> first of all, hi, i'm steve and i'm a bag whore ... > my mother told me to stay away from Stevie Whores.
Or was it stevedores? I too have hundreds of camera bags and now I'm looking for suggestions for a bag for my camera bags. Call it a metabag. It must be enormous and not shout camera bag bag. I'm thinking of having a custom diaper bag made, 4x2x1 metre, in the form an enormous diaper bag. Nobody would date put their hands in that. Either that or I'll go green and have one in the same size but made of hessian. Just so people know, I'll have it stamped with the logo "I'm full of shit". Bagpuss > with that out of the way, i most often use one of my Mountainsmith lumbar > packs (Tour, Day or my favorite, the larger and out-of-production Cairn II) > with shoulder strap to carry a body & two lenses; i swear by the > Mountainsmith suspension -- weight is mostly on my hips, but i can easily > swing the pack around like a small messenger bag; these are unpadded, but > i've usually got the second lens in a neoprene wrap and a light jacket is rolled > under the body, with the lens up; there's enough material in the outer > pockets to pad light nocks, and the inner waist area is padded too; there is > also a Kit Cube i haven't tried which is a padded photo bag that fits into the > Day or Tour, and MountainSmith has versions of these bags specifically for > photo use > > for casual walk-around times, like a walk to a coffee shop, i also use a > Crumpler Skivvy, which is minimal and fully padded, but not an ideal shape > for camera kit - i've got a size small, which doesn't hold much more than a > camera, mounted lens and extra lens (not big lenses); and i store my camera > and lenses in a Crumpler Six Million Dollar home, but i don't walk around with > it; it might work well for your kit > > when carrying a laptop as well as a camera, i use an Osprey Torque which has > almost too much room, and is very well padded (also have an Osprey Transit, > which i found much too big); i've seen the Osprey Astro & Elroy, which look > attractive now that i have a smaller 13" laptop > > someone recently mentioned an insert for Manhattan DJ bags -- i've got a > small one of these bags i use for errands and the insert looks attractive -- the > bags are relatively cheap, minimalist and sturdy > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
