Under $10.00 (£5.00) Whats the best

What is the best thing in your camera bag that you paid under $10.00 for ?

And you cant say lens cleaning cloth !

Just a little something you brought one day, have carried around and then one day BANG - by having it in your camera bag it saved the day !

I will start the ball rolling with 2 items.

#1 - is a hotshoe spirt level

#2- A set of 8 mini clamps - I use them ALL the time to hold backgorunds still and to take out the wrinkles.

Another tip this these is carry lots of rubber bands (Elastic bands) you can thread them thru the hole in the handle and then link them together to tie off the clamps somewhere.

Flash reflector...

Why can't we say lens cleaning cloth?

cdi-ink.com wrote in post #2375470
Why can't we say lens cleaning cloth?

because its too easy and the idea is to come up with new items to carry and afterall - EVERYONE should have a cleaning cloth in there bags right........ I mean, you would have to be a dumb as a box of rocks to carry a camera, lens and NO cleaning cloth around.

dpurslow wrote in post #2375477
because its too easy and the idea is to come up with new items to carry and afterall - EVERYONE should have a cleaning cloth in there bags right........ I mean, you would have to be a dumb as a box of rocks to carry a camera, lens and NO cleaning cloth around.

I'm dumb as a box of rocks then. I leave my cloth at home. After all, how good of a cleaning job could I possibly do out on the go? I figure a rocket blower does fine.

In the words of Lightning McQueen....Ka-Chow!

Hand warmers...

Mini Bunjee Cords and Mini j clamps

I guess if it's under $10, I think the little simulated leather CF card holder I got at WalMart a year ago is the best little thing. It fits 6 CF cards and zips. I saw Jon had one and I found one, haven't seen one for sale since. Besides being small, it actually never gets lost.

I bought a little mini flashlight when I first bought my camera so I could read the manual in the dark if I couldn't remember how to do something and it has come in SO handy! I don't have to use it for the manual anymore, but it has saved a couple of lens caps that I have dropped outside in the dark!

I don't really keep it in the bag but the gaffer tape comes in handy. My secondhand 10D came with a broken eyepiece. I lost it 2x on 2 different days at the same event. Some gaffer tape wrapped around the inside where the little clip used to be snugged it up when I slid it back on the viewfinder. Hasn't come off since, and I didn't have to buy a new one.

My little Gepe watertight CF case, I think. One time I flipped open my bag by accident, and everything went flying out. In a panic, I caught the camera, but 8 gigs of Ultra II's went right in the water. I didn't even notice. I went back later, and there was the case...floating. I picked it up, wiped it off, opened it up, and everything was nice and dry. That was back when a 2gig was about $250, too. $1000 worth of CF's...almost gone.

The case costs about 8 bucks on B&H.

Ronald S. Jr. wrote in post #2375975
My little Gepe watertight CF case, I think. One time I flipped open my bag by accident, and everything went flying out. In a panic, I caught the camera, but 8 gigs of Ultra II's went right in the water. I didn't even notice. I went back later, and there was the case...floating. I picked it up, wiped it off, opened it up, and everything was nice and dry. That was back when a 2gig was about $250, too. $1000 worth of CF's...almost gone.

The case costs about 8 bucks on B&H.

They charged me 18.95 for mine. Are you sure it is the Gepe? I must be looking in the wrong place.

rocketblower. gloves.

I guess that my Hakuba lens pen was only 9.95 from B&H. Although I do not use the pen, just the brush. I do not trust the pen.

For what it's worth, Doc, CDS uses a Hakuba pen on his big whites all the time, and ne'er a problem.