weight of your camera bag?

[back alley]

just for the heck of it i loaded my 'new' domke bag with all the canon gear.
that would be the canon p w/ 50/85/100/135 lenses.
also my meter, some film, a few batteries and a tiny manual flash that i never use but feel compelled to take eveywhere.
my cell phone, some business cards, a lens cleaning cloth and that's about it.

i put it on my electronic scale and the glowing red numbers told me the whole thing weighed in at 10 pounds.

how much does your camera bag weigh?

joe

 

[Nikon Bob]

I am with Honu-Hugger on having multiple smaller bags. I could not tell you what my bag weighs but I loaded a Lowe Pro Orian AW on a trip to Europe and it was no picnic. If you are like me, you load any bag to max when a lot of stuff could easily be left behind. I now like to carry only one body with lens and 2 other lens and a hand meter making the load enjoyable.

 

[g0tr00t]

Re: weight of your camera bag?

........a tiny manual flash that i never use but feel compelled to take eveywhere.

joe

Is that funny! I too have a flash that I have NEVER used. Although, I carry it with me everywhere! Heck, I even cram it in my jeans front pocket if there is no room in the bag. What's that all about??:bang:

My bag weighs in around 10 lbs. Although, after my class is done....All that I will have with my is my QL17 and that darn flash again....

 

[Solinar]

About 5 years ago, I weighed my 35mm SLR kit and switched to range finders. 10 lbs for a camera and a lens assortment does not sound unreasonable.

When I'm on the road, In total I'm looking at 4 to 5 lbs. max, if I throw in two cameras, filters, hoods, plus a small flash, a small folding table pod and a lightmeter. - I'm using a slim satchel that keeps either a pouched Rollei 35 S or a Kodak Retina IIIc, in addition to one of my folding medium format folders, either an Ansco Super Speedex or a massive Voigtlander Bessa I. - Each camera is also in its own belt pouch with an assortment of filters and a lens hood in its outer pocket.

The belt pouches are cheap and offer an extra layer of protection against bumps or scratches.

With regard to medium format negs, I'll usually crop them later with an optical enlarger, if I want the perspective of a 105mm lens with 35mm film. - The downside is I only get 16 frames to a roll of film with the Bessa I and 12 frames to a roll with my Agfa Super Isolette.

 

[Solinar]

A Beta 4 with a Rollei 35??? It's larger than the camera!!!

 

[hoppinghippos]

All my camera bags are equipped with Optech straps, they really help to lessen the burden on the shoulders! you guys may like to check them out!

 

[plexi]

I hate wearing a bag, so I usually use a Lowepro Street&Field belt
with a couple of pouches on it.
I usually fill it with Bessa L/25mm& BessaR, Jupiter 8, CV 35/2.5 and Jupiter 9, a Nikon SB-15 flash, 5-10 rolls of film.
One camera on my shoulder or in my hand, the other in one of the pouches.... hardly noticing I`m wearing it. 🙂

 

[Solinar]

I sprung for the old Honeywell flash bracket and PC adapter eons ago. It makes for a very quaint looking set-up.

 

[GeneW]

When I look in my closet I think I'm more of a camera bag collector than a camera collector 🙄

These days I switch between a Lowepro Nova 2 and a Lowepro Nova 3, depending on how much I'm toting. I wear them courier style, over the neck and shoulder, and I usually push them towards my back. I find myself increasingly using the Nova 2 because it's smaller which forces me carry a lighter load.

Gene

 

[Kris]

Re: weight of your camera bag?

... i loaded my 'new' domke bag with all the canon gear.
that would be the canon p w/ 50/85/100/135 lenses....the whole thing weighed in at 10 pounds.

joe

Hmm I thought people go rangefinder route because of its small size and light weight. 😀

My camera bag may weight more than 10lb if I put all cameras and lenses I own (not that the bag will fit) but I always carry one camera and one lens in a school bag together with a bottle of water, discman, etc etc.

 

[back alley]

i carry a bag most times as i like to use wrist straps instead of camera straps. this way if i need a hand or to put the camera down, i have the bag handy.
i have several bags, both large and small and carry whatever one fits the needs of the day and my mood.
sometimes it's a one camera-one lens day, other times i feel the need to take all the hardware i own with me 'just in case'.

joe

 

[hoppinghippos]

Re: Op/Tech -- love their stuff!

Re: Op/Tech -- love their stuff!

I never knew they made bag straps -- that's worth looking into, although the Domke straps have never bothered me.

