P3D Re: Pack Your Gear

[vmacek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Vincent G. Macek)]

John Toeppen wrote:

<<A light day pack is a good way to carry your photo equipment.  I find
bubble wrap protects my equipment and keeps my beverages chilled.  A
pack is also a good place to carry your all weather gear. It allows you
to have your hands free to shoot.  I carry my Realist in a case because
I have done damage to a Revere and Kodaks while working up some slopes.
Sometimes it pays to slip your camera in your pack, but generally it is
worth keeping out. ...>>

I bought a fanny pack to carry a mimimal amount of gear in the caving trip
I'd mentioned earlier; basically a water bottle, my camera and small flash
unit.  This tiny pack was a major hindrance as the trip involved lots of
belly-crawling through body-width crevices - I was pushing the loose pack
ahead of me much of the time.  In one Houdini-esque crawl, blindly
locomoting on shoulderblades through a tight passage, I dropped the pack
and cursed.  Fortunately it was within reach and not down some trackless
pit.  Also fortunately, I was packing my Realist.  That thing will stand up
to any punishment!

The only protection for the camera inside the pack was a zip-lock bag (main
purpose being shelter from mud)...I'm going tubing with this group over the
4th (MUCH more my speed) and wonder if there's a proper, heavy-duty bag
suitable for insurance?  (I'm not planning on actually dropping it in the
river, but these things are never planned.)  Anybody up on this type of
thing?

Vince M.



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