[Leica] have you seen the most perfect camera backpack?

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

I shall have to keep my eye out for you!
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 9:25:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] have you seen the most perfect camera backpack?

I prefer backpacks for walks from California Avenure Caltrain to
adresses in Palo Alto, and up sand dunes in Namibia:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img641a.jpg.html

I usually carry a smaller Crumpler with two cameras and two lenses
when I'm out and about.

Marty

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Oliver Bryk <oliverbryk at comcast.net> 
wrote:
> Tina opined:
>
> "I don't wear my backpack walking around cities, but I can't imagine
> climbing mountains in Honduras and Guatemala without it!!  I also can't
> imagine
> hiking down the Grand Canyon or up the Sierra Nevada with a shoulder bag! A
> backpack is the only way to carry equipment while hiking or mountain
> climbing. I need both hands to use my hiking sticks. With a backpack on my
> back and a camera around my neck, everything is balanced and I'm not likely
> to fall off the side of the mountain!
> Tina"
>
> I share Tina's preference and rationale for how to carry stuff in the
> mountains.
> Until about 10 years ago I carried a complete Hasselblad outfit with three
> magazines, Polaroid holder, spot meter and what not in the three top
> compartments of a big Kelty B-5 external frame pack, with my Tiltall
> strapped on top, and the other paraphernalia needed for a week tucked in
> here and there. It didn't matter that it took at least 5 minutes before I
> could even put the camera on the tripod.
> I tried a good sized LowePro "camera backpack" for a few months and could
> not get used to its layout and empty weight. I also distrust zippers.
> For about 10 years I have carried one M body and rarely more than two 
> lenses
> in a Gregory daypack that I outfitted with Domke inserts so that everything
> photographic, as well as a 1-liter water bottle, has its place and doesn't
> shift. The tripod stays in the automobile.
> For anything more than one M and lens while roaming about town, I carry a
> long ago discontinued Leica shoulder bag.
> Oliver
>
>
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