Closer to nature?

So you have lots of lenses.  They often come in a box and for day to day use boxes are rubbish.  What you want is a lens case type of thing that gives your precious glass some protection from knocks and water and stuff like that.  Off you go to your local camera dealer and you shell out £15-£50 for a lens case, one for each lens.  The cost soon mounts up, eh?. This kind of thing...

...obviously a screen dump, but you know what I mean.

But what if  you don't want to pay these silly prices?  What if you could find something that was designed to do something else perhaps, but could still do the job, at a fraction of the price and arguably just as well.   Well I've been wondering about this for some time and keeping my eyes peeled in all the wrong places.  And guess what I ran into the other day when looking for german sausages in a cut-price supermarket? 

Yeah, baby. Er, baby bottle feeder things.  God only knows why munchkins need such things, but it would seem that they are vitally important.  And only £7.49 for two!  FOR TWO OF THEM!  The question is dear reader, do they look like anything you might need if  you had lots of lenses to protect?

Of course they do.

These things will hold a 300mm lens comfortably, 150mm with the hood up is also nice and snug. 50mm with hood up and a cloth to pad it out?  Sorted.   They zip up and have a velcro handle and are padded, natch.  I have many.  They work, they are cheap and I will never buy a lens case again.  I just wish that there was a market for enormo-babies that needed huge bottles about the size of a 500mm lens.

Either way, get yourself to Aldi.  

You owe me one.

Oh yeah, on the box it says 'closer to nature'.  How apposite.

Edit.  When I first found them they were on some Thursday offer for a fiver, but now at £7.49.  And here is the link to too.