![]() ![]() How are they still in business and how has this problem plagued them for so many years? It’s such a shame because clearly these ARE the best bags for this kind of photography, but what good is that if you can’t ever buy one.Īnyways… keep up the great work.If water is your concern, the Ajna does an excellent job of keeping the environmental liquid outside and the drinking water inside. Everywhere I see these bags talked about online it’s always the same thing… “Amazing bags. I’m not trying to be funny, whenever I see someone with one at an event or something like that, they’re always one of the F-Stop team it seems. ![]() You should be very thankful that you have some, because it seems that their pro team members are the only people that can get hold of them. I tried Ajna, Tilopa, Suka… I’m not that fussy. This is definitely the third, and possibly the fourth year in a row that I have looked at buying one of their bags, only to find them out of stock for long periods of time. Good stuff! I’d dearly love to have an F-Stop bag, but unfortunately, as usual they are all out of stock and saying things like “March 2016”. Thanks for the great gear advice this past week or so. Navin : Goes on most every trip and is the key piece for Dan’s system. Kenti : Since we switched to Sony, I’m using this pack more often as it is smaller, carries well, and has access to the camera gear without taking the pack off. No one should have to carry this much! And we never do… Large : Sony system storage, and for inserting in pack for when it’s all needed.Įxtra Large : Canon system storage. Medium Slope : Primary for both Lotus and Kashmir for most trips. Small : Serves as a Sony a7 camera bag with one extra lens. Or, as a Sony a7 camera bag with one body and one lens. Micro : As an office accessory… cables, chargers, mouse, etc… goes on every trip, be it in the camera bag or computer bag. Kashmir : Janine’s go to pack for most trips and shoots. Lotus : Dan’s go to pack for most trips and shoots. Large ICU with Sony system, Micro ICU for cables, etc… and a Lotus 32L ready for it all to be inserted Patitucci Fstop Camera Bags Choose your system and you get double the fun, a backpack, and a camera bag. Easy.į-stop offers a huge range of sizes, from the strategic 25 liter Kenti up to the mighty 80 liter Shinn. Of course the back panel access to get to your ICU is the key to working out of the pack. We are primarily working in the European Alps, so never have need to carry much beyond camera gear, clothing, food & water. The 32 liter Lotus is now made of waterproof, bomber material and has just the right amount of space, plus expandable side pockets, to make the pack a go to for very real mountain trips, be it skiing, climbing or trekking. I’ve switched to the Lotus, while Janine is in the new women’s specific Kashmir. The big new product for 2015 was the addition of newly designed, and constructed, packs. Or, piggy back a smaller ICU on top of the primary for other needs, misc. Whatever room is leftover is for other gear. But, for the vast majority of our work, I put just the camera gear I am going to take into the smallest possible ICU, and then insert that into the pack. If I go on a big shoot, the entire storage ICU goes into the pack. We store our two camera systems in larger ICU’s. You aren’t going to just own one or two, you’ll have several and use the necessary size based on your trip. The ICU is the key to the entire Fstop system. They call these inserts ICU’s (Internal Camera Units). The system is fully modular, meaning you select the pack size you want, then choose specific size inserts for your camera gear. How did the system improve for 2015 and beyond? Fstop has made a real backpack, for real use, regardless of whether or not it is a camera bag – and of course turned it into a camera bag. The designer had come to us after visiting another photographer, and left us for the next. It isn’t just Dan & Janine they listen to, it’s all their pro photographer ambassadors. So this is exactly why they get a Best award from us each year. He also included prototypes for new products still in the design phase to see if we would use his new ideas. Then in the evenings we’d discuss how to make improvements, or what sort of new products would help make our work easier. We’d spend the days doing shoots, runs, climbing etc… and he’d listen to our feelings about how the systems functioned. So much so that in 2015, the head designer of the bags came and stayed with us for a few days in Interlaken to simply watch how we use the packs when we work. Yes, they support us by giving us packs, but they also really drill us for design input. We give F-stop Camera Bags a “Best” award every year. ![]()
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