Show us: your photography equipment storage area

[Happy Mom2]

it's an awesome bag, I highly recommend it, I was the first person in the US to have this model bag, I lucked into it, before they even had it on their website

I am so happy I saw this post! My DH is carrying around his camera, lenses, flashes, etc in a regular backpack. It drives me nuts. He WILL DEFINITELY be getting this as a surprise gift SOON!

 

[MICKEY88]

I am so happy I saw this post! My DH is carrying around his camera, lenses, flashes, etc in a regular backpack. It drives me nuts. He WILL DEFINITELY be getting this as a surprise gift SOON!

the newer version which I have is a rolling backpack, the old version did not have wheels, and I'm not sure it had the laptop compartment

they have a lifetime warranty and I can vouch for that.

I actually had purchased the older version of this bag, being clearanced from a store,, one of the wheels cracked, so I contacted naneu pro to see if it would be possible to get the wheel replaced, they asked for a phone number and called me.. they said the bag had a lifetime warranty and since it was a discontinued item they would replace it with the brand new urban 220, which was so new it wasn't even on the website yet, they said I'd be the first person to have one....all I had to do was ship the old bag to them and they sent me the new bag, I sent the old bag via UPS and had the new bag within a week...

 

[Icemann]

double post

 

[Icemann]

I am so happy I saw this post! My DH is carrying around his camera, lenses, flashes, etc in a regular backpack. It drives me nuts. He WILL DEFINITELY be getting this as a surprise gift SOON!

Chech out the Tenba shootout bag I just got one a few weeks ago and love it

 

[Groucho]

I actually just moved around my piles of stuff after one of our shelving units started pulling away from the wall! Our setup is more of a display...

The digital SLRs are usually either out on a table, in a bag, or just stuck anywhere convenient. The film SLRs have their own shelf:

The lenses are on one of the big shelves... the old lenses that have nice leather cases are on the right.

Most of the accessories that I use regularly stay in my photo case, the rest of the stuff is in GrillMouster-style units. Pardon the mess on top!

The middle drawer (just visible in the upper left of the shot) is full of various lenses cases and such. The bottom right is the main one, which is full of stuff - some old manuals on the left, various minitripods, hotshoe mic, straps, plastic bags with collections of stuff (caps, etc), and a pair of R-Strap mesh bags. I won't bother with the story here, but we got a second RS-7 for free for our K-x - gotta like that.

I wish I could post pics of my friend's little home studio - he has a pretty huge collection of vintage cameras (mostly Kodaks but others), as well as a Hasselblad which he feels guilty about not using much! It's a nice collection, with full shelves of cameras taking up two whole walls of the room.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I'm a little late in answering this one.

I have a photo storage room upstairs. My wife calls it the guest bedroom, but it houses guests for only about a week or two each year. I wish I could move the stupid bed out of there.

I have a chest with six drawers for primary storage. One draw stores camera bodies and CF cards. When I put a camera away, I charge it's battery, format its memory card, and leave it all put together in the drawer. For rarely used cameras, I store them without batteries or memory cards. The other drawers store filters & accessories, batteries and chargers, cleaning supplies and random stuff, flashes and flash accessories, and tripod and support related stuff (heads, clamps, arms).

I also have a small shelving unit in the room. It has tripods and binoculars on the bottom shelf, a lens shelf, a shelf with my 300mm lens and my camcorder, a shelf with video accessories, a shelf with smaller light modifiers (reflectors, diffusers, portable umbrella), and a shelf with my video rain jacket. On the lens shelf, the commonly used lenses sit naked on the shelf. The specialty lenses are in the gray bags that ship with them. I do this so that my wife won't accidentally grab one of the specialty lenses when she's in a hurry.

I have a couple of cabinets in the room. One cabinet houses my studio lighting stuff - lights, triggers, and smaller modifiers. The other cabinet houses a lot of larger or rarely used random stuff - waterproof housings, GPS units, manuals, belt/vest system, and other stuff.

In the closet, I have the larger stuff - background stands, light stands, Lastolite panel, umbrellas, soft boxes. I also put my assorted camera bags and Pelican cases in there.

I have a corner with a few rolls of printer paper. I have another corner with some rolls of background paper. At 9' tall, these wedge between the floor and ceiling.

Along another wall is my new printer.

Finally, I have several 18 gallon plastic storage boxes. One is filled with assorted AV cables and similar stuff (HDMI cables, those red/white/yellow cables, component cables, etc). Another is filled with computer cables and small computer parts (USB cables, Firewire cables, Ethernet cables, etc). Another is filled with random electronics (network switches, routers, external drives, etc). Recently, I started putting the cables into ziplock bags so that they don't turn into a tangled mess. I thought that would take up more space, but they actually pack in smaller in the ziplocks.

I used to just pitch things in nooks and crannies and piles and camera bags. I always ended up struggling to find everything when I needed it. By spending a little time getting things organized and putting things away, it is much easier for me to manage.

The reason that I don't keep stuff in my camera bag is that much of my shooting is either done without a bag (just one camera and one lens) or the gear selection changes so much each time that I essentially have to repack the bag each time anyway.