Does anyone have any preferences on SLR camera backpacks?

Answer 1

Yes,
1) Only you know what equipment you have and what you carry on your travels and day trips.
2) It is NEVER a good idea to buy a backpack online (without looking at the real thing) since it has to fit YOUR gear not someone else's gear.
3) If you live near a big camera store take your camera body and a couple of lenses and check out a few backpacks in person. You can put stuff into it, open it/close it, smell it and test it in any way you want. But you don't need to buy it. Just not the model #.
4) Go online and find the best price and get it.

I personally only use LowePro products. Although Tamrac is equally good and off course there are brands like Kata, Domke, Billington and super popular Crumpler brand.

Also I buy my bags locally (about 10% more expensive) even if i buy other stuff off the net, this is because even if I check it out in the store when I come home and load it up FULLY it may not like it and it really helps to be able to return it.

I have two backpacks: LowePro CompuRover, LowePro MiniTracker and I did return the CompuTracker coz when I took it home it didnt really meet my requirements.

Answer 2

My backpack is a LowePro Trekker that I bought over 10 years ago. It has movable interior padded dividers, held in place with Velcro, so it is adaptable to whatever I want to carry.

The first thing I did was cut off the LowePro logo. It now looks just like a backpack with an extra pocket on the back, which (I hope) makes it a little less attractive to sticky fingers.

When I have the pack fully loaded, such as when I am out on a vacation, it holds:

Two camera bodies, 28mm wide angle, 24-90 zoom, 70-210 zoom, 100 macro, 400 telephoto, large flash, several rolls of film, all my filters and adapters, cleaning gear, bandaids, dispoable rain coat, acetominophen, film changing bag for jammed cameras, my lunch, and a few other odds and ends.

The down side is the weight, but it has both waist and chest straps to make the load a bit easier to carry.

Take your gear to the shop with you and make sure it will all go into the pack, and allow a bit for the inevitable extras that you will buy later.

I now have to rerig my pack because I just got my new digital body and two more lenses. With a little fiddling, it will all fit. I hope. LOL

Answer 3

I don't like the backpacks that look like camera backpacks for the reason already stated.

That said, for road trips, camping, or 4x4 trips I use a Crumpler Kirachi Outpost bag which has an integrated laptop section. This backpack looks nothing like a camera bag unless the thief happens to know this particular line of crumpler bags. Even that being the case, I NEVER allow that bag to be left in a "compromising" position and I hand carry it whenever I have it.

When I fly I use a Camelbak hydration backpack which has completely separate compartments for the hydration system and another for your gear.

I put a body and lens into a holster bag then into the pack which gives me a 2nd carrying option at my destination. If I decide to bring other lenses, I put them into individual 'soft' lens bags. The same goes for my external flash.

By using this kind of pack and packing system, I can also fit other things in my pack such as a good book, shaving kit, mp3 player, etc. If posible, I also line the bottom with something soft like a sweater.

HTH.

Answer 4

Visit shutterbug.com and do a Search for Buyer's Guide: Camera Backpacks. The article was in the Aug. 2007 issue of Shutterbug Magazine.

EDIT: With all due respect to fhotoace, IMO it would be a rather dumb thief who saw you walking around with a nice camera hanging around your neck and not deduce that the bag on your back or shoulder had more goodies worth stealing.

Answer 5

the foremost manufacturers of digital camera backback luggage are: Clik Kata LowePro Tamrac Tenba think of Tank After possessing luggage of each and every style listed above (different than Kata), its my perception that think of Tank luggage are the desirable - and that i at present very own 5 of them. they are expert grade luggage, made with extreme-end ingredients, and have an entire life guarantee, which ability for as long as you very own the bag. With all the above manufacturers, they make backpacks interior the $a hundred and fifty selection. There are different manufacturers, however the above manufacturers are those i admire and have owned. After possessing actually greater effective than a dozen luggage, i will furnish some advice. p.c.. gentle. A bag large sufficient to hold each and every thing is merely too heavy to hold very truthfully. evaluate a "day-bag" that merely is composed of what your needs are for the day. that's the way I fairly have long gone, and if i will a museum working example, I take particular lenses, say a macro, a typical all-purpose lens, and perchance a fisheye and large huge attitude. yet while i will a baseball pastime, I won't opt for a macro yet will opt for my f/2.8 telephoto. So I merely placed what i opt for interior the bag for the day. and that i don't might desire to hold battery chargers, cables, or different cumbersome stuff in a "day bag". merely an added totally charged battery or 2. remember, in an afternoon bag, you're merely carrying belongings you will opt for at recent and leaving the different stuff residing house. as a consequence, i'm waiting to shuttle gentle, and am not slowed down by ability of weight. as properly to backpacks, many photographers choose shoulder style luggage as they might get to the contents much less complicated. yet that's annoying on your shoulders in the event that they get heavy (yet another excuse to p.c.. gentle). a properly-liked compromise at present are the so-referred to as "sling" luggage, the place they placed on like a backpack, yet may well be became around to the front and accessed devoid of taking the bag off. yet this calls for use of a single backpack strap, and right here back, it that's merely too heavy, it cuts into the shoulders. the desirable element to do for a bag is to bypass to a community digital camera shop and notice what they have. attempt on a number of distinctive varieties. Many shops will allow you to usher on your equipment to "attempt greater healthful" and notice if it suits, and/or will allow you to return the bag in case you come across that's not the desirable one.

Answer 6

no I don't
but go to yahoo shopping to see what they have