Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henry-- Look at the Lightware "GripPack". It's a daypack looking bag. http://www.lightwareinc.com/index_11.html This is a great photographer (daypack) backpack. I carried one everyday for more than a year. I finally stopped carrying it because I was just accumulating too much stuff in it. A couple of things to note. It has a wonderful "bottom" insert that fits in the (duh) bottom. It's very sturdy and will cushion almost any fall. The Domke triple insert fits into it perfectly. The key feature is that the bag's zipper goes down very deep on each side. This allows you to work out of the bag on the run. You can have it on one shoulder and unzip the zipper down on the side facing up (it's on one shoulder). This working method is okay. Everything in your bag is on an angle since you have it on one shoulder, but believe me it's better than stopping, putting the bag down and working from the top. The bag is discreet. If you want to make it more discreet just use a Sharpie marker on the Lightware tag. Otherwise it's basic black. By-the-way, the interior is white (white!) so it's easy to find stuff. No black void to paw around in. Good luck. John Fulton Fort Worth >Henry Ting wrote: > >Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:36:45 -0800 (PST) >From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com> >Subject: [Leica] Backpack ??? >Message-ID: <20011230203645.58902.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com> >References: > >After close to 15 years of using my Fogg's shoulder >bag, sadly I have to retire it. It's been with me all >over the world. From the Rockies to the tropical Far >East, it has served me well. However, since >approaching senior years, I found lugging a shoulder >bag with all the gears is taking a toll on my physical >frame. I'm thinking of switching to a backpack. >Any recommendations ??? I looked at the Billingham >Rucksack and they seem to be well constructed. Anybody >have any experience on these backpacks ? > >Henry, I've been a senior for a good many years. Not only do my shoulders >and back hurt after lugging a loaded Domke for the better part of a day but >by afternoon my pictures get skewed! >Since I have been backpacking like forever, I still have my ancient Kelty >external frame pack; its top compartments hold my Leica or Hasselblad >equipment, other stuff goes in the bottom, foul weather gear underneath, and >the tripod straps across the top, making for a nicely balanced outfit for a >long day of hiking and shooting in the high country of the Sierra. >For shorter trips with the Leica and for overseas, I have been using a >smallish day-and-a-half sized mountain-style pack, without an internal frame >but with an internal semi-rigid plastic plate that I had cut and installed >myself. Into the bottom goes the rain jacket and on top of that I have an >exact duplicate of the compartmented inserts from my Domke F-6. Everything >fits, stays in place, and is cushioned (M6HM, 90mm, 50mm, 35mm, 24mm). There >is room for food and water. I purposely did not want a "photo" backpack with >a brand name that screams "camera inside". Several outfitters make mountain >packs; mine happens to be a Gregory. I use this pack when I want to have my >hands free and need to be balanced, for example, working the Sonoma coast >with its often steep and slippery trails. >Oliver Bryk > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html