How much does your bag weigh?

If I added the tripod and monopod, I doubt if my son could even lift the bag. I had the backpack loaded up the other day with three DSLR's, all my lenses, four of the school's lenses, and two point and shoots. It took two of us to carry it.

I went hiking with my PhotoTrekker loaded with a 1DMIIN and 300 F/2.8L IS attached, a 1DsMII, a 16-35L, extra batteries, memory cards and a Gitzo 2220 attached. I do not know the exact weight, but it was heavy. Oh, and the water bottles too

Wow, and I thought I was walking around with a lot of weight. My bag weighs in at around 12 pounds - including my lens and my flash. The storage device never travels in the backpack nor do the plethora of chargers for all things related to camera gear!!

Depends what I'm shooting and where I'm going - I only take what I think I need and if I haven't got it I make do...
Sometimes it's good to limit the amount of gear you take, makes you think a bit more about what to shoot.

kevin_c wrote in post #2618051
Depends what I'm shooting and where I'm going - I only take what I think I need and if I haven't got it I make do...
Sometimes it's good to limit the amount of gear you take, makes you think a bit more about what to shoot.

I have this for those "sometimes":


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Aside from a few (about 12) rolls of film & batteries hidden in the bag, that's the entire kit.

Lovely bit of kit cdi-ink.com - That's a 'real' camera!

15 lbs or so, but that includes a 17" macbook pro, so I guess it would really be about 9 pounds.

It's 8.2kg for mine. But it seems gains a kg everytime my birthday comes round

kevin_c wrote in post #2618145
Lovely bit of kit cdi-ink.com - That's a 'real' camera!

Yeah the only thing that sucks is the flash is too fat, so I can't get my eye up to the VF with it mounted. I have to sorta peek in from a distance.

brunester wrote in post #2617346
daaamn
so i aint the only one, think i might have to invest in a backpack for hiking
some of you guyz must be like amateur body builders to carry around your kits all day

30 min of exercise a day goes a long way.

My Domke F-2 with everything except lighting equipment weighs about 12-16 pounds depending on where I'm going with it. Strobist-style guerilla lighting kit is probably 6 pounds. That's kind of my do-anything urban/working-out-of-my-car setup.

When I backpack/trek, it's a whole other ballgame; my base pack weight is 16 pounds, plus 4-6 lbs. more for bear canister and food (due to Sierra Nevada regulations)...that's pack weight, the stuff that keeps me safe and alive, not what I use to shoot anything! So, my camera gear must fit in a LowePro Top Loader 70AW, which I wear with a chest harness...I pare down to one body, one lens, spare battery, circ. polarizer, and that still clocks in at 4-6 pounds. While that's a major disadvantage to going with a 5D and not a 30D, it makes it easier to bring one do-everything lens for flora and landscapes (typically the also-heavy 24-70mm f2.8 L).

I am heavily into hiking and trailrunning, and I've found that doing "casual" or training walks/hikes with a loaded pack (or, in this case, camera bag) is the best way to get used to carrying that kind of weight. The body is amazing in how it gets used to certain things with consistent, low-impact "training." This can be as serious as trailrunning with a 10-20 pound pack or as mellow as carrying a bag of a certain weight on every outing, working up the weight slowly (from, say, four pounds to six to ten over the course of a few months).

If your camera bag is gettin' pretty weighty, another trick is to find a way to better distribute the weight. If you''re using a shoulder bag like the Domke, look into backpack-style harnesses for the model you own. If you're using a backpack, look for a model with waist straps, as that takes a lot of weight off your shoulders. Your waist can carry a lot more weight moer comfortably than your shoulders, which really should be used to just keep the load from falling backwards!

More food for thought,
-Atomick

My current bag weighs around 72lbs... That is because it is a Pelican 1664 then it is loaded down. hehe

calicokat wrote in post #2617549
I went hiking with my PhotoTrekker loaded with a 1DMIIN and 300 F/2.8L IS attached, a 1DsMII, a 16-35L, extra batteries, memory cards and a Gitzo 2220 attached. I do not know the exact weight, but it was heavy. Oh, and the water bottles too

Yeah, but he forgot to mention the most important part.

HE MAKES HIS WIFE CARRY IT. And she carries the water bottles too, because she doesn't trust him to carry the water in the desert.

As to my bag, when I go on vacation it's so heavy I feel like I'm carrying a water buffalo on my back, and that was before I got the 300 f2.8:o

12kg as i normally pack it, no monopod, tripod and no film camera

with laptop, tripod, chargers film cameras (eos300 and olympus om2 with 4 lenses)
i could probably get it to 25 kg

My bag weighs about 20lbs (9kg) with all my equipment (no monopod/tripod though) in there. Can sometimes weigh more if I really pack it full...