Prolonged rolling bag usage cause lens/camera issues?

I've been pondering this now for some time, but does prolonged rolling across gravel, ashphalt, concrete, tile cause any detrimental affects to lenses and camera bodies?

I've been using my TT Airport Secv2 now for about a year, rolling over various terrain and often wonder if I'm causing damage or calibration issues.

No worse than putting your stuff on a airplane for many hours of continuous vibration!
Do you have cut-out foam cradling things? If so, no sweat.
Even the foamed movable separators in reconfigurable bags.

But if you are talking about standard hard sided bags directly transferring vibration from the wheels to the gear inside, have the stuff inspected.

Have you noticed any issues ? If this where the case, photographers wouldn't be able to take their gear anywhere.

Wilt wrote in post #18011085
Do you have cut-out foam cradling things? If so, no sweat.

Well maybe. It is highly dependent on the rigidity of the foam, or shall we say (in the inverse) how much "give the foam has. If the foam is quite hard, meaning rigid, then lots of shock and vibration is transmitted to the item. If the foam is soft, then less shock or vibration is transmitted.

You may wish to examine the thread at https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=17826798 where someone wanted to put softer wheels on a rolling case.

Any type of vibration can cause issues.

I have to tighten the screws in my 70-200 every 6 months or so - have also had the focus ring on my 16-35 lock up on a few occassions (an easy fix too, a screw backs out and jams the ring)

I am not sure what vibration is the issue though, the bag being rolled, or travelling in the back of the car.

My gear is used pretty heavily though, it may just be the everyday wear and tear causing everything to loosen up too

What bag and what lenses, sorry to say but that sounds like either crap bag or crap gear..

I'v used ThinkTank rollers for years, and i probably haul my gear more then the average professional.

It's a THinkTank Airport Secuirty V2.

Canon 1D3s
1D4
70-200/2.8
24-70/2.8
16-35/2.8
34/1.4
100/2
50/1.4
100/2.8 macro
flashes
misc

Well the probability that Canon lenses can't stand transport without screws getting loose is not very high, not in terms of this consistently being an issue.

So id say it's far fetched to connect his issues to rolling gear in bags like TT. If that where the case you would have NPS and CPS crowding the service centers with gear falling apart due to gear transport.

fotopaul wrote in post #18012140
What bag and what lenses, sorry to say but that sounds like either crap bag or crap gear..

I'v used ThinkTank rollers for years, and i probably haul my gear more then the average professional.

Canon 1DX x2 16-35, 24-70, 70-200
Thinktank Airport Security V2.

The bag gets rolled for a few km a week, and driven for hundreds (think "full time pro use")
Most people in our department have issues with their gear getting loose, Canon send a rep out at least once a year, to clean sensors and tighten everything back up

Yes i i think i know what full-time pro use would be like..

Since i rarely use a car in the city, my bags get's rolled a lot more then a a few km a week. My average distance walking is between 15-20km a day. (tracked by my fitbit yeah i know..) naturally that distance isn't always with TT rolling bags, but you can a general idea about the distance my bags is used on a weekly basis.


My point is that you can't really connect rolling the gear in your TT to the gear needing to be serviced. I mean a dirty sensor is hardly a fault due to vibration.

In any case i think the theory is far fetched that's all.

Bottomline anyone hauling their gear ion the their back instead of a peli or TT roller due to vibration issues theories ?