SimonSawSunlight
Simon Fabel
I don't know what a "european shoulder bag" is exactly, but I voted for it. I'm another of those silly billingham hadley pro believers.
If your camera bag doesn't look like a camera bag, what does it look like?
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Soothsayerman
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Lowepro Slingshot 202. Looks like a camera bag and it is a camera bag. I love it. It's easy to sling around your chest and change out lenses if you need to and holds all I need. It also protects my gear if I get caught in the rain or if I drop the bag, plus it is very comfortable to carry and not too big.
Dante_Stella
Rex canum cattorumque
This has been a very interesting exercise in semantics and semiotics.
Aside from the Seinfeld joke (i.e., "European shoulder bag" being used to sell a handbag to an American male), I will point out that in at least two regions in Italy, the same word (borsa) is used for a backpack, a woman's purse, and a camera bag. There are, of course, more specific terms available in the standard language for each of those things, but the regional variants often dispense with such fine distinctions.
I have used many, many things to carry cameras, mostly coat pockets. My favorite other container (other than the vinyl Sundown beach bag) was the velveteen bag that Crown Royal comes in. Fits a Fuji folder perfectly. The 4x6" (10x15cm) zip-close plastic bags sold at office supply stores make excellent dust-proof containers for the GR Digital. At one point, I had an Israeli map case that looks like a black Domke (and actually worked better than one) - held two Hexars and a GA645.
But what I miss most is the old-school hard case - like my father's old "ALPS" bag from Japan. Hard black leather, curved slightly to sit at your hip when on its shoulder strap, with a hard flip-up lid. This thing would never require digging or sticking your hand through a zippered slot to get at things. It's all there. And in the 1970s, you would have been a man's man, able to repel attackers.
I think that if people ever wear suits to work again, the briefcase will come back. Bags with shoulder straps do tremendous damage to tailored, dry-clean-only clothes.
Dante
Aside from the Seinfeld joke (i.e., "European shoulder bag" being used to sell a handbag to an American male), I will point out that in at least two regions in Italy, the same word (borsa) is used for a backpack, a woman's purse, and a camera bag. There are, of course, more specific terms available in the standard language for each of those things, but the regional variants often dispense with such fine distinctions.
I have used many, many things to carry cameras, mostly coat pockets. My favorite other container (other than the vinyl Sundown beach bag) was the velveteen bag that Crown Royal comes in. Fits a Fuji folder perfectly. The 4x6" (10x15cm) zip-close plastic bags sold at office supply stores make excellent dust-proof containers for the GR Digital. At one point, I had an Israeli map case that looks like a black Domke (and actually worked better than one) - held two Hexars and a GA645.
But what I miss most is the old-school hard case - like my father's old "ALPS" bag from Japan. Hard black leather, curved slightly to sit at your hip when on its shoulder strap, with a hard flip-up lid. This thing would never require digging or sticking your hand through a zippered slot to get at things. It's all there. And in the 1970s, you would have been a man's man, able to repel attackers.
I think that if people ever wear suits to work again, the briefcase will come back. Bags with shoulder straps do tremendous damage to tailored, dry-clean-only clothes.
Dante
iamzip
Ambitious, but rubbish
Surplus German military bread bag.
http://igoco.com/index.php/german-bread-bag.html
My other camera bag, given to me by Pitxu, looks like a camera bag.
http://igoco.com/index.php/german-bread-bag.html
My other camera bag, given to me by Pitxu, looks like a camera bag.
KenR
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Couierware bag for me. Pick your size from small to huge. In NYC half the people are carrying similar messenger type bags, so that it doesn't stand out.
porktaco
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Steve Bellayr
Veteran
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/40341?feat=506329-GN2
In black. Interior has Domke dividers.
In black. Interior has Domke dividers.
arpy
Member
LOL
For the M system a cheap unomat-made "European shoulder bag" 😛 with a removable padded insert. It's rather small (exterior 23x21x14cm including a front pocket), does not "scream camera bag", is not much elegant, but I find it practical for daily carrying. For a longer walk I sometimes just put its insert into a standard backpack and I am ready to go. 😎
And for the DSLR (+ of course the film stuff smuggled in as well) the Lowepro Fastpack 100, IMO the best compromise between the standard backpacks and these things like Slingshot. When hiking it sits comfortable on both shoulders but when I shift it to my waist/chest - the fast access to the gear is possible, that all without the necessity of putting the bag on the ground.
