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Nov 1, 2018 08:45:37   #
Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida
 
Everything is in a spare bedroom that my wife never enters.

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Nov 1, 2018 08:46:28   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
turp77 wrote:
I’ll help you. I’ll take your 200-500 🤪


LOL! You must have built a bigger storage and display area!

Did I tell you that I found a nice 24-120 F4?

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Nov 1, 2018 08:49:44   #
StevenG Loc: Long Island, NY
 
aschweik wrote:
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now it's scattered around. We have a large house, but a lot of people living here. What I really need is a kid to move out so I can have their room! But...since making a 14 year old go live somewhere else is most likely illegal, I need to find a way to store my stuff in another room. I have looked at cases (like Pelican), dressers, cabinets, etc. I don't know which is the best way as far as not damaging the equipment over time. It's not going anywhere with me. I have smaller camera bags for travel. I just need somewhere to stash it all in one place around the house.

I'm interested in what other people do with all their gear that they aren't using in a grab and go bag. I've been looking online and see differing opinions on the cases due to no air circulation, etc. And people cautioning the use of some foam padding as it breaks down. Not sure how much of that stuff makes a difference. So I'd like to know what the Hedgehogs do! (aside from making family members move out :)

Thanks for any ideas you may have.
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now i... (show quote)


Closet in finished basement. I have to fight for shelf space my wife uses for grandkid’s presents, which seem to multiply every year.
Steve

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Nov 1, 2018 08:53:45   #
jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida
 
We have an extra room that we use for an office. I have two bookshelves that I keep all my gear on. One is short so it’s kind of a table as well but I have another countertop that I can use as well. I rigged up easy electricity to charge my batteries and so far seems to work. My camera bags frankly or just set on the floor to the side of one of the bookshelves.

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Nov 1, 2018 09:07:07   #
jaydoc
 
Storage tub with foam liner slid under the bed.

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Nov 1, 2018 09:38:01   #
wingclui44 Loc: CT USA
 
I put all my lenses and camera bodies in several rubbermaid plastic containers with silica gel.

The other stuff like flashlight; batteries, chargers; cables, printing paper; printer ink; flash light bracket etc... in a separated cabinet. all my several camera bags are hanging in another closet!

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Nov 1, 2018 09:38:06   #
Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.
 
aschweik wrote:
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now it's scattered around. We have a large house, but a lot of people living here. What I really need is a kid to move out so I can have their room! But...since making a 14 year old go live somewhere else is most likely illegal, I need to find a way to store my stuff in another room. I have looked at cases (like Pelican), dressers, cabinets, etc. I don't know which is the best way as far as not damaging the equipment over time. It's not going anywhere with me. I have smaller camera bags for travel. I just need somewhere to stash it all in one place around the house.

I'm interested in what other people do with all their gear that they aren't using in a grab and go bag. I've been looking online and see differing opinions on the cases due to no air circulation, etc. And people cautioning the use of some foam padding as it breaks down. Not sure how much of that stuff makes a difference. So I'd like to know what the Hedgehogs do! (aside from making family members move out :)

Thanks for any ideas you may have.
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now i... (show quote)


I started with a large Pelican case, but ended up commandeering a chest of drawers, dedicating a drawer for lenses, a drawer for paper & various little accessories & my rechargeable AA’s, my photo printer sits atop the chest as well as room for my charging station for AA’s and camera batteries.

I fitted some acoustic foam to the lens drawer as a soft bottom for the lenses

My lens drawer is pretty much full, but I still have an empty drawer when needed

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Nov 1, 2018 09:50:14   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
aschweik wrote:
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now it's scattered around. We have a large house, but a lot of people living here. What I really need is a kid to move out so I can have their room! But...since making a 14 year old go live somewhere else is most likely illegal, I need to find a way to store my stuff in another room. I have looked at cases (like Pelican), dressers, cabinets, etc. I don't know which is the best way as far as not damaging the equipment over time. It's not going anywhere with me. I have smaller camera bags for travel. I just need somewhere to stash it all in one place around the house.

