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Socke
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Andy K said:I think you might mean Public Image Limited.
As allways, you're correct
Wrong thread, but I'm just listening to "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
Poll: Are you "man enough" to admit it?
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As allways, you're correct
Wrong thread, but I'm just listening to "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
PeterL
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When I lived in LA, most I ever carried was a wallet, an SLR on a neck strap (but wrapped around one shoulder&neck), then maybe a filter or some extra film. Lunch can be bought, same for water. Except in the Angeles Mountains, I did grab a bottle there, which got in the way.Fedzilla_Bob said:
Everything that I don't take with me doesn't bang against my body. So I just take less instead of having a bag bang against me with the combined weight of all the items in it
Having travelled light (30L backpack for 45 days in Japan, including the camera gear), I prefer not having taken an item with me over having it and being bothered by it. I'm getting over using filters and extra lenses, too. Less hassle = more photos.And anyway, *real* men should have scratches and black spots to show what they're worth !
Peter.
smiling gecko
pure dumb luck, my friend
...yes, and yes.
...got my first one travelling through mexico and central america decades ago. sort of "went native".
...i also carry a man purse-within-a-man purse when i travel to countries that require passport, visas, shot records, etc. it provides quick access when confronted by various military, militia, police, customs, governmental security types, etc, etc. it sure beats rooting through the shoulder bag with it's extra camera, lenses, film containers, batteries, mini clamps, med containers, pens & markers, immodium, lomotil, notepad & pen, phrase books & dictionary, foam earplugs - n'er leave home without 'em, small trash bag, tad of duct tape & clear tape, a couple of clothes pins, a few sizes of rubber bands, altoids, peppermints, chapstick ,sunscreen, sunglasses, safet pins, mini first aid kit, 'after bite' brand sting stick, etc in a smaller size domke f3... i like to think i don't travel light, but i travel well.
...sometimes i also wear a vest with pockets - not a strictly "photo vest".
...currently my favorite bag is made by 'dickies' - the work clothes folks. it' about 10''x 12'' and is my everyday choice for an extra camera & lens, little film, a small flash, a greatly pared down version of the travel kit described aove, with a little room left over for whatever. got a small crumpler awhile back and haven't really used it much yet. one in texas a & m burgundy and the other in photo-chic black.
hasta la vista, adieu, dazvidanya, fino al prossimo tempo, auf wiedersehen, and later y’all
kenneth
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"...patience and shuffle the cards" miguel cervantes
"nothing can be learned" herman hesse
"everybody knows everything" jack kerouac
"some memories are realities and better than anything" willa cather
" doo-wacka doo, wacka doo" roger miller
"we have met the enemy and they is us !" pogo (walt kelly)
“a mans cartilage is his fate” phillip roth
p.s. btw, one of my favorite rff "sign-offs" belongs to g-man... i recognize it as part of my life credo, and still try to embrace the spirit of it and practice it. however, as a somewhat/sort-of/restrained/in control (yeahh...) adrenalin junkie - there is no such thing as an "ex adrenalin junkie - i try to remember moderation. or as i'm fond of saying : "all things in moderation, especially moderation - sometimes".
pss. thanks to all for rummaging through today's ramble
...got my first one travelling through mexico and central america decades ago. sort of "went native".
...i also carry a man purse-within-a-man purse when i travel to countries that require passport, visas, shot records, etc. it provides quick access when confronted by various military, militia, police, customs, governmental security types, etc, etc. it sure beats rooting through the shoulder bag with it's extra camera, lenses, film containers, batteries, mini clamps, med containers, pens & markers, immodium, lomotil, notepad & pen, phrase books & dictionary, foam earplugs - n'er leave home without 'em, small trash bag, tad of duct tape & clear tape, a couple of clothes pins, a few sizes of rubber bands, altoids, peppermints, chapstick ,sunscreen, sunglasses, safet pins, mini first aid kit, 'after bite' brand sting stick, etc in a smaller size domke f3... i like to think i don't travel light, but i travel well.
...sometimes i also wear a vest with pockets - not a strictly "photo vest".
...currently my favorite bag is made by 'dickies' - the work clothes folks. it' about 10''x 12'' and is my everyday choice for an extra camera & lens, little film, a small flash, a greatly pared down version of the travel kit described aove, with a little room left over for whatever. got a small crumpler awhile back and haven't really used it much yet. one in texas a & m burgundy and the other in photo-chic black.
hasta la vista, adieu, dazvidanya, fino al prossimo tempo, auf wiedersehen, and later y’all
kenneth
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"...patience and shuffle the cards" miguel cervantes
"nothing can be learned" herman hesse
"everybody knows everything" jack kerouac
"some memories are realities and better than anything" willa cather
" doo-wacka doo, wacka doo" roger miller
"we have met the enemy and they is us !" pogo (walt kelly)
“a mans cartilage is his fate” phillip roth
p.s. btw, one of my favorite rff "sign-offs" belongs to g-man... i recognize it as part of my life credo, and still try to embrace the spirit of it and practice it. however, as a somewhat/sort-of/restrained/in control (yeahh...) adrenalin junkie - there is no such thing as an "ex adrenalin junkie - i try to remember moderation. or as i'm fond of saying : "all things in moderation, especially moderation - sometimes".
pss. thanks to all for rummaging through today's ramble
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mountainrivera
Established
Nostradamus predicted: "In the 21st century men will carry women's pocketbook and cry at movies". Oh how I long for the days when men were men and sheep were scared.
