Re: Fogg Bags?

[jredfern@ottawa.net (Jae Redfern)]

>On Fri, 9 Feb 1996 DFeldman@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Does anyone out there have a Fogg camera bag?
>>
>> I have been looking for a bag that will hold the following:
>>      M6 with 90mm summicron
>>      35mm summicron
>>      10x25 compact binoculars
>>      Some film
>>      compact tabletop tripod
>>      maybe a book and/or papers
>>
>> The bags in the local camera shops all seem kind of, well, camera bag
>> looking.
>>
>> I want a general purpose bag that I can carry around all the time,
>> particularly when I travel.
>>
>> The fogg bags (in particular the bee,  bumble bee and celia III) seem like
>> they might fit the bill, but are very expensive,
>
>I'm positive it's just me.......but if I had an M-6, a 90 mm Summicron and
>a 35mm Summicrom and binoculars...and was "price-shopping" on a camera
>bag?.......
>
>I smell something contradictory or even oxymoron-ic here!  If one can
>afford to have an M-6 and two expensive, superb lenses and
>binoculars..........why does the price of a measily little camera bag
>even enter into the equation?
>
>Now, down here in the southeast, I see that all of the time!  '96
>Corvette......parked in front of a beat-up house trailer.  12 foot
>satellite dish.......in front a shack leaning about 15 degrees from
>vertical.
>
>Lowepro.  Look at Lowepro.  Yes, they look "camera baggy".  They also
>protect very, very well and some zip open like a briefcase opening up and
>that would alow both quick access and allow you to put everything but the
>kitchen sink in there, too.
>
>Some of the thicker cases for big laptop computers might work out too,
>but you'll have to invent your own partitions and mabye cut some heavy
>foam packing to custom-fit the items you want to carry.
>
>Don't look for an unconventional camera bag in a camera store.  Go to a
>specialty luggage shop.  Look thru all of the catalogs and you'll get
>closer.  You'll probably have to use your noodle to get what you want.
>Necessity is the mother.................
>
>Mr. Trouble-maker

Have you ever considered a couple of the padded and partitioned "Domke"
inserts. You put the gear in the insert and drop the whole thing into any
old bag that'll fit.
My inserts travel between a whole variety of bags from a moth eaten
rucksack to a Domke F2.
        They're cheap, too.   :)
Jae