Hi Rich
Can you refer me to a website where I can see or order the Orion holster?
Also, what is the QR plate? is this a ball head, or a tilt handle type?
Regards
Titoy
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From: <Doggre@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 7:35 PM
Subject: [OM] This Idiot's Found a Kit
> Hi Zuiks,
>
> Stopped in Glazers in Seattle today. Picked up a QR plate for the Bogen
> monopod (How COOL! This is new territory for me!) and a Lowe Orion Mini
belt
> pack -- almost a holster, but with room to each side of the body for
filters,
> film, etc., small mesh pockets inside the lid and outside, and one little
> zippered outside pocket, which holds a lens hood nicely.
>
> Thanks to whoever it was who planted that seed (holster/belt pack) in my
> mind. I set out thinking I wanted a Mini or Micro Trekker, but upon
> reflection, I realized I still want to be able to wear a regular daypack
with
> lunch, gorp, water bottle, binoculars, 10 essentials, etc. for many of the
> trips I have in mind. I don't want to cram food, water, and OM gear all
> together in the same backpack. Too much chance for disaster doing that.
And
> as I sometimes wander miles from the truck ("Wonder what I can see from up
> there?"), twisting an ankle (or getting lost) could mean spending a night
in
> the mountains, which for the unprepared proves fatal, year after year. So
> there can be no compromise on the essentials. Seven lenses but no jacket,
> gloves, etc., and you're a fool (I'm an idiot!).
>
> I can easily spin the Orion around my waist from back to front in a jiffy,
> and have the camera up in action almost as fast as getting it out of the
> neveready case when hanging around my neck, which is NOT a comfortable way
to
> carry it when hiking. And of course, I can leave the top, or the entire
> eveready case off the camera, it's so well-protected inside the Orion. No
> case to take off for film change!
>
> At the moment, the 35-105/3.5-4.5 is on the OM-2S in the Orion. A good
fit.
> Think I've found a good, light mountain (or travel) kit here. Will
probably
> revert to the OM-1n in truly cold weather.
>
> At $27, the Orion was a LOT gentler on the wallet than a Trekker of either
> stripe would have been, leaving more pesos for other things. :-)
>
> Rich
>
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