I'm interested in what other people do with all their gear that they aren't using in a grab and go bag. I've been looking online and see differing opinions on the cases due to no air circulation, etc. And people cautioning the use of some foam padding as it breaks down. Not sure how much of that stuff makes a difference. So I'd like to know what the Hedgehogs do! (aside from making family members move out :)

Thanks for any ideas you may have.
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now i... (show quote)


This is a broader problem than you might want to admit. I also have this issue. It comes down to general de-cluttering. I know I need to donate old clothes, throw out all of the bits and pieces I just "knew" I must keep just in case (old hinges, door knobs, screws, lock sets, jars, broken cutting boards I planned to fix 10 years ago), etc.... Once I do that, I am sure I will fine someplace better than just inside the office door to put my camera bag and on the back of my desk for lenses.

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Nov 1, 2018 09:52:25   #
Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.
 
aschweik wrote:
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now it's scattered around. We have a large house, but a lot of people living here. What I really need is a kid to move out so I can have their room! But...since making a 14 year old go live somewhere else is most likely illegal, I need to find a way to store my stuff in another room. I have looked at cases (like Pelican), dressers, cabinets, etc. I don't know which is the best way as far as not damaging the equipment over time. It's not going anywhere with me. I have smaller camera bags for travel. I just need somewhere to stash it all in one place around the house.

I'm interested in what other people do with all their gear that they aren't using in a grab and go bag. I've been looking online and see differing opinions on the cases due to no air circulation, etc. And people cautioning the use of some foam padding as it breaks down. Not sure how much of that stuff makes a difference. So I'd like to know what the Hedgehogs do! (aside from making family members move out :)

Thanks for any ideas you may have.
I am accumulating camera equipment and right now i... (show quote)


Dresser drawer in my bedroom (for a while I made my t-shirts live on the floor, they now share a drawer with other "foldables"). Put in a sheet of foam rubber about an inch thick, to fit the drawer, then with strips made divisions, so lenses would not roll against each other.
The often-used items, like the camera itself, a flash, a 12-40mm lens, lenspen, spare battery, and some other small stuff, live in the camera bag, so that it's ready to be grabbed at a moment's notice.
Oh, tripod usually lives in the car, except for the gorillapod, it lives with the other stuff in the drawer.

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Nov 1, 2018 09:59:11   #
Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida
 
I keep my silver Nikon Df on the coffee table in the family room because I think it looks nice.

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Nov 1, 2018 10:10:24   #
pendennis
 
I have a boatload of digital and film equipment, 35mm, medium and large formats. Most are stored in "kit condition" in Tamrac bags. I'm a sucker for the older Tamrac 6XX series, and they can be had for small bucks at g sales and used camera stores. I generally use a low tech solution, a twist wire paper tag I.D.-ing the contents. I also have some Pelican cases for lenses when I need armor-class storage.

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Nov 1, 2018 10:11:10   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
Kmgw9v wrote:
I keep my silver Nikon Df on the coffee table in the family room because I think it looks nice.


YEAH! I am not leaving my stuff laying around!!! It's decor!!!

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Nov 1, 2018 10:48:22   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
Cameras hang from their straps on a hook in the darkroom, film in the fridge and freezer, misc stuff crammed in a drawer, lenses in another drawer. Whatever camera I'm currently using usually sits on the kitchen table...ready to grab.

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Nov 1, 2018 11:25:05   #
Tomcat5133 Loc: Gladwyne PA
 
One issue is how you work. I have a video rig a FF camera rig, a apsce camera rig, a bridge camera and a few older cameras.
Their Sony's so what do you do when the cameras share different lens and attachments. I have been going crazy with this
moved to FL from PA so I have a clothes closet with shelves. Finally decided to divide boxes cut down Amazon into groups.
FF lens. etc. Wires stabilizing equipment etc. It is full. Batteries drive me crazy. those I keep separate and I try and
charge them after using. The early batteries on all these great cameras, RX100's a6000, a6300, RX10 III, a7s II etc are
all the same and the batteries have been outgrown by the great technology and they take the same battery which doesn't
last that long. the cameras are in bags some are in one of the boxes wrapped. I hope this made sense. Good luck.

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Nov 1, 2018 12:12:30   #
wingclui44 Loc: CT USA
 
Kmgw9v wrote:
I keep my silver Nikon Df on the coffee table in the family room because I think it looks nice.



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