Society Journal

Camera cases are an important part of a professional photographer’s everyday equipment. It is an accessory that holds all the other parts of their camera and then some. There are camera cases that hold paperwork, newspapers, magazines and laptops. These are typically the larger size camera bags and some resemble rolling luggage or large backpacks. These types of camera cases help to ‘camouflage’ the fact that this person is a photographer and is carrying with him or her lots of costly photographic equipment.

The larger camera bags of today, such as the backpacks and luggage style camera cases, come from years of photojournalists and writers taking their camera into places where cameras are not supposed to go in order to get the story or a prize winning photograph. Many international photojournalists travel with a luggage style camera bag in order not to draw attention to them in a dangerous climate. Many journalists, photographers included, are kidnapped or worse when it comes to reporting in war zones and therefore a photographer would want to blend in with the rest of the tourists.

If discreteness is not what you are looking for, then perhaps a small camera case in which to hold only the camera and the rest of the items would be stored in a suitcase or somewhere at home. This is however not how professional photographers travel because they typically have several cameras, maybe a digital one and a regular with them in order to get the perfect photography.

Many professional photographers travel with more than one camera and need larger camera bags, backpack or suitcase style bag to fit more than one camera inside without them touching each other or getting banged around when carrying them from job to job or placing them in an overhead compartment on a plane or train. Professional photographers advocate everyone bring with them extra memory cards because you never know how many pictures it will take before you get ‘the one’ and rechargeable batteries – fully charged – because batteries die before they are supposed to.