Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 8:35 AM -0800 on 10/13/97, Donal Philby wrote: > LUGnuts: > A few days ago someone asked questions about camera bags and someone > else suggested several including LowePro. With keyboard fixed, am > finally catching up. > > So, in honor of being in Hawaii, I will "talk story." > For what it's worth, I have or have used, all the bags Donal mentioned except for the All Weather or the Fogg bags. I bought a Billingham 445 in London, England in 1986. Don't remember the name of the store in London, but it was pro-oriented and I got a very good price compared then to what it would have cost in the USA. When I bought it, it was packaged flat, so I imagine it would be easy to fold up again and carry in a suitcase until getting to your location. It fits under most airline seats, the cloth feels nice, it doesn't have gaudy camera brand names on it, and it has zippers/flaps galore. Never have I been in the conditions Donal recounts, but if the material is as weatherproof as it's said to be, equipment should do better than in a LowePro AW. One caveat: it takes longer to remove equipment from the Billingham 445 than it does from, say, a Domke F1 bag. BTW, my day-to-day working bag (in dry to moderate conditions) is a Domke F4AF bag. I use the Billingham mostly to get equipment to and from locations. Chris - ----------------- Christopher Morrow Christopher Morrow Photography Canandaigua, NY 716.394.8810 phone 716.394.4953 fax http://www.chrismorrow.com - -----------------