Re: [Leica] Camera Bag and thanks for Motor drive R8 answers

[Grégoire Vandenschrick <vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be>]

I read your advertice about camera bag

It seems the Camera bag model made by Courierware of Cambridge is the same
solution of the 112 Tenba Bag I bought recently. Mine is in fact a special
edition made for Leica, with the red circle on it, but the zip are labelled
Tenba, so, it right the 112 bag

It's  in fact the best bag design I know. A night, I had on ma table all my
Leica lenses and R8 and wonder how it could be put the more compact and easy
to handle, and the idea was so:

two optics attached by a grey ring, two other the same way, and this two
barrels vertically placed side by side along the body, and all fits a laptop
bag, so I had the Idea of the best bag to buy, and searched in the camera
bag catalogs I had, and the 112 fits perfectly my needs and the way I wanted
my equipment to be put in. One day, the Leica dealer for Belgium made a
Leica Day in a Camera Store in Brussels (Photo Alpha for those who know it)
and there was two of these "Leica" bags, the dealer said they received it
from Leica but never sold it, I don't know why, and so they sell it to me
for something like $50 and now I bought the Drive for the R8, and it always
fits perfectly with my four lenses in. There is not so much pockets in as in
the Cambridge camera bag, but for me it's better, the slimmer the easiest to
carry everywhere.

The best thing about this bag is that it never looks like a big camera bag
full of treasure, it is, but no one knows it, and that is capital to not be
stolen

So, try this configuration, it's the best (in my sense, no polemic)

Greg

N.B., thanks for the response about the always working two shutter releases
of the motor drive, even you pull out the advance lever, it convince me to
buy it, and if you possess an R8, buy the drive, this is maybe the perfect
camera. The little bad ergonomic of the right part of the right handgrip is
totally cured with the handgrip of the drive, and paradoxally, the camera is
lighter to handle, cause of the better handyness,

So, that's it, sorry for the bad english

I stop

Greg