In your bag number 110, Mathias Hädrich
What a cool bag we have for you today, featuring one of my favourite cameras. What I really love is the layout picture, this shows a level of dedication that you rarely see. Check it out…

My name is Mathias Hädrich from Düsseldorf Germany, age 32. I started to take photos with my dad’s Minolta XE-5 in junior high and fell in love with SLRs. But I think I forget that while girls and I were getting sixteen. After a small excursion into the world of the Sony F505, I bought with the money of my first real job a Nikon D70 and started to take thousands of pictures.

After a week in Paris I got more than 3000 pictures out of my Nikon and I hated that. Instead of focusing and concentrating on the picture, I autofired five or six frames of the very same scene. I had unlearned to photograph. That was why I bought a Nikon F5. The “expensive” film and the fact of “only” 36 frames helped me to relearn, refocus and reconcentrate on my pictures.

What is in my Porter bag (by Yoshida)

– F3P
– MD4 with MR3
– Nikkor O C Auto 35mm 1:2 (original AI kit from Nikon)
– F3P fallback body
– Vintage lens caps (searched and found after weeks at ebay)
– Neoprene pouch (found in a 100 Yen shop in Shimonoseki)
– Nikkor S C 50mm 1:1,4 (self AI’ed)
– Notebook (Muji, glad that this shop opened first in Düsseldorf)
– Best pen ever (Pilot BPS-GP XB)
– Mobile wifi spot (Huawei E585)
– iPhone 4S
– Backup battery (Sanyo Eneloop KBC-L3S)
– Small iPhone cable (found in Korea)
– Nikon orange filter (A12)
– Hame Film Safe (Tri-X)
– Hama Film Safe (Portra 160)
– Neoprene Sleeve (Cool Bananas)
– MacBook Air 11″ (self made fake sticker cause original is sold out)
– Carhartt WIP beanie (“Watch Cap” Limited Edition from NYC opening)
– Adidas purse for the change
– WESC wallet
– Lozza glasses (only my left eye is bad)
– Tag Heuer Monaco

I love to travel especially to Asia and on my trips beside a DSLR there is always place for one or two film SLRs. I am just a hobby photographer but if I find time I try to fill my blog and flickr.

flickr.com/mathendrix
www.streetdetails.com

Cheers
Mathias

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I love the layout picture telling us everything. And I love the description. This is the sort of thing I love to have on the bag blog. Thanks for sharing with us Mathias.

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