Black bags LOOK cool... but they're hot! Around this time of year in the north
it's not an issue. But I have never understood why serious amateur and pro
photographers who refrigerate their film, test emulsions, etc., then use black
bodies and throw everything into black bags. For my 4x5 gear I use a Zone VI
bag which is white and insulated, much like a softsided cooler. For OM gear I
use an el-cheapo padded camera bag branded Wilson (the sports equipment people)
that I just happen to own; picked it up at a garage sale. I'm going to move to
a canvas bag. I like the idea of the M-Classics bag
(http://www.mclassics.com/), but it's only available in black! The slim
profile would, I think be ideal for me. There is a maker of canvas canoe packs
in Maine that may be able to custom make such a bag in a natural canvas color.
I have one Zuikoholic friend who has clad his OM bodies and lenses in the white
transfer belt material from Xerox copiers. It's grippy and very cool looking.
Earl
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On 2/1/2004 at 8:59 PM Gordon J. Ross wrote:
>Hi Moose:
>
>Good point, I am not sensitized to be that concerned about theives.
>Stealing
>is not considered as being 'polite' in Canada, so we don't allow it. Do you
>think a pack of baby wipes sticking out of a black Bellingham would fool a
>theif? I do heed what you are saying as I will be travelling and I guess
>paying extra attention would be good.
>Gord
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 3:21 AM
>Subject: [OM] Re: Camera Bags
>
>
>>
>> Not so funny looking when he has his gear and someone else has lost
>> their fancy photo gear bag and its contents. Heck, an empty Billingham
>> bag is still a significant loss all by itself.
>>
>> On this perennial subject, no one has yet mentioned this issue directly
>> yet. So I feel it incumbent on me to mention that perennial old
>> favorite, the diaper/nappy bag. Good sized, sturdy, lightly padded,
>> waterproof, really cheap at garage sales etc. and, particularly with a
>> packet of baby wipes, diaper rash ointment or some such poking out of
>> the outer pocket, very unattractive to thieves.
>>
>> Moose
>>
>> gordross@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Wayne:
>> >
>> >I think that your cooler bag might be worth a picture. Very funny, but
>if
>it
>> >works- it works.
>> >
>>
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