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Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:28 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dennis
I vaguely remember a thread on plastics boxes for carrying/storing individual lenses on panels. Can anyone point me to it, or reiterate the contents? Thanks. Dennis
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:05 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Paul Mitchell
Can't point you to the location of the thread Dennis but FWIW I use the Domke Wraps for all my lenses+panels. Robert White have a few left
http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=1386
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:17 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by vanman
All the plastic boxes that I store my lenses in came either from supermarkets or Staples. I use three different sizes of lens panels so I need a variety of boxes.
Vanman.
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:37 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Andrew Plume
as it happens, 'vanman' I'm a staples kinda guy too
best
andrew

Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:13 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Neil Barnes
I'm still trying to find a box for those brass lenses, Andrew... I may have to get creative!
Neil
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:20 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Andrew Plume
Neil Barnes wrote:I'm still trying to find a box for those brass lenses, Andrew... I may have to get creative!
Neil
.................not even the odd spare shoe box?
regards
andrew
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:51 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Neil Barnes
Not even an odd spare shoe...
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:19 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Andrew Plume
....get away
wasn't it your good self who was considering forking out god knows what for a new Cooke SF lens
and here's one to get the odd owner of one on here going, is only good for 4x5 or 5x7 at something of a stretch
yep and as you said we "need more discussion on here".......................
best
andrew
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:22 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Andrew Plume
oh whoops
sorry Neil, not you - should do the due diligence stuff before.........y'know
andrew
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:28 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Neil Barnes
Tsk. Just can't get proper minions these days...
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:48 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by verney
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:01 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dennis
Thanks for all the replies. It was the cheapo supermarket (Staples?) plastics boxes I was thinking of, with space to add some closed cell foam. Dennis.
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:19 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Georges Giralt
Hello !
I've made a wood box with slots and without cover into which I put my lenses and the whole into my backpack. The lenses themselves are fitted with their respective caps. the slots are evenly spaced and in great numbers. (I used a router on plywood) so I can adapt the box to accommodate various lenses from small 150 mm to large Grandagon 90mm or Tele Xenar.
Obviously, the box will be smaller if your lens boards are Linhof or MPP brand instead of Sinar or Oswald Arca ... But if the latter suit your camera, you can buy or make an adapter to use the smaller boards

At home my lenses are on cupboard or on shelves without the caps to get the killing fungus sun ....
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:50 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Andrew Plume
that sounds really good Georges
regards
andrew
Re: Boxes for lenses
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:34 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Georges Giralt
Hello Andrew,
Have a look at this article (on the French "Galerie Photo" website) describing how to carry a monorail camera and lenses on a cheap backpack;
Looking at the pictures will explain my concept for carrying the lenses... My design is more crude as I'm not a woodworker...
http://www.galerie-photo.com/sac-vuarde.html