Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Howard-- It's not a matter of "how much outfit I can fit in" your bag. It's a matter of how much you can leave at home. Frankly, I don't know what some of that stuff is your talking about. If you're trying to go light, take your M6 , a 28 and a 50. That's all you really need. That other stuff is going to just jam up your bag and make it hard to get stuff out. Anyway, when you travel, the point is to pack and then throw half the stuff out (this goes for clothes as well as cameras). I have an 803 bag with the Domke three-divider in it. The first compartment has a 50 f2 at the bottom. The M6 with (old) 35mm Summilux fits in on top of the 50 and can be pulled out in a second. The middle compartment has the 21 and finder at the bottom (I rarely use it) and a fishnet bag of film on top. The third divider has my eye-glasses, reading glasses and sun glasses (yeah, lots of optics in my bag). Airplane tickets, passport, media credentials tuck in between the divider and the inside of the bag. That's how I do it and I carry it everywhere at all times. I would rather have the 21 and the 35, but could substitute the 28 for both if REALLY trying to get light. Anyway, good luck with your travels. John Fulton Fort Worth > >Hello Luggers >I am setting off on another of my business trips - this time to Toronto, >Chicago, Calgary, Saskatoon, Vancouver and then back home to Hong Kong. I >have packing and unpacking my Domke 803 to see how much outfit I can fit in >and I have decided to take the following: Minolta CLE, 28 Voigtlander >Ultron F1.9, 40mm Summicron, 75mm Heliar F2.5 with a Voigtlander 75mm 1:1 >viewfinder and the CLE dedicated TTL flash. The 28 with hood is the same >height as the 75 with hood and, of course, of bigger diameter and the 40 is >nearly a pancake lens it is so stubby. I could take the Leica M6HM, or the >Hexar RF but both are much heavier than the CLE. The Bessa R is an >alternate light body but that would not provide aperture-preferred >automation like the CLE. I guess we will all have to wait a while longer >for Mr. Kobayashi and the engineers at Cosina to whip up a Bessa A with >aperture preferred programming. I am sure the idea is in the pipeline. I am >looking forward to being able to haul the Domke around for hours upon hours >and not run into bag weight fatigue - and I think the quality of the >images, at least in terms of what these lenses can produce, will be pretty >good also. >Topic switch: which camera stores should I visit in Chicago - I always go >to Central Camera Company on Wabash - but there must be others. >Thanks >Howard.