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Oct 19, 2017 01:49:20   #
markstjohn
 
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.

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Oct 19, 2017 02:06:27   #
RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia
 
A book case with glass doors for the stufff that is not in my day to day camera bag.

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Oct 19, 2017 02:27:51   #
Rongnongno Loc: FL
 
markstjohn wrote:
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.

The real question you need to answer is: Why do you purchase all this stuff. Your answer will determine where to store it.

Collection? Display.
Resale? Well organized individual boxes.
No idea? Get rid of all this junk (sell preferably)

You get the picture?

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Oct 19, 2017 02:40:29   #
tdekany Loc: Oregon
 
No need to hoard stuff you don’t use. Sell everything not being utilized and invest it in new gear that you will use, or spend it elsewhere.

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Oct 19, 2017 03:00:29   #
SharpShooter Loc: NorCal
 
markstjohn wrote:
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.


Mark, welcome to the Hog!
I have a cheap gun safe from Harbor Freight Sales that fits most of my stuff. I do have a Back Pack that has all the gear I need for most any shoot and that also stays in the safe. I can just grab it and go.
I get rid of pretty much anything that has been replaced by a newer model.
I'd get rid of the 100 and 200. Sounds like you've replaced them with FF bodies. I also keep all my Hard drives in the safe.
again welcome and Good Luck!!!
SS

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Oct 19, 2017 17:03:20   #
jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA
 
I have a locking steel drawer cabinet, it's heavy gauge metal and was a bank teller cash holder. My newer camera bodies, speedlites and lenses are locked in it.

I have heavy duty storage cases preloaded with gear for particular needs. For example: one case has auxiliary lighting, cables, modifiers, clamps, etc., that would be needed on site for a shoot. Another has my mono lights, cables, extension cords and stands. One has the basic items that I always use at some point when on location and one with my tabletop shooting gear. These cases stack on each other, and are sturdy enough to stand on if I need to be higher. Lightstands are in over the shoulder carry bags hanging in the closet.

I pack what I need for a particular shoot in a rolling camera hard case and pick and choose whatever I might think I need from the storage cases, if I don't plan on taking the whole case. Usually, I take at least two of the storage cases with me and leave them in the back of the SUV, just in case. I do not separate FF from APS-c.

If I am just day shooting, I pack a backpack or shoulder bag with the lens I anticipate needing, camera bodies, monopod, flash, modifier and PW's. Extra batteries, etc are in a small zipper bag ready to go in any scenario.

As to whether or not to keep old cameras and lenses, I keep most of my older bodies so far. One was converted to IR, one is used for time lapse shooting (because the shutter count doesn't worry me) one is a backup and another is a second body so I don't have to change lenses while shooting. If I ever upgrade, then I will get rid of an older body. I don't have many older lenses I wouldn't want. A couple of kit lenses I keep around for using on the unattended body shooting remotely. If it gets knocked over and I lose the lens, not as hard to take compared to losing an 'L' lens. I have sold off or donated cameras and lenses beyond what I have now.

Your mileage will vary, depending on what you expect out of your photography. I keep backups because if I am on a paid shoot, I can't afford to not have gear functioning or have backup solutions.

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Oct 20, 2017 05:50:06   #
muggins88 Loc: Inverness, Florida
 
markstjohn wrote:
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.


I have read and practice this. Lens and cameras should be stored in a dry place where air can circulate. It is also suggested that they be put out in sunlight periodically.

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Oct 20, 2017 06:30:10   #
jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida
 
markstjohn wrote:
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.


They dedicated photographic room with lots of drawers and shelves a table.

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Oct 20, 2017 06:30:30   #
MikeMck Loc: Southern Maryland on the Bay
 
I have one full frame camera and one crop sensor camera. I keep the full frame camera and its lenses (L type) in one backpack and I keep the crop sensor and its lenses (EF-s) lenses in another.

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Oct 20, 2017 07:15:57   #
billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
 
markstjohn wrote:
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.


I store my camera and lenses on an open shelf in my bed room closet. Smoke and humid free environment. On ebay the D100 bodies are going between $30 to $60 depending on condition, the D200's are going for around $80 to $120 again depending on condition. You also lose 10% plus pay pal % so you really won't make that much. See if a local high school photography class would want your camera's.

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Oct 20, 2017 07:22:26   #
blackest Loc: Ireland
 
It's tricky, i've just bought a trolley case for lighting gear flash & strobes big enough to fit my beauty dish in. Too short for stands but i have a big canvas bag which will take them. Lenses are mostly on shelves sorted by mount , filters are in drawers mostly.

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Oct 20, 2017 07:33:37   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
markstjohn wrote:
I am starting to get lots of cameras and lenses and accessories. I can not figure out how to store all this at home? Keep it backpacks that I also have? Baskets on the floor? Dedicated cabinet with shelves? Do I store all my DX stuff together, and the FF stuff elsewhere? What systems work for you all?

Also do you keep or sell off old cameras and lenses? I have a D100 and D200. Any use in keeping them?
Thanks ahead of time for your ideas here.


Buy a very large piece of property and build your house in the center. As you accumulate hobby-related stuff, add a large room. I have a shelf in the bedroom loaded with plastic storage boxes: Small Tripods, Tripod Parts, Straps, Name Brand Straps, etc. Downstairs, I have smaller storage boxes with all sorts of cables in them. It makes it really easy to find what I want. I have over a dozen boxes like that. In a corner of the room, I have all my tripods. Cameras and lenses are in bags in the closet. In another section of the room, I have my seventeen ukuleles. If my wife were still alive, she'd be having a fit.

It's impossible to truly streamline, so just make the best of it. A couple of tips about the boxes. Look around and get something sturdy with locking lids. I found that stores don't carry the same kind of container for very long, so I have a mixture - not necessarily good. I print the contents on paper and attach it with wide transparent tape. It's a lot cheaper and easier to read than label maker labels.

If I 'm not using a camera or lens, I put it on ebay, and it's gone in a week. I'd rather get $25 for something I'm not using than have it sit around taking up space.

Whenever I receive something that has those drier packs in the box, I save them and put them in with cameras and lenses.

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Oct 20, 2017 08:06:47   #
jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida
 
billnikon wrote:
I store my camera and lenses on an open shelf in my bed room closet. Smoke and humid free environment. On ebay the D100 bodies are going between $30 to $60 depending on condition, the D200's are going for around $80 to $120 again depending on condition. You also lose 10% plus pay pal % so you really won't make that much. See if a local high school photography class would want your camera's.


He could set the older cameras up in another room as a museum showcase and possibly find some other older cameras to add to that for fun.

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Oct 20, 2017 08:44:34   #
Jeffcs Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
 
Don't keep older stuff unless you are a GAS person I think and only for the D200 is in good working order I'd turn it into an infrared body I keep my stuff in a camera cabinet

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Oct 20, 2017 09:27:41   #
ncribble Loc: Albuquerque, NM
 
Mark, listen to SharpShooter. The gun safe's security gives one peace of mind, you can arrange all you gear orderly, and your wife will appreciate that "All the Stuff" is out of the way.

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