Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Richardson wrote: > A very good point. My cameras are Wetzlar era, and look outdated to the > layman, so I don't have the same problem. However, I've always taken the > view that when carried in an area with any sort of crime problem, an > expensive gadget bag is saying "Steal Me" to the local villains. I was > amused to see in a Leica store an expensive gadget bag with an embossed > text "Made exclusively for Leica". I guess that one is yelling "For > *****'s sake, STEAL ME!" > > I carry my gear in a military-surplus shoulder bag, and I know another > journalist who does the same. Such bags may look scruffy, but draw > little > attention - when I worked in a factory many years ago I used the same > pattern of bag to carry my lunch and flask of coffee. Me too, I never carry my laptop in a custom laptop bag either, for the same reasons. The BBC have lost *dozens* of laptops stolen from staff travelling on the tube late at night, and carrying them in those "hello, I'm UKP3k+ worth of saleable stuff in a small package" laptop bags. I also put black electrical tape over the white logos & names on photo gear, though an F3+MD4+DA2+35mm looks expensive no matter what you do to it.