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[OM] Re: Camera Bags - and more (long)

Subject: [OM] Re: Camera Bags - and more (long)
From: "Gordon J. Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:37:15 -0700
Hi Walt:

If your gear goes missing now, we will know its a 'lister'! The OM 4Runner
does sound like an ideal 'gearbag' .

Thanks Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Camera Bags - and more (long)


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> I'm coming late to this discussion, but I have a thing or two to
> add.  I've got a lot of gear and a lot of ways to carry it: three
> large Lowepros, a huge Tamrac, three or four soft-sided coolers, a
> Cabela's bag intended for fly fishing gear, three hard-sided cases
> I bought on sale at Home Depot for $19.99 apiece and then lined
> with that egg crate mattress stuff campers who sleep on the ground
> use, plus an assortment of fanny packs and small bags of various
> sorts.  Enough about the bags already.
>
> Because of a hitch in my git-along, the result of some leg
> injuries long years ago, most of my photography is carried out in
> fairly close proximity to the OM-4Runner.  I'm okay for a mile or
> so as long as there's a good reason to go, but more often than
> not, I'm within a few hundred yards of the truck with all the
> gear.  And because of the ease of hauling and having lots of stuff
> at hand, I sometimes take along a humongous amount of equipment.
>
> Mostly, while out on these excursions, I photograph wildlife,
> landscapes, old buildings, particularly barns and country stores,
> falling-down houses, rusting farm machinery and automobiles, and
> macro stuff.  (Yeah, I take pictures of posies.  So what?)  This
> calls for a wide variety of gear, and it's not unheard of for me
> to leave home with five or six OM bodies, motor drives, 15-20
> lenses,  auto tube, bellows, three macro flash units, even a T45
> and Quantum Turbo battery pack, F280 and a pair of T20s.  Then
> there's the MF gear, which is usually three or more 6x9cm cameras
> with 10 or 12 lenses, a half dozen 120 film backs, some sheet film
> holders.  Then there are exposure meters, tripods, even one bag
> filled with nothing but filters and lens hoods.
>
> And that's not all, but I think I've made the point.  As a
> conservative estimate, I'm sure there are times I'm driving around
> with more than $25,000 worth of gear.  Being usually armed and
> always ornery, I don't worry a bit about the stuff being stolen
> when I'm around.  But then again, I don't worry much about it
> being stolen even when I'm out of sight and busy wasting film, and
> here's why:
>
> If you have larceny on your mind and you see the old OM-4Runner by
> the side of the road with nobody around and you decide to
> investigate to see if there's maybe something inside you might
> like to have, you are going to be sorely disappointed.  The back
> windows are heavily tinted, so you won't see much of anything
> except some cardboard boxes that look like they are full of old
> clothes.  In the back seat, you'll see a big, old, pink plastic
> laundry basket full of dirty clothes, topped by a ragged and
> filthy, faded old quilt.  Next to the laundry basket is a
> big "Tampax" carton also with dirty and disgusting old clothes
> hanging out.  In the front, on the passenger seat, there's a
> Domino's pizza box, and in the floor there are a couple of fast
> food sacks full of God knows what.  On the dash is a half roll of
> toilet tissue.
>
> It doesn't take a lot of gray matter to come to the conclusion
> that this vehicle probably belongs to some poor schmuck whose wife
> kicked him out in the middle of the night and he's now living out
> of his truck, and he's probably just out in the woods taking a
> leak or something and will be right back.  Besides, who would want
> to touch any of this disgusting crap, much less steal it?
>
> Of course, the boxes are full of camera bags.  The laundry basket
> holds two Lowepro Magnum bags.  The crappy old quilt is what I put
> between myself and the ground when I'm shooting the posies.  The
> pizza box in the front passenger seat has a Dell laptop computer
> and GPS receiver inside.  The fast food bags -- well, they're for
> real.  A man's got to eat when he's out wandering around the
> countryside.  I just don't throw them away until I get home.  And
> the toilet tissue on the dash?  Well, there's no harm in being
> prepared, plus I think it adds a really nice finishing touch to
> the entire ensemble.  :-)
>
> Walt, retired and wandering the countryside more and more.
>
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> "A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing
> than he needs." -- Mark Twain (defining the cause of Zuikoholism a
> century ago)
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