Camera bags.

[Ferry_vO]

So what do you use to carry your gear in?

My first was this Canon shoulder bag that came with my first camera (3000D (Film!) with an 28-80 and 80-200 lens). It would fit all three and a few rolls of film too.



My current shoulderbag (Also a freebie!) is this Case Logic SLRC-3; worked OK for my old gear (400D with lens and the 70-300 mm) but it's too small for the 100-400 and 7D. But when I only need the 7D with 17-50 or 17-85 and possibly the flash it still works. I removed the camera cradle from the bag (Uses Velcro) because my lens is too big to fit through the hole.





For longer trips and airshows I used this McKinley Freeway 28 backpack. Although not a camera bag as such I usually stacked my camera bag in last so I could access it from the top. Great backpack to carry around all day.



Since this was not the most ideal situation I have now bought a Vanguard Up Rise 48:



A very large backpack designed for photography. It comes with a padded interior that can be readjusted using several different parts and a lot of Velcro; it will hold the 7D with the 100-400 fitted easily!



Once the bag is packed you can access the camera from the side:



Plenty of space inside for a long day at an airshow! Equipment carried during an airshow: Camera, lens, zoom lens, extra batteries and memory cards, full rain suit, bottle of sun blocker, two-three 0.5 liter bottles of soda, enough food, umbrella, small tripod seat!

Another bag I was looking at (Which was a bit cheaper too) was the Lowepro fastpack 350, but the Vanguard comes with an enclosed rain cover. It is also slightly bigger and better built IMHO. As you can tell from the first picture of the Vanguard it does pretty well in reviews too.

[kilo delta]

Up until ~ a month ago I'd been using a spare Alienware 17" laptop backpack. This thing was huge and I could easily fit(er....cram) all of my gear into it including 2 camera bodies and my hd camcorder.
I needed something smaller/ less heavier so bought a Lowepro Slingshot 100 from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. This seemed like it'd do the job but I found out too late that I couldn't fit the 70-300 lens mounted on my camera body :-( . Ordered a Lowepro Slinshot 200 yesterday so hopefully this'll do the job. Hoping that the camera body will fit now that I've ordered a grip for my D300 today.


G.A.S. sucks!!!!

[Kiwikat]

I use a Lowepro Flipside 300. It is barely big enough to fit my 300mm attached to my XSi. I should have gone with the (much more expensive) 400 backpack.

Here's a photo of someone elses... I should take a shot of all my stuff crammed in my bag someday.

[JorisVandenBerghe]

Use a Lowepro CompuTrekker, which easily takes all my gear and my MacBook Pro in its own 'case'.

Lowepro has a bigger Flipside (bigger than the 400 AW) in development, but it may not be available for retail. Asked Lowepro about the bag on Twitter:

"To my knowledge, the Flipside 500 won't be a retail item. That could change, because a lot of shooters seem interested in it."

I hope they will sell it - Flipsides are more comfortable to wear and are safer since you can't open but on the backside. I'm not sure if the 400 AW would take all my gear (without laptop, that is), since I'm upgrading to the A7XX as soon as it is released, and it's much bigger.

There are rumours of a bigger model of the NEX-cameras (see other thread), and I'm holding off until it should be released or more information becomes available - it should be some sort of mini-DSLR like Panasonic's GH-1...but I'm more looking for something like the NEX-5.

So what I'd put in it:
- 70-400G mounted on A7XX,
- vertical grip,
- hood of 70-400,
- 55-200 as back-up lens,
- NEX-5 or -7 with 16mm f/2.8 pancake lens
- wide-angle conversion lens for 16mm
- 18-55 OSS ('Optical SteadyShot'),
- microphone for NEX-camera (for filming)
- various smaller items,
- ...(food, drinks,...)

The 400 AW is relatively big (deeper than my CompuTrekker, and a tad higher, just a bit smaller though), but I got everything I'll start looking for it (or its to-be bigger brother).