Ok, this may seem a silly question, and I suppose it is a matter of choice. I can put my camera in the case I bought for it with the lens facing down, out (to the right so the lens is against the outside wall of the case, in (to the left toward the other case compartment that holds a lens) or up toward the opening. What is safest? (detail if you need it this is a Canon EOS R50 in a Lowepro “Nova” case)
Another question - When I am to store my camera for a while should I remove the lens and afix covers to the body and the lens or may I just leave it on? Probably 2 weeks to a month between normal uses.
Are you using it as a sling bag for quick access? In that case I’d set it up to grab quickly with a lens mounted already. Maybe you want to cram as much in as possible so keeping your lenses unmounted makes more sense. It just depends on your use case. There’s no issue with keeping your lens mounted indefinitely either.
These cameras are tough, just be sure to not crack the front element. I keep a cap on my camera in the bag and sometime when hiking depending on what I’m doing. Sometimes I only keep a lens hood mounted to prevent the front element from hitting a rock as the camera swings forward around my neck. I wouldn’t mount a UV filter as a sacrificial barrier though. Those were designed for film and will only contribute to distortion, aberation, etc.
Oh, thanks for the wisdom on UV filters - Most of my experience back in the day was film and I was thinking of getting a UV filter to protect the kit lens. The bag stays nearby but unless I was on a long walk I would not carry it, even then I would probs load up my pockets (extra battery, another memory chip)
I second leaving lens hoods on for front element protection over using a UV filter.
Spare batteries make sense, but these days memory cards are so big I do not bring extra cards with me. Granted I “only” have a 24 MP body, but I can fit 4k RAW+JPEGs on my 192 GB of combined storage. That’s a lot of culling.
At the moment I only shoot jpg because I have not yet figured out how to make use of a raw. everything I try gives me very strange solarized kind of colors.
Processing raw is a lot easier if you use something like Lightroom (Adobe), Capture One, or Darktable (free open source software that’s even pretty easy to use).
I’ll use straight out of the camera JPEGs most of the time, but for scenes with high dynamic range and/or dimly lit scenes I find RAW better thanks to it’s much deeper bit depth. It really helps when you’re pushing/pulling shadows and highlights.