Camera bag with compensation for variable camera-support distance below lens, and with improved access

A camera bag for holding photographic equipment, and particularly adapted for containing and supporting a camera which has a body and which has a lens protruding laterally from the body and which may or may not also have an automatic film winder of nonstandardized height attached below the body, so that the effective supportable undersurface of such camera is a variable distance below such lens;

• said camera bag comprising:
• a generally rectangular base;
• a pair of end walls connected at their ends to a pair of side walls, the side and end walls extending upward from the base to form an enclosure that is open at the top;
• at least one generally upright main divider extending between the side walls, and a cutout defined in the top of the divider for closely supporting such lens in such a position that such lens may be lifted vertically out of the cutout and removed with such camera through the open top of the enclosure;
• the divider forming with one end wall and portions of the side walls a compartment having at least four wall surfaces in a generally rectangular arrangement;
• at least one generally horizontal panel immediately adjacent the divider and spanning substantially the entire distance between the divider and the one end wall, providing a generally horizontal support surface above the base;
• and
• adjustable attaching means for depending the horizontal panel from at least two mutually opposed wall surfaces, of the four wall surfaces, to support such effective supportable undersurface of such camera at a variable distance below the cutout to compensate for such variable distance of such supportable undersurface below such lens so that the centerline of such lens is substantially horizontal;
• the horizontal panel and attaching means being adapted to permit such lens to be lifted vertically out of the cutout, and to permit such camera and lens to be removed together through the open top of the enclosure.

A camera bag for holding photographic equipment, and particularly adapted for containing and supporting a camera that has a body and that has attached to and protruding laterally from the body a lens which is substantially longer than a normal-angle lens, and also particularly adapted for storage of a plurality of other lenses that are substitutable for the protruding lens on the camera;

• said camera bag comprising:
• a generally rectangular base;
• a pair of end walls connected at their ends to a pair of side walls, the side and end walls extending upward from the base to form an enclosure;
• at least two generally upright and generally parallel but spaced-apart main dividers extending between the side walls and spaced from the end walls;
• a cutout defined in the top of each divider for closely receiving and supporting such protruding lens while such lens is attached to such camera body;
• both cutouts being spaced vertically above the base far enough to permit storage of such other photographic lenses below the cutouts and, when such protruding lens is received in the cutouts, below such protruding lens;
• and
• at least one generally upright longitudinal divider extending between the main dividers for organizing and confining such other lenses below such protruding lens;
• the top of the longitudinal divider being generally at the same height above the base as the cutouts;
• and
• wherein, when the protruding lens is received in the cutouts, the top of the longitudinal divider aids in supporting the protruding lens.