Re: Seaking Info: Small Camera Bags

[Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>]

Robert:

It sounds exactly like you need a Domke Satchel (803). You'll need their
insert that has three padded compartments to replace the single one they
ship with the bag. As an advantage, it doesn't look like a camera bag.

Tom

At 11:00 AM 10/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Question for Leicaphiles about camera bags.
>
>Does anyone know of a small travel camera bag that will fit the following
list
>of requirements:
>
>Needs to safely hold a Leica M6 with either the 35/2 or 50/2 Summicron lens
>attached.  It then has to have enough room (and organized dividers) for
holding
>whichever of those two lenses is not on the camera and hold the 90/2.8
Elmarit.
>I would also like to carry a very modest amount of accessories (Spare
battery,
>lens cloth, not much more) and about a half dozen rolls of film.  I will
not be
>carring a flash or a second body or 4th lens (I have bigger bags to use for
>carrying more stuff).
>
> I would like the bag to be as small as possible but still offer a "working"
>type top (like a Domke bag has-a flap top that will close with one or two
>clips/snaps, there could (does not have to have) also be a secondary, more
>secure top (i.e. zipper) to use during transit).  I lean toward canvas bags
>(would consider nylon), and to Kahki color (would look at other colors).
(I have
>two larger Domke bags which I like but even their smallest is too big for
this
>purpose).  Small canvas field bags are close but lack some of the
protection and
>ease of use of a true camera bag. 
>
>Possible bags from my magazine/catalog/internet search include the Tenba
503M,
>the Billingham F 5.6  or bags sold by Leica Camera.  I have not (and probably
>cannot) seen many, if any of the bags first hand.  I like the pictures of the
>larger Billingham bags I have seen on the Internet but cannot find much of
their
>smaller bags.  I do not know much about Fogg bags either.  I am not too
>concerned about price (with in reason) as most of the prices for the bags
I can
>find are acceptable (I cannot find prices for the bags sold buy Leica Camera)
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Robert
>
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