Where do you keep your kit?

Kbeg3

As my camera kit grows (and hopefully keeps getting bigger) I'm finding that I don't know where to keep everything. When you factor everything in together, DSLR, lenses, tripods, bags,stands etc it's a lot of stuff. I don't want to leave it lying around (which I do now) so where should I keep it?

Any suggestions on storage options or where do you keep your own kit?

melekalikimaka

maybe a shelf???

bmcgrath

I keep mine on the shelf or in my camera bag.

mikeanywhere

In my underpants

muhahahahahah, sorry couldnt resist!!

Mine is in spread across 3 bags and a cupboard

bmcgrath

lol...

PaulieC

I keep mine in my house...do you want my address?

I keep them in a collection of bags in the dining room. Mrs. Gueno is keeping a close eye on the ever growing collection :eek:

Fajitas!

Apt 35, The...wait... what?

But seriously, a locker, a safe, a desk and 2 wardrobes.

mehfesto2

I've often wondered about this.

Having royally fecked up a guitar by keeping it in a warm, dry room, I always wondered if anything could affect a camera in the same way.

I know not to leave your kit anywhere where the temperatures can go extreme (eg. the boot of my car overnight, by mistake ), or anywhere were the cat can get at it, but other than that I just keep it under the bed in the spare room (dry, room-temperature, safe and can't fall!)

ThOnda

It is the best you could do for your camera, to keep your kit in warm dry room (and remove batteries!!!).
My kit is in one camera bag and one drawer. Films are in the fridge next to chocolate bars.

mehfesto2

ThOnda wrote: »

It is the best you could do for your camera, to keep your kit in warm dry room (and remove batteries!!!).
My kit is in one camera bag and one drawer. Films are in the fridge next to chocolate bars.

Remove batteries?
Why's this?

AnCatDubh

ThOnda - what happens if the film eats the chocolate ???? It has been known to happen!

My stuff's in its respective padded cases under a chair which actually protects it as no one actually sits on this particular chair.

AnCatDubh

mehfesto2 wrote: »

Remove batteries?
Why's this?

I'd imagine so that they don't leak horrible yeuch over time and thus pretty much messing up the internals of the camera? Sounds plausible anyhow so that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

mehfesto2

AnCatDubh wrote: »

I'd imagine so that they don't leak horrible yeuch over time and thus pretty much messing up the internals of the camera? Sounds plausible anyhow so that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

Indeed. A good technical reason anyhow.
I shall remove the energy-box from my light-catchy thing so that the yeuch doesn't make it 'splode on me.

ThOnda

The same experience here. I have learned to remove batteries almost from everything I have before I put it into the drawer. It is a little better with rechargeable batteries, but I am just a creature of habit.

Once the acid leaks from batteries, it won't only make the contacts dirty, but it could dissolve protective coating, soldering and smaller wires. And the repair is in such case equal to minor rebuild.

*Dallas

thats a good tip about batteries..thanks Thonda.

Stephen

My stuff lives in a camera bag at the bottom of a wardrobe. My tripod is in there too along with a Nikkor 80-200 in the fancy leather case that it came with.

trishw78

Mine is currently in 3 camera bags in the spare room and the tripod is the booth of my car in case I forget it. The film is in the fridge beside the beer.

AnCatDubh

hmnnn... happy films. chocolate and beer!

forgot in my post - like trish, the tripod lives in the cold of the boot of the car. no chocolate or beer for tripods

Kbeg3

Thanks everyone.

I think I might invest in a locker of some sort:) just to keep everything in the one place.

I don't have any films so the beer and chocolate will remain untouched. I wonder do memory cards like chocolate!

Ricky91t

Mines just in my bag in my room...I don't feel the need to put in a locker or what not cuase then i'll find my self not bringing it with me as much as i usually would cuase it's all locked up

whyulittle

In my bag at the end of the bed, tripod in the boot of the car. Serves me well.

jen_23

In a padded bag on a shelf in my wardrobe. tripod soon as I get it will be homed in the utility room.

moralproduction

mine is all in a bag apart from the 40d with my new 24-70 2.8,cost so much i keep it out and keep snapping away at anything and everyting just to keep testing it

Mycroft H

My usual stuff lives in a lowepro bag - the stuff i dont use so often lives in press

Sleepy

Everything I have fits in my lowepro slingshot 100

Which until I read this thread, I'd been leaving in the boot

kensutz

Pelican 1510 case, 2 bags, on a shelf and in the car boot.

Morrisseeee

In my underpants

I bet its the nifty-fifty during the day, and the telephoto during the nite !!

ThOnda

Hopefully not otherwise... :pac:

Talking about gear, what type of insurance covers your gear? Standard home insurance or special on photography gear?

kensutz

Shotgun :pac:

I'm covered by FBD but due a renewal in the next week or 2.