Same method as me, Chairman Bill.

I have a CCS Snowflake bag and it will hold my 350D and 18-55 lens. I use it for ski touring mainly. Otherwise I use a CCS case whose name I can't remember with a snap buckle lid and a front pocket, which is useful for spare memory cards, filters and batteries.

Sorry to wake this thread up after it's dozed for a few weeks (I've been away a lot okay?

The Optech gear Glyn mentioned (04/06/08 16:57) looks very interesting.

I like the rucksack harness attachment idea - especially since I've got all the bits to make my own and have never found time to actually put it together.

Anyhow - my point is they seem to be available in the UK:

http://www.optech-online.co.uk/list.htm

Chris Townsend wrote (see)

Same method as me, Chairman Bill.

I have a CCS Snowflake bag and it will hold my 350D and 18-55 lens. I use it for ski touring mainly. Otherwise I use a CCS case whose name I can't remember with a snap buckle lid and a front pocket, which is useful for spare memory cards, filters and batteries.

Chris, the CCS pouch you refer to is the Kangaroo (smaller version is the Wallaby).

I use a variety of CCS pouches (Warthog, med & large/Kangaroo/Snowflake) and have done since my film cameras (Olympus OM) My current cameras (Olympus E-1 & E-3) still actually fit the same pouches as the OM's. I either carry them attached to the rucksack shoulder straps or on the/a waist belt.

If photography is secondary to hiking etc  I generally only carry 1 lens, an 11-22mm (22-44mm in 35mm film terms) or a 14-54mm (28-108) I may on ocassion add an old Olympus OM fit 50mm f/1.8 + adapter (for shallow DOF effects) or a 1.4 teleconvertor.

If my main purpose is photography I use Dakine Sequence backpack to carry 1x Body, the above lenses plus a 50-200mm (100-400mm), Cokin P filter holder, 3 x Cokin ND, 3 x Cokin ND Grad, 1 x Polarising Filter plus batteries and other odds and ends and A Velbon Sherpa Pro CF 631 EL fitted with a Giottos MH1001 QD Ball-Head.  

It's a great pity that CCS are no more, as there doesn't seem to be anything as good available.

As I'm too lazy to remove lens hoods, my current equipment doesn't fit into any of my CCS cases, so I am currently using one of these.  No UK distributor, but they are well made and have multiple attachment points.

I usually have it clipped to the shoulder straps and the hip belt, so it is fairly low and doesn't bounce around or get in the way.

Spare lenses in the top of the sack, either CCS pouches, or Kinesis ones - it's quite handy being able to attach the lens pouches to the camera bag when walking around without a rucksack.

Have you seen the 'Think Tank' range of pouches and stuff? The pouches have a section that extends to allow you to carry the camera with the lens hood attaches.

Think Tank Photo