Packing kit for a flight

[Greeny]

Whats the best way to take your Camera and Lenses on a flight All in a suitcase, well packed. Or maybe Lenses seperatley with Camera as hand lugage. Whats recomended?

[nick_bbb]

I take all my gear as hand luggage.

If it were going in the hold it would be in a Peli or flight case

[4hero]

All in hand luggage! There's no way I'd let some bag handler throw my kit around.

[Greeny]

I thought hand luggage too, but maybe with the big lens, 100 - 400 well packed in suitcase.

[nick_bbb]

My normal bag is a Lowepro Mini Trekker with:

Canon 5D with grip
Canon 580ex
Canon 17-40 L
Canon 24 -105 L
Canon 100-400 L
Canon 50 1.8
Mini Peli case with 4 X 4 gb CF cards
Rocket blower
Lens Pen
Lint free cloth
Stofen Diffuser
4 camera batteries
2 sets of flash batteries

Been to America and India wih no problems on the flight.

[Greeny]

Nick, do you take it as hand luggage, or in the hold?

Edited by Greeny on Tuesday 21st October 10:34

[Triumph Coupe]

Definitely hand luggage. Just been to Canada with my Billingham stuffed full of gear as my hand hand luggage with no problems. I'd be less than happy about the kit going in the hold.

[Scho]

i pack everything into a huge lowepro and take it as hand luggage (tripod in backpack which i check in). never have trouble.

[Simpo Two]

Hand luggage. Not only do you get to keep an eye on it at all times, but you can get the camera out for any opportunities that crop up.

[nick_bbb]

Greeny said:

Nick, do you take it as hand luggage, or in the hold?

Hand luggage.

Funny enough I was just checking in for a flight to Edinburgh tomorrow and noticed that the hand baggage allowance on BA allows you to take up to 23kg, provided it is less than 56 X 45 X 25 cm.

[Greeny]

Hand luggage it is then. Thanks for the replies and advice. I will look at getting a better / bigger/ more suitable holdall.

[Scho]

Simpo Two said:

but you can get the camera out for any opportunities that crop up.

you could get some great snaps of airport security!

[Triumph Coupe]

Simpo Two said:

Hand luggage. Not only do you get to keep an eye on it at all times, but you can get the camera out for any opportunities that crop up.

Opportunities that crop up. What like this? Bored having a beer waiting for my flight...

[Stickers]

I agree with everyone else - hand luggage is a must!...........another good thing to come out of digital bodies is that we no longer have to worry about images being scanned 'blank' by airport security.

[Greeny]

I will have a compact to hand for those 'Special' shots

[rmmackfc]

Can you take a laptop bag on as well as a camera bag?

[tim-b]

nick_bbb said:

Greeny said:

Nick, do you take it as hand luggage, or in the hold?

... noticed that the hand baggage allowance on BA allows you to take up to 23kg, provided it is less than 56 X 45 X 25 cm.

Wow that's surprising, are you sure? I've had to check stuff on another airline because it was over 7kgs. Was told it was industry standard (makes sense in case it falls out of lockers etc.) but maybe that's not true?

[Slinky]

http://www.vincentlaforet.com/Gear/



Worth a read actually..

[Simpo Two]

Slinky said:

http://www.vincentlaforet.com/Gear/

When I joined a video crew on a 10-day job in Brunei the kit weighed about 1 tonne and we all had a wheeled flightcase each. Can't remember how much the excess baggage was! Silly times

[beano500]

tim-b said:

nick_bbb said:

Greeny said:

Nick, do you take it as hand luggage, or in the hold?

... noticed that the hand baggage allowance on BA allows you to take up to 23kg, provided it is less than 56 X 45 X 25 cm.

Wow that's surprising, are you sure? I've had to check stuff on another airline because it was over 7kgs. Was told it was industry standard (makes sense in case it falls out of lockers etc.) but maybe that's not true?

Billingham 445, lapdog, camera body plus six lenses, speedlight, CF cards and hard disk drive, spare battery and charger, all documents, 'phone, book or three and pretend as you saunter up to the check-in that it's not really very heavy after all...


It's all academic what the size limit was when you're suffering from a bad back after the experience !