Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] which Billingham bag, please?
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:26:44 -0700 (PDT)

>I'll ask you too.......can you fit 2 Ms with lenses attached, AND
>2 more M lenses in this F2 bag?

Francesco,

I've had one of the early Domke's (from the time when he sold them from his
house), and have used it to carry 2 4x5 cameras with 6 lenses, holders for
24 sheets of film and all requisite accessories for this stuff, so I would
say that the F2 is too big for what you want. It'll flop around too much,
the top of the bag will collapse in on itself, and the items will thus be
hard to retrieve.

For M equipment I use bags that are not too deep, and fairly stiff. I have
a bag right now that holds 3 bodies, 5 lenses, film and little stuff with a
Sekonic 308 meter that is about 1/3 the volume of the F2 Domke.
Unfortunately, I don't know the brand. It's black leather, made in China,
and cost $39 Cdn. It doesn't stick out very far from my body when I'm
carrying it (a major point with me), and looks like a cheap bag made for a
point and shoot plus lunch (which might be the design criteria). I put a
better strap and pad on it, but otherwise use it as it came, with dividers
so that the two bodies are back to back with a divider between  them, and
under the lenses (separated by dividers) are two more lenses lying at right
angles to the lenses on the cameras. The third body is in an end pocket
with a flat lens. The other end pocket holds film (about 10 rolls). Front
pckets hold the meter and other stuff. If I need more film I use a belt
pouch.

I really hate bags that are bigger than they need to be. Stuff just flops
around in them, and the bags catch on people and things I'm walking by.


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