Re: [Leica] leica bag

["John Black" <jblack@ambio.net>]

I bought one of those bags at Solms in the Leica plant in April of this
year.  Paid about 50 DM, I think.  I don't know exactly which cameras and
lenses fit in it because I cannot get it back from my wife who appropriated
it as a briefcase/purse/carryall.  Oh well, I still have my pockets.

JB
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Grégoire Vandenschrick <vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] leica bag


> I bought recently a leica bag for my R8 and four optics, the internal
> organisation seems to be quite identical as the slim 211 tenba bag. The
> dealer said it never was commercialized by Leica but there is the red dot
on
> it and I know the dealer well, I don't think it's a joke. Is someone
knowing
> something about this?
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> You have to attach lenses by two, with the grey ring, and you can put
these
> two barrels vertically. The camera fits then perfectly near these put
> vertically, its left side put down in the bag. You don't have the ability
to
> put a lens on it and put it in the bag, but this doesn't worry me, cause
> usually, I go to a place, and there, I make the pictures I wanted to do,
> then I come back, I'm not shooting in a photojournalistic style, and so
> don't need to have the camera quickly ready. This is a point of view.
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> What I found exessively pleasing in this bag is its size, very small to
> carry four lenses and a camera, and business-fashioned, so, nobody can
> detect you have the equipment with you, as long as one doesn't know what's
> this little red dot on the bag.
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> P.S. the lower part of the bag can be reached by a zipper in the front
part
> of the bag, and can carry films, accessories, I think the little tripod
with
> rotule could go in but I didn't try. You also can remove all the internal
> dividers, and take the false bottom, and you have a laptop bag
(uninterested
> in this configuration, but it can be useful for longer lenses.
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> I checked just one thing, the two barrels made of the four lenses, and the
> camera with motor drive, can go side by side on it, without any problem.
>
> So, if someone has already seen this kind of Leica (authentic) Bag, I
would
> be pleased to know what he/she is thinking of it. If nobody has never
heard
> a word about this Bag, could I have a unique leica piece (my dealer had
only
> two of it)?
>
> Gregoire Vandenschrick, Bruxelles
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