I’m doing a photo scavenger hunt thing, to try to stretch a bit with my camera (and, to be honest, to get out into the pleasegodIhope spring weather and get more pics than of Ingrid in the house being cute) and part of that is to also try to do a pic a day, like so many others have done.
But, my achilles heel with this is carrying my D70, naturally. I know a few people out there are doing this, or I think they are, based on their flickr streams, and I just don’t get how that works. I brought my camera to work today, but it’s in my bag. No speedlight (which almost doubles the size) but for someone who doesn’t even carry a purse, never had a diaper bag, etc etc, it’s hard to figure out the logistics. Anyone?
I carry mine with me almost everywhere I go (as you can clearly tell from my flickr stream). I carry my big ol LL Bean backpack with me everywhere I go too though. But at lunch I just put the camera around my neck and wander around downtown. If I don’t want to carry a bag or anything, I usually just take my Sony point and shoot.
Just carry a bag already, jaysus.
My solution to this was to ask for a sling-style backpack camera bag for my birthday. It’s a little more elegant than any of my regular backpacks, which weren’t even fashionable when I was in grad school. Anyway, there is room for my camera and my second-favourite lens, and I fill the other compartments with my wallet and phone. I stuff a change of clothes for M into one of the pockets b/c she’s not 100% reliably potty-trained. Anyway, it lets me take my DSLR out with feeling like I’m lugging around an exceptional amount of ballast.
I admit that I carry a handbag — a giant one. It’s big enough to hold my girl junk, my knitting bag and my D40.
Before the purchase of the Big Ole Bag, I would carry a normal-sized purse, sling the camera over my shoulder and have the knitting bag dangling from my wrist.
The husband carries his D300 around in a Think Tank Holster 20, which, when I asked, “where’s your camera bag” he rattled off, because he loves it so much.
I don’t carry a bag, actually — I just bought a pretty strap for my camera and always have it slung over my shoulder. It and my wallet are the things I Always Have With Me, by which I mean maybe 75% of the time. I never carry my Speedlite unless I think I’m going to need it, which I always talk myself out of. I only carry either a 50mm/1.8 or 28mm/1.8, both of which are really small and light lenses. I am constantly afraid I’m going to lose it somewhere, and yet I rarely do. And when I *do* leave it somewhere, it doesn’t take long before I notice the lack of a familiar weight on my shoulder, like when I forget to buckle my seatbelt or put on my bike helmet.