For the M system a cheap unomat-made "European shoulder bag" 😛 with a removable padded insert. It's rather small (exterior 23x21x14cm including a front pocket), does not "scream camera bag", is not much elegant, but I find it practical for daily carrying. For a longer walk I sometimes just put its insert into a standard backpack and I am ready to go. 😎
And for the DSLR (+ of course the film stuff smuggled in as well) the Lowepro Fastpack 100, IMO the best compromise between the standard backpacks and these things like Slingshot. When hiking it sits comfortable on both shoulders but when I shift it to my waist/chest - the fast access to the gear is possible, that all without the necessity of putting the bag on the ground.
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kdemas
Enjoy Life.
I got a nice little Crumpler "Five Million Dollar Home" bag from a fellow RFFer for a small carry-around bag and I really have grown to really like it. Problem...it's definitely reminding me of a Murse.
For some reason my Domke 803's just don't scream Murse like the Crumpler. Oh well, it probably let's me get in touch with my feminine side ;-)
For some reason my Domke 803's just don't scream Murse like the Crumpler. Oh well, it probably let's me get in touch with my feminine side ;-)
alistair.o
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While your 'on the line to her' could you just check to see if 'she' has as much trouble with the hard plastic top strip as I do? or is the pelvic area different? Just a thought....
Al
will-i_am
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snoop camera messenger bag from timbuk2 looks like messenger bag as it is one that they just added an insert to, it does pretty well.
carlb
Established
Easily fixed. Just carefully cut the underside of the flap at one end, pull the plastic strip out and seal up with a bit of ordinary woodworking glue (the water soluble type).
Makes carrying a great bag very comfortable
TennesseJones
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Forgive me for possible thread hijacking, but what sort of bag would people suggest to carry a small camera (fm2 or leica) plus a macbook laptop plus bits and bobs? I'd like something I can use as carry on for aircraft and then also day to day...
W
wlewisiii
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Take a look at this. It's from the same people that make my shoulder bag.
http://www.maxpedition.com/store/pc/MPB-Multi-Purpose-Bag-13p62.htm
William
TennesseJones
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thanks william, will have a look...
porktaco
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how much bits and bobs?
TennesseJones
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hello porktaco, sorry just saw this.
just film, notebook and pens for writing that sort of thing.
so really one laptop and two small cameras for travel, and then to be able to use it as a daily bag with less stuff in it. saw this domke but fiercely expensive, wonder how well it lasts.
http://www.domkebags.co.uk/#/domke-f-833-large-photo/4547050209
just film, notebook and pens for writing that sort of thing.
so really one laptop and two small cameras for travel, and then to be able to use it as a daily bag with less stuff in it. saw this domke but fiercely expensive, wonder how well it lasts.
http://www.domkebags.co.uk/#/domke-f-833-large-photo/4547050209
Ken Smith
Why yes Ma'am - it folds
My bag(s) have multi-use functions and therefore not specifically built to be a camera bag. One day they might tote a set of binocs, field guide, and a camera. Next day it might be a couple of fly boxes, some tippet spools, snacks for a day on a trout stream, and a camera. They double as carry on bags, haversacks, field bags, etc, etc. Never have they just held camera gear. My current favorite is a North Face Sport Hiker which can go from being a waist pack to being a shoulder strap bag. Can get a Perkeo, Bessa II, film, filters, and a G-10 in it or the Bessa II, film, and a couple of flyboxes and necessaries for the stream. If it's just photos only then the tripod straps on.
I think some of the best do-everything plus carry camera gear bagss are made buy these folks in Minnesota:
http://duluthpack.com/outdoor-gear/hunt-fish/shoulder-ammo-bags/double-shell-bags.html
And this small Mom & Pop company in Maine:
http://alderstream.wcha.org/bagstotesetc.html
Ken
I think some of the best do-everything plus carry camera gear bagss are made buy these folks in Minnesota:
http://duluthpack.com/outdoor-gear/hunt-fish/shoulder-ammo-bags/double-shell-bags.html
And this small Mom & Pop company in Maine:
http://alderstream.wcha.org/bagstotesetc.html
Ken
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netoga
Member
Funny thing. I use a Maxpedition left-hand model to carry my Fuji GF670 and my small pistol together.😎
jan normandale
Film is the other way
I run with one of these too. It's now about 7 yrs old and I'd like to wash it because it's looking disgusting. I've been in abandoned quarries, steel plants, battery plants, meat packing plants and it's got a lot of 'residue' on it. The user instructions are "do not wash" so I haven't. I'll put a shot up in due course.
