Camera Bag

[jeffgrantMEDIA]

Bags are fine but I only use bags t transport pelican cases. If you are doing a lot of outdoor filming around water etc, pelican cases are a must. Only way to truly secure ur gear and you never have to worry about weather. I buy different pelican cases to fit a variety of travel bags we use. Couple years ago I had custom made two matching travel bags that my cases will fit in. Works great for traveling airports etc. All the best. JB

While hard cases have their place, this is not it. I will be traveling from the US to Italy and throughout the country. I need a new backpack to carry my gear and other odds and ends. A hard, heavy Pelican case is not conducive for traveling via bus, plane, car and train. Also not needed for one camera body, two lenses, mic, batteries and tech pouch. If I were the be heading to Italy for work.. I still might not bring a hard shell case, as I can carry everything I need in one bag, and work with one photographer. If I were by chance traveling with a crew, or a light kit, I would use hard cases, but still carry my camera, drone and lenses in my bag, while my lights, mics, gimbal, ect. would be shipped in Pelican's.

 

[videoeditgr]

I Personally prefer bags that don't look like camera bags

eh... it is a good point only if travelling. If you open the bag even to grab a battery or change a lens,
...all the ...mystery of the "non a bag carrying expensive gear" is gone I believe...
So I prefer to use a normal photo bag, a medium to large as I tend to carry literally
everything except bulky stuff tripods and stands. A normal photo bag help to attach more external
pouches, monopods, clamps whatever. Lowepro AW runner 450 if I remember the model right.
It is not beautiful but it have survived dust sun rain you name it.

 

[Andie_the_Lab]

actually that's why we have the Thule. After a day's worth of shooting, if i'm staying at a hotel, can pull the camera portion out in it's own case and put it into the safe usually (if i am THAT worried, or keep that part somewhere else.

Lowepro also makes great backpacks. I just liked the look of the thule more is all

 

[jeffgrantMEDIA]

eh... it is a good point only if travelling. If you open the bag even to grab a battery or change a lens,
...all the ...mystery of the "non a bag carrying expensive gear" is gone I believe...
So I prefer to use a normal photo bag, a medium to large as I tend to carry literally
everything except bulky stuff tripods and stands. A normal photo bag help to attach more external
pouches, monopods, clamps whatever. Lowepro AW runner 450 if I remember the model right.
It is not beautiful but it have survived dust sun rain you name it.

I actually have a Lowpro Protactic 450AW for work, and I love it. The military look for traveling over seas, I prefer to stay away form that. I actually really like the Kaukko Herschel Little America rip off bag. If only it had a side access for a camera cube and a pocket in the flap. If I were able to make my own sleeper camera bag, that is what I would make it like.

But my thoughts on a sleeper bag are, people will know I have camera gear. If I'm not carrying my camera someone will see me putting it away or taking it out. But If I am at a cafe or on a train, and I have a regular looking backpack next to me... or I have the gear put away and I am just walking around with the bag on my back... I am less likely to get robbed. People see a camera bag, and things attached to it. That just announces I'm a free ATM. At least that's the way I look at it.

When I travel for work, I travel with a lot more gear than than when I travel with my wife. So I will always take a camera bag for work. But personal travel, I only use a Sony a6500, two lenses, Rode Vid Mic Pro and a handled tripod (with batteries and chargers in my tech pouch).