Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Camera Bag
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:10:02 -0700

Check these chaps out as well. I have three of their bags and love them. My
newest one is done like the Irish flag.

http://www.timbuk2.com/

John Collier

Proud to be Celtic and crazy!

> From: "Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net>
> 
> I can recommend heartily the bags made by Courierware, a tiny mom and pop
> Vermont
> company with one retail store in The People's Republic of Cambridge,
> Massachusetts
> (attention LHSA members going to October's Leica Fest).
> 
> Check out:
> 
> http://www.courierwareusa.com/intro.html
> 
> and:
> 
> http://www.courierwareusa.com/camerabags.html
> 
> The extra small is big enough for an M camera outfit while the small will hold
> motor
> driven R cameras with big lenses. The medium is HUGE. The outer material looks
> and
> feels like canvas but is indestructible. I throw mine in the washing machine
> once a
> year and it still looks like new after 14 years.  The liner is 100%
> waterproof. Comes
> in black or your choice of several other colours.
> 
> The nice people who make these bags  guarantee them for LIFE and they mean it.
> When a
> plastic buckle cracked a few years ago (not their fault) they replaced it and
> shipped
> it back to me for free. They will buy back bags you no longer need or like.
> 
> The padding is light - something like classic Domke - so these are not bags
> for
> tossing onto the floor of a freighter canoe or the back of a pickup truck. But
> great
> shooting bags and they don't look like they have cameras inside. The other
> sizes are
> great for travel luggage, schoolbags or babies diapers!
> 
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal
>