Thanks, Bob. I think I am going to enjoy myself. This is the company with which I’ll (probably) be booking a tour in the next day or so. <http://www.salentobicitour.org/en> My schedule won’t permit doing the entire thing, but I’ll join the Trulli and Salento tour three days in. I know you wouldn’t bother with a company like this, that you’d strike out on your own. I’m not quite confident of myself enough for that yet. I like what I sense of this company. Very eco conscious. And very accommodating of me. A bit of a price, though. But as my English sister said, “You can’t take it with you."
The Fuji cameras are very appealing. I’ve been eyeing them for some time now. They are available from KEH pretty reasonably. Don’t know if I can afford the convenience of the X20 for this trip, though. Disappointed that you’ve found banking with full-size cameras a challenge. I have a Domke bag that’s slightly larger than your’s. I carry it with the camera in it all the time. The camera should come out of the bag much, much more often than it does, though. > On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > You will enjoy yourself with or without a camera. I haven't fully resolved > your question yet, but I can certainly tell you what my experiences have been. > > On my most recent tours, over the last year to eighteen months, I've taken a > Fuji X20 which I keep in a CCS compact pouch (http://www.ccscentre.co.uk) for > protection, which I put in a waterproof stuff-sac for, er, waterproofing > stuff, along with my other crap like passport and wallet. > > This in turn goes in my handlebar bag > (http://banjobrothers.com/products/current/canvas-and-leather-bags/canvas-saddle-bag-small/ > - they call it a saddle bag, but it works very well as a bar bag). > > This generally works fine and is quite quick to use when pootling along on my > velocipede I see something photogenic. My quibbles are mostly related to the > camera's usability, but they are general quibbles rather than bike-specific. > > I would prefer to take an SLR + 2 or 3 lenses, and I've done that on a few > occasions, but it is more difficult. The last time I did this I strapped a > Domke F5-XB camera bag > (http://www.domkebags.co.uk/shop-online/f-5xb-medium-shoulder-belt-bag/ ) to > the handlebars. This has the makings of a perfect camera/bike bag, but it has > some serious shortcomings. First, it is not robust enough to take the wear > from rubbing against the head-tube - I wore a hole in the bag in 3 weeks, so > it needs some leather or similar patching if it's used like this. Second the > way it's strapped to the bar is rather ad hoc, and it caused the bartape to > unravel; it also made it difficult to use the horizontal part off the > handlebar; finally it was a drag to remove and replace when I left the bike. > > I have also used panniers, and just stuffed everything into one of them, but > I don't like panniers generally, so I no longer use them. From the photo > point of view it was such a pain to get the camera out that I rarely took > pictures. > > Hope that helps. > > B > > > >> On 22 Jul 2015, at 16:12, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Looks like I’m going to be on a bike for several days while in Italy. >> Wondering about carrying a camera, in my case a K5, on a bicycle on a >> bicycle tour. Especially balancing protecting the camera while underway with >> accessibility to the camera for taking photos. Suggestions? Special >> equipment? >> >> Thanks, >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> [email protected] >> >> "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." >> >> - Amos Oz >> > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
