You know your camera bag is getting heavy when...

*ve2vfd* · 09-07-2009, 03:51 PM

I put my bag on the passenger seat of my car and...

the airbag system thinks a small child is in the seat and shuts off the passenger side bags!

Pat

little laker · 09-07-2009, 04:20 PM

Shoot Pat, I have one lens that'll do that

Although it's one of my favorite lenses, due to IQ it's my least favorite lens when it comes to carrying it around

*pingflood* · 09-07-2009, 04:30 PM

Heh, that happens with my 1DsII+24-105 all the time. Made me laugh the first time I figured out what was going on.

MJB DIGITAL · 09-07-2009, 04:40 PM

yeah, wait till it is turning the passenger seat airbag ON

jct us101 · 09-07-2009, 04:45 PM

You people and your fancy airbags.

*Blue* · 09-07-2009, 08:08 PM

You'll know its heavy when it reactivates the airbag thinking it is a small adult.

*LeDave* · 09-07-2009, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by MJB DIGITAL

yeah, wait till it is turning the passenger seat airbag ON

lol that happens to me on my sister's car. I have to put a seatbelt on my camera bag otherwise it will beep, people are going to think I'm crazy when they see a backpack next to me and it's seatbelted.

*jmc7104* · 09-08-2009, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by LeDave

lol that happens to me on my sister's car. I have to put a seatbelt on my camera bag otherwise it will beep, people are going to think I'm crazy when they see a backpack next to me and it's seatbelted.

With a couple of my cameras and couple lens for each I definatly want the bag belted in, nuts to what anyone else thinks. jim

kerrowdown · 09-13-2009, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by jmc7104

With a couple of my cameras and couple lens for each I definatly want the bag belted in, nuts to what anyone else thinks. jim

Aye, quite right, in the event of an accident you don't that lot flying about the inside of the vehicle.

I also understand it's not good for lenses.

lodi781 · 09-14-2009, 10:22 AM

Thats the reason the bag gets the back seat......

*Leaf Fan* · 09-14-2009, 11:22 AM

That's funny.

ANY items you carry in the passenger compartment of the vehicle should be secured. Even things as innocuous as a cell phone become a projectile in an impact. I've seen people cut badly by a credit card that went flying during an impact. Think about it, you're travelling 60mph and hit something, whatever's in the passenger compartment will travel at 60mph towards the point of impact until it hits something. Can you say tire jack in the back seat. Might be anal but an ounce of prevention.......

*ChrisPlatt* · 09-14-2009, 11:34 AM

Perhaps you should get a baby seat for it.

Chris

*Ratmagiclady* · 09-14-2009, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by ChrisPlatt

Perhaps you should get a baby seat for it.

Chris

That can actually work pretty well, Chris. Or any sort of plastic basin you could attach. Unlike actual babies, you don't have to have very sophisticated restraints, though.

I usually use the back-seat floor-board, on top of the emergency blanketage that we carry in colder weather. (Down here, there's not much need for that.

little laker · 09-14-2009, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by lodi781

Thats the reason the bag gets the back seat......

Not for my gear, I use the floor back there for my camera gear. It fits in nice and tight, so I'm not too worried about strapping it down.
If I rolled the car I suppose that I'd have problems, however I just can't picture a seatbelt holding most camera bags securely then either.