Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So the idea of roll down clasps has been around before! I notice there is a second bag in the yellow water resistant series of three total bags, the 40L which is a back pack which uses very heavy very hard to pull zippers. A previous larger backpack in the serious used the tall roll down approach again. The zippers seems like a vast improvement to dropping your camera gear down into a bottomless yellow pit. Here is the series. With large yellow pix. And vids. The http://www.lowepro.com/dryzone On 1/5/14 1:43 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: > Not Pelicans. I have one of those and it's great but heavy to try to carry on > your back! These are Dry Bags made of heavy plastic that roll down several > times and then clasp together. They are great for keeping film dry, if there > is no moisture in there to start with! Tina On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM, > Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Tina are you talking about > Pelicans? Or bags? > > It's gotta be good to have a flotation device near you > at all times. > The seat you sit on in the airplane a comforting example. > > Perhaps they should come out with a line of camera bags which look like > > airplane seat cushions! In those colors!! > > > On 1/5/14 11:34 AM, "Tina > Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > > I used dry bags in Central America > often when traveling in canoes in > > the > Mosquito Coast. The only problem > with them that I had was that they > > not > only seal water out, they seal > water in. In the very high humidity of > > the > Mosquito Coast, anything > packed in the bag ended up completely soaked. > > > Somewhere I have a photo > of all of my traveler's checks and passport > laidout > > to dry by the fire > in the school building. My Leica's dried by the > same fire. > > At home I > have a whole dry-bag full of film that was never > exposed because it > > got > wet and ruined inside the bag. It's still there. > The only reason I > > > continued to use them was if the bag was accidentally > dropped over the side > of > > the canoe, it would at least float!! > > Tina > > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 > at 7:16 AM, > > Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: > > > Mark > Rabiner wrote: > > > > > > >This one in some ways funnier. > > > >http://vimeo.com/69173697 > > > > > >Or the > > concise: > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgO5EWq9WQ8 > > > > > >No ones seen > > anyone > yet go "look there's a picture I better grab my > > >camera!" And open > > > the bag and do so. Yet. > > >As those ducks would have migrated all the way > > > south by then. > > > > Apparently not the bag for you. I'd love to use a > dry bag > > like this in > > rough water. I'd open it to use the camera in > calm water? and > > I plan my > > duck photos, often taking several hours to > make the photo. > > Getting the > > camera out of the bag in 10 seconds or > less is not a high > > priority for me > > because it takes time to work out > lighting & backgrounds, > > the duck's habits > > and preferences, and > allowing the duck to become > > comfortable in my > > presence. Good wildlife > photos are not point & shoot. > > > > > > Doug Herr > > Birdman of > Sacramento > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > > See > > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > -- > Tina > > Manley > http:// > > > <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > > __________________ > > _____________________________ > Leica Users Group. > > See > > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Tina Manley http:// > <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com __________________ > _____________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/