Hi Eric, You will enjoy yourself with or without a camera. I haven't fully resolved your question yet, but I can certainly tell you what my experiences have been.
On my most recent tours, over the last year to eighteen months, I've taken a Fuji X20 which I keep in a CCS compact pouch (http://www.ccscentre.co.uk) for protection, which I put in a waterproof stuff-sac for, er, waterproofing stuff, along with my other crap like passport and wallet. This in turn goes in my handlebar bag (http://banjobrothers.com/products/current/canvas-and-leather-bags/canvas-saddle-bag-small/ - they call it a saddle bag, but it works very well as a bar bag). This generally works fine and is quite quick to use when pootling along on my velocipede I see something photogenic. My quibbles are mostly related to the camera's usability, but they are general quibbles rather than bike-specific. I would prefer to take an SLR + 2 or 3 lenses, and I've done that on a few occasions, but it is more difficult. The last time I did this I strapped a Domke F5-XB camera bag (http://www.domkebags.co.uk/shop-online/f-5xb-medium-shoulder-belt-bag/ ) to the handlebars. This has the makings of a perfect camera/bike bag, but it has some serious shortcomings. First, it is not robust enough to take the wear from rubbing against the head-tube - I wore a hole in the bag in 3 weeks, so it needs some leather or similar patching if it's used like this. Second the way it's strapped to the bar is rather ad hoc, and it caused the bartape to unravel; it also made it difficult to use the horizontal part off the handlebar; finally it was a drag to remove and replace when I left the bike. I have also used panniers, and just stuffed everything into one of them, but I don't like panniers generally, so I no longer use them. From the photo point of view it was such a pain to get the camera out that I rarely took pictures. Hope that helps. B > On 22 Jul 2015, at 16:12, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Looks like I’m going to be on a bike for several days while in Italy. > Wondering about carrying a camera, in my case a K5, on a bicycle on a bicycle > tour. Especially balancing protecting the camera while underway with > accessibility to the camera for taking photos. Suggestions? Special equipment? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." > > - Amos Oz > -- 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.