I'm a big Op/Tech fan: I put their camera straps on everything (bought 4 or 5 straps and then extra "Pro-Loop" connectors, that way the padded portions of the straps can be interchanged). Also use their tripod strap for large pods, lens cases, lens hood covers, and a few of their square neoprene wraps for whatever needs protecting. No, never got around to buying stock in the company -- too late now, I don't anticipate any further purchases😀

D2

hey same here, I love optech straps! they really make a difference and I love the clever design of integrating an elastic layer with a foam layer. they have bag straps too, the difference is that the strap is thicker than a camera strap and unlike the camera strap doesn't have the releasable clip at both ends.

 

[DougK]

Interesting question, as I was just putting together my travel kit today for my Florida Keys vacation (two days and a wake-up call- yay!). Lemme rummage through here a second and see.

* Lowepro Edge 20 bag, check...
* Olympus XA loaded with 2 fresh SR44s and 36 exp. roll of Elite Chrome 200, check...
* X11 Flash with fresh AA, yep, got that...
* 2 36 exp. rolls Kodak Elite Chrome 200 and 2 36 exp. rolls Elite Chrome 100, ok...
* Generic tabletop flexipod, check...
* Spare AA for the flash, mm-hmm...
* LensPen, yep, looks like it's all here.

I think the whole kit weighs about 2 pounds 🙂 This is a fairly typical load for me, although when I'm running around here at home, I usually use one of my other cameras and add a collapsible metal 5-section tripod found in a blister card at Wal-Mart and throw those into a somewhat larger Tamrac bag.

I really like to travel light 🙂

 

[back alley]

what? no konica c35?
joe

 

[DougK]

Actually, I'm still trying to decide which camera to take. The only reason I listed the XA above is it's the smallest RF camera I own and thus created the smallest possible package weight-wise. For ease of handling, the Konica wins hands down and will probably be in my bag when I get on the plane.

 

[back alley]

ok

 

[wierdcollector]

Depends on whether I'm shooting test shots or keeper photos. For test days, I usually have 4 rangefinders, 8 rolls of film, a microfiber cloth or two for lens cleaning, a lens pen with brush, a coil ring notebook for recording shooting info, two or three pens and at least one good old hippie/tapestry strap. Just love those things. Anyone else collect them?
On keeper shot days, I'll bring a rangefinder, an SLR (blasphemous I know), an 80-200 or so zoom, a wide angle lens (28 mm usually), two or more lens cloths, lens pen, two straps, a cable release, 8 rolls of film, coil ring notebook, a couple of pens and of course my Manfrotto #168 tripod with ball head and a couple of quick release shoes. Interesting to compare the differences between the rangefinder and SLR shots when I get home. Keeper shot days it would be nice to have a pack mule along.

 

[24x30]

for traveling, I take a Mamiya 645 equipment (Body, Magazine, 150er, 45er and Rings) and the complete Ambi Silette stuff (Body, 35, 50 and 90) with me. This all in a Lowe Minitreckker, the weight is about 9 kg. This and a kid on my back is a lot of stuff, so we keep tours small 🙂.

/rudi

 

[Roman]

Depends on what I'm planning to shoot:
For landscape and nature stuff, I take my Mamiya 645 Super with 2 magazines, 35, 70 and 150mm lenses (& maybe 250mm), and filters, etc. in a Lowepro OffRoad fanny pack, an Olympus XA for quick snapshots in my pants pocket, and posibly a Horizon 202 in my backpack, and a monopod.
For serious city shooting (night photography or architectural stuff), I take the Mamiya, or a Pentacon Six TL or Kiev 40 w/ Carl Zeiss Jena lenses (50mm, 80mm, 120 or 180mm) in a backpack, and a tripod.
For strolling around and taking casual street shots, I pack two rangefinders (one with slow, one with fast B&W film - either two Kievs, or currently the Bessa R plus either a Zorki 6 or FED 2) into my jacket pockets (or a small bookbag) - if the light is promising for color shooting, I might add a third rangefinder or a Konica Autoreflex TC w/ Hexanon 40/1.8.
For non-photographic holiday trips, I take my Pentax MZ5n w/ 28-85 zoom & color film, and if there is room, a Pentax MZ-M or K2 w/ M 28/3.5, M 50/1.7 and M 100/2.8 lenses and B&W film.

Roman (who has also been known to carry two P6TLs w/lenses, an RF w/ IR-film, a Horizon and a tripod on 2500m high móuntains...)

 

[sfaust]

I don't want to weight my camera bag! I was on a shoot the other, and between myself, my assistant, and three camera bags, we were loaded down. But normally when I just wander around to shoot for my personal stuff, I either have a bag about 15lbs with a digital SLR 3 lenses, couple of batteries, flash, and some digital cards.

My rangefinder bag is probably half that, with a R2, 50/2 summircon, 21/4 CV, and a 75/2.5 with a couple rolls of film.