I have a fastpack 350, and absolutely love it.
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:11:15PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: > I'm not sure if this qualifies as "readily accessible" to you or not, > but the Lowepro Flipside series of backpack bags are kind of > ingenious. When wearing it as a pack the zipper side is against your > back (pickpockets/thieves can't open it). But it has a strap that goes > around your waist. You can slip your arm out of one side and rotate > the pack to your front, where the zipper access if face up in front of > you for easy access (without putting the pack down in the > mud/dirt/etc). Zip it up, rotate it back around and slip your arms > back in and it is a comfortable pack again. How easy this is depends a > lot on how much you load into it (and what size you get). I've got the > Flipside 300 AW and I can get quite a bit of stuff in it. If you want > something even smaller they make a 200 AW. Just checked Amazon and the > smaller 200 AW is actually $8 more than the 300 AW. > > I find it a comfortable backpack and much preferable to having the > camera around my neck for extended periods, particular if with a big > lens. > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:42:35PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: > >> > >> I'm closing in getting my ducks lined up for my trip to England, > >> Circumstances are leading me to think of my *ist DS as my camera for the > >> trip. A concern is carrying it on my nine-day walk. I'm inclined toward a > >> harness system that I could wear under my pack. Either one that leaves the > >> camera exposed or puts it in a pouch. This one is appealing. > >> <http://www.adorama.com/CEKSSBK.html> > >> > >> I'd be interested in experience with this system or others, especially if > >> they cost less than this one. [Not to say it is unreasonable.] > >> > >> I'd like to have the camera readily accessible, but not banging agains my > >> chest, and with as little weight on my neck as possible. [A four mile hike > >> over the weekend with a 35-105mm zoom on my camera made me a bit anxious > >> about how I might feel at the end of a 15 to 20 mile day.] > > > > Just hire Cotty to be your sherpa and carry it for you. The video business > > is a bit > > slow and he's got nothing better to do than tag along carrying your camera > > gear. > > For a slight extra charge, he'll even carry your beer for you, and for not > > much more > > than that, he'll carry it for you in the bottles, rather than his belly. > > > >> > >> Thanks, > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Eric Weir > >> Decatur, GA USA > >> eew...@bellsouth.net > >> > >> "The most important thing is the tee-shirt." > >> > >> - Samara Alnafdage > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > > > > -- > > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
