MY FAVORITE THINGS

[saravrose]

Just for fun, what's your favorite thing in your camera bag?? It can be anything.... From lenses to filters to hats anything as long as it can be found in your bag :D :D .....
My favorite is these really warm gloves that fit very well that let me still operate my camera that never leave my bag, I also love my 50mm.... It's just so handy...
Sari.

[tommykjensen]

My camera and my lenses ;-)

[aam1234]

Other than what Tommy said, it's cigarettes and mobile.

[stephaniebarnes]

my orange flavored gum

[chris clements]

warm woollen mittens
brown paper packages
...you can sing the rest yourselves

[SuzyView]

LOL :)

Besides my 20D & 85 1.8 :) my 20D manual, of course? What? I'm still learning!

[Steve Parr]

I've got a bottle of antacids in there that I'm pretty fond of.

I also bought one of those little $15.00 mini-tripods at Best Buy. Surprisingly, the thing holds the 20D with ther 70-200mm f/2.8L without a problem.

I also have a flashlight that I picked up at Fry's. I forget the brand, but it's only about three inches long, runs on a single "AA", and is the brightest flashlight I've ever owned...

Steve

[SuzyView]

Yeah, I forgot about that. I have a little torch that is also a clip. That's a great little tool.

[ITMaster]

My favs are my 20D and the lenses, the 580EX and my Lightsphere Diffuser. Usually I have a 6 0z. sterling flask with something to keep me warm if it gets cold outside that's always a big help. I too like the mini tripod that packs away so tight, I often forget I have it.

[Balliolman]

My camera. My flashtrax.

[StevenRaith]

Hmm.

I like my 300mm lense for its rather useful zoom meaning I don't have to bother moving in close to subjects. Also good for catching people looking 'natural' who would otherwise get all shy at the sight of a camera :)

I also like the camera - useful that ;)

However,
BEST.THING.EVAR. that I have discovered is some freaky, antistatic cloth thingy that OTshiba bang out with their R200 laptops - incredible things, ultra smooth, great for wiping the camera down/cleaning my glasses/laptop/PDA/anything that likes a lint free cloth basically.

Its like a big version of those things you get in spectacles cases, only woven even finer.

Ultra lush and 101 uses.

[Michaelmjc]

cigarettes

Ciggarettes are very bad for you, go buy the patch immediately... or add me to your will :D

[aam1234]

Ciggarettes are very bad for you, go buy the patch immediately... or add me to your will :D

I know :(

[Ronald S. Jr.]

You act like you're addicted to those things. :lol: ;-)

It's call Zyban, bub. :-)

[Steve Parr]

Ciggarettes are very bad for you

So is playin' in traffic. What, you want me to give up everything??

:lol:

Steve

[liza]

My favorite things are my 20D and my prime lenses. And as for the cigarettes (brace yourself for a lecture), you two need to give them up and never look back. My companion of the last 7 years died three weeks ago from lung cancer. My children and I had to watch him die by inches since last April. So give 'em up! I did, and it was the best thing I ever could have done for myself.

[Steve Parr]

My favorite things are my 20D and my prime lenses. And as for the cigarettes (brace yourself for a lecture), you two need to give them up and never look back. My companion of the last 7 years died three weeks ago from lung cancer. My children and I had to watch him die by inches since last April. So give 'em up! I did, and it was the best thing I ever could have done for myself.

Very sorry to hear about your loss, Liza.

Not to hijack the thread, but quitting (and staying that way) is the hardest thing I've ever tried to do. Haven't been successful yet...

Steve

[chrishunt]

My Rubik's Cube :)

[Maureen Souza]

I have to pick something?? Impossible. I love my bag and all the goodies inside.

[StevenRaith]

Ciggarettes are very bad for you

Not as bad for me in the short term, as telling me 'cigs are bad' to my face would be for you *punches playfully in ribs* [stock reply]

Liza - Sorrry for your loss, I think everyone who smokes [and has an IQ above 80] plans to give up at some point these days - I'm still a young 'un [23] so I'll keep my vice for a couple more years and then drop it. Been at it six years now so it's not like it'll be easy anyways...

