Will I exceed my carry on baggage limit with this array?
Mar 3, 2011 | 7:42 am
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Will I exceed my carry on baggage limit with this array?
Hey just crossed my mind, I have a slr cam and a dedicated backpack with assortment of lenses, as well as a laptop in a dedicated sling bag, would i be allowed to carry both these in addition to a cabin luggage? 
Mar 3, 2011 | 7:58 am
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No.
It all depends on your airline, but usually they allow 1 Piece of Handluggage + 1 "Personal Item" aka. Laptop Bag, Briefcase, Bagpack or SLR Bagpack.
I could imagine that most of the time you would get away with it - but that doesn't change the fact that the Rules don't allow it. The crew can force you to gatecheck one piece of your Handluggage.
It all depends on your airline, but usually they allow 1 Piece of Handluggage + 1 "Personal Item" aka. Laptop Bag, Briefcase, Bagpack or SLR Bagpack.
I could imagine that most of the time you would get away with it - but that doesn't change the fact that the Rules don't allow it. The crew can force you to gatecheck one piece of your Handluggage.
Mar 3, 2011 | 10:55 am
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You should try to combine the laptop and photo gear into a single bag, one large enough to carry it all and a few personal items, but small enough to fit in the overheads of the planes you will be flying.
A large photographic backpack would do the trick; there are many out there with laptop compartments.
Failing that, a large rolling briefcase with laptop compartment would suffice, but you'd have to come up with padding and liners for your photo gear since a rolling briefcase has no photo-specific compartments.
In my case, I built my own bag. I used an inexpensive American Tourister rollaway from Walmart as the base; it has an integrated laptop compartment on the side. I bought a slab of 4" furniture-grade foam, cut custom compartments into it for all of my photo gear, and cut it to the same size as the main compartment of the rollaway. It now fills the entire bag, protects all of my camera and laptop gear, and most importantly, doesn't scream, "I'm full of expensive stuff! Steal me!" In fact, it pretty much screams, "I'm a crappy, cheap, Walmart bag full of nothing that anyone with any taste or self-respect would EVER want to steal!"
A large photographic backpack would do the trick; there are many out there with laptop compartments.
Failing that, a large rolling briefcase with laptop compartment would suffice, but you'd have to come up with padding and liners for your photo gear since a rolling briefcase has no photo-specific compartments.
In my case, I built my own bag. I used an inexpensive American Tourister rollaway from Walmart as the base; it has an integrated laptop compartment on the side. I bought a slab of 4" furniture-grade foam, cut custom compartments into it for all of my photo gear, and cut it to the same size as the main compartment of the rollaway. It now fills the entire bag, protects all of my camera and laptop gear, and most importantly, doesn't scream, "I'm full of expensive stuff! Steal me!" In fact, it pretty much screams, "I'm a crappy, cheap, Walmart bag full of nothing that anyone with any taste or self-respect would EVER want to steal!"
Mar 3, 2011 | 1:05 pm
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1) SLR backpack
2) Laptop
3) Cabin Luggage
Three items is way over a carry on and a "personal item". Depending on the laptop bag that may qualify as a personal item, but either the backpack or cabin luggage will have to go.
Granted most times they won't even look at you and you can bring it all on board, but they can require you to check or gate check one of the bags.
I would try to combine them down to one bag and a personal item if you can.
2) Laptop
3) Cabin Luggage
Three items is way over a carry on and a "personal item". Depending on the laptop bag that may qualify as a personal item, but either the backpack or cabin luggage will have to go.
Granted most times they won't even look at you and you can bring it all on board, but they can require you to check or gate check one of the bags.
I would try to combine them down to one bag and a personal item if you can.