Friday, 10 October 2008

Buying Camera Bags

When you go for hunting, you need special bags to protect you expensive camera equipment. How to choose the right bags for your requirement?
First of all, let’s see our future planning…what are equipments that you want to buy, how many lenses, tripod, what accessories etc.
Second, you have to consider your requirement when you go hunting, what equipment you want to bring with you…how many lenses, do you want to bring it all? If you often go for a trekking, you want lightweight package with some small prime/ zoom lens and compact tripod.
If you go for wedding photography, you will need to bring many lens to expand your creativity…and many other consideration.
After considering factors above, then you can decide wisely how big is the camera bags you required. It’s funny if you buy big camera bags, and later on you get difficulties in bring it with you or its too heavy for you to carry it.



For brands…there’s many well known brand that you could choose, some of them are:
1. Lowepro http://products.lowepro.com/catalog/Backpacks,2.htm
2. Tamrac http://www.tamrac.com/
3. Crumpler https://www.crumpler.com.au/flash/flash.aspx#/english/products.html
National Geographic also make nice bags, but the price is not reasonable (at least for me)...so i don't reccomend it unless you don't know where you should spend your money...
If not you could save your money for some filter/ lenses rather than buying not reasonable expensive bags.
For me, personally I choose Lowepro minitrekker. It can carry equipment I need and the size is just about perfect for day trip.
The bad things from this bag is that it cannot carry big tripod and our personal stuff
I saw tarmac has develop bags that could carry our personal stuff in their top compartment and camera gear in lower compartment…adventure series if I not mistake. It’s a good bags if it fits your capacity criteria.



When buying bags…ensure that you have easy access to your camera gear, sometime fast access become key point whether you get the shot or not.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Useful advice about buying right bag for camera... Thanks.