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  Saturday  January 29  2005    01: 23 AM

camera bag

I took these pictures tonight with my digital camera as sort of a proof of concept. Next I will do it on film for some quality. Zoe gave me this little leather bag for my FED 2. It's called a Travelon and it's sort of a mini courier bag into which I've stuffed my rangefinder kit. The bag only measures 7" x 8" x 4.5" and doesn't look like a camera bag. Small enough to carry it with me where ever I go. That is sort of the idea behind 35mm cameras, or at least what I think a 35mm camera should be used for.

As you can see there is a little pouch at the base of the easily adjustible strap that is probably for those little cell phones but also fits two rolls of 35mm film.

The front flap opens to reveal a mesh pouch where I have lens hoods for all my lens except for the self-hooded Jupiter 12.

The bag has two main pockets. The front, and slimmer pocket, has side zippers to give it a bigger opening to make it easier to get stuff out. The main pocket has side zippers that let the bag expand.

In the front pocket there is room for another four rolls of film, a Universal Finder that I keep in a small leather pouch, and a Luna Pro light meter. I usually also keep a lens pen in this pocket but it was temporarily missing.

At the bottom of the main pocket is a Jupiter 12 35mm f2 lens in a nice bakelite lens case and a Jupiter 8 50mm f2 lens in a similar plastic lens case. Above them, in a padded lens wrap, is a Jupiter 9 85mm f2 lens. At the top of the heap is a FED 2e with a collapsible Industar-50 50mm f3.5 lens/body cap. The collapsible Industar-50 makes a nice thin package that will fit in the narrow pocket. The whole thing weighs about 5 to 6 pounds. I really like this kit.