Hi, this is JP Morgan today on the sidelines we're gonna talk about camera and lens organization camera and lens organization
So let's get to it. See what we got
Most people start off with a single bag a
Little messenger bag. Got your camera. Got a couple of lenses. That's the way I started out with everything went in one bag
Everything went on your shoulder and everywhere you went you had your bag and you're a couple of lenses
well
Then the day comes when you get some other lenses and some other lenses and some other and some other and some other lenses
and pretty soon
You can't put this all in a bag that you throw over your shoulder
But you get to a point where you have a lens case, and then you have a camera case
So all of these will go into a case
And
Then all of these will go into a case
So I decided to get all my lenses into two cases fourteen is just by nineteen inches by eight inches deep
This is my favorite skb case by far. It's just a nice size. It's not too heavy to carry. It's got wheels on it
So you can roll it. It's got a handle to come out so you can carry everything in it
It's just really my favorite case. So this is how I divided it up
I decided to put all my primes and my zooms into
one case this becomes really the
The lenses that I'm going to use the most the ones that I'll have with me just about every time I shoot
I'm going on a job. I'll take this case with me. I left a ghost lens here as you can see right here
There's no lens right here, but there should be a lens here because this is the ghost lens
This is the 24 millimeter that I hoped hammer-on makes really soon
Then I have a smaller skb case this is my second-favorite case
It's a 2011 7. So 20 inches by 11 inches by 7 inches and this becomes my telephoto case
I'm gonna go out to be doing telephoto work. I'm gonna grab this case take it with me
I may not take this case on every job but this becomes a telephoto case those become like 2 cases now
How do we organize them in the cases?
This is pretty important for me because one I want to be able to get to them quickly and know what order they're in
So that I know which lenses which I don't want to have to be guessing
I want to have to keep pulling each one of them out
So I want them in an order that make sense smallest to largest and I want to be able to grab them quickly
Now in the past when I did this, I would always do it with that foam that pluck and pull apart foam
that's got all kinds of cuts in it and you can just pull out little sections of it and
You know what that worked?
it was exciting to have it allowed me to get things kind of where I wanted but
you know the squares were not always exactly right where one of them right tear things out and then they were starting to tear between
The lenses and it just didn't give any strength to be able to last very long
So after a while I got tired of the fucking pol
Foam I wanted something more permanent and something I could design myself which was thrilling to me when I met my case builder
So my case builder software is very directed towards types of cases. I can pull down the menu to start a new project
After I've logged in and created my new project. I'll say I'm going to use a
1914 case eight inches deep. They know that it's an skpk case. It's in their menus
I can select that case once I select that case it automatically knows all the things
I need to know about it. Like there's notches here for the wheels. It's not gonna let me put a lens in that corner
That's too deep
That's gonna hit that notch that's going to need to be in there because of the wheels
So it knows the cases so it gives you the parameters to work on and to work from so you don't have to worry about
You know how this is gonna fit into the case, then you get to choose your shapes
It'll have a menu in that menu
You can choose already templates for different lenses templates for different cameras templates that they already have pre-existing templates
Which are going to be a lot of your common cameras and lenses
But if you hit a point where you don't have a lens?
That you really want and I hit that on some of my lenses is that you now just can create your own shape
So I simply take my lambs I measure across the lens so I can see the millimeters
I'm gonna measure my lens shade because I want my lens shade in there
I want it to sit in the bottom of the cutout
So I always have my lens shade with my lens and my lens will click into that lens shade when I set it down inside
That slot helps keep it secure and it works very nicely to have those two together
So I measure across the bottom so I get myself the diameter and the minute I do that
I now need to decide if I want finger notches little notches along the side allow me to reach in and to
Grab those and I can choose the notches one on each side
Once I've done that now set it on my template and I've done that for each one of my lenses now those finger notches
I don't want to align those finger notches up to each other because that's gonna kill too much space. So I take my lenses
I rotate them. So those finger notches are
dying in the dead space
Square space that's dead outside of the circle and I can have a spot for those finger notches to drop into I'll do some
rectangles for like my
7200 because case isn't deep enough for this to stand up vertically in but I'll lay that down
I won't put finger notches on that one because it's easy to grab this by the handle here
I can pull it out like that and it's not hard to get it in now there so I don't really need finger notches for
That if I have a piece of equipment, that just does not
Match any of the normal lenses or cameras out there? I can take any shape that I want
I can make a laser cut to put that piece of equipment in there. I simply take a picture of it. I
Upload the picture and then I outline it just like you would in Photoshop to outline something where you're going to put
Composite. It doesn't have to be super exact. You're not trying to get into every little nook and cranny
It can be a little general
So then I'll go to the 3d view now in the 3d view I can see exactly what this is going to look like
If I have anything that's cutting too deep and cutting through the bottom of my case
It's gonna show me that and gives me an idea of what my inserts going to look like when it's absolutely done
Well, there are a few mistakes in your design
They are super super accommodating about taking a look at it changing it and sending out a new insert
They want you to be happy as soon as I like where everything's at I hit save then
My case builder ships it out and arrives in my house. I
Think somebody's at the door
Whoa
It's on my case builder inserts already. That's incredible
The UPS person looks a lot like emerald there must just be a coincidence
Okay
Okay, split occasion the inserts oh
Man dense foam I was kidding Nexxus really like, okay. So here it is. I haven't seen them yet
I truly haven't seen them yet. So
Let's see what we got
So I got my 150 to 600 millimeter lens
yeah, nice and
my
for about 100 to 400
My one for teleconverter 2x Keller converter and two pockets for some other things
Like it now, this is so awesome. These are all of my lenses in two cases. It's just beautiful
70 to 200 a place for a lens that's going to be wider than the 35 not that they make anything like that
But it sure would be great if they did then we have our 35
R45 or 85?
or 90
24 to 70 15 to 30 and
A couple spots to put some things and there we go
It's so fabulous so there you have it my telephoto kit
My telephoto kit my standard focal length kit and we're ready to rock and roll
I just love this connection between skv and K Spiller because you can take these cases
design exactly what you want to go in them and then you get an insert that allows you to put your
Lenses and things exactly the way you want to have access to them
I mean, this is just fabulous because I can just get in here and I know it goes light focal length in a circle
So check out my case builder where you can design
and put together your own custom case for the things that you want to carry in your
Skb case so keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking
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