backpacks are so fucking ugly

For ladies, there are some beautiful purse camera bags (different than reg purse in that they are more heavy duty, specialized inner dividers for camera, lens, misc purse items.

A backpack is basically a large paper bag you can use every day without throwing it out. Feeling gr80's plight here, happy to have a purse to carry my smoothie, coffee, lunch, sunglasses, wallet, gloves.

I use my camera bag as my bag-bag as well, for sunglasses, pen and paper, headphones, etc. but it's kinda worn and rough so I can't imagine it working well with a suit.
and of course I need a camera bag everywhere... get outta here with that.

i will grudgingly admit that in sunnier weather my lack of a bag can be somewhat, uh, challenging. and by challenging i mean i look like i'm smuggling lego sets in my pockets.

Unless I'm wearing jeans, like CA said, no pockets in most of my outfits. My husband only carries a briefcase to work if he's bringing lunch, pockets otherwise, but his job doesn't require technology & he's not a photographer. He has a locker to store his coat/scarf/etc.

I have an office and my employer provides coffee and water (and tea and ice) and all our work stuff is ~~in the cloud~~ but I still bring a bag because 1) I work remotely two or three days/week and while I sometimes work from home, I sometimes work from other exotic locales like my couch or a coffee shop and no matter how adamantly I insist, Starbucks won't keep a computer there for me to use so I take my laptop home with me most of the time and 2) I bring lunch/snacks most days and it's actually easier to throw everything in a cross-body bag (one of these - http://www.queenbee-creations.com/items?category_id=38) and have my hands free than it is to bother with a grocery bag. Plus also no pockets and the need to carry an umbrella, reading material, wallet, phone, house keys, sunglasses, etc.

has anyone solved the camera-bag-that-can-be-worn-with-a-suit problem for under $200?

― chinavision!, Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:11 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think the domkes made out of ballistic nylon (iirc domkes use the good kind) are nice, all the reviews say it's really hard to make them look beat up

http://www.amazon.com/Domke-701-J83-J-803-Satchel-Black/dp/B0009PAU06

i will grudgingly admit that in sunnier weather my lack of a bag can be somewhat, uh, challenging. and by challenging i mean i look like i'm smuggling lego sets in my pockets.

ah, the truth comes out

in london that's only 2 days out of the year, tbf, once in late april/early may and once more in september

itt tracer teaches you how to be a man.

(on weekends and in evenings sometimes I can get it together enough to not take a bag with me. walking around the city without one feels goddamn luxurious.)

idk I just feel like when the apocalypse comes or aliums attack or the rain of toads happens, I'll be happy that I have my bag full of stuff that everyone thinks is so 'useless' or 'nonessential' or 'ugly'

good luck with yr pockets tracer

:)

whenever I do carry a real bag, I just wind up with, like, four books that I'm not even reading, a bunch of papers I'm not working on, random crumpled up papers and receipts, an umbrella when it's not raining, etc. I guess I could just clean out my bag more often, but no, fuck you.

yeah I'm kind of a 'what if I need this' packrat

every now and then I'll simply things and pare down my purse to only the essentials and then a week later I'm back to a halfton load again

*simply = simplify

has anyone solved the camera-bag-that-can-be-worn-with-a-suit problem for under $200?

― chinavision!, Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:11 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do it weggles-style
http://www.topphotographyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/William-Eggleston.jpg

(i assume that's just a case on his shoulder)

brb buying 'architect glasses'

http://www.trakke.co.uk/product/bairn

this could work as a camera bag, but it's pretty expensive. could just also make one?

this is a p cool backpack, too, but hella big http://www.trakke.co.uk/product/krukke

just noticed ol' bill isn't even using a camera strap at all. I would be guaranteed to drop the camera at some point using that method.

is that an x100

XD

that a buddha ear m3 with a leica 50mm collapsible 'cron

*dies alone*

We Angelenos don't need backpacks.

Honestly I'm surprised when I see people out wearing socks

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2466615

I never expected a Gartner article to be linked in this thread.

take it to ILE

www.gartner.com is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.

"Yiur grandfather and I had to carry three or four books at a time, plus notebooks for taking notes!"

http://i.imgur.com/tOWL55f.jpg

TURTLE POWER

one thing I've always complained about re: backpacks is that they don't look enough like kevlar vests; finally someone gets it

spotted one of those in the wild today, on a 275lb man wearing khakis

what are you supposed to keep in it though

magazines, documents, envelopes, maybe a pizza

http://pics.streetpeeper.com/sites/default/files/meredith-wendell-backpack.jpg

this backpack is not fucking ugly at all. actually ME WANT.

I inherited this Swiss Gear backpack from my kid last year and thankfully one of the main zippers has shit the bed. I hated this goddamn thing so much.

I think the secret is to buy sporty backpacks ie ones specifically made by athletic brands, like I have two identical adidas backpacks that I really love & I think are p fly

I need external water bottle pockets, but I don't really need any other kind of pocket, is my deal. I carry a book or two, a small lunch, and over-ear headphones. Sometimes some paperwork.

Whereas my current Jansport doesn't have enough different pockets. There is no such thing as enough different pockets for me.

mil-spec normcore

http://www.lapolicegear.com/backpacks.html

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/policestuff_2439_19305397273

I know right

https://www.peakdesign.com/product/bags

i like the look of these, though they are aggressively trendy and expensive

those look ok and less than what i just spent. :|

the strap on my giant digital-dj backpack ripped in two, and duct tape is only working to hold it together temporarily. i'm not going to sew it together right now, i don't have the time or the stuff or the skills. i really should learn how to do that. anyway i ordered a new backpack from amazon yesterday. it took two hours of looking and caused way too much anxiety. there are a lot of ugly-ass bags out there. i ended up spending $50 more that i don't really have on a travel/gym under armour bag instead of going for the really inexpensive stuff with brand names like Vitalismo and Kaka.

it's got that under armour bro-core thing going on but i feel somewhat more confident i'll be happy with it

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ImaylkF0L._SY300_.jpg

xp to la cop tombot

"nice" bags get out of my price range like instantly

and god help me i will never own something with the word "OGIO" on it

or FUL.

with the line over the U

Yeah, the last one I had (also inherited from my son) was FUL, and I felt like one.