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My Digilux 3 and D-Lux 3 and all the other stuff fits in my Domke F7.

A very fine bag , but....BIG !!.

For a daytrip i was looking for a solution.

I found it : the Billingham Hadley Digital.

My Digilux 3 with 14-50 lens fits perfect in the bag.

In the front pocket my wallet, that's it.

This is a realy good and very neice solution.

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Hi Keez,

 

Will you bring the Hadley Digital to the Rotterdam meeting? I would very much appreciate the opportunity to see the bag in person and to compare it to my Billingham VG380.

 

Best,

Joachim

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Hans:

 

I've been considering one of the LowePro Slings so I am grateful for your post. Is the 100 large enough to hold the D3/L1 with the kit lens and hood mounted? Or do you have to take the hood off, or reverse it, to make it fit?

 

I have an L1/D3 with the kit lens and hood, the 25mm 1.4 lens, a D-Lux 3 and various small accessories. Am I going to be ok with the 100?

 

Did you look at the 200 sling when you made your decision?

 

Thanks!

 

Nick

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Hans:

 

I've been considering one of the LowePro Slings so I am grateful for your post. Is the 100 large enough to hold the D3/L1 with the kit lens and hood mounted? Or do you have to take the hood off, or reverse it, to make it fit?

 

I have an L1/D3 with the kit lens and hood, the 25mm 1.4 lens, a D-Lux 3 and various small accessories. Am I going to be ok with the 100?

 

Did you look at the 200 sling when you made your decision?

 

Thanks!

 

Nick

 

Nick,

I have in the 100 my D3 with the kit lens, a OLY 36 flash + 2 filters 72 mm dia, spare batteryand several SD cards.

The hood must be reversed on the lens because of space. The lens is always mounted on the camera. I looked also at the 200, but I found this a bit too big for my current outfit, and I want to travel light, i.e. not running around with much equipment.

Don't thinkthat there will be enough rom to carry the 25 mm + D-Lux 3 in the 100.

I believe that the 200 is better suitable for you, or even the 300.

Try thedifferent sizes in the store.

 

Good luck!

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Hans:

 

Thanks for the good counsel. I checked out the 100, with high hopes it would be large enough for me. (Traveling light and small is a priority!) But, as you predicted it was a tad too tight. So, I bought the 200.

 

It's just great. Extremely well thought out and very well built. What's more it doesn't scream "expensive camera inside."

 

Thanks for your advice. It was very helpful.

 

Nick

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This is my just arrived Billingham Digital bag, this can hold two M bodies with small and medium size lenses attached, in this case a 21/3.4 SuperAngulon and a 50 Summilux from the 60´s. No way I can squeeze two bodies with mid size lenses on both.

After all this is what this bag was designed for, two Leica M bodies wasn´t it? 

 

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Or if the dividers are used to create three equal interior compartment spaces, one can easily get one lens on each side (if not two smaller lenses back-to-back in a compartment), or a spare body on one of the side compartments) and the main camera with lens attached face down into the middle compartment (and filters or a roll rot of film at the bottom of the centre compartment below the end of the lens. The flaps on the top of the dividers will cover the lenses on each side compartment so that the camera can sit in the centre face down without rubbing against the contents of the side compartments.  It's a remarkably spacious interior for leica M cameras and lenses. 

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Oh I pack that differently. The body with the longest lens, on this photo the left one, 90 degrees turned (lens facing to the left) and the body with the smallest lens, the right one, also 90degrees turned, lens facing front compartment. For instance my MM1 with the 50 collapsible at the right, and the M9 with 35FLE at the left.

I don't use this bag for spare bodies, with this bag I want my camera's to be ready to shoot. It's an ideal bag, because I often don't like to show my camera on my body, I use it often when going out for theater, restaurants, etc. Also for the MM1 with Summicron35 on it and Summilux75 standing at the right, the ideal combi for the MM1

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My Digilux 3 and D-Lux 3 and all the other stuff fits in my Domke F7.

A very fine bag , but....BIG !!.

For a daytrip i was looking for a solution.

I found it : the Billingham Hadley Digital.

My Digilux 3 with 14-50 lens fits perfect in the bag.

In the front pocket my wallet, that's it.

This is a realy good and very neice solution.

 

For a 'day-trip' I often wonder why photographers don't take all the things that a half-day outing requires, lens cleaning gear, maybe a map, spare battery, sandwich, notebook, etc. Any bag that says 'digital' is a bag that is too small for even half a day out with a camera, but should we ever meet to discuss the matter I'm glad you told me where you keep your wallet.

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Whats the problem?  it isn't a FF Nikon DSLR and lenses.

 

I have no problems with that bag for a "half-day out". I can manage for example one body, 28,50 and Macro-Elmar 90mm lens (or 21, 28 and 50), lens cloth and brush, spare battery, small notebook and pen, lens/body caps, muesli bar and even a small plastic bottle of water in one side if the camera is over my shoulder which is it's usual habitat.  My wallet stays in my pants or jacket pocket ;-)

 

Most of us are adaptable. If I need to carry more than I'll just take a larger bag. My preference is always to take a more compact and discrete bag.

 

Regards,

Mark :-)

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Photographers and bags may have more to tell than photographers and cameras.

When starting as a photographer in my teens I used a Canon body and two or three lenses in a lousy bag, but it didn´t matter much, I was just discovery photography then.

In those years I bought my first used M3 and a set of lenses for $500 then, at first I kept using my old lousy bag, until it became a nuisance, I began to move more with my Leica and change lenses less. Then I changed my lousy bag for a pad less waist bag that I carry with me all the time, for nearly fifteen years, with just one lens usually a 21 and as I got older change to 35 or 50. Then I bought my second M3 body so I could use  two lenses, and bought a second waist pack, it didn´t last much until I got my first Domke satchel bag, I used it even with three Leica bodies, two M3 and a M4-p. With different combination of lenses depending on task I even bought a bigger satchel always from Domke. I remember doing weddings with four Leica bodies and four lenses, in the biggest Domke satchel and some pad insert designed by me to fit the four bodies in it; for some reason I hate changing lenses although I often need more than one.

 

Then I have to look for another job because as a photographer and a son, I coudn´t keep up with my economy. I began to grow shrimp and add two M6 body and few lenses to my collection (then I became a collector). I did it because in late 90´s I believe Leica was going out of business and thought it important to be prepare for life.

 

Then came digital M´s, at first I didn´t like the idea of a smaller format with the M8 but when M-E came out, well I sold my two M4P´s and the story with Billingham bags began.

Now I needed a well pad bag for my digital M´s, Hadley Pro has been a great bag to carry up to three bodies+lens combo, but too large to carry only one. Billingham 307L is all I need when going aboard but useless to pick one camera out and try to catch a moment, so my new Digital Hadley can carry two M+small lens pack and even my Canon 6d and 85/1.2 lens.

In the future I plan to add a second M-D body and get rid of M-E and probably Monochrom CCD too.

As you can see I have made more camera bags changes in my life as a photographer than changes about my cameras. 

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