How do you carry your gear when outside moving around?

[inTempus]

If you're shooting a sporting event, wedding, or anything that requires you to carry a body and multiple lenses plus necessary accessories, how do you carry your gear?

I used to carry everything in cargo pockets. But it made it difficult to walk around with heavy lenses swinging in the pockets.

So I recently bought this:

It's a photo journalist vest that carries an extra body, 4-5 lenses, flashes, and other goodies. I've only used it once and it's amazing. It's more comfortable than a traditional vest that covers your entire torso and it also carries more.

I wish I had this with me when I was walking around at the WWII reenactment!

What do you use?

 

[tirediron]

What do you use?

I think I may use one of those, that looks like the a pretty sweet piece of gear. Have you got a link to the mfgr?

 

[inTempus]

Sorry, here ya go:

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I have the Mens Digital (black) vest. It's very well made and very comfortable to wear.

 

[gsgary]

I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those, i would feal a right jerk

 

[SrBiscuit]

I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those, i would feal a right jerk

i would say it looks like a standard method of carry for serious p.journalists on the move.

i would feel slightly more jerky if my pants dropped in the middle of a shoot due to overloaded cargo pocekts

 

[Overread]

plus there isn't a pouch big enough for the 300mm f2.8 IS (that is what he is really annoyed about )

As for myself it sits all in the backpack - a right pain if you want a quick change, but easier to walk with on a longer trip I find. A photographers vest is something that I have considered for accessories and such as well as the odd smaller lens since I tend to use larger lenses these sorts of setup are just not as suitable (I am not having a heavy telephoto swinging into my leg every other step!

 

[vikkiweak]

i have one of those camera bags w/ wheels. i was tired of focusing on my equipment and wanted more freedom to focus on quality shots.

 

[inTempus]

It's that or one of these, and these aren't nearly as flexible and are just as "jerky" looking.

What do you use that's less "jerky" looking?

 

[Montana]

That looks like a pretty good setup Tharmsen.


I use this: it holds my 600 f/4 IS with body attached, has a place to secure my tripod w/ wimberley head and 3 slip-loc cases for teleconverters, wide lenses, flash, and accessories.
If you feel "jerky" wearing something, you obviously are wearing it for the wrong reasons. It its practical and works, I say go for it!

 

[gsgary]

plus there isn't a pouch big enough for the 300mm f2.8 IS (that is what he is really annoyed about )

As for myself it sits all in the backpack - a right pain if you want a quick change, but easier to walk with on a longer trip I find. A photographers vest is something that I have considered for accessories and such as well as the odd smaller lens since I tend to use larger lenses these sorts of setup are just not as suitable (I am not having a heavy telephoto swinging into my leg every other step!

The 300 goes over the shoulder on a monopod and other camera and lens over other shoulder and i'm ready to shoot on the move

 

[Sw1tchFX]

I have a tamrac backpack for when i'm hiking, and a tamrac system 6 for everything else.

 

[PhotoXopher]

Flowepro Flipside 300.

What I like is that it's a backpack style that you don't have to take off to access the gear. Plus the zipper is on the side facing your back so theft is next to impossible.

 

[UUilliam]

i use a Slingshot Pro AW300 for my 75-300mm, 18-55mm, 50mm, Filters, Lens hoods Tripods (3 -4 mini tripods) and 2 - 3 bottles of beer and the rest of the little velcro padsand my sd cards, cables, torch (hand held) jsut the basics really, could propably get a body in too (not a human body...)

 

[inTempus]

I've tried the backpack thing and it's too slow and cumbersome.

I've played with the backpack's that swing to the front and have a flap for accessing more of the stuff, but found it also to be cumbersome for me. That, and I could only easily access the camera and a couple of lenses that were on top, otherwise I had to go digging. Since I keep the camera around my neck, I just needed something to organize lenses and keep them at the ready, and distribute the load so that it doesn't become a nuisance. I also found sitting down in something like a chair to be very difficult with a backpack. With the vest I can even jump in a car easily without taking it off.

I keep a backpack for carrying stuff to locations, but I don't like having it on while I shoot.

So far the vest is the best solution I've found. But I'm always on the look out for other nifty gear.

 

[dhilberg]

I'm actually in the market for a different "walking around" bag. This looks pretty sweet, thanks for the link!

I have a backpack, but it's a hassle to get in and out of (gotta take it off). I just like it because it holds all of my gear. That way when I leave I just grab it and go.