No room in my camera bag! (Page 3): My regular kit is one body and three zoom lenses - covers everything from 10mm to 420mm {APS}.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

AndyH wrote:

Thanks! I sometimes don’t know what I’m going to shoot or what I’ll see. Limiting my gear helps me to look for certain types of images.

Despite the heat, I’m going out for a ride in the country to shoot some film. Might end up anywhere. Which rig(s) should I bring along?

My regular kit is one body and three zoom lenses - covers everything from 10mm to 420mm {APS}.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

rehess wrote:

My regular kit is one body and three zoom lenses - covers everything from 10mm to 420mm {APS}.

Do you ever feel the need for a prime? Especially a higher speed one. The quality of today's digital zooms is so much better than in film days, but I still have a couple in my digital kit. In my film kits, I go all prime - and use shoe leather zoom.

Andy

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Robertl594 wrote:

Shhh! I haven’t told my wife how many I have. On the other hand, she won’t tell me how many horses she has. It works! Lol.

I can hide a camera body...........
Horses? not so much

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

Rich1939 wrote:

I can hide a camera body...........
Horses? not so much

That’s kinda what I figured too!

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

AndyH wrote:

Do you ever feel the need for a prime? Especially a higher speed one. The quality of today's digital zooms is so much better than in film days, but I still have a couple in my digital kit. In my film kits, I go all prime - and use shoe leather zoom.

At one time all I had was a 50mm prime. When I took a photo, I was constrained by the perspective that went with the framing I wanted {i.e., so-called 'shoe leather zoom' changes the perspective as well as the framing}. My first normal zoom was so freeing, because I could choose perspective and then independently choose framing.

User ID

Scruples wrote:

Well, I've done it again. I bought more gear. Now,
I have no room in my camera bag. I also picked up
a pouch that attaches to my belt.

............

No matter what new acquisitions I incorporate,
I never increase the load in my bag. I simply
have a wider selection of gear from which I can
choose just a few items to tote along with me.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

AndyH wrote:

Do you ever feel the need for a prime? Especially a higher speed one. The quality of today's digital zooms is so much better than in film days, but I still have a couple in my digital kit. In my film kits, I go all prime - and use shoe leather zoom.

Andy

additional comment:

In the Age of Film, I considered low aperture numbers {very wide lenses} to be the cost of low light, because of the hit on DOF. With my Pentax K-30 I limited myself to ISO=800. My Pentax KP handles higher ISO levels so well that now I limit myself to ISO=12800, which means that I can always pick aperture based on my desired DOF. I have never been a fan of "subject isolation" - in most cases I want to show my subject in its natural context - so "fast" lenses have virtually no value to me today.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

rehess wrote:

additional comment: br br In the Age of Film, I c... (show quote)

Interesting. Not how I feel, but I know I'm not the typical shooter.

Andy

Harry13

PixelStan77 wrote:

Had the same problem. Bought a Think Tank rolling bag.Whats nice is all the stuff is my roller which goes in the trunk of the car. I do take that old bag with me to use with whatever I want for that shooting time.

Funny, my take along bag is a fairly small leather plumbers bag. I have a Domke for everything else. in the plumbers bag is a 5Dc with 28-300 lens, a 1.4 extender and a nifty fifty. I only shoot AL so no flash. another 5Dc, spare batteries, a couple of other lens (a 70-300 is and a 70-200 f4) and filters in the Domke; while I own a dozen or so lens, I find that carrying three or four are enough for what i shoot. i shoot some from horseback so i like a fairly long zoom. i'll give up some quality for not risking a dropped lens from 5 or 6 feet while changing lens.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Scruples wrote:

Well, I've done it again. I bought more gear. Now, I have no room in my camera bag. I also picked up a pouch that attaches to my belt.

Be care of the GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) or as I like to call it Go And See. I'll probably buy it for use later.

Here's a photo.

Keep it up. You'll soon need one of these. >Alan

Harry13

i'll add that when I took up 35mm back in the day I had one 85mm Nikon lens, used that for years, shooting mainly theatre and dance but everything else to boot; then I retired and stopped shooting. when I took photography up again, I went with canon and my gas put me in a dozen lens.

User ID

rehess wrote:

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I have never been a fan of "subject isolation" -
in most cases I want to show my subject in its
natural context - so "fast" lenses have virtually
no value to me today.

Amen. But we are just 2 voices in a wilderness.

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Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

AndyH wrote:

Thanks! I sometimes don’t know what I’m going to shoot or what I’ll see. Limiting my gear helps me to look for certain types of images.

Despite the heat, I’m going out for a ride in the country to shoot some film. Might end up anywhere. Which rig(s) should I bring along?

I'm partial to the Hassie! She is a gem!

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Scruples wrote:

I'm partial to the Hassie! She is a gem!

Hassie and Retina won the day. But I didn't last long with no AC in my truck!

Andy

aellman Loc: Boston MA

User ID wrote:

Amen. But we are just 2 voices in a wilderness.

I also like to grab people in their environment, which is why photos like these can be shot with a state-of-the-art smart phone with virtually no sacrifice in quality vs. a "professional" camera. And they fit in your pocket! This assumes, of course, you don't plan to blow the image up to mural size. >Alan