know how to dehydrate silica gel packets using an oven?

Clarence

 

[raid]

I took the wall closet in one of the children's rooms. I store in it about 15-20 camera bags with lenses and cameras. I have in the closet a very large Silica gel metal container that I recharge in the oven every month or so. It has an indicator showing absorption of humidity. I also have on a book shelf a few lenses and camera that I want to use these days.

Raid

 

[VinceC]

I'm ashamed to admit that the SP and new S3 are thrown on top of each other in the main compartment of a small canvas Domke bag in the front hall closet while a handful of lenses have been thrown into the smaller compartment. The cameras and lenses I don't use as much sit on a bookshelf in the den/study/computer room.

 

[sbug]

Like many here, in a camera bag, on a shelf, loaded with film.

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

outside in a Timbuk2 messenger bag

 

[JohnL]

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Does anyone know how to dehydrate silica gel packets using an oven?
Clarence

I dehydrate Pelican silica gel little metal bricks according to the instructions: 3 hours or so at 300 F. I don't know if this can be done with "packets" - it would depend what they are made from. HTH

 

[JohnL]

I keep digital cameras, unloaded film cameras and lenses in a cupboard that's heated with 2 x 40watt 240volt lightbulbs running at 110volts. This reduces the humidity to the point where I don't think fungus is an issue -- so far, so good, anyway. There is some ventilation through the badly-fitting doors. Film cameras that are loaded go with me in their bag(s). Empty bags are kept dry with the little Pelican silica gel bricks.

 

[kshapero]

The Gear

The Gear

Bessa is in my ballistic tote bag (makes a great camera bag but looks like a nothing shoulder bag). My old Nikkormat in an old nikon bag in the closet (doors have slats to receive the vital AC). My pentax could be anywhere, don't recall off hand.:bang:

 

[venchka]

Learned too late...

Learned too late...

Camera gear that's not in current use is placed in plastic bags secured by rubber bands, against the encroachment of dust, and placed on a closet shelf. In-use gear is more variously located in camera bags or in the safe. 🙂

I learned the hard way, thankfully before the damage was irreversable, how NOT to treat a camera lens. I put a nice Komura 28mm lens in it's leather case, in an O-ring sealed metal box, on a shelf, in a closet, in NEW ORLEANS and left it there for far too long. :bang: It was dust free alright. The interior was the perfect fungus greenhouse. Thank goodness a $50 CLA put it right again. Now everything is out in the open. Dust blows off. Fungus can be forever.

Fresh air, sunlight and frequent use will make your gear happy.

 

[back alley]

living on a prairie i normally don't even think in terms of fungus.
more frostbite than fungus.
it is so dry here that if you have nice wood furniture or cupboard doors you have to oil them.

i used to store all the canon gear in an aluminum case that had cut to fit my gear foam in it.
now i use my camera bags for it all and just move things about as i want/need for a particular adventure.
seems to work ok so far.

 

[NIKON KIU]

camera bags?
aluminum cases?
in a drawer?

In my case, all of the above plus cabinet,closet,under the bed,office....
:bang:
Kiu

 

[back alley]

In my case, all of the above plus cabinet,closet,under the bed,office....
:bang:
Kiu

might be time for a yard sale...😉

 

[jan normandale]

ziploc bags in drawers. I think I should show a picture so you understand how scary my storage system is......

 

[lmd91343]

I live in Los Angeles. I don't worry about humidity. I worry about earthquakes! I keep a couple of non working FED1 (1935/36) cameras out on display in a glass case. I keep the rest in a short locked steel cabinet. I've been through two big earthquakes ('71 and '94) living VERY CLOSE to the epicenter. The lock is because my home was burglarized in 1969 and I lost a Pentax SLR.

However I always have one camera out loaded with film.