Just an odd thought or two ...
I checked out the link to the tour & looked through their photo gallery.
If you haven't done so already, take a look yourself & see how others
have handled the problem & see if you can't find a bag to match that
fits your needs.
Plus, I noticed they offer "self guided tours". When you're ready to
"strike out on your own", that might be a way to get your feet wet.
On 7/23/2015 6:09 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
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,
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Decatur, GA USA [email protected]
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