Camera bags are a 20th-century development for the convenient carrying and quick access to high-endcamera equipment. They replaced fitted leather cases that were supplied with the earliest cameras.[1]
In the 1970s, war and documentary photographers used fishing bags made by English companies Brady andBillingham.[2] Billingham noticed their waterproof soft bags were popular with photographers and modified the fishing bag with padding to protect camera gear.[3]
In 1975,photojournalist Jim Domke wanted a bag to carry all his camera gear and worked with a tent manufacturer to prototype a canvas camera bag. Feedback from photographers at the1976 Republican National Convention changed the design to arrange the gear vertically, accessed from above. Domke sold his company in 1990 toTiffen.[4]