Top 5 Advantages To Use Camera Waist Belt Bag For Travel

Well, well, well. There are actually 2 different school of thoughts here. Some people (or even pro shooters) prefer to carry full, to fit all and every camera equipment into 1 bag, in case they need either of them, like 1 or 2 camera bodies, full range of short & long lens, flash, tripod, memory cards, laptop and even big bottle of drinking water (beware of water leakage that may flood your bag and equipment). On the other hand, some other people (or even pro’s as well) would rather prefer to carry light, to fit as little camera equipments as possible, to use only things they bring along, preferably 1 single body with single lens fixed on and that’s it! Oops! I’m referring to digital DSLR only here. Why? Read the reasons why you should travel with digital DSLR camera here.

It very much depends when and where you are carrying your camera to. For travel photography and for travel lovers, like me 🙂 , I would prefer to carry my Nikon D60 in a waist belt bag with my 18-55mm zoom lense fixed on. Why? I found out there are many advantages to use a waist belt attached bag rather than carrying a shoulder bag, sling bag or back pack. Here are my personal Top 5:-

1. Free out both of my hands for other stuffs – I love to attach my camera bag to my waist belt. My hands or at least 1 of my hands doesn’t have to hold it onto shoulder or carry it while I’m walking or sitting, so my extra hand could carry another hand-carry bag onboard on my oversea travel;
2. Easy to bring out or put back my Nikon D60 – Thanks to the lightweight of D60, it could be easily taken out from waist level and attached to my body in front of me;
3. Prevent loss and robbery – Very often to forget if I were to leave my camera bags on the chair whiile waiting for buses; I love to leave it underneath my seat during meal also; Robbers and thieves are eyeing on my camera bags if I do so, especially while you are traveler to that country. Also my shoulder bag can easily and very often bang here and there when wandering around towns and travel destinations;
4. Easy to carry, run and jump around, or even squad down for certain composition of shots – Also my shoulder bag can easily and very often bang here and there when wandering around towns and travel destinations, and
5. Limit your equipments, pushing your creativity – This is one of the important reasons why I love to carry light. You will not find enough if you carry a backpack. You will bring along a lot more than what you will really need, especially travel. Why don’t just stick to 1 camera, 1 zoom lens, 1 flash and that’s it? I will try to think more to shoot more cretive photos than just relying on next lense!.

Sometimes, I do have 2 bags attached to my waist belt: 1 for my D60 and another for my Panasonic Lumix FZ28! 🙂 – Travel Feeder.

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.