In your bag No: 538, N.K.S. Chow
Todays bag sounds like something a superhero (or supervillan as the case may be) would carry. N.K.S. Chow is also carrying one of the cameras that I want more than any other, the stunning Paubel Makina 67. Man, what a camera, everything about is is remarkable. I love this stealthy bag and I hope you enjoy it too.
This is N.K.S. Chow from Hong Kong and here is a picture of my photobag, which does not look like a photobag at all. This allows me to take it on my business trips and pretty much everywhere I go, and when I meet with clients, all suited up, they won’t know that I have something else entirely on my mind.
What you see here is the very tip of the iceberg and i tend to leave my other 35mm and MF cameras at home, usually after packing, unpacking and repacking again my bag many times over. I have a weakness for light and unfussy camera bags which means that I usually walk out of the door with my Leica a la carte, mounted with a 35 pre-aspherical summilux – one of the smallest lenses ever made by Leica, with an incredibly dreamy character -, as well as my Plaubel Makina, possibly the most compact MF camera ever.
The Leica is usually loaded with Tri-X while I favour Portra NC 160 for the Makina. These cameras accompany me when I prowl the backstreets of Jordan, Yau Ma Tei and Mongkok and on my many business trips to Japan, Taiwan and Europe. I don’t have a website, but my self-published books can be found at Komiyama-shoten in Tokyo’s Kanda district, as well as at AO Bookstore in Chaiwan, Hong Kong.
Best wishes,
N.K.S. Chow
Thanks for sharing your bag with us N.K.S. I only wish that you had a site so that we could see some more of your work. If you want to send me a photobook I can feature it and share it with others.
Please come and comment and enjoy the bag.
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Japancamerahunter
I love the Makinas…the Plaubel Makina 67 you have is such a beauty (and one I hope to have someday). It’s a perfect bag, with all you really need. Thanks for sharing, you got me too excited at 2 am in Toronto (Canada) time.
amazing bag!!
Beautiful bag and such wondrous things.
I managed to buy a Plaubel Makina 67 for very little money from a friend. A Leica and a decent lens elude me (for now)