Backpack Organization
I’ve recently swapped backpacks with my wife, who is REALLY the photog in the family. For a work related trip to Washington, DC, a few months back, she had purchased a nice Tamrac camera backpack with a laptop slot.
Then, she bought a 70-200mm f4L, and that piece of glass doesn’t fit.
There are also a couple of smaller backpack cases around here, one of which had been my mainstay, and another laptop backpack that was “mine”.
With the advent of the “L glass” the duffel bag that I had once converted to be a camera case for all my junk – I have more stuff, she does more real work – became “hers”.
So, we worked out a trade. I gave her the laptop backpack I had been using, and she gave me the laptop / camera combo backpack that she had NOT been using.
I loaded and arranged. It weighs a ton with the laptop in, but such is life.
Today, out romping around, I came upon a chance to take a shot of a full rainbow. Full arc.
Pull over. Grab camera. Ooops, 28-135 is too tight. Need my “kit” lens, the 18-55. Grab it. Remove the Tamron 28-135. Aw, man, this is the 75-200 (the old junky one from WAY before the “L”)… Find the kit lens, replace the 75-200, mount the kit, remove the lens cap, turn on the camera…
Daggone, the rainbow is gone.
Always know which lens is where.
Always.
