argh, piss, logistics!

Bought shiny new camera bag. Got it extra-large to hold not only camera gear, but also purse stuff. Now I only need one bag! Yay, yay!

Or not.

Shiny new bag has, I've realized, no outside pocket. To get to my subway card, or my keys, or my wallet, I need to open the whole shebang -- look, there's my camera, hi, hi! -- which kind of defeats getting the whole "camera bag that does not look like a camera bag" selling point. If folks can see your camera whilst getting your wallet? They'll know it's a camera bag. Genius!

Also -- shiny new bag has velcro. Lots of it. Velcro to get to the camera. Velcro again to get to my memory cards. That's two rounds of noisy, noisy velcro to change a memory card out...and I'm shooting an opera tomorrow night. Noisy velcro bad during operas. I don't want to get pegged by an angry Viking.

I've already swapped my gear back into my old, smaller, quieter bag. Not sure if new and shiny is a keeper or not -- it wasn't cheap, and I know now I cannot have it in specific situations. Meh!