Started by OneMoreLens, 18 Nov 2025. 9 replies, 225 views
Mine first. A very handsome waxed canvas messenger that cost me £180 and holds exactly one body and one lens, as long as neither of them is wider than a sandwich. Looks great on the hook in the hallway honestly. Has never once been on an actual shoot. Currently using a £30 sling from a hiking shop for everything. Who else?
Every backpack I've ever bought. Never want to take it off to get the camera out, so I don't take photos.
A hard case with the pluck foam. Spent an evening cutting perfect holes for every lens I owned... then bought another one the next week. Now there's a Takumar rattling about in a Helios-shaped hole and the case weighs more than the camera. It lives under the bed and holds lenses I'm "definitely selling". Just saying.
a giant roller bag back when i was on sony. fit two bodies and five lenses. i owned one body and three lenses. sold the bag before the camera
mfrost said:Every backpack I've ever bought.
Same, a "travel" backpack the size of a small fridge. Took it to Vietnam once with everything I owned at the time in it. Spent two weeks sweating through my shirt and taking it off on every street corner while scooters went past. Never again, reckon a sling is the only bag anyone actually needs
Can't say I regret any of my bags, but my wife regrets all of them. The shelf in the garage has seven. The 180-600 lives in the one that fits it, the Z8 kit lives in a sling, and the rest are, well, archival. There's a nice canvas one from the late 80s that hasn't held a camera since the FE2 and still smells faintly of Kodachrome. - Walt
WaltK_AZ said:my wife regrets all of them
This is my partner too. Weve agreed not to talk about the cupboard
Photographer's vest. Bought one for birding years ago because I thought it'd be handy, all those pockets. It was handy. I also looked like I was about to go fly fishing in my own backyard, and it was so hot in July that I sweated through it in an hour. The neighbors had questions! It's now hanging in the garage holding bird seed scoops.
OneMoreLens said:Has never once been on an actual shoot.
Holster bag on a chest harness. Practical on the fells, but I looked like a man about to defuse something, and a couple walking past on Stanage asked if I was with mountain rescue. Gone.
Bought one off a YouTube recommendation without checking and the D750 with the grip on didn't fit in it. Should have measured. Muppet. Sold it on for half what I paid to a lad with a Fuji, who said it was perfect, so at least someone's happy.