[aam1234]

A friend tried the nicotine patches and says they really help. Will give them a try someday.

[ITMaster]

So very truly sorry for your loss Liza: I quit also after maybe 25 to 30 years of constant smoking. I used the zyban and have since used the will power to stay stopped. I always want one, but I want not to smoke more than I want to, so I don't. I don't even smoke one every so often to remind me of how bad they taste. When I quit, I quit and swore that I would never ever ever do another one again. And I won't.

[jfrancho]

My secret stash of granola bars.

[SuzyView]

Liza, sorry for your loss. Sometimes we forget we all have lives besides photography.

As for the lecture, everyone needs one now and then. :)

[ajbalazic]

Right now, my 50mm & my RC-1 remote (don't like waiting for the self-timer).

[Tom W]

warm woollen mittens
brown paper packages
...you can sing the rest yourselves

One full frame body and lots of L glass
One great big tripod that holds lots of mass
Cushioned dividers with velcro that clings
These are a few of my favorite things.....


Sorry :p

[Tom W]

My favorite things are my 20D and my prime lenses. And as for the cigarettes (brace yourself for a lecture), you two need to give them up and never look back. My companion of the last 7 years died three weeks ago from lung cancer. My children and I had to watch him die by inches since last April. So give 'em up! I did, and it was the best thing I ever could have done for myself.

Good advice. I quit 4+ years ago. It was the best move I've made in a while. I certainly don't want to endure what Liza's friend did, nor do I want my friends to watch somebody suffer.

Quit them now!

[aam1234]

One full frame body and lots of L glass
One great big tripod that holds lots of mass
Cushioned dividers with velcro that clings
These are a few of my favorite things.....


Ha ha, love it. It rhymed well with a song my little neph likes to sing.

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed....

[PhotosGuy]

Everything. Or it wouldn't be in there. ;)

[Michaelmjc]

A friend tried the nicotine patches and says they really help. Will give them a try someday.

*goes into mother mode*

You need to get those patches today, that someday will never come and you will never stop. Quit putting it off and go buy the patches. Wouldn't you like some more money for lenses? Just sayin it to help ya out ;)

[aam1234]

*goes into mother mode*


A mother called Michael? :)

[jfrancho]

*goes into mother mode*Gross.

[aam1234]

Gross.

That's a bit harsh John, don't you think.

[FlipsidE]

Right now? I'd have to say my 1D Mark 2 body. I absolutely LOVE that thing. It's one of those things where, once you've laid your hands on one, you can't go back...it's just not possible.

[aam1234]

Right now? I'd have to say my 1D Mark 2 body.

Try a woman's body then I'm sure you will change your mind :D

[FlipsidE]

Try a woman's body then I'm sure you will change your mind :DLOL!!! HAHAHA! Good one :)

[ajbalazic]

Try a woman's body then I'm sure you will change your mind :D

Both are the same (1D Mark 2 & a Woman): once you've laid your hands on one...

[Maureen Souza]

Back to the cigarette issue. I am a nurse who has taken care of hundreds of patients that have part of their lung removed from tumors caused by smoking. Not only is the incision more than a foot long, there are chest tubes sticking out of them and breathing tubes to help keep their lungs open. 90% of these patients still die within 2 years, gasping and wheezing all the way to their final moments. It is a horrible ending.
You might picture them as old folks but a good number of them are under 55 years, the youngest I ever took care of was 32.
Now we could go on about the younger folks who get oral cancer and have to have their tongues cut out....but I'll leave it at that.

[Big_B]

Now we could go on about the younger folks who get oral cancer and have to have their tongues cut out....but I'll leave it at that.

:shock:

Please do! :)

[Ronald S. Jr.]

Sounds interesting, if you ask me.

[liza]

Back to the cigarette issue. I am a nurse who has taken care of hundreds of patients that have part of their lung removed from tumors caused by smoking. Not only is the incision more than a foot long, there are chest tubes sticking out of them and breathing tubes to help keep their lungs open. 90% of these patients still die within 2 years, gasping and wheezing all the way to their final moments. It is a horrible ending.
You might picture them as old folks but a good number of them are under 55 years, the youngest I ever took care of was 32.
Now we could go on about the younger folks who get oral cancer and have to have their tongues cut out....but I'll leave it at that.

