I used to have a Banana Republic Guides Vest, (the one they stopped selling after some gun editor said in print that people were using it to conceal their handguns. Don't you just love politically correct companies). Any way I finally wore it out (must have been the handgun <g>). Now I have a nylon safari jacket with zip off sleeves I picked up for $20. It is a second, someone sewed the zipper in wrong way to. I have found that I prefer to roll up the sleeve rather than zip them off.
The two vests above have the advantage that they are not instantly identified as Photographers Vests with a lot of expensive camera gear in them, nor do they look very military. Two problems I have noticed with vests: 1; if you put much in them they get pretty heavy and uncomfortable, not to mention lumpy. 2; they have so many pockets (both the BR vest and the current jacket have 18 pockets) it is easy to misplace things. Now that is not going to happen with a camera or lens, but I have often misplaced a pen, or notebook, or lens cap never to find it again until I took off the garment and checked each pocket one by one. --graywolf ------------------------------------------------- The optimist's cup is half full, The pessimist's is half empty, The wise man enjoys his drink. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
