canon S90 Traveling Case

[Cruiser24]

Hi,

Question for Canon S90 users. How do you carry your camera and its housing around, in flight on board the plane and onboard the boat? Do you buy a hard case (e.g Pelican case) for it? More costs

If you do buy a hard case, what would you recommend?

Many thanks.

 

[floridafish]

Cruiser,
I pack the individual pieces (camera, strobe, batteries, etc) in my carry-on padded with clothing (bathing suit, tshirts, etc) or skins/3 mm.

Most boats either have a camera table (preferrable) or at least a large rinse bucket. I don't like to leave my setup in the rinse bucket, too easy to get damaged. If traveling and nothing is available, I would bring a towel or several towels to wrap around the setup and watch it like a hawk.

For local dive boats, you could use a plastic box (they come in all sizes at Walmart, etc) with lid, and line it with a towel. Be sure the box can fit under the seat. Personally, as I have a Pelican case, I use it when diving from local boats (ours do not have camera tables)

FF

 

[2ndjetty]

Hey Cruiser - I just got an s90 w/ Ikelite and S&S YS01. My plan for the beach and boat dives is to pad an old laptop bag (the narrow ones you get at conferences) with a towel. The built rig fits in there, with accessories (ie extra batteries) in the front pouch. This solution is free :- )

Like FF said, I'm sure you'll be fine on a plane padding the housing with clothes and keeping the camera in a soft case in your carry-on.


edit: my solution assumes I'm not leaving the camera lying around on the deck, but keeping it safe inside where it won't get crushed by some flabbergasted cattleboat diver!

 

[PatW]

I have an inexpensive non rigid camera case with foam cut outs inside. I just cram the gear in it and stick it into my suitcase. That gives it plenty of protection. But if you want, the padded by clothes would work too.

 

[Nemrod]

All of this:

Goes in here:

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[Gilligan]

Another option is a soft beverage cooler of a size that fits your camera gear. They are inexpensive, padded and insulated. I use one as an airline carry-on as well as on the dive boats. On the boat it protects the camera/housing from the tropical heat.

I would stay away from hard cases for carry-on purposes because some airlines only allow 7 kilos of carry-on and will weigh it. Those hard cases weigh too much. When I travel on Hawaiian Airlines back to Hawaii from Manila they weigh ALL my bags. In-country flights in the Philippines only allow 7 kilos of carry-on.

I bought my cooler at Walmart in Maui. It has a shoulder strap and a front pocket as well as a hard plastic insert in the beverage portion which helps the case keep its shape. That hard plastic insert can serve as a camera rinse tank in a pinch. when I use it for a carry-on I place sections of sponges to pad the gear.

 

[Durhampro]

I don't have external strobes yet, and I use a G11 with a DC34 housing. But Gilligan nailed it. I also have an insulated cooler bag that fits the housing perfectly. It is waterproof so it doubles as a dunk tank for the housing post dive. It also keeps the camera from fogging up before the dives. I usually seal the camera housing in the hotel room, for the day, and then keep it in the cooler until it's time to get wet. I carry the cooler bag with the housing in my carry-on knapsack.

Cheers

Awesome forum you guys have, I have been touring it for a while but I had to add to this one.

 

[Gilligan]

This is the cooler I bought at Walmart in Maui. I stenciled "FRAGILE CAMERA" on the top so as to inform boat crews. Yes, it tells everyone it's a camera but telling boat crews was more important to me than worrying about someone trying to steal it. I had the red inserts made here in Bohol by a "rubber slipper" maker to pad the hard plastic insert . The front pocket is good for misc. items.
This cooler holds my G10 in the Canon housing, my tray/arms and my Sea & Sea strobe.

 

[diver 85]

Put my 570 in a regular small camera case & wrap a towel around the UW Canon case while traveling(ie my carryon while flying)------on the boat, put the unit in the (water)camera bucket.....

 

[Nemrod]

Put my 570 in a regular small camera case & wrap a towel around the UW Canon case while traveling(ie my carryon while flying)------on the boat, put the unit in the (water)camera bucket.....

I usually get to the boat early, stake out a place way up front and set a towel on the deck just behind the windscreen or if there is a camera table, the same thing. I have a small rubber mat, non slip, I carry sometimes instead of a towel. If these locations are not available to me, I hold the camera, when I gear up my wife holds it etc. It never touches the deck. I try to rinse with the freshwater hose but rarely the bucket and it NEVER stays in the bucket.

I usually enlist the help of one of the deckhands and tip him/her for the extra help. I like for them to hand me my camera and then take it back and hold it until either I or my wife take it from them, emergencies aside of course, people come first.

I am learning that my new found condition, at least for the next year duration, may be helpful in getting me "special" attention, it seems to help everywhere else. I am going to put it to use.

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