Thanks for all your kind words. Maureen is right in that lung cancer does not discriminate with regard to age. My companion was only 43 years old and died in agonizing pain.

[Michaelmjc]

Now we could go on about the younger folks who get oral cancer and have to have their tongues cut out....but I'll leave it at that.

I'd like to know how they talk... :lol:

[Ronald S. Jr.]

:|

[mrclark321]

All my gear....I think I am actually content!

Dan

[Ronald S. Jr.]

Eh? :-D

[saravrose]

I remember being fourteen, sitting on my grandfathers bed with my head on his chest, waiting for the death rattle to stop. He had stopped smoking about thirty years before. It didn't matter, he was gone eight months after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
as for today i'm an extreme asthmatic I can't tolerate them. My daily battle to breath is something I have to leave with, i'm used to it. I don't understand or have much tolerance for people who intentionally hurt themselves.

[StevenRaith]

TO be honest, while I 'intentionally hurt myself' I'm generally very careful not to smoke around people who don't - I won't smoke in anyones house who doesnt smoke - even if they give me an ashtray - always go outside.

Even on train station platforms I tend to keep out of the way while having a sly puff.

Learned this from a mate who was severaly asmathic, saw him having an asthma attack once and it wasnt pretty - up to that point I didn't know he had asthma.

Asked his opinion once i had started smoking, and his general advice was that anyone could be asthmatic, and you wouldnt know - best idea is to deliberately avoid smoking around people - 90% of the time it wont do any harm, but he reckoned a lungfull of cig smoke could set someone with bad asthma off in a big way.

As such I prefer to err on the side of caution. Unless I am in a pub, in which case the people in there should expect cigarette smoke [unles otherwise signposted] and should know the risks - although even then I tend to blow the smoke out of the way, rather than in peoples faces. And if there are kids around, I just do't do it, at all.

Sorry, minor diatribe there :)

[PhotosGuy]

This started out as an interesting thread, "Just for fun, what's your favorite thing in your camera bag??." Now it's been hijacked & almost political in tone.
Does anyone else feel that way?

[jfrancho]

Yes. Perhaps we can take this opportunity persecute those that eat animals, drive cars, live by phone lines, boil potatoes, wear mustaches, cry at the movies, etc.

[PhotosGuy]

OK, I'm passing it on for some MODification. ;)
Someone might wonder why? Because Pekka says, "An area for subjects not appropriate for the other forums. Keep it related in some way to photography even if only in the abstract. Political and religious discussions are absolutely prohibited."
I've been guilty of hijacking threads, but have tried to keep the OT converstion at least marginally relevant. Tho, as Richard Nixon said, "That was wrong". ;)

[Scottes]

Yes. Perhaps we can take this opportunity persecute those that eat animals, drive cars, live by phone lines, boil potatoes, wear mustaches, cry at the movies, etc.
That was great John. Perfect.

[Jon]

Pelican Eclipse II light and assorted mini-carabiners on the outside D-rings. Velcro cable ties and nylon wire wraps for temporary lash-backs. Throw-away $0.99 poncho for rain. Ear plugs for air shows.

[futura]

Probably my giottos rocket blower and lee nd grads.

[PIXI_666]

With my OLD film camera...my fave was my star filter - i loved it soooo much

NOW...Probably my cable release, SO handy as i really get into night photography.

2nd from that, i have milanta in my bag, dont use it so much NOW but a few months back i got bad intergestion (I cant spell) and i used to have them in there - lifesavers...well PAIN savers hahahaha

OOH i should throw a mag lite in my bag too...lollies YES...gloves MMMM good! OK u gave me ideas to fill up my bag some more hahaha GREAT! Orange gum though? Aussies musn't have that yet - were sooo behidn lol

Del

[aam1234]

Yes. Perhaps we can take this opportunity persecute those that eat animals, drive cars, live by phone lines, boil potatoes, wear mustaches, cry at the movies, etc.

Poetic!