RE: [Leica] Re: Camera Bags

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

AND...If you're looking for a makeshift waterproof set up...a zillion years
ago, for a canoe trip down the St. Johns River, I purchased an army surplus
ammo box, spray painted it orange, lined it with closed cell foam rubber,
made sure the gasket was water proof, then put my gear in plastic bags in
the ammo box and used a cord to make sure the ammo box and canoe wouldn't
end up in two different places....up to class 5 rapids...dry gear.....And
cheap...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Donal
> Philby
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 4:49 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Camera Bags
>
>
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
> > I also thought I have heard here on the lug about the popularity and
> > convenience let alone the functionality of "Coolers." Plastic containers
> > designed to keep food cold with the handle. That way when you watch your
> > car bake in the High noon sun with your cameras/film in it as you sit in
> > the Dairy Queen never taking your eye off the car you know your
> > cameras/film are not being baked into oblivion. And they look innocuous!
>
> Mark so smart:
>
> The big gun yachting photographers in the racing circuit use just such,
> ones big enough to hold a 600 f/4 plus other stuff.  Waterproof on
> bottom, cool, get one with wheels and handle. slick.  I think it was
> Carlo Berlinghi, of See and Sea, a stock agency he owns in Italy, who
> first pioneered the idea, and then others followed suit--Guy Gerney,
> Franco Pace, Daniel Forster, Sharon Green, Kaoru Soehata.  I've shared
> boats with these people.  Pace (PA-che) does boats like H C-B does
> people.  Shoots little, just zip, zip of the Canon here and there.
> Knows when and where.  The others shoot like someone else paying film
> bill (there is).  Pace, too, is gentleman, but living in VW van for 20
> years following boats around Europe until he started making enough to
> live on.  Published a book 5 years ago selling for $150 and worth it.
> Just did an other book on boats designed by Scottish designer Fife in
> first half of the century.  Knockout beautiful (even if not shot on
> Leica!)
>
> Here endeth the detour.
>
> donal
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> Donal Philby
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> http://www.donalphilby.com
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