there is no perfect bag,

[back alley]

there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag,
:bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::

 

[keepright]

 

[FS Vontz]

To state the flagrantly obvious

 

[SolaresLarrave]

there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag, there is no perfect bag,
:bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::

Amen to that...

Now, I'm hoping this thread does not come from a broken strap or a bottom falling out...

'cuz if that's the case... then your bag was VERY imperfect!

Take care!

 

[back alley]

had 2...



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[back alley]

To state the flagrantly obvious

obviously....:angel:

 

[back alley]

Amen to that...

Now, I'm hoping this thread does not come from a broken strap or a bottom falling out...

'cuz if that's the case... then your bag was VERY imperfect!

Take care!

no not at all sir...just frustrated because evertime i get a new piece of gear or another idea as to what i want to carry or how to arrange a kit, it seems i have to change bags.

 

[kermaier]

had 2...

.

I love my Hadley Pro, but was dismayed to discover that I'd need to completely reconfigure it to fit my R-D1 with Nokton 35/1.2 mounted. :bang:

::Ari

 

[keepright]

had 2...

I've learned that the way to not care if someone has a better digital camera than mine is to buy a really nice film rangefinder. Similarly, the way to not care about other camera bags is to get a Hadley Pro.

But I would like one that's a little smaller....
:bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:

 

[back alley]

i meant i had 2 of them...but
...sorry, i took a too quick look at the hadley, and thought it was the m classic bag. only had one billingham, the alice or lc2 or something like that. it looked like a much classier domke 5xb...

 

[johannielscom]

Al Kaplan's advice comes to mind, in his time photographers simply used to dump everything they wanted to take along in an army-surplus gas mask bag.

I guess that's how Jim Marshalls M4 got all those battle scars... 🙂

Currently I carry a small army bag, I detached the shoulder strap and use a set of Billingham backpack straps to carry it as a small rucksack. It fits an M3, with MC meter on top and strap, a Canon 28/3.5, a Wollensak Velostigmat 50/2.8 and a Sankyo Kohki Komura 80/3.5, all in leather pouches. Hama container with four rolls of film and a filter wallet and thats it.

Someday my M3 will look like Jim Marshalls M4...😀

 

[35mmdelux]

Without a doubt. Just break it in.

 

[slm]

My next will be a Timbuk2 with Domke inserts (as suggested recently in another thread, forget who the poster was).

 

[nathanp]

I bought the NG2345 National Geographic bag and it was pretty good, but getting the GF1 with EVF in & out was a bit tight. Also, fitting the GF1 and a Yashica Electro in at the same time was a bit tight. So I went for the next size up which is great but seems a little too big. I'm now thinking about getting a small bag for when I just want to take the GF1.

The perfect bag would be one that is bigger on the inside than the outside, as long as it wasn't so small as to look like a handbag/purse.

 

[Sparrow]

Generally, and in no particular order, the correct answers are

Hadley Pro
M2
Rigid Summicron
a second M2
Without
Standing up in a hammock
XP2

 

[ChrisN]

Did someone declare a meeting of the Hadley Pro Appreciation Society? Do we have a quorum? 🙂

 

[newspaperguy]

Sorry for this late post, but I have to disagree...

I have at least a half-dozen perfect bags.

 

[Sparrow]

here's one in holiday mood ....




... I don't normally carry all that junk around

 

[SteveM_NJ]

They are all "perfect", until you get one.

 

[Calzone]

I agree. there is no perfect bag.

That's why I'm going to make my own. Already have a Juki commercial sewing machine. In NYC the garment district is just a subway ride away. I'm taking classes at FIT BTW.

I hope to have some prototypes to be given away as prizes at the second annual "Leica M-Body beauty contest" which will happen in 2011 at the February NYC Meet-Up. At this event the finalists will be judged in either of two catagories: one body-two lenses; or two bodies-two lenses.

Barrett will be the judge. Also, to be fair, Carl cannot enter because he is a dead ringer, but if he assembles some outrageous vintage kit to crush us with, I'll make him a custom bag.

Cal