Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Backpack
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:34:17 -0800 (PST)

Way to go Oliver.
I know what you mean when the body starts aching,
there's really no enjoyment in taking pictures
anymore. In my case, my lop-sided shoulders definitely
is caused by lugging a shoulder bag all these years.
Here's an advice to you all younger photographers.
Prevention is always better than cure. 


- --- Oliver Bryk <oliverbryk@attbi.com> wrote:
> Henry Ting wrote:
> 
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:36:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Backpack ???
> Message-ID:
> <20011230203645.58902.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com>
> References:
> 
> After close to 15 years of using my Fogg's shoulder
> bag, sadly I have to retire it. It's been with me
> all
> over the world. From the Rockies to the tropical Far
> East, it has served me well. However, since
> approaching senior years, I found lugging a shoulder
> bag with all the gears is taking a toll on my
> physical
> frame. I'm thinking of switching to a backpack.
> Any recommendations ??? I looked at the Billingham
> Rucksack and they seem to be well constructed.
> Anybody
> have any experience on these backpacks ?
> 
> Henry, I've been a senior for a good many years. Not
> only do my shoulders
> and back hurt after lugging a loaded Domke for the
> better part of a day but
> by afternoon my pictures get skewed!
> Since I have been backpacking like forever, I still
> have my ancient Kelty
> external frame pack; its top compartments hold my
> Leica or Hasselblad
> equipment, other stuff goes in the bottom, foul
> weather gear underneath, and
> the tripod straps across the top, making for a
> nicely balanced outfit for a
> long day of hiking and shooting in the high country
> of the Sierra.
> For shorter trips with the Leica and for overseas, I
> have been using a
> smallish day-and-a-half sized mountain-style pack,
> without an internal frame
> but with an internal semi-rigid plastic plate that I
> had cut and installed
> myself. Into the bottom goes the rain jacket and on
> top of that I have an
> exact duplicate of the compartmented inserts from my
> Domke F-6. Everything
> fits, stays in place, and is cushioned (M6HM, 90mm,
> 50mm, 35mm, 24mm). There
> is room for food and water. I purposely did not want
> a "photo" backpack with
> a brand name that screams "camera inside". Several
> outfitters make mountain
> packs; mine happens to be a Gregory. I use this pack
> when I want to have my
> hands free and need to be balanced, for example,
> working the Sonoma coast
> with its often steep and slippery trails.
> Oliver Bryk
> 
> 
> 
> 
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