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OkiMike · March 31st, 2008, 08:11 AM

This is coming quite a bit after the OP, but when not using your camera you can "travel" with it by clippin the boltsnap from one handle of the housing to your left-chest D-ring and by clipping the boltsnap from the other handle to your hip D-ring. Rotate the camera body so that the lens faces towards the body thus preventing scratches or damage.

A second camera could be shared by a teammate or by stowing it by one of the bolt snaps to the butt D-ring and letting it float in the slipstream or by attaching one of the boltsnaps on the handle to the rear D-ring and attaching the other handle's boltsnap to the hip D-ring.

Caution should be given to the addition of deco and/or stage bottles. Any camera on the rear D-ring that might come into contact with a stage also stowed there should have a fixed lens cap attached to prevent scratching. This is also ideal for any camera stowed anywhere on the body since lenses (especially real glass lenses) are not at all cheap (as you no doubt know).

If carrying two cameras, and two deco bottles plus an optional stage bottle, I would secure the first and least used (or already used) camera to the rear and hip D-rings (use both rather than letting it flail) and by passing the currently used (or soon to be used) camera to my buddy when I am busy doing a gas switch.

Ideally, by this stage you would have a scooter that--while it would task saturate you further--would also allow you to mount your video camera in a fixed location off the body thus freeing you up to stow the 2nd housing or pass it to a friend.

March 31st, 2008, 08:11 AM	#5 (permalink)
OkiMike(Offline) New Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Okinawa, Japan Posts: 77	Traveling with cameras This is coming quite a bit after the OP, but when not using your camera you can "travel" with it by clippin the boltsnap from one handle of the housing to your left-chest D-ring and by clipping the boltsnap from the other handle to your hip D-ring. Rotate the camera body so that the lens faces towards the body thus preventing scratches or damage. A second camera could be shared by a teammate or by stowing it by one of the bolt snaps to the butt D-ring and letting it float in the slipstream or by attaching one of the boltsnaps on the handle to the rear D-ring and attaching the other handle's boltsnap to the hip D-ring. Caution should be given to the addition of deco and/or stage bottles. Any camera on the rear D-ring that might come into contact with a stage also stowed there should have a fixed lens cap attached to prevent scratching. This is also ideal for any camera stowed anywhere on the body since lenses (especially real glass lenses) are not at all cheap (as you no doubt know). If carrying two cameras, and two deco bottles plus an optional stage bottle, I would secure the first and least used (or already used) camera to the rear and hip D-rings (use both rather than letting it flail) and by passing the currently used (or soon to be used) camera to my buddy when I am busy doing a gas switch. Ideally, by this stage you would have a scooter that--while it would task saturate you further--would also allow you to mount your video camera in a fixed location off the body thus freeing you up to stow the 2nd housing or pass it to a friend. __________________ "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now."