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| Originally Posted by videogirl I have my underwater video kit in a cabin sized hprc case, with wheels (camersunderwater sell them). It weighs about 12kg in the case but so far no one has questioned it. It has however, without fail, been opened and checked and swabbed etc. every time I have taken it through security. |
I don't do video, I only do SLR still.
I also have a 17" MacBook Pro which is rather wider and deeper than most laptops and given that I'm rather old and frail I've researched what I want very carefully.
I now have a
Tamrac | 5263 CyberPro Express Briefcase | 526301 | B&H Photo Camera Bag that takes the camera body with 50-150 lens attached, the 10-20 lens and the 18-50 lens, the computer (carefully inbuilt compartment) and all the associated bits and pieces. There is space to spare albeit not for a long lens but certainly for another couple or three of smaller ones.
The bag has a dragging handle and sturdy wheels, carrying handle and shoulder strap. As such things go it is bulletproof (and rainproof). It is also, as current things go, acceptable sizewise for cabin baggage.
Overall weight, excluding computer, is 8 kg (the camera system is metal, not plastic) including all associated bits and pieces, spare batteries etc, and the computer adds 3.3 kg.
Tip: never mind what it is, cabin baggage should be handled by you as if it were a lightweight nothingness when in front of the baggage Gestapo.