Shoulder Bag Recommendation
Shoulder Bag Recommendation
I currently use a Lowepro Mini Trekker to carry a Toyo 45A, 5 lenses, meter, film etc. Due to a, I hope, temporary problem with my left shoulder, I cannot easily get the back pack onto my back. I'm about to start looking at shoulder bags as a temperary measure.
When I first got the Toyo I used Lowepro Nova 4 I already had. I could just get the Toyo, a 135mm lens, Readyload holder, Quickloads, meter and a few filters into it, but it was a tight fit. The bag I'm looking for would need to hold the Toyo, 90mm, 135mm and 210mm lenses, QL holder, Quickloads, meter, screw in and Cokin P filters and dark cloth + other very small bits. I wondered if the Nova 5 might do, I'll call into Morris Photographic on my way back from Northumberland on Monday to look one over.
If anyone within the group uses a shoulder bag for their LF kit, what do they use and what opinion do you have of it?
When I first got the Toyo I used Lowepro Nova 4 I already had. I could just get the Toyo, a 135mm lens, Readyload holder, Quickloads, meter and a few filters into it, but it was a tight fit. The bag I'm looking for would need to hold the Toyo, 90mm, 135mm and 210mm lenses, QL holder, Quickloads, meter, screw in and Cokin P filters and dark cloth + other very small bits. I wondered if the Nova 5 might do, I'll call into Morris Photographic on my way back from Northumberland on Monday to look one over.
If anyone within the group uses a shoulder bag for their LF kit, what do they use and what opinion do you have of it?
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Hi Steve, I have not long purchased a Tamrac Expedition 5 backpack and the load distribution is very comfortable ,I found it a lot easy now .Got rid of my other rucksacks etc, Tom,G. PS, check out Stirling silver on the net . worth looking at.
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Thanks Charles, but I wouldn't be carrying the smaller LF kit any great distance. My right shoulder is fine, the left one is suffering from what's known as a frozen shoulder. It currently limits my movement, it's impossible to get my arms into the straps of a ruck sack. I spent all day in Dartmoor Saturday, visiting Wistmans Wood, then around the North Cornwall coast, carrying a Mamiya C220, 3 lenses and a 35mm camera in the Nova 4, no problem. The LF kit wouldn't weigh a lot more. Alan, if you read this, there were still midges/gnats in Wistmans Wood, and their bites were itching for days.
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Hi,
Although I normally use a backpack when I go on lightweights or fly I use a crumpler shoulder bag - I get aa RSW, Fuji quickload back and film as well as a slimmed down filter selection. Not sure what its called as the have mad names but it is brilliant it is about 18 inches long and about 8-10 wide with only two small pockets but I get verything carefully packed into the main section.
Very good and always goes on the plane.
Although I normally use a backpack when I go on lightweights or fly I use a crumpler shoulder bag - I get aa RSW, Fuji quickload back and film as well as a slimmed down filter selection. Not sure what its called as the have mad names but it is brilliant it is about 18 inches long and about 8-10 wide with only two small pockets but I get verything carefully packed into the main section.
Very good and always goes on the plane.