Photography Vest

[Zholl]

Originally Posted by purduephotog

I've used them and don't like them.... but that's me. When you try to fit through a door you can smack your gear into the walls- it took ALOT more training and I never got the hang of knowing where my gear was in proximity to my surroundings.

With a vest your gear is spread out and is logically placed- with the belt- unless you have suspenders- it's going to sag... plus if you ever do find yourself able to sit you aren't going to like the idea of your 70-200 2.8L smacking into the floor because it's on your left hip

BUT- get one and try it out What worked for me works for me- what works for you may / is something totally different.

Thanks for the info. The biggest issue I'm having choosing either way is the fact that I don't want to 1) figure out how to return something to a retailer I'm not familiar with or 2) find I'm stuck with $80 worth of something that won't work because the retailer won't take it back.
So while I'd love to be able to just try stuff out, there's not exactly a place in town that sells this stuff and can let me try it in store, and I'd rather not deal with #2 right now. So I guess I need to check Amazon for some of this stuff, since I'm pretty sure they'll take stuff back. But until then, I'm basing my decision on what info I can get out of everyone who's tried these already and can tell me what they liked and didn't.

[Dick Linn]

Cabelas has all kinds of fishing vests and packs:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...tId=cat2016 6

So does Gander Mountain:

http://www.gandermountain.com/modper...owse&aID=501B7

[Matt Howard]

OP, how many bodies do you have? When I shoot an event I typically load my primary lens on my best body, and my less used lens on the other body. I then throw one over my shoulder and hold the other in my hand. (Never ever around the neck)

Any other things I need I keep in a fanny pack.

Sometimes my Father uses a harness he set up, but its a glorified fanny pack really, in the only extra thing it has is a lens bag to carry an extra telephoto.

[Zholl]

I've got two, and a third in the mail. I'm also looking at picking up a flash unit, and I've got a couple filters as well. Add to that a couple bits of hardware, as well as a few other miscellanious items (cell phone, radio, clif bar, etc.). I found at competition I needed a small pack to carry everything, but a lot of it I wanted easy access to without having to take the pack off, hence this thread. I figure a vest is a pretty good way to distribute everything comfortably without having to take off and dig through a backpack or shoulder bag of some sort.

http://www.vistek.ca/search/vests.aspx

or,

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont....y=0&Go=submit

However, there are some good and hopefully water resistant fishing vests that might do the same job for alot less money.

I shoot video now but back when I shot stills I used a backpack, yes that meant I had to take it off to get something like to transfer a lens, it also gave the lens some place soft to fall (into the backpack) if it jumped out of my hand and at least on me a backpack feels comfortable, the fannypack's hurt my hips after awhile.

I have never tried the vest yet though.

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