Garb and carring camera's

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

OK ladies not sure how many can answer this.

I have one of those monster type DSLR camera's. It doesn't have the Mondo lens that are 30 feet looooong, but it's heavy and bulky like them. How can I carry this and wear my noble garb. The fur is tiring enough on my arms and carring a basket around would get more tiring and old (I once carried a small wooden shield for one of my boys one year and that was bad enough) Any idea's? If I went in wench wear, Toki would make me a nice leather pouch for it. As a Tudor noble a pouch purse would not look right and having it on a leather belt would detrack too. Any ideas.


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[Lady Amy of York]

How about  having a  drawstring pouch made to match your gown.  The inside could be lined witha sturdy material to hold  your camera  and  the outside could be made of the same velvet to match your  gown.  I just had one made for  my new court gown, and it works great for my  coin purse and  digital camera.   

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

I do have a black pouch with a tudor rose on it, but it's WAY to small for this beast. Most bags are sadly to say. Besides then what do you carry it on. Wearing a leather belt would not look right, and the rope one that matches my dress that is hidden under my normal girdle belt isn't strong enough.

[gypsylakat]

what if you had a pocket built into your gown? you could wear a pouch made of leather or whatever you needed to on a belt under one of your skirts either your velvet over skirt or through both that and then underskirt, it may work... but it depends on how far in the zoom goes... and which way you point it... but I think it would work... I think...

[Lady Isabella]

On the days I take my camera I also take my basket. It's the only way I have found to keep it safe.

[sealion]

That looks to be about the same size as my camera. Unfortunately, it is simply too bulky and heavy for a pouch. I've found no alternative to carrying it in a basket other than slinging the strap over my shoulder so that the camera hangs under my arm and pretending that it isn't there.

[Erynn]

I don't have any good pictures, but this is what I did.

I bought a wicker basket from Michaels or Joanns or some store like that, padded the bottom of it with scrap fabric, and tacked another piece of scrap fabric on the inside with enough on one side to cover the top. Then I hung it from my belt with a curtain tie back from Target. (the twisted cord ones) Works really well and you can't tell I have my dslr there.

Here is one of LadieDragons pictures from RenDezvous last year where you can kind of see it. http://www.rensites.com/ladiedragon/mnrf07/wk3/DSC02547.JPG.html

Not sure how you would attach it to a non-leather belt, but i think if you had a chain one it would still hold it up and match noble garb better.

[Merry]

I say get a nice basket, fill it with all your needs and have a servant carry it for you:)  After all, you are a noble!

[William Blackheath]

Sealion has a good point about a pouch.  A few years ago I made a leather pouch for my DSLR, but the leather was too thin and didn't adequately support the camera hanging from my belt.  Over the winter I drew up plans for a new one.  The dimensions came out to be 5 1/2" h x 8 1/2" l x 4 1/4" d for the camera and accessories, and 5 1/2" h x 6" l x 4 1/4" d for just the camera.  Way too bulky to hang off a belt.  But if a strap were put on the pouch it might still be possible. 

[Escarlata]

*peals of laughter ring through the Shadow's Hold* Ooops, sorry.

Lady de Laney, when I interviewed Susi Matthews Cannon of Queen's Gambit, we talked a bit about a custom musical instrument bag business that she has started. Susi is a costumer who strives for historical accuracy and makes her own garb when she plays the Queen at several midwest faires. She's considering whether to create a bag which could be used for cameras and I thought you two might be able to work together to mutual benefit. I was going to send all this as a private message but ....

When I went to look up the website, I got so tickled that I just had to share part of their "Care and Cleaning Policy."

Care and Cleaning

With normal wear and tear your FiddlyBag should last for years, however...

We are not responsible for damage to bags which:
have been run over by car, truck, RV or bicycle
have been used to carry animals or carried around by animals
have been used in a Drench-a-Wench tank,
were used as a weapon during an SCA war
were involved in a custody fight over instruments or in a band break-up
used for harvesting garden produce
used for hauling rock to build a fire pit

We are not responsible for damage to bags that have been:
used to carry a rennie's entire earthly possessions,
burned in a campfire or any other fire
struck by lightning
carried away in a flood

We are not responsible for acts of gods, for mood swings of band members nor for the behavior of entertainment directors.

They then go on to provide their recommendations for cleaning the bags. Moderators, please feel free to delete this if it is too far out of the way. Sorry, I'm just easily amused. The website is Fiddlybags.com

[jmkhalfmoon]

I made a pouch that matches my lords garb....so we have the camera in a nice fabric pouch, and he carries it so I don't have to figure out how to strap it to my girdle.

[Master James]

Lady D is your bodice and over skirt separate?  If so, you could put on a leather belt before you put on the bodice and hide it under the bodice.  My wife does this for everything.  She then has hangers that just come out from under her bodice and hang over the over skirt that she attaches things to like her cup, fan, timepiece, etc...  It works very well and allows a great deal of flexibility.  The girdle can then simply hang and not be an interference with the belt.  You can see how it works in this picture of us.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

No my dress while it has an under skirt, the over part is a complete dress. Which is the way the Tudor fashions work. If I put on a leather belt it would be hidden by my over dress, but there is only the small triangle shape in the front and anything sticking out there would look quite funny and wrong, not to mention be in my way.

The first time I wore this dress to fair I tried to safetypin my pounches, and fan to my girdle belt. Sdaly I broke my belt. I managed to repair it. Next time I got a piece of cord that natches my dress and is about 1/4+ in diamater. Toki tied it in the back in a decorative knot and then we attach my fan, and small coin pouches and "tudor rose" pouch and parasol (if needed) to the cord. My girdle belt lies over the colored cord so to hide it. If I were to carry my camera in a leather pouch, I'm afraid it would nhot look right and look like I am carring everything with me.

I would hope that Toki would carry it on him, but I guess he's not feeling very chivilrous to do that.

I guess I may have to carry a basket Or not dress noble. Toki is telling me to dress in my old wench outfit if I want my camera PHOOEY on that, I'm a Queen! LOL

[jmkhalfmoon]

Is there something you can bribe Toki with to carry the camera?

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Let's see.

I could with hold his kisses. Make him sleep in the spare bed, not fix his lunch or cook his meals, not scratch his back.