BillBingham2
Registered User
Yes, I am what I am, and that's a photographer!
Not trying to come out of the darkroom any time soon.....
B2 (;->
Not trying to come out of the darkroom any time soon.....
B2 (;->
dostacos
Dan
does the bag on the front of my wheelchair count?ray_g said:
dostacos
Dan
ya had me until EUROPEANenochRoot said:i struggled with this long and hard, but finally broke down and started carrying a medium sized messenger bag at all times. camera, sun glasses, wallet, other stuff...IT'S GREAT! why should the women have all the convenience!
IT'S EUROPEAN!!
enochRoot
a chymist of some repute
dostacos said:ya had me until EUROPEAN
hehehe. that was the big inside joke (from seinfeld) that my wife would say when i first started carrying it. i would infer that it seemed to function pretty much like a purse (even though it started off as a bag for my camera)...and she would just say "IT'S EUROPEAN" like jerry did
mine isn't black or leather or anything like that. it's camo and from gravis (the camo helps to negate the "purse factor").
gravis sidearm on ebay
they make great bags that are reasonably priced (especially a season or two old on ebay like this one). they make great shoes too!
kmack
do your job, then let go
Here is my purse, a made in Pakistan canvas bag that can be bought at any flea market. It had a lame "paratrooper" logo on the front so my wife sewed a piece of scrap cloth across the front and sewed some velcro inside for the insert.
In my bag right now is:
a small flash light
a BIC pen
a Sharpie
My Bessa R sporting an Industar 61.
A Jupiter 8 rolled up in a shop towel.
A CV 35/2.5 in a bakelite FSU lens case.
A yellow filter
A cable release
A plastic body cap
A small notebook
3 rolls of film
a Leatherman tool.
a knife I usually keep in my desk drawer at work
an Apple IBook
the iBook power adapter
a neck strap
half a dozen nicotine lozenges
a 124M usb data pen
current issue of the Linux Journal
a Domke insert.
small leather check book
In my bag right now is:
a small flash light
a BIC pen
a Sharpie
My Bessa R sporting an Industar 61.
A Jupiter 8 rolled up in a shop towel.
A CV 35/2.5 in a bakelite FSU lens case.
A yellow filter
A cable release
A plastic body cap
A small notebook
3 rolls of film
a Leatherman tool.
a knife I usually keep in my desk drawer at work
an Apple IBook
the iBook power adapter
a neck strap
half a dozen nicotine lozenges
a 124M usb data pen
current issue of the Linux Journal
a Domke insert.
small leather check book
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ch1
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Do you mean all these people are talking about is whether you carry a briefcase or bag of some type when you walk around town?
I cannot speak for elsewhere, but in the US, the word "purse" has a gender-connotation.
Not so such appelations as "bag" (including "shoulder bag"), "briefcase", "backpack", "attache" etc.
For goodness sakes! I have TONS of bags of all kinds, shapes and sizes.
For one thing, I live in a "CITY" and either walk or take public transportation. How else am I going to cart stuff back and forth?
You would be hard pressed, male or female, to walk around NYC or other cities without some kind of "bag"!
I cannot speak for elsewhere, but in the US, the word "purse" has a gender-connotation.
Not so such appelations as "bag" (including "shoulder bag"), "briefcase", "backpack", "attache" etc.
For goodness sakes! I have TONS of bags of all kinds, shapes and sizes.
For one thing, I live in a "CITY" and either walk or take public transportation. How else am I going to cart stuff back and forth?
You would be hard pressed, male or female, to walk around NYC or other cities without some kind of "bag"!
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tedwhite
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I've been using a beat to hell canvas bag into which I jammed some foam so two cameras wouldn't bang together. However, now I've gone upscale, jamming the foam divider into my Targus laptop shoulder bag. I bought it two years ago to use as a motorcycle courier bag. It's dark blue, actually nearly black, and it makes people think I'm carrying a laptop - which is kind of cool as it implies I have a job, which is a fun masquerade, as I have neither a laptop nor a job. It's also large: 16"X12" with compartments I have yet to discover. It also has a separate compartment designed, obviously, to hold documents. I use it to hold 8X10 prints to show either friends or clients.
I guess you couldn't call it a purse. But it does hold a Glock, for those special moments on the Mexican border. I'm not talking about the illegal immigrants - they're harmless and usually very nice folks thrown by desperate circumstances into harm's way - but rather the drug smugglers and people smugglers. They can take the fun out of birding on the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in a heartbeat.
