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travel bag

Friday, 19 June 2009
What bag do you take when you go travel? I meant for your DSLR + lenses, not for your clothes!

I have 2 Crumplers and I am not overly happy with any of them. One is a side bag and is great for accessibility but it's so fat due to its shape and the heavy padding (which really protects your gear), making it a really cumbersome bag to carry around. The other is a backpack which is a lot easier to carry but not accessible since you have to take the pack off your back and unzip the thing wide open. The Crumplers padding is really good though.

I'm eyeing this at the moment - Lowepro Terraclime 100. It looks very travelly doesn't it =)
Looks light and accessible but the bag itself is pretty much just a canvas and offers no protection for the gear apart from that padded envelope thing which doesn't look like it'll wrap around much either - maybe a smaller DSLR.





It's tempting. I mean ultimate accessibility would be to keep the camera on your neck all the time so this has to be better than that. Anyone else got one of these or have any other recommendations?

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That looks like every other messenger bag except it has a MASSIVE Lowepro logo on it!

This trip I've given up and gone the other way, Lowepro Toploader 65 AW + Lens Case 1W strapped to the side.

You can carry a camera as a separate item to your carry on bag for plane travel - I figured I might as well take advantage of it instead of overloading my backpack like I normally do.

In the past if I wanted to stay incognito I used a normal bag/backpack, put extra lenses in their pouches, and wrapped the camera in a light jumper/towel for protection. (19 June 2009 10:45)  

I have this bag and use it for everyday camera bag when I'm going somewhere. Its great and it does not Scream Camera bag, but like you said does not really offer much protection and it does not fit too much other than the camera. (04 December 2009 07:57)