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This bag is nice and the only flaw i find in its design is the shape and space of the padding in the camera compartment. On of them is sort of tapered, making it hard to fit anything tall and it is just a bit awkward in there, as a huge portion of the space is in the main camera area which is fine if you have a very long lens attached always. otherwise i find myself concerned about having fall out, whatever is stored at the end of the lens attached to my camera and due to the one tapered section on the bottom, i have put something tall like my sb-60 flash. I am wishing i would have bought the Fastpack 250 0r 300 because i was looking for an all around transport carry-on that could house my laptop at least for travel. I read a review that said the top compartment could hold a small laptop. I am able to fit mine in by undoing the velcro, opening up the top compartment into the lower one. I wouldn't buy this to carry any laptop bigger than 11" In the end i got this because of the recycled materials and the fact it had a raincover. some of Lowe's other products weren't in stock for some weeks. I think used solely as the go out in the city or outdoors and shoot bag, it will be fine, as well the padding can be removed and your gear stored in its own padded cases and you'd have lots of room in the pack. If the fastpack had come with a raincover i would have bought it instead, but decided to keep and use this one and am overall very happy with it.
from Bristol, WI. on 4/2/2008
I will use this to haul my equipment to remote places.
from Portland, OR on 2/27/2008
Overall, Lowepro did a nice job on this bag. It has a place for everything one would need on a day hike, even a tripod and water bottle holder. I would have given it 5 stars save for one nit...and that is the side access opening needs to be bigger. A 40D with zoom is a struggle to slide through without taking off one shoulder strap. It would probably work fine for smaller form factor equipment. Other than that, it is well built, doesn't *look* like a camera bag, has good security since the equipment bay opening is through the *back*, and all compartments can be accessed w/o taking the bag off completely. It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn close for my needs.