Camera, Lenses and Bag

[Akaki]

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What the best way to hold camera (Leica) with NX 0.95 in the bag, vertical position N 1 (on lens)  or horizontal position N 2 (on Lens and body)?

I have Bellingham bag, Camera 700 gr plus Noctilux 750 gr and Diaphragm ring is fragile and in position N 2 it's not stabile…. I try to fix it with small piece of plastic from old bag. but Diaphragm ring is under pressure. I would like to avoid it.

​Or I am to paranoic about diaphragm ring of Noctilux

Question maybe looks stupid, but if you look for deferent options to hold camera in bag it shows there is deferent concept. Thank you.

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[enboe]

I use method 2 so I can grab the camera out of the bag with one hand.  If you are worried about stability, do a google search for a wristwatch pillow, a small, padded, fabric covered item that you can put in the bag to stabilize under the lens.  They cost around $1.

 

Eric

[Akaki]

Thank you Eric. Yes 2 method is also best for me. 

[menos I M6]

I pack my Leica M cameras like method 2 (A&A bag picture).

I use a small or medium sized Lowe Pro Terraclime soft pouch, which holds a micro fibre cloth, spare SD cards, D76 batteries and one or two spare batteries in the same compartment and the lens will naturally rest on that pouch.

[david strachan]

Plastic sandwich baggies are great in one's camera bag. Polyethylene...no dust and can just drop a lens in without any caps, if you are doing a lot of lens changes.  Also good for travelling...adding a surface protection against rubbing. Cameras, lenses anything get's a buffer.  Good for filters, batteries, etc. Can see through them.

[BeuBu]

Plastic sandwich baggies are great in one's camera bag. Polyethylene...no dust and can just drop a lens in without any caps, if you are doing a lot of lens changes.  Also good for travelling...adding a surface protection against rubbing. Cameras, lenses anything get's a buffer.  Good for filters, batteries, etc. Can see through them.

[BeuBu]

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You mean ziploc?

[david strachan]

That sort of thing.  Ziplock for the very large camera & large lens size bags, but just various size "press" lock available in dispenser packs in the wraps section of the super market.

[Herr Barnack]

N2 makes the camera ready to shoot more quickly than N1; with regard to stability and damage avoidance, I don't think it really matters much for just carrying your kit.  If you drop the bag with your kit in it, that is another issue entirely. 

 

I do not worry about the carry position of my camera much at all.  My concern is with dropping the bag which I avoid at all costs.  Even a short drop of a foot or so can knock the rangefinder out of alignment, depending on how the camera is oriented, how much padding the bag has and how the camera lands on impact.  It's all pretty much a crap-shoot that answers to the laws of physics. 

 

Bottom line:  Avoid dropping your camera bag like the plague.

[jaapv]

Not on the 240 series. Due to a change in the mechanism the vertical adjustment is quite resistant to even substantial shocks.