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Review #1
(Added 7th April 2008)
Photos contain:
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
MacBook Pro 17"
My Think Tank Urban Disguise UD60 just arrived. Here it is before I started squishing it in all directions.
The UD60 is about the same size as my Briggs & Riley 17" laptop brief. Here's the front. There are several front compartments, a main camera compartment, and a dedicated laptop compartment.
And here's the back. You can see the business card holder. The shoulder strap is seriously padded...excellent.
Here's the top. Included inside is a nifty memory card case (which can attach to an inner fastener) and a rain guard in its own zippered pouch.
And here's the side. There are pockets on each side of the bag.
Sign of a good bag: YKK self-repairing zippers and sturdy zipper tracks. I've seen heavier, but they looked good to me.
I was pleased with the quality of stitching and seaming. The material itself, a ballistic nylon, is not as heavy as what you'd see in a Briggs & Riley, but it seems fine.
The quality of the hardware is very good. Here are the clasps used to attach the shoulder strap to the bag. There are four possible attachment points to customize the way you carry and on which side of your body.
Inside of the front flap I looked for signs of sloppy stitching around the velcro pads. Looks tight even here.
The ThinkTank logo happily says nothing about cameras. This just looks like a laptop bag or ballistic brief...hence the name, "urban disguise"
The whole point of getting a new bag was to be able to carry my EOS 40D at the ready. I reconfigured the inner workings of the supplied dividers to create a sturdier foundation for lens-down carry.
You can see how I doubled-over the ends of the two provided dividers that allowed this. This strengthens the structure significantly; otherwise, it's a little too loose to feel secure to me.
Here I'm putting my 40D with attached EF 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens. The dividers are positioned so the handgrip rests on the reinforced divider lip, holding the camera in place.
Here the camera sits.
And to the left of the camera, you can see how much space is left for the rest of your gear. While it's not wide enough to stand an 8.5x11 notebook (I had to tuck it on the side), you can put some large books here.
I took two other pieces of divider to use as an LCD protector / retaining system. They are fastened out of the way until needed.
With both retainer walls attached together, the camera is shielded and not visible.
The camera isn't visible even if the bag is open, though people might wonder what the heck that gray thing is.
In addition to the camera gear, the Macbook Pro 17" fits nicely in its own padded pocket.
There are two expanding front pockets, which are "big enough to hold a camera body". If there's nothing in them, they lie flat. There is a narrower pocket behind it for pens and other flat things
