What do you use to carry your things in.

Small toploader (TLZ 1) inside an old Camelbak HAWG rucksack or if taking more gear a butchered Lowepro Slingshot which then goes inside a hiking rucksack

Shoulder and hand bags do suit the ladies rather better
 
The Pariah said:
And cagey I know but I got followed when I was in fleetwood, on chats worth estate, by a gang of youths when I was doing some street photography in a bad part of town
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I suggest packing a Baseball bat in that case!

Seriously though, if they were going to attack/mug you, I doubt a plainer bag would stop them. I think thieves have copped on to the plain-bag disguise thing long ago.

Most camera bags are quite plain anyway. They just look like normal shoulder/back packs mostly, it's inside that's different.
 
RichardTaylor said:
It depends on where I am, and what I am carying.
#1 Casual shooting - one camera etc - a cheap satchel with an old camera bag insert in it.
#2 When I need to take a lot of stuff - Lowepro flipside 400
#3 When I need to take a fair bit of stuff and I can't put a camera bag down - like shooting in water/beach etc - A Domeke vest.
#4 When shooting classical music concerts and I need as bag to work out of - A traditional over the shoulder large camera bag.
#5 When I need to be very mobile (and a media vest needs to be seen) - A Thank Tank harness sytem loaded up for at least 4-5 hours shooting - It may include niblies and multiple water bottles.
I have far too many camera bags.
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Very similar to the above. The bag or lack thereof needs to fit with the kits required, destination and duration. One size does not fit all which as a result means...

Pro-tech sling systems
Photo belt + various tamrac, tuffluv, fancier lens cases
A couple of different lowepro's
Kata 123 sling backpack
Tuffluv messenger
Tamrac velocity x9 (only had it a week and used in anger the first time this weekend during the torrential rain @ Crocky Trial, so far excellent)

Non traditional camera bags:
Various rucksacks
Various holdalls
Various messengers / laptop bags
3 different type of camera inserts to fit into the above (slim, medium and huge)

And i'm usually the pack mule for my tribes drinks + supplies so that factors into as well :)
 
I keep two types of Bag, although in the near future I'll be looking for a slightly more discreet bag.

For just a day trip out somewhere, I'll normally take just the one body / lens in a smaller bag (normally the Lowepro Nova 160 AW, which you can currently get on Amazon for £34)

Or for events / festivals and other stuff I tend to use a backpack, these are a little more expensive (normally the Lowepro Fastpack 350 which is currently around £80 on Amazon) but it gives space for multiple lenses, spare body, flash, laptop and loads of other bits of kit, if you need to move a lot around, my only regret is not going for the AW version...

As I say though I'm looking at a slightly more discreet bag, perhaps for travelling, and I'm also trying to not just be a Lowepro fanboy xD
 
+10 to the think tank retrospective 5.

It can hold me em5 with 12-35, plus another 2 lenses (35-100 and 8-16). I put a think tank cable management 10 bag in the front pocket to keep all the odds'n'sods together (batteries, lens cloths,lens pen, filters, flash), a a pee wee pixel rocket in the inside flap and a manfrotto pocket tripod in the side pocket.

After using rucksacks for years i am now much preferring the shoulder bag as it is much easier to access stuff.
 
boliston said:
id imagine about 95% of camera theft (possibly more even) is "opportunist" rather than by violent mugging
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in blackpool a lecturer at the college uni, had a knife held to her throat and her laptop stolen in broad daylight on a main road

also two students got held up at knifepoint and had their phones stolen.

i dont wanna run the risk.
 
The Pariah said:
just ive always used a man bag, but of noticed recently as i have no lens caps or back covers (i always lose them) so im getting dust dirt and scratches on my lens's as they clank about. as well as grease and all sorts
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What! Do you seriously carry your lens in you "manbag" without front and rear cap and they are all banging around??? If you go this way you may at least put a filter on the lens to protect it? I'll definitely remember your name not to buy second hand from you! (I'm kind of joking but kind of not too).
 
To add something constructive to what can look like a arsh critic: At the moment I use a lot small bag bought for under 10£ on ebay. This tiny bag can fit to either a manbag or a small bag. So nobody can see that you carry a camera! And size is kept down, I usually put in it my 40d and 2 lens. I usually add a bit of padding in between bit and bobs that come from my other camera bag.

something a bit like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Waterproo..._Camera_Cases_Bags_Covers&hash=item27cf4eb807

NB: and I don't put grease, sand and crap in the bag with the lens!
 
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I mostly use this Small Snowbee Trout Bag with added padding in the bottom cut from a kneeling mat.

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and yeah i dont really care for my stuff but ive decided to take more care of it now hense the looking for a new bag (and you wouldnt want my lens's ones an awful tamron and the other an equally awful sigma >.<)
 
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spike241 said:
I ordered one last week. Loved the Flipside 300. I'd be wary of that particular one though, it's very cheap and it's from China so might not be great quality
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It's a Lowepro tho? Do you think it's fake?
 
The link was just an example of what I have! I don't buy from china, 1 it takes too long to get. 2, it might not ever come! I got mine from a local-ish person from gloucester who sells camera bits! If you want his info can message you, not sure about rules of posting on here!
 
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