Storing your SLR

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Nanobot

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Being new to SLR, just a thought to people storing away their SLRs - is it common practice to leave their lens attached and put away in a decent SLR bag/case or wiser to detach lens and keep everything body and lens separate and capped for storage. Does it depend on how long you plan not to use it or does it not matter at all?
 
storing?

Just put it in the camera bag. Unless it was a 600mm attaching to it, then its in the bag with the lens on.
 
Mine's currently on the floor.. ? You don't need to treat them like new borns, they put up with a fair bit of abuse. I was bubble-wrap carefull with my 20D when i pulled it out of the box, 3 years on of me just not caring and still the only thing wrong with it are slight shiny wearmarks! Usually always have a lens on and not light ones either.
 
Thanks all. Bit of a retrospective reply to Raymond and by the time I posted, there were a few more.

'Storing' in terms of long-term if not carrying out with you. Appreciate that people will use it regularly and keep it all together in bag with lens ready to go/use, but when you have maybe month(s) of no use, I wondered if it was customary to detach the lens, cap the body and store them separately or whether body and lens stored together long term without any bad effect.
 
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Don't believe there are any advantages to taking the lens off. I never do generally and I wouldn't see the need if I were storing it (and a month or so isn't really storage anyway) unless it's just more convenient to do so. Taking lenses off and on unnecessarily is just exposing the sensor to dust for no particular reason in my opinion.
 
Sorry I meant blower. Slip of the tongue. :o
(Have an old blower with a brushed tip, hence the confusion!)
Think there was also a lens pen thing that one of the magazines used to give away with a subscription.
 
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mine stays stored in my camera bag, along with other bits and bobs i need when i go out to play. its all packed up so i can just pop in a grab it on the way out.
 
Mine stays stored all over the floor...

Well not quite but I am not the neatest person around and I usually have to spend 5 minutes trying to find various bits before I go out. :p
 
Thanks. I'm sure I will still pamper it. Remembered the name of that brush now. It was the Arctic Butterfly Sensor Brush that I found again in a magazine.
 
That Arctic Butterfly Sensor Brush, is it well known? Personally I think it looks a bit suspect and would be very wary of purchasing one until I had seen plenty of reviews but then I haven't been keeping up with camera stuff lately and still use rocket blower + sensor swabs.

To answer your original question, I leave a lens on the camera and leave it in its bag. If I don't shoot with it for a good few weeks I will remove the battery but that's about it.
 
Usually keep my 350D on my desk and my 28-300mm Sigma next to it. I try not to change the lenses much.

I regret not buying a case or something for it, two eyecups have broken since they're made out of ultra thin plastic... DIY fixed it though, jammed a thin bit of black paper in there.
 
my camera and lenses are are always in 1 or 2 bags. i will be getting a new camera soon so will have a lens on each at all times.

I like the idea of a wardrobe MK hmm might have to come up ith something
 
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