In your bag number 227, Norman Montifar
Back to the bag shots today, and this one is lovely. A professional photographer who shoots street in his spare time. Come and see what is in this simple and beautiful bag.

My name is Norman Montifar. I am a Philippine born New Yorker making a living as an in-house photographer for a toy company in New Jersey. I shoot kids and products for the company’s packaging, catalog, website, store displays and promotional campaigns.

A couple of years ago I started doing street photography for myself, which is totally different to what I do with my commercial work. In the studio, my shoots are routinely very controlled and precise, usually directed by the designers and art directors. The thing I like about street shooting is the freedom, spontaneity and unpredictability. Sometimes I will get great images but sometimes nothing too exciting but I learn to be more observant though and it sharpens my visual sensibilities more.

At work I shoot totally with digital cameras but in the streets I like to use film. I have several camera bags that I use depending to whatever gear I like to bring with me. Lately I’m limiting my choices to the most basic and the lightest gear I could physically carry comfortably. I usually don’t spend more than 3-4 hours street shooting unless I’m covering an event or traveling.

In the picture:
Generic canvas bag I bought in a military surplus store. I stuffed it with a generic insert divider.
A Leica M2, (I recently bought an M4-P and had been using it lately.)
Lenses; Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm f2.5 and 21mm f4 (sometimes I also bring along a Canon 50mm f.18 LTM lens), Voigtlander 21mm viewfinder.
Sekonic L-308s light meter, 3-6 rolls of film, usually Kodak UltraMax 400, Fujicolor 200 or Kodak BW 440CN. I usually keep the film rolls in a small black plastic case that I bought from Spiratone more than twenty years but forgot it in another bag when I took this picture. A small roll of gaffer tape.

You can see some of my personal work on my blog:
http://www.malikmatacamera.blogspot.com/
and on Flickr;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/

Thank you very much and I hope you enjoy my work.

Warm regards,
Norman

Thanks for sharing your lovely bag Norman. I like the army surplus bag, it looks cool and not obviously a camera bag.
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