Easy way to carry a camera as we age (Page 3): If you are too lazy to read a whole thread before making comments you need to keep those comments to yourself. The whole problem of the...

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

leftj wrote:

Would be nice if you ever got around to explaining the carrying method you're talking about.

If you are too lazy to read a whole thread before making comments you need to keep those comments to yourself. The whole problem of the image not posting was solved long ago.

If you read all the posts and think first you might make a useful contribution.

leftj Loc: Texas

robertjerl wrote:

If you are too lazy to read a whole thread before making comments you need to keep those comments to yourself. The whole problem of the image not posting was solved long ago.

If you read all the posts and think first you might make a useful contribution.

But it wasn't solved at the time I made the post. You are the lazy one for not seeing that.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

leftj wrote:

There were no previous posts with a picture when I wrote this.

Problem solved and picture posted Jan 13 @ 13:11:05
You posted Jan 14 @ 11:50 22 hours after that.
Now tell us again how it wasn't posted when you wrote your comments.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

leftj wrote:

But it wasn't solved at the time I made the post. You are the lazy one for not seeing that.

Duh! Wrong again, picture posted and problem solved 22 hours before your first post.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

treadwl wrote:

Yesterday I passed an 85 year old woman walking with a Nikon full Frame camera and a 600mm lens with tripod. She had the entire rig riding in a baby stroller which she was pushing. The stroller has BIG wheels and seems to roll effortlessly.

I like stories like this. Props to her...

MtnMan Loc: ID

That is also a good idea if going through a crowd. Particularly if in a tourist area with known thievery problems. I've read that thieves in some areas have become adept at removing expensive lenses from cameras on slings. I saw a video from near the Hermitage in Russia where a small group surrounded a photogrpher (in a seemingly friendly manner) and one snuck off with his lens while the others (appearing to not be accomplices) interfered.

LorrieLynn Loc: Bridgeville, CA

treadwl wrote:

Yesterday I passed an 85 year old woman walking with a Nikon full Frame camera and a 600mm lens with tripod. She had the entire rig riding in a baby stroller which she was pushing. The stroller has BIG wheels and seems to roll effortlessly.

Good for her!!! Keep on keeping on!!!

DBQ49er Loc: Dubuque, IA

Strap it to your cane or crutch as long as you don't forget where you left it.
LOL for sure, not there yet.

Dlevon Loc: New Jersey

When you start getting too old, the best thing is to get rid of all your expensive junk, in essence all the stuff you had to buy or have, or thought you needed, or that you heard it was the best, or the strongest, one of the neatest, for most reliableand you thought you needed it all to take your best pictures which turned out to be not true, and then you realize some of your best pictures you took was when you were younger and didn't even have the great great great great equipment and you thought more about photography and not really just pushing buttons on your new fangled digital cameras and I could go on and on and on! Just pick up a lightweight and simple camera and enjoy photography as you did when you were a kid with your first camera. Of course, I did! LOL

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I'm in a mood.
Do you have some nice strong grandkids who could use pocket money?
If not contact the local High School football coach and tell him that you need a nice strong lad to carry a bunch of camera gear on all day (or whatever you can complete) walk around shoots. Pocket money and you feed him lunch, photo lessons also. Add a couple of jugs of GatorAid and water, a package of 12 granola/energy bars (2 for you 10 for the football player) to the gear load and off you go. Make a note of which burger joint has the best bargain (one of ours has 2 burgers for $6, the full size ones, not the appetizer size) and go through the drive through on the way back. Your back and neck will feel great, no strain from carrying gear at all!
Do that a few Saturdays in a row and you will have the players scouting locations for you so they can get to be your "gun bearer" for a day. Beats staying home doing homework or baby sitting their younger siblings.
Heck, they may even get "community service" credit for it - helping a senior citizen.

Ed Greding Loc: Texas

When I was younger I had a slave (writer who tagged along for travel-writing ideas), but Bill absquatulated so I have to keep my gear to a minimum.

dragonswing Loc: Pa

Harry_in_England wrote:

I was doing that for years with almost everything, not just my camera but nowadays I use a harness that goes over both shoulders and can support both a camera and a pair of binoculars at different heights so they don't bash against each other. It saves that awful rubbing on the back of my neck.
In case anyone is interested, this is the one I have:
http://www.steiner-optics.com/accessories/clicloc-body-harness-system
but there are plenty of other systems that do a similar job.

I have the harness but need to be careful since the clips keep detaching themselves from my camera.