I'm with Bob regarding having one bag for every occasion. For me, the best bag ever is the Domke 803 satchel. Strong and sturdy, its canvas ages beautifully, doesn't look like a camera bag, it's unpretentious, and can carry my 12" Powerbook if I have to. I'm on my second--the first one is still strong, but after six years of being everywhere it is dirty and looks less elegant than it should.
I also have a smaller Domke FX5B bag, same canvas material, which is the one I use when not travelling. I can fit a body and 3 or 4 lenses in it. j On 3/14/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no such thing as the perfect bag. Real Photographers have at > least 10 camera bags, each of which is configurable in at least 10 > unique ways. > > > I'm looking for something just a little better. > > Aren't we all? > > In the end it depends on how you want to use it. If you want it to > carry stuff from A-B without using the stuff, it almost doesn't matter > what bag you use. If you want to carry it all to the top of Aconcagua > for a dawn shoot you'll have a different bag than the one you use when > photographing the D-Day landings, which in turn will be different from > the one you use when wandering the streets of Paris on a Sunday day in > April. > > You need a different bag for every occasion! > > The 3 I use most are the Domke F-2, LowePro S&F Reporter (I think it's > called) and LowePro S&F Rover AW backpack. I also have several other > bags, but I'm not quite a Real Photographer yet. > > I'm not a fan of sling bags - they seem to me to be neither fish nor > fowl. > > -- > Bob > > > Survey: > > > > What, in your opinion, is the perfect bag for being able to > > carry around a > > camera (with lens attatched) and a spare lens or two (or a > > lens and flash), > > plus various other things (maybe a book, or a notepad and > > pens, or (on the > > extreme end) a laptop). > > > > > > I have a Crumpler bag that is *almost* perfect. It's a > > sling-style bag, which > > I absolutely love. So much better than regular shoulder bags > > and backpacks. > > I'm looking for something just a little better. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
