Tamrac to the Rescue

This year’s extended trip to the Boothbay Harbor region of Maine requires bringing along a little more photo gear. So, I’ve decided to break out the big guns. The Mighty Tamrac Pro 6 series bag.

Back in my glory days as a dedicated Canonite, I would haul this bag around with two bodies, lenses mounted, and just about every other piece of camera gear you could imagine. It’s enormous.

This exact model is no longer sold, but the current equivalent bag is the model 614. These bags have the “Lens Bridge” feature which allows you to carry two bodies face to face with lenses attached, and feature six, two-level compartments between them. There’s also an ample assortment of padded and unpadded outer pockets. It’s not a bag that you’d want to carry around with you often, but a great “one-stop-shopping” approach to packing your gear. This bag transitions quite well to digital, unlike my Tamrac 757 backpack, which has narrow inner compartments. Some new dividers may solve that problem however.

So off I go with six cameras in all; the Nikon D90 and D50, Holga 120FN and 120WPC, and the Canon SD780. The iPhone 4S qualifies as the sixth, but stays on my person at all times; it slso serves as my photo assistant. Lenses? NIKKOR 16-85 and 70-300 zooms, 35mm f/1.8, 20mm f/2.8, Samyang 8mm f/3.5 fisheye, Lensbaby Composer with double glass and pinhole/zoneplate optic, and the Kenko Teleplus MC7 2X teleconverter. Not to mention filters, external viewfinders, filter rings, and other paraphernalia. All in one bag. Whew! Will I use it all? We’ll see.