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Anonymous
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Review Date: Thu December 10, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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discreet yet spacious, very versatile
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Cons:
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can feel lenses through the back, discontinued
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This style bag is a perfect companion to a roller for a traveling photographer. Store a laptop, cables, documents, and food in the bag and all the heavy camera kit in a roller while traveling. If you encounter a small airplane and have to gate check your roller, just transfer the bodies and small lenses into the Stealth Backpack, throw your supertele's strap over your shoulder, and have no worries about theft/breakage. And you can use it as a day pack when you arrive on location, which you couldn't do as comfortably and conveniently if you just had a laptop bag as your second.
I've found the main compartment to fit a 70-200, 24-70, 16-35, 2 bodies, laptop, and laptop charger. Mid comparment accomodates chargers, cables, card readers, flash, and lunch (or a change of clothes and small toiletry bag), and front pockets hold various pens, biz cards, mp3 player, pad of letter size paper, sunblock, small tools, etc.
The only drawbacks are that the bag really needs to have the included laptop sleeve in it for support when carrying a heavy load. You can also feel the lenses against your back, and a plastic stiffener sheet would be helpful (-1 point). My bag held up to relatively constant use for almost two years before one of the stitches blew out. Lowepro has offered to replace it under warranty, but it will be with something different since the bag is discontinued (-1 point). I may end up getting a Think Tank Photo Shape Shifter, however.
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Sat August 28, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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useful capacity, light weight, carry-any-and-all pocket layout
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Cons:
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you better secure that zipper
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Great bag. I have two. Fantastic for city travel: throw in a bottle of wine, some books you grabbed at the local bookstore, a sweater, a stuffed animal... One deadly design flaw: if you don't zip it up all the way, the pockets attached to the flap can drag the entire flap open while the thing's on your back--scattering your stuff all over the street. Yes, it did happen to me. Solution: needle and black thread, sew the zipper shut about 6-8 inches from the bottom.
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