at the beginning of 2009 I wrote a post on my favourite photography website, www.fotostart.dk about which camera bag to buy.

You see a lot of questions on-line regarding what type of bag you should buy, how big it should be and which manufacturer makes the best gear… Dont get me wrong there certainly are a lot of great manufacturers out there, Lowepro, Think Tank and Crumpler, just to name a few.

I just have 2 problems with these “of the shelf” bags..

  1. They’re dang expensive – I just cant afford one on my salary, and to be honest, I’d rather spend the money on an new lens or some other photographic gadget.
  2. To me they shout out “steal me, I’m full of really expensive stuff that you could sell and make a lot of money of, if you were an unscrupulous person“.

Thieves arent dumb, they do their homework. I’ll bet ya, that when camera gear gets stolen at a ball game or a similar event, it was stolen by a thief who was not there by mistake. He planned on being there and he knew what to look for.

Look, it doesn’t take that long to go online and do a search for “camera bag” or “professional camera bag” and find out what to look for.

Another one of the things that make pro camera bags stick out, is their shape, the don’t sag because of the built in foam. Even without any gear in them, most of them look like they’re fully loaded.

An ordinary bag sags when it hangs from your shoulder, it has creases and folds in the fabric.

But hey dont take my word for, why not read what the president and lead designer from Think Tank, Doug Murdoch says on sportsshooter.com.

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So, we’ve got the sentiment down for this idea.

Now lets get down to business.

First of all you need a bag that 1. is big enough for your gear (D’oh!) 2. anonymous and 3. last but not least, is comfortable to carry around for long periods of time loaded with equipment.

I chose a bag that I had previuosly used as a school bag. It’s almost weatherproof, it has a lot of different pockets and a big flap that folds over the top to increase the “weatherproofness” (I know, thats not really a word, but you get the point).

For the inside I created a home made foam insert made of an old madras and t-shirt fabric that stretches.

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