Travel Equipment- Part 4

By Chuck Hajdu

Bags and other stuff
Criteria: A few months ago I had the opportunity to review several camera bags. At first I thought the excellent Vanguard convertible shoulder bag/backpack would be perfect but the closer we got to travel time I realized it was totally wrong. The game changer was my need to bring a carry-on bag for the flights. The Vanguard bag was too big to fit inside of a carry-on but too small to carry the non-camera stuff I needed to bring.

As it turned out the solution was readily available. For a carry-on I used the FlighTable we reviewed many years ago and inside I used the great Golla large camera bag we recently reviewed. The Golla bag fit inside nicely and held all of the camera equipment. All of the computer stuff easily fit in the FlighTable bag in specially designed and protected sections.

The additional equipment I used during the trip included a LensPen lens cleaner, a lens hood for the 14-42mm lens,  2 Otterbox 1000 cases to hold small items, 2 spare Olympus PEN batteries and a spare 32GB Kingston microSD card.

Here's how things worked out: The first thing I discovered is that I brought the wrong lens hood. The one I took was designed for the 17mm lens and was visible in the corners when I shot at 14mm. That was bad and the lens shade came off for the rest of the trip.

Everything else was absolutely perfect and made the trip more carefree and relaxed.

Grade: A