Hi Charles: The suggestion I'm about to offer doesn't meet your
requirements exactly, but I thought I'd offer it anyway. I use the Domke
F3X Super Compact. In it I can put the DA 16-45mm in the lens spot & I can
put the K20 with battery grip & DA* 50-135mm attached in the main
compartment of the bag (I can also stow the reverse set-up). There are no
cradle/bridge inserts. I actually stow the camera on its LCD backside with
the lens sticking up. You can't get much more in the main compartment when
out in the field with this rig set-up. Here's the link:
http://www.tiffen.com/displayproduct.html?tablename=domke&itemnum=700-30S
It has been working pretty well for me, though like I said, this doesn't
meet your needs as you state below. The bag was about $100 @ Calumet Photo
(store, not online).
I wanted a bag that met your requirements below as well and couldn't find
anything in my price range or that seemed to work for me. After having
learned about Domke, and going to stores where I actually put equipment in
the bag to test before purchase, it was the line that eventually won out in
the end. I own three now.
Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Robinson" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 4:12 PM
Subject: Camera bag "issues" - looking and looking...
For years, I've been using a Tamrac "Velocity 3" shoulder bag. Just big
enough for a camera with lens, 'nose down' in the middle section (ie,
flip open the flap on the top of the bag, and you see the back/ screen of
the camera), with a flash off to one side and a lens or two in the
section off to the other side. Flip open the top, grab the camera, and
shoot.
However, since getting the 16-50 this bag is just a shade too short.
Almost everything fits just fine, but the height of the bag is a shade
too short. With the K10D, 16-50 attached (AND the lens hood), the camera
actually rests most of its weight onto the hood of the 16-50 and doesn't
get cradled at all by inserts on either side of the bag.
I worry that if I were to drop the bag a little too roughly sometime,
it's just going to wreck the 16-50.
Is there a relatively-small (and not too terribly expensive), deep- enough
bag which would be handy for day-to-day carrying of the K10D with
16-50+lens hood attached, (plus a flash and another lens or two) which
would also let me store the camera the way I like it?
-Charles
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Charles Robinson - [email protected]
Minneapolis, MN
http://charles.robinsontwins.org
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