Camera bag contents


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The "normal" contents of my camera bag. Taken by a Nikon D40x at ISO 400 with a Nikon 18-55mm VR kit lens. (at 18) This is the first picture I’ve posted taken with the VR version of the kit lens – I’ve previously posted pictures from one of the two non-VR versions I own, both of which now have broken lens mounts. (M#@$ f#@$ in’ plastic mounts!)

Naturally, since this is a working photographer’s bag, some items are in constant flux: the film and batteries, for example!

See the notes for equipment ID: the top edge has various dishes that are on my dining room table, the backdrop for the shot…

I normally carry at least one, usually two (as seen) spare SD or SDHC memory cards for my digital camera; I normally carry a 4 Gb in-camera, with a 2 Gb and an 8 Gb as spares. (the blue card above is a 4 Gb) My 2 Gb card is a Class-2, my 4 GB cards are class-4, and the 8 Gb card is a class-6. Yes, i have run out of the house with the digital camera but no card in it! (the card was in the computer card reader…)

Normally, the camera taking the picture (a Nikon D40x) is shoulder carried with the kit lens attached; however if a birding expedition is in progress, the kit lens will be in the camera bag, and the Sigma 70-300 will be attached to the D40x. The FT2 may be out of the bag, too, for macro photography… (typically wildflowers)

Now the obvious question: why do I load all these? I tend to keep the cameras specialized: the FT2 for macros, the OM-1 for portraits, the SP-1000 for low-light non-flash, the Ikonta for B/W self-portraits, (It’s the only one other than the digital with a reliable self-timer…) etc…

Note also that three different film/image-sensor sizes are represented: four if you count the taking camera. (35mm ½ frame, 35mm full frame, 6×6 and a 1.5 crop factor Digital camera)

Update (12/2011): The Sigma is gone (AF stopped working) replaced by a Promaster 100-400 used on the N75, the Nikkor 50mm ƒ1.4 isn’t normally carried any more, and there is an addition: a Nikkor 35mm ƒ1.8 DX (and it’s case) that is used on the D40x taking the shot for available (but low) light situations. (and sometimes for other shots, too) The Olympus Pen FT has gotten a shoulder strap…

Further update: (6/2012) Add a Zeiss-Ikon Nettar 515/2 camera to the mix, although it is usually carried in a jacket pocket, not in the camera bag… add another film format, too, the Nettar is a 6x9cm camera…