I'm starting to get enough camera equipment to need some sort of cabinet to store it in. Right now it's sitting on the floor in bags and cases. I was wondering if anyone cared to share what they are using for storage of everything. Any thoughts? Ron
Actually, I have been thinking the same. I was considering a gun cabinet which could also be used as a safe for photo equipment. What do you all think?
sjms: I'm back from lunch . What do you do with all your camera equipment? Is it all in bags under the bed? Now that I have a bag, backpack and soon to be arriving thinktank belt system it would be nice to have everything out of the bags and then decide what form of bag I'm using to load the bag and go, Instead of some things in this bag and some in the other? Make sense or am I heading back to lunch
Rhys: You mean a free standing cabinet like a jelly cabinet or pie safe? That might be interesting. Would be nice to have a shelf that would come out that you could set the bag on and load it up like those old flip top desks that had the writing surface as the lid. I'll do some searching around the net and see if I can find something.
Maybe something like this? http://www.woodsmith.com/plans/country-cupboard/ Bags in the bottom, camera lenes up top and if the drawer can be made to be stable when pulled out you could load the bag from it? Anyone have something like this they use?
kazman442 wrote:
sjms: I'm back from lunch . What do you do with all your camera equipment? Is it all in bags under the bed? Now that I have a bag, backpack and soon to be arriving thinktank belt system it would be nice to have everything out of the bags and then decide what form of bag I'm using to load the bag and go, Instead of some things in this bag and some in the other? Make sense or am I heading back to lunch
they're in the bag ready to use except for the batteries on the closet shelves. i use my gear daily not store it. if you start putting it away it starts not being used. your starting to sound like old leica collectors. the collect and store.
i have the standard shoulder bag and then the pack along with the minor other items in cluding some larger pelican cases i use as floaters. the shoulder bag is whats used 85% of the time and its filled with the standards that i carry for work. you sound like you spend more time preparing then shooting. if i was to get a dedicated cabinet it would probably be a steel cabinet with adjustable shelves but then that would still take up too much space
i've been through the harness stuff and after are few years started working with the KISS principle. it works too. i buy/collect less and shoot more. i guess i reached my point of saturation before i truely need my own storage facility. now go back to lunh and think how you will set it up the display your new cabnet.
29 years of shooting one does collect a little but i have to minimize as i only have an acre and a half to support the house.
I have a medium sized gun safe and I keep all my camera gear in there. Well, let me be more specific... I keep the cameras and lenses in there. All the cases and bags and other less expensive items I keep in a drawer.
It's worked out very well. It's easy to get to, organized and I know it's protected from theft and fire.
sjms: "you sound like you spend more time preparing then shooting"
That's not the case, I don't know what made you get that idea. I'm trying to make it faster to get ready not slower. I imagined by having everything out of the bags (one bag does not hold it all) that I could get ready faster depending on what I was shooting: ie: going out birding or lanscapes. I cannot haul all my stuff on my person. Believe me I'm not a collector of lenses I use what I have and have no intention of keeping them perfect for somebody else. Ron
hey it's to each his own. in my one bag is everything as in everything short of a tripod from 16mm 2.8 up to 280mm f4 including batteries and external BP for the flash. the pack has the 300 2.8 and support for it and when i need to go over to the pack i just transfer what is needed to fill in and out the door. no cabinet no one from column A and one from column B. unfortunately the big issue is which tripod to take. now thats nerve wracking.
Hi, Mike, I guess my idea of using a gun safe is not that wacky as you are using one already. It would certainly deter theft, but I am not sure about fire, unless yours is a fire safe gun cabinet. I looked at the specs of fire safe ones, they weighs a ton!
These are some innovative ways that some people store their equipement with foam inserts:
mechanics cabinet
old library index card chest of drawers
chest of drawers
a cooler - minus the ice
pie cupboard
an old pharmist apothery (sp?) drawers
I have been using a couple of IKEA cupboards with glass doors. All my camera gear gets stored in them except for the bags, backpack, tripod, monopod, battery chargers, and cords. The bags are stored in a closet. The small accessories are stored in storage bins with drawers. I can easily organize my gear and pick what I need for a given shoot with this setup. I can't help it...I'm OC and anal.
I wound up getting a Pelican 1610 case. It came last night. It fits all of my EOS gear, with a little extra room for some more smaller lenses. Seems to be just what I needed.
Edited by GeorgeK-NJ on Mar 10, 2006 at 09:11 PM GMT
. What do you do with all your camera equipment? Is it all in bags under the bed? Now that I have a bag, backpack and soon to be arriving thinktank belt system it would be nice to have everything out of the bags and then decide what form of bag I'm using to load the bag and go, Instead of some things in this bag and some in the other? Make sense or am I heading back to lunch 