I really covet my girlfriend/SO's cordovan leather handbag, but she won't hear of it.
I guess you couldn't call it a purse. But it does hold a Glock, for those special moments on the Mexican border. I'm not talking about the illegal immigrants - they're harmless and usually very nice folks thrown by desperate circumstances into harm's way - but rather the drug smugglers and people smugglers. They can take the fun out of birding on the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in a heartbeat.
I really covet my girlfriend/SO's cordovan leather handbag, but she won't hear of it.
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nwcanonman
Guest
Hey, the Isreali Paratrooper's canvas bag, (OD green with red para-wings) is the macho version of man purse. Cheap, holds everything and still manly - LOL.
WGAF?
WGAF?
ricpr
Rich
Ammo bag...now that's hilarious!! The wife was nice enough to get me a LowePro back pack. Looks like she didn't worry too much about price. The ggod thing is that it looks just like a regular backpack and camoflauges the expensive contents. I feel like I am in college still when I tote the bag around. Definitely not a man purse.
pesphoto
Veteran
Nope, nothing for me. Even when shooting, I just carry one camer and film in my pockets.
There is nothing wrong with it though.
There is nothing wrong with it though.
dreilly
Chillin' in Geneva
What would a female member of RFF make of this question?
If she uses such a contraption, would it still be a man-purse, or a woman-purse, or just a purse?
If she uses such a contraption, would it still be a man-purse, or a woman-purse, or just a purse?
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Wait, if I say "no" because I don't have one, what does that "mean"? Am I admitting I don't have one? No entiendo...
MelanieC
Well-known
This is very amusing.
(a) The Timbuk2 bag (of whatever type you want to call it) that I carry everywhere is considerably smaller than any of the bags you guys carry. It holds my M3, a small meter, an extra roll of film, my wallet and related items, pens, lip balm, small tube of hand lotion, tiny hairbrush, Daily Planner thingie, pocketknife, and whatever else I need to throw in there for the day.
If I need to carry anything else (like a laptop) this bag goes into a North Face daypack with the whatever else I am carrying.
(b) None of my friends consider what I carry to be a purse, per se, since it is a small messenger bag, but since it fulfills the role of a purse I call it my purse. Before I got this bag I used to carry an Eagle Creek field bag as my "purse," but it was too small for my Leica so I got the Timbuk2. I have a feeling some of your man purses look more purselike than my "purse."
The problem with real girly purses (or handbags for you Old World types) is that they go in and out of fashion, and that they tend to only go with some of one's outfits, necessitating moving stuff between purses when wearing different outfits and who the heck wants to bother with that? This is why I've never really carried an actual girl purse. Besides, the ones I do own are now too small to serve my photographic needs.
Anyway, here's my "purse."
(a) The Timbuk2 bag (of whatever type you want to call it) that I carry everywhere is considerably smaller than any of the bags you guys carry. It holds my M3, a small meter, an extra roll of film, my wallet and related items, pens, lip balm, small tube of hand lotion, tiny hairbrush, Daily Planner thingie, pocketknife, and whatever else I need to throw in there for the day.
If I need to carry anything else (like a laptop) this bag goes into a North Face daypack with the whatever else I am carrying.
(b) None of my friends consider what I carry to be a purse, per se, since it is a small messenger bag, but since it fulfills the role of a purse I call it my purse. Before I got this bag I used to carry an Eagle Creek field bag as my "purse," but it was too small for my Leica so I got the Timbuk2. I have a feeling some of your man purses look more purselike than my "purse."
The problem with real girly purses (or handbags for you Old World types) is that they go in and out of fashion, and that they tend to only go with some of one's outfits, necessitating moving stuff between purses when wearing different outfits and who the heck wants to bother with that? This is why I've never really carried an actual girl purse. Besides, the ones I do own are now too small to serve my photographic needs.
Anyway, here's my "purse."
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lately i have been using one of my mclassic bags for a daily carry.
in it is the m3 with 50/1.2 attached, the small pilot 2 meter some film, a large lens cloth.
sometimes a bottle of water, the head for my car stereo, sun glasses, whatever.
it's basic black so it never goes out of style.
not that it would matter as i went out of style in about 1969
joe
in it is the m3 with 50/1.2 attached, the small pilot 2 meter some film, a large lens cloth.
sometimes a bottle of water, the head for my car stereo, sun glasses, whatever.
it's basic black so it never goes out of style.
not that it would matter as i went out of style in about 1969
joe
NL2377
*scratches head*
Sure do!!! ok, and by the way, its not a man purse... it's a murse.
Here is one that's similar to mine: (mine is red)
Here is one that's similar to mine: (mine is red)
sf
Veteran
My camera bag is about purse sized - thanks to the compactenss of my camera - and I like to travel light. I do stuff it, though, with batteries, film, lens cloth, money, pocket kleenex (for the nose), and tie a tripod to it sometimes. A little mini one. I wear it over my shoulder, but it definitely looks more like a camera bag than a purse.