35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
Mind over matter. At 57 (June 20) I refuse to grow up.
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drewbarb
picnic like it's 1999
If you're one of those "just a camera over my shoulder" folks, but want a small pouch to hold your camera in transit, check out the Delsey GoPix 20. It's a perfect carry pouch for a body and lens. I rarely carry it while shooting; but it's very often where my camera lives when it's not working.
It's lightly padded, has a zip top on it's one pocket; loops on the back allow you to put it on a belt, and it has a thin shoulder strap that attaches with clips- that's it. I can cram a surprising amount of gear in this thing. An M body and a 50 DR, maybe shove in a CV 21 Skopar, and a small meter, and shove this in my carry on when I fly.
It's lightly padded, has a zip top on it's one pocket; loops on the back allow you to put it on a belt, and it has a thin shoulder strap that attaches with clips- that's it. I can cram a surprising amount of gear in this thing. An M body and a 50 DR, maybe shove in a CV 21 Skopar, and a small meter, and shove this in my carry on when I fly.
Tuolumne
Veteran
I have almost every bag made. Most of them don't work for me. My current favorite is a National Geographic small canvas shoulder bag. My current small kit: Lumix G1, kit lens, 45-200mm tele lens and Leica Summarit 75mm and 50mm Summicron all fit handily in it. With the light camera kit and light bag, it's easy for me to go all day, and I am not that athletic anymore. After using numerous camera bags, I discovered that the weight of many bags is a non-trivial issue. Hence, I now tend to eschew those bags in favor of smaller lighter ones.
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kshapero
South Florida Man
The “Evans Walker" Bag
The “Evans Walker" Bag
If it doesn't fit into this bag then it doesn't go on the trip:
The “Evans Walker" Bag
If it doesn't fit into this bag then it doesn't go on the trip:
rbiemer
Unabashed Amateur
Four times a year I carry all my stuff from where I live to where I work--I maintain two residences and live one about ten months and the other about two--and so far have been using some store brand shoulder bag. Not a good solution, I am going to get a large Pelican case for the trips back and forth. Once I'm here, I rarely use any bag. Usually just carry the camera by its strap over my shoulder and the other stuff in my pocket(s). Typically that means one other lens and its hood, 3 or 4 rolls of film, and occasionally a few filters.
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kuvvy
Well-known
My 'flight bag' is usually my Billingham Hadley, think it's the smaller one. Holds my gear plus i-pod, book, passport etc then once at the hotel I tranfer the gear I want to use to something smaller. Used to be Domke 5xb but next time it will the Bare Bones Bag.
Dogman
Veteran
I seldom fly anywhere so I can take as much equipment as I want when I travel by auto. But I don't carry much anymore. A single Canon DSLR has replaced two Canon film bodies and a big bag of Pentax medium format equipment. I'm still debating on leaving the M6's at home on my next trip and just using a Canon G10 and a tiny little Lumix FX37 that I've grown particularly fond of. Even when I carried 4-5 bags of equipment, I got to where I seldom used a bag when shooting, wearing my equipment in a photo vest instead. The only bags I've found that functioned well while shooting is a Billingham Pro-Hadley I used with the Leicas and a cheap, unbranded messenger bag with a Domke satchel insert stuffed inside.
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Tom H
Bags? Unless it's for photographs close to where I start walking, I don't even take my small Billingham 225 because there's nothing worse than being overladen when moving briskly. I just take a small amateur Photax shoulder bag and squeeze in a Nikon F2 or F3HP with 35/1.4 mounted plus a 105/2.5 tucked on top in a Nikon no.61 leather drawstring pouch. If it's night time it will be the same set up but maybe a Noct instead of the other two lenses. The sort of photography I do doesn't normally need a tripod so even the Leitz table tripod gets left out of this set-up. I can squeeze in the Sekonic meter and 3 or 4 rolls of film with extras in my pockets if needed. Digging around usually throws up some spare button cells.
If it's a case of shorter distances, e.g. from a coach, then it is the Billingham 225, with a Leica M system (2 bodies with lenses plus maybe 2 or 3 spare lenses) and the small but stable Leitz table tripod. Maybe a small SF20 fixed head flash for receptions and that sort of thing. Film and some cells.
Why F3 for minimal kit but M cameras for the fuller system? i prefer the speed of handling an M but am fed up with the number of times rangefinder and even lens have gone out of alignment in the course of travel. The Nikons have had far fewer trips to the repair shop for adjustment, so I'm happier to let them take the jolts of travel in a lighter weight case and somehow I feel more confident they will keep working.
One Nikon with two 52mm thread lenses isn't heavy, but two bodies and four or five lenses are definitely more manageable if it's the compact M system.
And I like the excuse to use each of the systems!
HTH,
Tom
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If it's a case of shorter distances, e.g. from a coach, then it is the Billingham 225, with a Leica M system (2 bodies with lenses plus maybe 2 or 3 spare lenses) and the small but stable Leitz table tripod. Maybe a small SF20 fixed head flash for receptions and that sort of thing. Film and some cells.
Why F3 for minimal kit but M cameras for the fuller system? i prefer the speed of handling an M but am fed up with the number of times rangefinder and even lens have gone out of alignment in the course of travel. The Nikons have had far fewer trips to the repair shop for adjustment, so I'm happier to let them take the jolts of travel in a lighter weight case and somehow I feel more confident they will keep working.
One Nikon with two 52mm thread lenses isn't heavy, but two bodies and four or five lenses are definitely more manageable if it's the compact M system.
And I like the excuse to use each of the systems!
HTH,
Tom
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notturtle
Well-known
domke F1. If I have more RF gear than I can fit in that then i remove things until they do fit. Any more than that and I will be losing more on maneuverability than I will gain from having more kit. I like to travel light. It opens doors.