I am interested in camera some camera gear (DSLR, couple of lenses, a speedlight or two, and remotes) on my mountain bike and/or my road/touring bike. When I carry these, they will be the purpose of my ride (at least one of the purposes) so that other gear will be minimal.

I currently have racks on both bikes and have two Arkel Shopper panniers and an Arkel truck bag.

Neither of those bags have enough padding to make me comfortable with placing the equipment in them without some other protection. My current thought is to use my camera bad to hold the equipment and place that in one of the Arkel shoppers.

Are there other ideas? How do you carry camera equipment? Any issues with vibration causing damage? When I travel with the equipment I have a Pelican case I use, but it seems too large and bulky for the rack (It is an airline approved carry on).

You can hack a Pelican case to be a pannier. Just goggle around, there are bunch of pages dedicated to this. You can buy pannier mounts from almost all pannier makers and attach them to a Pelican case.

I simply put the camera and the lenses in thick padded cases and then drop them into panniers, never had a problem. My panniers are waterproof too.

I recently rode 5 miles with my LowePro Primus bag- worked well, though my back was a bit sweatier than when I just use my panniers for things. I also used to have a backpack with a removable padded insert (essentially a bag within a bag) that would be perfect to stuff inside a large pannier. After it was stolen, I wasn't able to find a similar backpack setup so I went with the Lowe Pro, but if you can find one, that might be the best of all worlds for you.

2 things that work:

a. A small pelican case with cutout foam. A little heavy, but very sturdy and waterproof. https://www.pelican.com/
b. Cheaper but also works: bubble wrap glued to the inside of a section of PVC sanitary pipe with one side a screw end cap.

And for the love of God, if you get the urge of taking photos while moving, get a helmet cam. There's an accident waiting to happen trying to use a camera while riding. Don't ask how I know...

spacebardiedI used a LoweProPhotofannypackandtokeepitdryutitinanortliebrackpack

And if that doesn't work, try Google.

I'm not a huge fan of Timbuk2 messenger bags, compared to some others, but they just released a dedicated photo messenger bag.

https://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/products/...mera-messenger

i've had the same desire to do this, but it's just too scary for me to do. Let me know if you actually go through with it. How about a burley!

:-) I wasn't planning on this, but I have a set-up I used in the car for windshield surveys that works great. Just mount the camera, plug in the black box and GPS. It takes pictures automatically, either using a fixed time period, a fixed distance, or a couple of other options... Very useful for a certain type of documentary photography, but not what I'm intending here.

You mean like this...

https://www.phred.org/~josh/bike/briefcase_pannier.html

You can also easily bungee a standard Pelican style case to a Porteur rack like the ones here:
https://store.velo-orange.com/index.p...decaleurs.html

I know people who transport SLR bodies and expensive lenses in kayaks this way. A lot of photographers with pricey kit swear by pelican cases with the foam. I've got smaller pelican cases that I use to paddle with other gear, and none of them have ever disappointed me. They'll keep a sheet of paper dry if you capsize.

I've carried a Canon 5D and lenses as big as a 300 mm f/4 with IS in a backpack. I pad them heavily with jackets and such. This has never caused me any problems, except for some discomfort... It really depends on which camera gear, but stuff that photo-journalists use tends to be more rugged than most people expect.

Which body and lenses, out of curiosity?

Yeah... exactly... right

Looks like you might get pedal strike?

Depends on the bike and the size shoe you wear. On my Cross-Check I have to watch where I put things in the back, but I wear size 12 dogs. You need to take into account the size of your chain stays.

But you have the advantage of mounting your own hardware so you can move these further back if needed, even if that means a bit too far back behind the rear axle. Or you can mount them higher too.

Not with this classic! There's 4" of clearance between the tire and seat tube.

Is your mountain bike full suspension or hard tail? And do you mean you'll be riding a real mountain bike trail with your camera, or is it more of a paved or gravel road?

Ortlieb bar bag with the optional camera padding keeps my slr safe, plus its up front for quick and easy access.

It is a hard tail. I will be riding it on jeep trails (mostly) and dirt (some) single track (though I will dismount and walk around obstacles ~ > 4-6" since I don't have the skills yet)

I am probably going to get one of these, but it doesn't look like it will have enough space for all of the gear I will occasionally like to take (DSLR, 17-40mm f/4, 70-200mm f/2.8, flash, 2 PW), the tripod and light stand can easily be bungeed to the rack, so its just the "optics/electronics" that have me concerned.

I'm am thinking I will probably get a smaller Pelican than my current one for rack mounting...