Re: [Leica] Fogg - all in the mind? Fine belgian Duck?

["animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>]

> >> Jerry-
> >>    Yeah- you're right! I'd never get the $500 Fogg - but I love the
Lyre
> >> (at half the cost) --- it "feels' right when I want to take a body,
lens (or
> >> two) and some film.
> > [cut]
> >
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > Sheesh!  All this dawg squat over bags!  Get a life folks!  Quit
worrying
> > about bags.  Bags are just things that are used to hold other things,
not
> > status symbols for those who would rather be seen with their Leicas than
> > actually us em.  It's just as silly as worrying about what kinds of hats
> > and shoes you should wear.  Who gives a flip!
 > > _
> > |_|
> > [o] - GH
> A bag is a tool just like the camera body and lenses. I have used Fogg
bags
> for years and recently completed an experiment. I put a new LHSA M6 black
> lacquer into a Fogg bag along with the rest of my kit and carried it daily
> everywhere I go, for two years, so much my son says I am carrying a purse.
> No piece of equipment has a scuff, bright mark or any body brassing. I
have
> used the more commercial "modern cordura bags" and they abrade everything
I
> carry in them. What ever Fogg lines the bags with, some kind of special
> linen I believe, seems to stop the wear. Snob appeal or not I prefer to
take
> the best care of my tools as possible if not I would just throw everything
> into an army surplus canvas bag and be off. My 2 cents worth.

 JH,
It might be called fine Belgian duck.
simon

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