Luxury Camera Bags by Thorsten von Overgaard

[karateisland]

FWIW, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust offers a donation scheme where you can foster a specific baby elephant that has been orphaned (often by poaching). It's $50/yr (enough for a writer like me to afford) and they appear to do quite good work. Plus, their Instagram account has been a bright spot for me in an otherwise dour year.

If you want to do something about it:

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp?G=

and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dswt/?hl=en

 

[Larry Cloetta]

FWIW, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust offers a donation scheme where you can foster a specific baby elephant that has been orphaned (often by poaching). It's $50/yr (enough for a writer like me to afford) and they appear to do quite good work. Plus, their Instagram account has been a bright spot for me in an otherwise dour year.

If you want to do something about it:

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp?G=

and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dswt/?hl=en

Thank you.

 

[zuiko85]

My currently most used camera bag cost me new $30. It is highly functional and I love using it for my Leica equipment in my travels.

Please share where you obtained your bag Raid, just curious what you use.

 

[raid]

Sure. Here it is:

It is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/BESTEK-Waterproof-Messenger-Shoulder-Shockproof/dp/B00L22FAS2

I have used it now in several trips to Europe. It has many pockets, and nobody would suspect two Leica M bodies or Hasselblad SWC or ....
I add two garbage bags inside the bag for protection from a sudden rain storm.

BESTEK Waterproof Canvas DSLR Camera Shoulder Bag with Shockproof Insert - Khaki
4.3 out of 5 stars 783 customer reviews | 63 answered questions
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Color: Khaki
BESTEK waterproof Canvas dslr slr camera canvas shoulder bag backpack rucksack bag: great compartments for various things, DSLR camera, 2 lenses, flash, phone, chargers, tablet and other camera accessories.
Canvas material, durable and waterproof to protect your belongings from raining
Front iPad Tablet Magazine Pocket, 2 small button-down pockets & internal zipper pocket
Waterproof Canvas Bag with top flap and over one shoulder or cross-body strap for comfort on the go
Shockproof Padded Camera Insert allows you to repose or remove dividers to accommodate your gear

It is not a Louis Vuitton Bag 🙂 Other than cosmetics, please tell me what you do not like about such a camera bag.

 

[muser53]

So you're ok with making bags from the hides of endangered species? Judging someone who is doing something egregiously immoral is not being self-righteous. It is simply being a decent human being.

Chris, You should take up carpentry for you have hit the nail squarely on the head.

 

[sanmich]

"...the ideal product that fulfills all of your needs..."
I need my two hands free to shoot a camera, you genius.

 

[raid]

Why doesn't he offer a service to re-skin my Leica in elephant or crocodile hide to match the bag? It would be the ultimate social gaffe to open one of those bags and take out a camera that didn't have a matching skin. It wouldn't need much skin to do it. Maybe use a baby elephant or croc, from the same mother so the hides match.

This is a marketing fail.

I offer a $30 solution to it 🙂

 

[kiemchacsu]

Tacky and wrong... IMO. But most likely not illegal right?

Yeah. It's legal as he stated in his site.
I don't know why people here criticizing without even reading.

About crocodiles, they are farmed to take leather, in my country Vietnam.

 The sourcing of elephant skin is from elephants that died of natural causes, from governed reserves where the sale of skin goes into managing the reserve

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[karateisland]

 The sourcing of elephant skin is from elephants that died of natural causes, from governed reserves where the sale of skin goes into managing the reserve

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Fair enough, it's legal, but that doesn't necessarily simplify the issue, since the practice of selling elephant skins is also controversial. National Geographic published about it this past December:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/wildlife-watch-zimbabwe-elephant-skins-trade/

TL;DR: Some conservationists argue that the practice is harmless. Others argue that an increasing demand for elephant skin in luxury products may motivate poachers to start killing elephants for their skin instead.

 

[Emile de Leon]

Agreed, if you don't like his idea of camera bags, which was the topic here, say so. But leave his family out of it, personal attacks on his family has no place here or anywhere else.

Actually..when you have a public business..it really amounts to...you are the business..and the business is..you..for better or worse..
Someone told me this 25 years ago when I started my own business..I didn't believe them then..25 years later..I do now..
And while it is not good to judge another persons family in these terms..she is an intregral part of that business structure..a secondary face in it if you will..he promotes this in his vids and they are married..so they both profit from it..it really doesn't take a brainiac to figure out..this is not..the way to go..in 2018...skinning rare animal species that is..whether farmed..or not..esp if you have a public face ...

 

[raid]

I tried to steer the conversation to "cost". Oh well.

 

[helen.HH]

A number of RFF members have asked this Thread to be Closed

it is rather Unfortunate when One has to Close a Thread
Best to choose your words wisely
(Though I co admit I had a few good laughs)