In your bag 499, Francois Gaboury
A cracking bag for today. The perfect bag for the lover of medium format, with a triplet of amazing cameras. Check it out.

Hello,

Here’s my bag, an old billingham. I sometime travel lighter with only one camera, but every camera serves a purpose.

From left to right, a leica cm that replaced a minilux that died (err02), currently trying to find another one to have the lens modified to an M body.
A polaroid sx 70 se picked up at a flea market an using it with Impossible films.
A lightmeter but i’m also using my IPhone with a lightmeter app.
An hasselblad swc for wide angle shots, a plaubel 67 and a rolleiflex 3,5 planar.

The cm has an amazing lens with great contrast. I have owned and sold my other leicas M and R but currently thinking about getting an M5 or an M4.
I like medium format for 1) the negative size hence the details and 2) i prefer looking at the contact sheets of 120mm. The plaubel offers in my view great images a in a camera that fits in a pocket (decent size). I’m still looking for the ideal camera, but Now my ideal camera is the one that i carry with me.
I live in Montreal, Canada and still have access to pro labs so getting supplies is not currently an issue. If i had to pick only one, i would pick the plaubel. However, i miss the 50 1,9 kern macro swiftar made for the alpa bodies. I like those Zeiss “wipes” when needed. Film wise, Kodak portra 160 and 400 and T max or ilford films for b&w.

My website: www.photogab.blogspot.ca

François Gaboury

Thanks for sharing your bag with us Francois. I love seeing the Plaubel, they are such beautiful cameras.

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