Gordon Coale
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This is the source of the mysterious camera bag pictures that were haunting several other posts. It was lost in the initial change to the new RFF. I took these pictures with my digital camera as sort of a proof of concept. Next I will do it on film for some quality.
[picture 1] Zoe, my wife, gave me this little leather bag for my FED 2. It's called a Travelon and it's sort of a mini courier bag into which I've stuffed my rangefinder kit. The bag only measures 7" x 8" x 4.5" and doesn't look like a camera bag. Small enough to carry with me where ever I go. That is sort of the idea behind 35mm cameras, or at least what I think a 35mm camera should be used for.
[picture 2] There is a little pouch at the base of the easily adjustible strap that is probably for those little cell phones but also fits two rolls of 35mm film.
[picture 3] The front flap opens to reveal a mesh pouch where I have lens hoods for all my lens except for the self-hooded Jupiter 12. The bag has two main pockets. The front, and slimmer pocket, has side zippers to give it a bigger opening to make it easier to get stuff out. The main pocket has side zippers that let the bag expand.
[picture 4] In the front pocket there is room for another four rolls of film, a Universal Finder that I keep in a small leather pouch, and a Luna Pro light meter. I usually also keep a lens pen in this pocket but it was temporarily missing when I shot this.
[picture 5] At the bottom of the main pocket is a Jupiter 12 35mm f2 lens in a nice bakelite lens case and a Jupiter 8 50mm f2 lens in a similar plastic lens case. Above them, in a padded lens wrap, is a Jupiter 9 85mm f2 lens. At the top of the heap is a FED 2e with a collapsible Industar-50 50mm f3.5 lens/body cap. The collapsible Industar-50 makes a nice thin package that will fit in the narrow pocket. The whole thing weighs about 5 to 6 pounds. I really like this kit.
[picture 1] Zoe, my wife, gave me this little leather bag for my FED 2. It's called a Travelon and it's sort of a mini courier bag into which I've stuffed my rangefinder kit. The bag only measures 7" x 8" x 4.5" and doesn't look like a camera bag. Small enough to carry with me where ever I go. That is sort of the idea behind 35mm cameras, or at least what I think a 35mm camera should be used for.
[picture 2] There is a little pouch at the base of the easily adjustible strap that is probably for those little cell phones but also fits two rolls of 35mm film.
[picture 3] The front flap opens to reveal a mesh pouch where I have lens hoods for all my lens except for the self-hooded Jupiter 12. The bag has two main pockets. The front, and slimmer pocket, has side zippers to give it a bigger opening to make it easier to get stuff out. The main pocket has side zippers that let the bag expand.
[picture 4] In the front pocket there is room for another four rolls of film, a Universal Finder that I keep in a small leather pouch, and a Luna Pro light meter. I usually also keep a lens pen in this pocket but it was temporarily missing when I shot this.
[picture 5] At the bottom of the main pocket is a Jupiter 12 35mm f2 lens in a nice bakelite lens case and a Jupiter 8 50mm f2 lens in a similar plastic lens case. Above them, in a padded lens wrap, is a Jupiter 9 85mm f2 lens. At the top of the heap is a FED 2e with a collapsible Industar-50 50mm f3.5 lens/body cap. The collapsible Industar-50 makes a nice thin package that will fit in the narrow pocket. The whole thing weighs about 5 to 6 pounds. I really like this kit.
