Poll: Are you "man enough" to admit it?

Poll: Are you "man enough" to admit it?

  • Yes, I use one

    Votes: 178 34.8%

  • No, I don't

    Votes: 275 53.8%

  • Yes, but only when it doesn't clash with my outfit

    Votes: 58 11.4%
  • Total voters
    511
Yep. A military "issue" map case when packing around an RF, light meter and extra roll or two of film, or a vintage military-style shoulder bag from Mil-Spec when I'm packing around the SLR and an extra lens, more film, filters and whatever else I think I need at the time. Bonus of using that one is it doesn't look like a camera bag and it blends into the rest of my gear when in the field.
 
I've got lots of camera bags (most photographers' do) but my smallest one I picked up at the local military surplus store. It's a Swiss Medical Army bag, in camo with the "medical cross" and serial number printed on it. Just the thing for street photography.

Perfect for a 35RF, extra lens, ten rolls of film, sunglasses, etc. I like the fact that it dosen't look like anything expensive is inside.
 
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Ive got one Domke bag, but it sits under a table collecting dust since I ditched all my SLR stuff. Now I just grab a rangefinder, a lens, some film and off I go.
 
I love my man purse, the Domke 5xb (olive, so it's more manly), but so does my wife, she's always trying to borrow it. Once I found her trying to see if she could fit her stuff in it........
 
I have a bag that I bought from American eagle its like a shoulder book bag. It has two main pocket a zipper pocket and a pocket on the outside. I keep a notebook in the outside pocket and batteries in the zipper pocket. I took a old shoulder camera bag and removed the excess material stuffed it in the main compartment, it fit perfect, it gives me a padded area for three cameras. It also had the loops for film. Much easer to use than the backpack I had was.
 
I carry what I would call a camera gadget bag, usually a Billingham Hadley or an Olympus E1 outfit bag. A purse definately not, a wallet yes.

I only ever knew two men to carry a purse.

Most women carry purses either in their handbags or pockets.
 
A small rucksack that leaves the hands free to grab trees or fences so I don't topple over over. Haven't been able to determine its sex, it's indifferent to any advances or other trick. Retrosexual probably.
 
Crumpler 4 million dollar home...

Crumpler 4 million dollar home...

... is the "man purse" I use with my RF.
Cheers, j
 
Why ?? I have a wallet. And I don't carry grooming stuff to warrant a "Man Purse".

I do have 2 gadget bags though. one I use for carrying my DSLR/3 lens/2 Flash/and wireless trigger/battorries/CF cards/etc... used for on the road studio transport.

The other is a daily gadget bag.. It holds 1 camera RF or SLR, and up to 3 lens plus film and spare battory for camera..no flash.
 
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PeterL said:
Fortunately, over half of the population still have their senses. Obviously, I don't need a bag. I'll grab one when I go shopping or when I need to carry something decent, but any coat should fit a wallet with cash & credit cards, keys, cell phone and an RF camera with a small handheld light meter. Anything more gets in the way and is best given to the significant other to be put in her purse :)


Peter.
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... unless of course when you live in a warm climate places. You'd look even weirder wearing a coat in 90F degree weather than carrying a purse :D

My favorite bag is a blue Timbuktu messenger-style laptop bag. People don't think there's a laptop in there and it matches all of my cargo-pants colors.

Metrosexual! bah!!!
 
ray_g said:
Call it a gadget bag, messenger bag, gear bag, or whatever suits you, but do you use a MAN PURSE?

I know a lot of us usually go around with a camera or two. It may be hard to distinguish between having a camera bag, with a few personal items (keys, sunglasses, cellphone, moleskine, PDA etc) thrown in, as opposed to a "gadget bag" with a camera thrown in. I leave that up to you.

Let's hear it.
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When I lived in NYC I carried abag, call it what you will. Sometimes with camera, others not. I hadproblems getting into the Gugenheim museum as the guard said I couldn't take the bag in with me. I asked if he was making all the women leave their purses wityh him and he said no. I waved at him and went on in. I found it valuable to have a bag, I kept all my personal stuff in it ad as I said, I fitted an F1 and several lenses in also.

I now carry a camera bag with me but it rides on my walker lashed on with bungee cord. I still kepwallet, keys, phone, etc in the bag.
 
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I have about 4 or 5. Hey, you need to put your wallet, phone, lipstick...er..chapstick somewhere. I got sick of wearing pants that were falling off because of all the stuff I had to cram into the pockets.
 
Emancipated?

Emancipated?

"Great Britain and America-two nations divided by a common language" -George Bernard Shaw.

In the US, a bag is known as a purse. The thing that goes inside the bag that holds money, is a wallet. In the UK, a purse is what a lady keeps her money in, while a man uses a wallet. I have no idea what might be called a bag in the US. A suitcase perhaps?

I have a couple of man bags, I use skin care products daily and I mainly drink wine.
We've been using man bags for years in Europe without really pausing to question if it was OK.

An M2 and Summaron 35 fits in mine without even spoiling the line of it.

Ernst
 
ernstk said:
"Great Britain and America-two nations divided by a common language" -George Bernard Shaw.

In the US, a bag is known as a purse. The thing that goes inside the bag that holds money, is a wallet. In the UK, a purse is what a lady keeps her money in, while a man uses a wallet. I have no idea what might be called a bag in the US. A suitcase perhaps?

I have a couple of man bags, I use skin care products daily and I mainly drink wine.
We've been using man bags for years in Europe without really pausing to question if it was OK.

An M2 and Summaron 35 fits in mine without even spoiling the line of it.

Ernst
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Ernst, actually in US it can be a bag and apurse, interchangable terms. My wife called them either and my mother called it a bag if it was large ( mostly it was.) The little things Ladies carried to dances, etc were purses.
My mother and grandmother both carried change purses, little bag with a snap, to hold metal money. The wallet was to hold bills. My wife just tossed change in the bag and it was never found again. In fact, almost anything put in her bag went to Neverland. She put my glasses case in her purse and I ended having to buy a new one. Never figured how that works. Special talent I guess.

Different parts of the country have different names for the same thing, i.e. soda,pop, soft drink, coke (universal name for all soft drinks, regardless of brand), or call it by name, "gonna get a pepsi".

Never know what to say when you go to another state or region. In Texas, real men have saddle bags and wear chaps. Saddle bags would be a great purse/equipment bag. Gear in front and "stuff" in the back bag. I think I'll go in business selling saddle bags as camera bags.

Suitcases can be suitcases, luggage, or bags. A small bag might be called an "overnighter", and if you are flying, it might be called a "carry on". Who ever said we have one language in this country? We have one language just as China has one. OK, did I clarify that for you? If not, let me know and I'll make another attempt.

Michael :bang:
 
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I got a nice messenger bag after my twin boys were born. I'm basically a stay-at-home dad who works when the kids sleep. So I need provisions with me at all times. My bag contains an M2, a light meter, spare film, an Ipod, a cell phone, two sippy cups, two juice boxes, crackers, raisins, two bibs, diapers, wipes, changing pad and occassionally a Ringo Starr doll and a Yellow Submarine that my guys are very attached to.
 
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