Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/05

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Funny florescent yellow camera bag vid
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:35:40 -0500

Tina are you talking about Pelicans? Or bags?

It's gotta be good to have a flotation device near you at all times.
The seat you sit on in the airplane a comforting example.
Perhaps they should come out with a line of camera bags which look like
airplane seat cushions! In those colors!!


On 1/5/14 11:34 AM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I used dry bags in Central America often when traveling in canoes in
> the
Mosquito Coast.  The only problem with them that I had was that they
> not
only seal water out, they seal water in.  In the very high humidity of
> the
Mosquito Coast, anything packed in the bag ended up completely soaked.

> Somewhere I have a photo of all of my traveler's checks and passport 
> laidout
> to dry by the fire in the school building.  My Leica's dried by the
same fire.
> At home I have a whole dry-bag full of film that was never
exposed because it
> got wet and ruined inside the bag.  It's still there.
 The only reason I
> continued to use them was if the bag was accidentally
dropped over the side of
> the canoe, it would at least float!!

Tina


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:16 AM,
> Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>
> >This one in some ways funnier.
> >http://vimeo.com/69173697
> >
> >Or the
> concise:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgO5EWq9WQ8
> >
> >No ones seen
> anyone yet go "look there's  a picture I better grab my
> >camera!" And open
> the bag and do so. Yet.
> >As those ducks would  have migrated all the way
> south by then.
>
> Apparently not the bag for you.  I'd love to use a dry bag
> like this in
> rough water.  I'd open it to use the camera in calm water? and
> I plan my
> duck photos, often taking several hours to make the photo.
> Getting the
> camera out of the bag in 10 seconds or less is not a high
> priority for me
> because it takes time to work out lighting & backgrounds,
> the duck's habits
> and preferences, and allowing the duck to become
> comfortable in my
> presence.  Good wildlife photos are not point & shoot.
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See
> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>



-- 
Tina
> Manley
http:// 
> <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com

__________________
> _____________________________
Leica Users Group.
See
> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information




-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/




Replies: Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Funny florescent yellow camera bag vid)
In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Funny florescent yellow camera bag vid)