[matai]

Anybody carry a Canon 5d? I'm picking up a 5d MkIII, any suggestions on how to carry it hiking? Thanks

[seawallrunner]

Inside a LowePro camera bag, slung across one shoulder. It's not the body that's the problem, it's the body+lens that becomes weighty. If you carry a MarkIII with a lens or two, plus a few filters and a few spare cards, and of course an intervallometer, the weight adds up. I usually carry the goto lens (24-70) attached to the camera body inside the LowePro and the backup lenses in my pack. But I must admit that I don't hike very far with the full camera kit - the L lenses are just too heavy.

[Backpacker Joe]

I carry my 5D mk2 in a Lowe Pro bag on my chest.

[mike]

"Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic." -- Edward Weston

[GaliWalker]

[seawallrunner]

[gyngve]

I have a http://www.lowepro.com/passportsling It has an expandable compartment that can be used for either miscellaneous stuff (jacket, snacks, etc.) or a big telephoto lens (e.g., 100-400 f4.5-5.6L). On shorter stuff where I don't need ten essentials, I will go packless and just bring that bag, and on longer stuff, I will use the bag in its smaller form with the big zoom lens in the backpack. Inside the bag in expanded mode, I've been able to fit: 7D body w/ 17-55 f/2.8 attached (hood inverted), 10-22 lens and hood separately, circular polarizer, graduated filter, lens cleaning stuff, sunblock, remote trigger, batteries, memory, large ziplock bag, 100-400 telephoto, GPS. And it can take a 3/4-liter water bottle on the outside and a cliff bar, maps on the outside as well. If I'd carry more, it would be tripod and macro lens.