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Re: [OM] Bag Man I [was Aaaah, A lesson relearned [was Loch Tay]]

Subject: Re: [OM] Bag Man I [was Aaaah, A lesson relearned [was Loch Tay]]
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:33:52 -0800
On 11/17/2015 9:04 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
I was fulfilling my Buddha nature, poking at AG, in this case, with a bag.
I'm about to go ballistic (nylon) over it. :)

It really is interesting just how picky we are over camera bags. What
is perfect for one person totally grates another. The LowePro
Slingshot 300AW is an example of a bag that should be wonderful, but
is awkward on so many levels that you wonder if anybody in product
development actually tried using it. Actually, I don't wonder, I'm
pretty sure it was never tested. While some aspects of the bag are
brilliant, the overall flavor is such that it doesn't actually get
used other than for transporting or working out of the trunk. Had it
been tested, the zipper would have been changed.

Its little sibling, the Slingshot 200AW is the one that tricked me. I liked it when I tried it in the shop, and when I loaded it to go out, and couldn't get it to work for me in the field.

Another bag I have is the LowePro Magnum 35. It's a big shoulder bag
and carries a ton of equipment. But that's the problem. It carries a
ton of equipment. If you actually fill it up, the bag is far too heavy
to carry. ...

Got a big, old Domke with the same problem. Would work with a Sherpa.

...

The Canon 200EG is the best value in camera bags, like ever. I'm on my
second one (bags do wear out), and I'm likely to buy a third when this
one de-ghosts. It certainly isn't perfect, but it is excellent.
Ergonomically, it has the same challenges that all backpacks have, and
that's that you have to take it off in order to access the bag. I'm
able to put together a nice, no-compromises, OM kit with it that
includes two bodies and a half-dozen lenses up to the 300/4.5. This is
my go-hiking bag. They can be purchased brand new for as low as USD
$25.

Yup, gots me one a them. Nice bag for transport, not so good in the field. I took off the Canon ID, of course, which made a perfectly innocuous bag look worth stealing. Now bigger than I need.

The LowePro Elite35 is the bag I bought 21 years ago and starting to
now show wear. It has been my primary bag for all these years and has
travelled the world a few times over. It's perfect for one OM body
(with MD2) and four lenses up to the 200/4. I can carry more in it,
but if it's too full, you're constantly moving stuff out of the way to
get to what you want. I really like having one empty spot to drop
lenses into when changing them, so I'm not juggling two lenses
simultaneously.

I have FINALLY mostly beat that one. Two cameras, two zooms, out of the bag and in use at once eliminates about 95% of lens changing. :-)

The only other bag I've bought in many years is the small holster-style Naneu 
Pro. ...

Correspondent C7? C9?

It's My Bag Moose

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