On 16 Apr 2007 20:36:17 -0700, steve
wrote:
>My wife and I just returned from a mostly enjoyable trip to Spain,
>Morocco and Portugal. Unfortunately, our camera along with all our
>pictures of Spain was stolen on our first day in Portugal. I was
>getting onto a crowded subway train and had the camera in my backpack.
>We had thought it was safer in the backpack than carrying it loose.
>Anyway there was lots of pushing to get into the subway which made it
>impossible to tell that someone had their hand in my backpack. After
>removing the camera I was shoved into the car. I just thought it was
>the usual crowd push.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on the safest way to carry a camera? I
>don't want to spend all my time being paranoid. I think of myself as
>reasonable careful but there will always be momentary lapses when you
>are distracted, perhaps intentionally.
>
>We have already decided to use smaller memory cars in the camera so
>that at most one week of pictures can be lost. It would be nice to
>have some way to simply move all the days pictures to a separate
>memory card or other safe place but I'm not going to carry a laptop or
>visit an internet café every day
>
>Thanks
>Steve Gerdemann
I started to make a camera bag to fit on my belt, when my
wife found a better one in an op-shop.
A simple leather pouch with a retainer to slide my belt
through on the rear, which I kept on my belt at all times on
my travels. The camera was ready to hand in the main pocket,
spare XD cards in the outer on. It only had a clip catch on
it but was secure enough in it's position to deter light
fingers.
I'm not sure if this photo link will work as I haven't
published the blog page yet; I'm wearing the pouch here:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_GGuBLqgIbHs/RiDlrP69KMI/AAAAAAAAAgo/urdlbOXPMJY/s1600-h/DSCF1841.jpg
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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