Thank you ☺️

Well you probably searched by using your name or something you know you said. I searched “storage and lens storage” and it didn’t come up. You also didn’t have to reply today. Sorry to have put you put but geeez.

Thank you all for your advice and suggestions! I think I’m making a bigger deal out of it than I should! That’s good, I’ll use your suggestions and just go with bags! Also; I did search to see if storage was brought up in the past, and all I found was actual photo storage, but I’m sorry for the redundancy if this was already brought up! Thank you everyone!!

Hello! I am trying to decide the best way to store my lenses and camera when I am not using them. Ideally, they would have a "home", and I would choose the lens(es) I need for the day when I am out shooting so I can limit the weight I am lugging around by carrying lenses I know I won't need (which is what I am doing now, or leaving them on a random table until I get home and put them back in the camera backpack).

I recently bought a dehumidifier cabinet, which seemed amazing in theory, but the temperature inside of it is about 76 degrees, and for some reason, even though the humidity is 35%, the temperature being that high makes me nervous (maybe it shouldn't, I don't know).

I used to keep lenses in a separate camera bag, in a dark closet, and never had issues with them getting mold or dust, etc, but the lenses I have acquired over the years mean quite a lot to me and I don't know if that same storage technique (closet in bag) is actually a good idea?

So my question, where do you store your lenses and camera when you aren't using them? I use my camera almost every day, but I shoot macro, wildlife and even try astronomy, so I have lenses I definitely don't use every day that I would like to keep as safe as possible when they are sitting on the bench 😉 What do you do that works?

Thank you!

I have this camera - is it not just showing you that is the ISO it’s choosing automatically?

Hi! Haven’t sold it yet but do have a number of people interested. I underpriced it a bit already, and unfortunately can’t take that price, but I wish I could because this lens is AMAZING for bird photography and you’d love it!!

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Yellowstone is on my bucket list! You’re lucky you have a great excuse to visit! Yeah, I suppose this lens is a bit heavy but never regretted carrying it because the images you can capture are stunning! It’s made me look like I knew what I was doing when I didn’t more than once! 😂☺️

It is G1 :)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD for Canon DSLR Cameras

This lens is AWESOME - I only just bought it in October but need to sell it because I could use the $. Will take best offer :)

Lens has NO MOLD, NO DENTS, NO DINGS, NO SCRATCHES, only a few dust particles is why I would say it's not out of the box excellent, and they are absolutely invisible on photos. If you would like to see photos it's taken, I have attached a few. This lens has been babied - lens caps always on, always in bag, always safe.

ABOUT THE LENS:
The Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Canon is an expansive telephoto-zoom lens designed for both full-frame and APS-C-sized image sensors. Its 4x zoom design covers standard telephoto to super telephoto perspectives, making it ideally suited to working with a wide variety of subject matter. Benefitting this range is VC (Vibration Compensation) image stabilization, which helps to minimize the appearance of camera shake to enable the use of longer shutter speeds or smaller apertures when hand-holding in low-light conditions. A USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive) autofocus motor provides quick and precise focusing performance, with high torque, low response times, and quiet operation to benefit both still and video applications. Additionally, a full-time manual focus mechanism enables manual fine-tuning of focus at any point, even when the AF system is engaged.

The optical design integrates three low dispersion (LD) elements within its construction to minimize optical aberrations throughout the zoom range, particularly at the longer focal length positions. Individual elements also feature an eBAND (Extended Bandwidth & Angular Dependency) coating, as well as a conventional BBAR (Broad-Band Anti-Reflection) coating, in order to reduce lens flare and ghosting to produce more contrast-rich and color-neutral imagery.
Expansive telephoto-zoom lens is well-suited to nature, wildlife, and sports photography and can be used on both full-frame and APS-C DSLR cameras.

Three low dispersion elements are integrated into the front group of the lens construction (two in the first group, one in the third) to effectively compensate for on-axis optical aberrations throughout the zoom range, notably with longer focal length positions.
eBAND and BBAR coatings have been applied to lens elements to minimize lens flare and ghosting in order to maintain high contrast, clarity and color fidelity.

VC image stabilization helps to reduce the appearance of camera shake to enable greater hand-held shooting capabilities in low-light conditions.

A USD autofocus system provides quick, quiet, responsive and accurate focusing performance that is suited to both still image and movie shooting.
A full-time manual focus mechanism allows for manual focusing at any time; even when working in AF shooting modes.
The optimized optical design reduces the movement of lens groups during focusing and zooming in order to maintain a relatively compact and lightweight form-factor.
A redeveloped external finish, with linear patterned zoom and focus rings, enhance the overall handling of the lens as well as its cosmetic appearance.

A nine-blade circular diaphragm produces an aesthetic out-of-focus quality that is especially beneficial when working with selective focus or shallow depth of field techniques.
A removable tripod mount is included for use of the lens when working from a tripod.

No way! How fun to “meet” all of you! Maybe some day we can have a local UHH photography meet up at one of the lake restaurants! Thank you for your kind offer! I can’t think of anything honestly, I think he’s at least covered with the necessities! But a filter or two could be really cool! I’ll have to learn more about this lens I just acquired for him because I don’t know the size it would need, but how kind of you for your willingness to help! Have a great week!

That’s so cool that this is what you do!! First - I’m majorly envious you live in SA, hopefully some day I can call Africa home, even if just for a year or two. To clarify- he’s not a photography guide, he’s a safari guide. So I imagine if he didn’t have “cool people” with him, he would not take photos. I do have the batteries (4), two chargers with the American voltage so I am giving him a converter, a car charger so he can charge it in his truck if needed, I’ve got the card reader for his phone, and I think I may even have the 70-300, but my guess is after one of the comments I read, that it’s the 75-300 (not such a great lens). I’ll look for one for him!! I just want him to have good stuff! He’s so excited, and so am I to give it to him! He’s started reading about aperture, light, shutter speed, composition, etc, but as we all know, practice is how we learn. So when he gets it is when he will really start to learn!

I actually have the EF 70-300 right now and it’s for sale because I was going to use that money to buy him a lens (which thankfully I didn’t have to!). Maybe I can give it to him too. It was always grainy when I used it but maybe (probably) it was just me.

WOW!!!!! That’s beautiful!!

I’m going to get him the plug in for his phone with the SD slot so he can use them and save them that way! I thought of that too!

That’s really a great point! To him, this will be brand new! And it really is a good set up, I just didn’t want to get him so excited (he got tears in his eyes when I sent him a photo and told him it was his!) and have it not be good. I wasn’t so worried about the lens as I was my camera. I guess since I’ve had it for so long, but you’re point is right, older isn’t necessarily “bad” and in fact it will be common if not nice over there where in many places, options like this are not available. Thank you for the kindness and words of advice!