Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
The Pelican ProGear S130 is a tough new camera and laptop backpack that is design to protect your gear at all costs. I’ve been carrying the bag for a few weeks now and absolutely appreciate the no-shortcuts rugged design. While the bag isn’t for everyone, if you need a bag to protect your camera, lenses and laptop from the abuse of rough handling and harsh conditions, the ProGear S130 can certainly do the trick. [Read more…]
Gura Gear has launched a new camera backpack, the Bataflae 18L, designed for larger pro gear kits. [Read more…]
Lowepro has announced a new Photo Hatchback AW camera backpack series, along with the Dashpoint camera and device pouches.
The Photo Hatchback AW series is available in two models and in three different colors: Pepper Red, Slate Grey and Galaxy Blue. [Read more…]
Over the past couple of weeks I have had the pleasure of putting the Think Tank Photo Streetwalker HardDrive camera backpack to use. It started with a few local outings and then I headed off to PMA 2009 in Las Vegas to give the Streetwalker HardDrive a run through a couple of security checkpoints, storage areas on a few jets and a bit of jostling about the streets of Las Vegas. Want to know how it held up? Read on to find out.
The Streetwalker HardDrive is what I would call a normal-sized backpack. It is about the size on the outside of the LL Bean backpacks that you see college students carrying around (or at least that’s what I saw them wearing 10 or 12 years ago). It’s probably a little bigger than that, but it doesn’t appear to be when you are looking at it on someone’s back. I think that’s a good I thing.
I really dislike carrying camera bags around in crowded public areas that look like camera bags. Call me paranoid, but I would rather not advertise the fact that I’m carrying around expensive camera equipment. The Streetwalker HardDrive is very unassuming as a camera bag. It really just looks like another backpack – again, a good thing. [Read more…]