What's in your camera bag?

So what do you carry in your camera bag? Mine contains my 70D, 17-50 2.8, 85 1.8, a couple of SD cards and a speedlight. What do you have? What else is required?

Depends what I'm up to. Sometimes it's one body, one lens and a teleconverter, sometimes it's everything in my signature plus a whole load more!

(Mostly it's one body, one lens and a teleconverter though!)

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chakrade wrote in post #17873579
So what do you carry in your camera bag?

In my bags I keep the backup bodies (5Dc, 50D) and the smaller lenses (50-200L, 100-400 v2, 24-105). The big lenses just won't fit in a bag so they stay "loose" with the main body mounted onto one of them.

The other things I keep in the bags are the 1.4 and 2x tele-extenders, as well as the 25mm extension tube. There are a ton of dollar-store microfibre cloths, for wiping the lenses clean when the need arises. I also keep a couple of remote shutter releases (wired). The whole bunch of CF cards are kept in the bags, too. Also a couple of extra batteries for each body, as well as a charger for the 1D4 and a charger for the 5Dc/50D (they share batteries and chargers). Oh yeah, allen wrenches are in there, too, as well as a couple of extra quick release area style plates. Also, the printed versions of my camera body manuals, and a small stack of my business cards, as well as some heavy paper towels......all of the paper items I just mentioned are in ziplock bags. I have extra lens caps and end caps and body caps in there, too. Oh yeah, and some loc-tite and a miniature screwdriver kit - that helps whenever lens or body mounts get loose.

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Besides the body and lenses, which vary from outing to outing: extra batteries for the camera, Speedlite, and remote shutter trigger release. Sometimes a teleconverter. Filters, filter wrenches, Lenspen, microfiber cloth, extra cards, a little cash, sometimes snacks, camera manual (sometimes).
Having a rain-sleeve is good if you're shooting in wet weather or around waterfalls and such. Living in Vegas, I haven't used mine yet. Didn't even rain on a trip to Alaska.

It really matters on what/where I'm shooting.

When I am shooting races my bag consists of:
Canon 7D
Canon 40D (backup)
Canon 70-200 f4L
Tamron 17-50 F2.8
Canon 1.4x TC
430EXii speedlight
x2 spare batteries for each 7D and 40D
x2 32gb cards (preloaded in bodies), x3 8gb cards spare
Rapid strap harness
Rocket blower and spare sensor swabs
Rain cover for camera, large trash bag for camera bag if raining
Small notepad/pen
Earplugs
A few Clif bars and water bottles
Business cards and Paypal Here CC reader

My 300mm lens stays in it's own case until it's time to shoot then gets mounted to the 7D and monopod for the rest of the weekend

Other than the body and lenses...

430EXII
Spare Eneloop set for flash
Rocket blower
Circ polarizer
Sandisk 16gb backup card
Spare LP-E6N battery
Body caps
Remote shutter release
Lexar card reader
Microfiber cloth
Pens

Wondering if I should carry a small notebook, like a Moleskine. Kind of cool looking, but wonder how much I'll actually use it

I can't be the only one that, in addition to most of the above, carries a flashlight?!?!?

Strontium wrote in post #17876178
I can't be the only one that, in addition to most of the above, carries a flashlight?!?!?

I always have one in the truck, but I don't usually carry it around unless I'll be out somewhere after sunset.

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Strontium wrote in post #17876178
I can't be the only one that, in addition to most of the above, carries a flashlight?!?!?

I always have a couple of flashlights in the car, and I carry them with me whenever I head out afoot before daylight. However, I never keep a flashlight in my camera bag. Why not? Because the bag is never with me when I am shooting - it stays in the car. The backpack, yes. My coat pocket, yes. The pocket on my cargo pants/shorts, yes. But I never keep a flashlight in the bag itself.

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I keep the tiniest maglight solo (1 AAA battery) on an elastic wrist strap in my bag. When I need it, I put it on my wrist and just let it dangle.

If I know I'm working in dark rooms (events) I'll have a Petzl LED headlamp with me.

And, if it's my larger camera bag, I'll just about always have a pair of reading glasses in the bag, too, for use in live view. Or anything else.

The tiny "walkaround" bag just has room for an extra card, a couple extra batts, a sling strap, lens cleaning stuff, and, sometimes, a small strobe. Oh, and a crop camera with 17-50mm f2.8 mounted.

For the car, I now have a Watson dual batt charger that came with a cigarette lighter 12v plug. Adapter plates for various batts, and it seems to be an intelligent charger; it's great!