Protecting your Gear?
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Other than insurance, I’m wonderng what others do to protect gear while wading etc.
In my toon I use a dry bag for my body and 400mm. The Dry bags work reasonably well in that eviroment, in so much as the cameras not coming out often and when it does I normally have “time” to set up.When wading in smaller streams, i have been rolling the dice and putting my rig over my head and around my shoulder, so the strap is across my chest, this way i can slip it around to my back when not needed, and it easy to pull around to the front for a quick shot.
Great Post, great topic.
As for insurance. I only have about $500 worth of stuff. To claim this on my homeowners is pointless. A $250 deductible plus if I have 2 claims in five years my policy goes way up.
Carrying special insurance for gear costs what??? $100? Three years from now I have spend $300 on insurance and could have put that toward gear. A real catch 22 for me.
I have opted for an insurance policy separate from my homeowners. It, like most insurance is something you hope you never need, but it gives me peace of mind and that allows me to sometimes take a picture that I might not otherwise. My wife might say that is not necessarily a good thing as I step closer to the edge of a drop off to get “the perfect view”.
Something to think about are the elastic binocular holders that keep the camera right against your chest. The first thing you’re going to protect in a fall is your face and hence your chest. That being said, I’m a dice roller myself. I usually put the camera on a tripod and set it down somewhere safe when I begin to fish a section and return to it. It’s a pain.
My video camera bit it bigtime last year. I’d gotten a full year’s worth of filming done with no incidents until last fall. I do the same tripod thing with my camcorder. This time I was transiting the camera to the next hole and was wading through about 10″ of water on a flat rock when I hit a particularly slimey section and my feet went one way, my body the other and the camera flew perpindicular to the fall landing
right in the water. It ended up having a fogged lens and is scrapped. So last month I finally made enough cash off of my first DVD sales to buy a new video camera and I’m back to filming. This time I bought the $140 2 year no fault warranty. Hopefully I can crank out enough footage and sales from the next DVD’s to have self made insurance for the next fall. Just ran across this website.
Ive pretty much resigned myself to reducing the amount of stuff I bring when wading. I weighed my bag the other day, its a whopping 14pds and thats without accessories. I’m thinking for my next outing I may just
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