Name: Manfrotto Advanced Travel Backpack, 13" Laptop Compartment, External Tripod Connections, Gray
Brand: Manfrotto
SKU: MBMATRVGY
Price: 79.99 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)

Manfrotto Advanced Travel Backpack, 13" Laptop Compartment, External Tripod Connections, Gray

Manfrotto Advanced Travel Backpack

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This is my main bag now. I have my Canon 7d, sigma 150mm-600mm lens, and can still carry a few other lenses and many accessories

Great

My faborite camera backpack, my only complaint is the zippers. I jave gone through 2 of these bags because the zippers dont last, they typically start to tear making it near impossible to open and close all the way. Outside of the it holds a lot! Plus the tripod pouch is awesome and bag works great for flights, fits under every airline seat ive tried.

Favorite bag with some flaws.

A great daypack with side pocket for Befree tripods so nothing hangs off the pack. The other side opens to access the camera and lenses, with the bottom half for the camera and the top for personal items (small drinks, snacks, jacket) or more gear. But if you are looking for a hiking daypack, like I was, then this may not be a first choice. There isn’t enough space for bottles and such for a full day hike, unless you use the tripod pocket for a tall bottle or hydration pack.

Nice daypack, but not an ideal hiking pack

I recently carried this product around Central America for three weeks. First of all, NO, the Sigma Contemporary 150-600mm does not fit, no matter what you have been told. Secondly and much more serious, the camera with lens mounted goes in the cavernous area at the top of the bag (watch the youtube demonstration). There is nothing but a zipper to hold the camera. Forget to zip it up one time. You better have insurance.
The large open area leaves your camera free to roll around like a bb in a beer can. I stuffed towels and tee shirts in there to try and stabilize it. The space is huge for one camera body and even a large lens.
If you like watching 3k worth of gear tumbling slow motion toward the concrete sidewalk, buy this bag.

Beware

I wanted a bag large enough to carry all my equipment when I travel, and this one serves the purpose nicely. I would not find this fully laden bag comfortable for hiking long distances, but my plan is to remove unwanted equipment selectively after reaching my destination if I want to do some hiking. A prime selling point was the internal storage for my travel tripod, although I wish the tripod compartment sealed up better. The gear dividers in the lower half of the bag worked perfectly for three fairly large zoom lenses, a speedlight and miscellaneous accessories. However, there is no room left for my Nikon D-600 with a 50mm lens, so that has to go in the upper half of the bag. As no dividers at all are provided for the upper chamber, the camera rattles around in there unless I improvise some padding. I'm still trying to work out the best solution for that. Ideally, Manfrotto would provide a bunch of extra dividers to allow more configurations of the bag in general and more efficient use of the upper compartment in particular. I never wanted to carry my laptop computer in the bag, but I was delighted to find I could fit a 32-inch reflector kit in the computer compartment. Overall, I am pleased with the bag.

Internal tripod storage clinched the deal

I am usually too lazy to write reviews but feel this bag has performed so well it deserves a few minutes...I am a 'serious amateur' who never goes anywhere without a camera--I am not a professional photographer, so this means I need to carry on the duties of a full life and can't carry *just* a camera bag and then a second bag for the needful.  Before I bought this bag, I had at least 5 other camera bags, but found none of them were right when I would be heading out for the day for an outing with my spouse or kids and wanted to take all the gear I 'needed' (primes, zooms, etc.) and a few other things (lunch, clothing, reading material, laptop & cords).  I looked and looked for months, and felt like bags were either *just* for carrying photo gear or were the regular backpack (in which your lenses would bounce and jostle.  
I have used this backpack for almost 2 years now and couldn't be happier with it.  It is strong and durable, easy to draw out your camera without taking the pack off, can easily carry a camera with one lens and 3 more, plus leaving room for light supplies.  The lens arrangements are customizable so you can make bigger lenses fit (okay, not really the 70-200, but I have pulled out all the dividers and fit a mounted Sigma 150-600 on my Nikon in it).  It looks like a regular backpack so you are not making yourself a target.  It is reasonably comfortable loaded with 20lbs of stuff for 15miles of beach hiking (my wife is an avid walker) but also is appropriate for airline carry on, riding the subway, or sitting in a coffee shop working on your laptop.  
Is is perfect?  No...I wish Manfrotto would make a slightly bigger version with a wider waist strap and thicker shoulder padding.  However, this is my weekend & travel go-to bag, and I have gotten a lot of enjoyment from *not* having to leave extra lenses at home when I go out for the day.  Highly recommended.

Always take a camera & multiple lenses wherever you go?

Has some great features, still a little mystified by the upper compartment where all I can figure is the camera body with lens is free to roll around freely in the space. Still the bag is large and seems tough

good for the price

Has lots of places to hold things: 

With space to spare it had:
Sigma150-600 C
Nikon d5500 mounted Sigma 17-70
Signs 18-36 art
Sony a6000 with 55-210
Sony 17-55

Nice bag

Thank you this is awesome to be able to bring along the laptop also. Makes it heavy though.

Love it!

I recently went to Scotland -  around Edinburgh and Isle of Skye and the pack has ample storage for a thick sweater and rain jacket,charger, 13"macbook/2 magazines -  in addition to camera gear with three lenses and a heavy duty tripod. Rain protector certainly came in handy as Isle of Skye weather is insane this time of year. 

I searched for a long time and ordered two packs prior to this one. I was pleased with the results having used it now for about a month. I had also purchased the Manfrotto MB MS-BP-IGR Medium Backpack and was ok for just around town but did not like the accessibility of the camera compartment.