What's in your camera bag?

[minniemouse22]

I consider my self more than a beginner but less than an expert. I love photography and learn every time I use my camera (just as it should be right?). But I'm curious what's standard in your camera bag? I'm pretty comfortable with my camera just the way it is, no extra light and with its standard lens. Shooting in manual mode as well. I've recently added a speedlight to my collection and feel that it's a great addition, but I want to know, what's in your camera bag and what do you use for your family portriats and such.

 

[weepete]

Hi mate, I'm pretty much in the same boat as yourself. My dad still is really into his photography so I've grown up around cameras, using an old 70's Pentax film camera when I was younger, the Canon EOS range in film, point and shoot cameras and then on to digital versions of the EOS. Over the past couple of years I've been trying to learn a bit more about the principals behind photography though and instead of just snapping away with very basic knowledge actually compose and shoot a shot that's in my head. At he moment in my camera bag are:

My new Canon 7D body
An EF 28-105mm f3.5/4.5 lens
An EF 75-300mm f4/5.6 Lens
An EF 50mm f1.8 II Lens
A Hoya Polarizing filter
A UVc filter
A skylight filter
Level
Spare battery
A couple of CF cards
Cardreader and usb cable
Charger
A Gorrillapod with a ballhead
And a pack of cards for if I'm bored!

All pretty basic stuff but has stood me in good stead so far. If I'm doing any kind of portraits the 50mm would be my first choice, but the 28mm is better for group shots.

 

[nathfromslg]

ntohing more than a canon 600D with a kit lens and a remote and a microfibre cloth,2-3 memory card

Nothing else

 

[pic_chick]

my bag changes for what ever I am doing as I dislike taking stuff i don't need but this what my bag would look like if I carried all my stuff
t3
50mm 1.8
18-55 kit lens
75-300 EF III Lens
cheapo flash
cheapo tripod sometimes(most of the time it just gets tossed aside..I HATE ITi t was a bad bad bad buy)
diffuser for flash
shoulder strap(quick strap)
batteries
2 CF cards
lens cleaner
humidity eaters Southern USA get soggy and I had condensation in my lens from going in and out but not now best find ever
charger for cannon
clamps and zipties
knife


When I am working on street photography
t3
50mm
lens cap
quick strap
maybe my flash

 

[Mike_E]

Too much.

It kills me to think of all the money that I've spent on gear just to leave it out. But, it kills me quicker and more painfully to try and fill the bag.

Usually just a body and lens/lenses that suit where I plan on going with a speedlight, appropriate filters, extra battery -unless I'm taking a grip, lens cleaning kit and a mono/tripod. Bug spray in season, people spray as needed and usually a small rug with a rubberized backing because I hate to get my knees wet/soiled and then go into a restaurant.

Just walking around- a D800 w/mb-d12 and a Tokina 17-35mm f/4 and a 50mm 1.8 in my pocket.

Unless I'm really just walking around then it's a Zeiss Ikonta 35 in my pocket and an extra roll of film.

 

[480sparky]

How my backpack looks all packed & ready to go:

And no, Mittens & Chubby don't go with me!



How I pack it all:

(You can view the full-size image here.)

The list of what's packed:

1. White cloth for cleaning
2. Small eyedropper bottle w/ lens fluid
3. Ziplok baggie

4. Nikkor 70-300

5. 77mm B&W Thin CPL
6. Filter wrenches
7. Extension tube set
8. Nikon camera strap
9. 67mm filters
10. 77mm filters

11. SB-600 flash

12. ExpoDisc white balance filter
13. Charger for D7000 batteries
14. Delkin Devices SD hard-shell card vault w/8 16g cards
15. SB-600 stand
16. Manfrotto ‘pod plates

17. Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye
18. Petzl LED headlamp

19. Nikon D7000 w/MB-D11 grip and Nikkor 18-105

20. Pixel 3-pc RF/wired remote
21. Nikon hard-wire remote
22. Gossen Starlight incident/reflected/spot meter

23. Battery charger for D60
24. Spare batteries for D60

25. Nikkor 10-24
26. Petal hood for 10-24
27. Tokina 500

28. Nikon D60

29. Card reader
30. Spare AA batteries
31. Spare battery for Nikon IR remote
32. Retractable lens brush
33. Nikon IR remote
34. 2gig micro SD card

35. Robin Myers gray card
36. Stainless steel camping mirror
37. Lens cleaning kit
38. “Poor Man’s” monopod
39. J-hook for stabilizing tripod w/camera bag

40. ThinkTank Streetwalker Pro. I don't use any of the pockets on the outside of the flap because I'm usually carrying a tripod or monopod. Besides, if I need to open the pack to get out a camera, I want everything else to be just as available..... I don't want to start flipping the cover this way and that just to find something.

And no, I didn’t get the version that carries a laptop….. I have no need for a laptop in the field so I don’t carry it.

Am I happy with it? Yes. Is there something else that would serve me better? Most likely, but I can't afford to buy pack after pack after pack until I find nirvana.

 

[thetrue]

O.M.G. Sparky. Ever weight it?

 

[480sparky]

O.M.G. Sparky. Ever weight it?

Why?

 

[Buckster]

What's in which bag I've decided to take out depend entirely on what I'm planning to shoot.

Generally though, a body, a backup body, a few lenses chosen for the task, basic cleaning supplies, collapsible white balance calibration target, remote shutter release, some folded up tin foil for emergency reflector, some gaffer's tape spooled onto a dowel, some string and wire, a speedlight or two and triggers, extra batteries, and almost always - a tripod strapped on.

 

[thetrue]

O.M.G. Sparky. Ever weight it?

Why?

Just seems a bit...big.

 

[o hey tyler]

Just seems a bit...big.

A lot of the items listed by sparky don't weigh a whole lot. Lens hoods, cf cards, readers, etc. So it's probably not as heavy as it sounds.

My bag, a crumpler customary barge deluxe, carries in it:

5D1 + grip
5D2 + grip
35 f/1.4L
50 f/1.4
50 f/2.5 macro
85 f/1.4
2x 430EXIIs
Extra batteries and CF cards
Pixel King wireless TTL triggers
And the alienbee 800 is carried in a separate canon bag because its too large. :-(
And sometimes a laptop, or even an Xbox 360.

 

[Justman1020]

T4i, kit lens (18-55)
55-250 usm
50mm prime 1.8
A fujifilm fine pix s1500
ipad 2 with camera adapter kit
battery charger
ipad ccharger iPhone charger
remote shutter rerelease

its all in a lowepro traveler 150
i also carry a tripod in my trunk.

 

[Tony S]

This is the big travel bag... the picture is old, so updated items are a pair of 1DMKIII, a pair of 550EXII, 3 pocket wizards and a 100-400... so it is really stuffed now.

When I have my "go" bag sitting by the door, it has one body with the 70-200 2.8 IS on it, 24-70 2.8, 2 550EXII, 3 pocket wizards, 1 extra camera battery, 4 sets of rechargeable AA, Rocket blower, micro cloth, small micro voice recorder, note pad and two pens.

 

[480sparky]

O.M.G. Sparky. Ever weight it?

Why?

Just seems a bit...big.

Well, the idea is to carry what you need, isn't it?

 

[ronlane]

I have a Vanguard messenger bag with a T3i, 24-135mm, Sunpak flash, black rapid strap, 55-250mm, a cleaning cloth, extra card, wireless remote, a pen, filters and a few other misc. items.