One of the perrenial questions of LF: which backpack?

[dave_whatever]

... I put them in a Lee Filters Cloth Triple Wrap. It gets them down to the minimum size possible and at just £5 it's not bad value. Check out Morco under Lee accessories. Tristan

Or call your local friendly UKLFPG Lee agent for her price

I've actually already got a triple wrap since they give you one for free when you spend an arm and a leg on a set of grads these days. Its great if a little fiddly but limited to three filters. I did think of somehow sewing two together but it might get a bit unwieldy.

I've also got the lee triple pouch, which is a bit more closer to ideal, although it would have been better if they'd subdivided it into six or eight instead of three, as there's plenty of space in there. Maybe I should dig mine out and customise it.

[Thingy]

I use a Lowepro Nature Trekker II though I have their AWII but it is too heavy for me really. In the Nature Trekker with the side pockets off my AWII, I can hold the following:

45SU camera
4 lenses & cable release
Lee RF75 hard & soft grads, B+W filter set, polariser
Handheld GPS
Ultravid 25 binoculars
Nikon P6000 camera
Loupe
Paramo dark cloth
Lightmeter
QL holder
12 sheets of assorted QL film (in the front pocket)
6x9 universal rollfilm back (usually used for macrophotography where 5x4 not used)*
6x12 universal rollfilm back*
Gitzo Series 2, CF tripod
small bottle of drinking water

*this pouch can, alternativly, hold several double dark slides.

[jennym]

What I want to know is where you put your sandwiches once you have packed your kit into your mini trekker? Or do you just make sure you are in striking distance of a pub when your tummy starts to rumble.....?

[Thingy]

What I want to know is where you put your sandwiches once you have packed your kit into your mini trekker? Or do you just make sure you are in striking distance of a pub when your tummy starts to rumble.....?

Jenny

I need a good breakfast and ideally a shower upon returning to my cabin/hotel room in the late afternoon, good company, don my dinner jacket and have dinner under candlelight.* Alternately it's the equally congenial pub lunch and dining with LF camera enthusiasts.

*The ideal setting is York's Middlethorpe Hall or Windermere's Miller Howe....

Now as for a packed lunch..... I take it you mean a bagel cut in half, spread with cream cheese, a teaspoonful of freshly chopped chives, organic smoked salmon washed down with a glass of Bollinger at exactly 6C? Sounds wonderful.

Steve

[craigmagee]

Well if i got round to picking up a spot attachment for the sekonic, the 5d would be out! lol

I just use it to meter the scene really. If i only carried it with a 50mm on there would be enough space for another LF lens in front of it. !!!

I dunno how I managed it Dave lol, it just all came together.

As for food, i can manage to squeeze a small bottle of coke, few sarnies and a flapjack in the front big pocket if i put the leatherette dark cloth in with the ebony!!

[timparkin]

While we're on a subject vaguely related to this, does anyone have a decent solution to storing Lee 100mm square and 100x150mm grads that is a bit more economic on space than the huge and bulky Lee file-o-fax I'm currently using? It just seems massively overkill and I worry that I look like an '80s yuppie every time I reach for a filter.

Hi Dave,

I cut the single sheets out of a 10 filter holder and stuff them in my backpack..

http://www.timparkin.co.uk/blog/764021813161088786

[dave_whatever]

Thanks Tim - I should have guessed you'd have a blog post on that very subject. I dare say I'll probably end up cobbling together something similar myself.

[David Evans]

Thanks Tim - I should have guessed you'd have a blog post on that very subject. I dare say I'll probably end up cobbling together something similar myself.

You could also buy a microfibre camping towel for about £5 and sew it into compartments so that it holds as many filters as you like. Similar design to the Lee £5 onethat holds three filters, but you could probably get about twenty compartments out of a £5 towel!

[Marc Wilson]

I don't have any interior pics but I've got to say i still love my dakine sequence.
Chamonix 45 or Toyo 45A, 3 lenses on panels, 7 dark slides, 2 boxes of film (+ 2 empty), spot meter, changing bag, paramo darkcloth, lupe, cable release,grey card, lee holder, adaptors and 2 filters, tint micro fibre towel, tripod in the brilliant axe slot, and still room for some sarnies, a water bottle and a map.

also good belt and shoulder system...to my mind.

still like the look of the adapted kelty redwings though...although now I'm downsizing my gear...

Marc