ONA The Bowery Camera Bag and Insert, Handcrafted with Premium Waxewear, Smoke

ONA The Bowery

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ONA The Bowery Camera Bag and Insert, Smoke Leather

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ONA The Bowery 

Top Rated Gear: ONA The Bowery Camera Bag and Insert, Handcrafted with Premium Waxewear, Smoke

The Bowery Bag and Insert is Designed with style and versatility in mind, the Bowery is your camera bag one minute and camera insert the next. Use the Bowery with the strap attached to carry your camera, a lens and a few small personal items. Remove the detachablestrap and the Bowery functions as a protective camera insert and bag organizer inside of a larger bag. The Bowery is padded with closed cell foam, designed with top-quality water-resistant waxed canvas and detailed with full-grain leather, antique brass hardware, and a secure front closure.

If you?re in to camera bags but don?t want to carry a bag that obviously looks like a camera bag and compliments your wardrobe, this is the bag for you. It?s small enough to carry around with ease and holds just what I need for my everyday carry. Just know that although it is all leather and leather ages well with time, it?s skin of a dead animal and just like our skin, it needs to be replenished with trusted leather care products.

Gets better with age.

Great Bag

This is exactly what I was expecting.  It's smaller and more discrete than something I can carry all my gear in.  The less I feel like a target for thieves, the more I can relax and do what I love.  The build quality feels like it should last a lifetime.

Love it.

I didn't get the leather bag; got the blue fabric one. It's wonderful. It feels substantial, well made with articulate stitching. The shoulder strap is super thick and adds to the distinguished look. The clasps are thick and strong. 
 
As for the inside, it fits my Canon 5d Mark IV with 50mm lens attached AND all of my other lenses, with the exception of my telephoto, will go in vertically. to the side. I'll keep this with me wherever I go.

High Quality

Wonderful for using as my everyday bag. Great color and wax coated finish. Fits my Contax G2 with multiple lenses and some daily carry (wallet, notepad, headphones etc) 
 
I also use it with my Inka brand lunch containers and they fit perfect. In fact, it can fit a medium Inka container and my G2 with 28mm lens, perfect for a day out! If you’re uncertain, it’s great for a normal bag if you never use it for cameras either.

Excellent Bag for Contax G2 System

Before I got the bag, I was a little bit worried that maybe the bag will disappoint me but little did I know this bag is flipping nice with super amazing quality. I can’t believe how nice it is and will wear it to keep me taking pictures.

The one bag that have the amazing quality like coach

I ?? Leather bags & gears. The Ona Bowery leather bag is perfect for carrying one ?? & a lens on my photo jaunt about town. It is light weight to shoulder, compact ( to store just enough stuffs), well crafted, constructed leather &, of all, sumptuously beautiful. ????

Cameras & hide

I've wanted an ONA bag for some time, even though I've only seen it online. I love it even more in person. It's beautiful, the size is perfect, I love that there are no zippers, it's just simple and perfect for what I do.

Finally got my hands on one

Great quality product that arrived promptly and is highly functional. 
The bag looks great and is the perfect size for a small mirrorless camera and a couple of lens and some supplies. Not too bulky and perfect for a trip or just a day out with your camera. Well padded and protective and easy access. 
Would highly recommend.

ONA Camera Bag with dividers included.

Wife loves it. Its very durable, comfortable to wear, not too bulky and it doesn't feel cheap.

Awesome

I love this bag. Good quality leather and the lining is thick and I don’t have to worry about my camera as it is well protected. Even though it is pricy but worth to invest.

Love this bag

Bag came as described. It is made of premium materials and feels very high end! It is VERY small, which is what I wanted. But, it’s even smaller than I thought! If you’re a guy and don’t want to look like your carrying a purse, lengthen the strap and wear it low as a messenger bag. Strap is easy to adjust. I keep a couple filters in the back storage, my spare batteries below the camera and lenses just laying in the bottom. I have an a7riii,12-24 on camera, 24-105 standing upright, and 2 spare z batteries below the lens which actually keeps the lens and body level on its side. Perfect for grab and go photography. If I really need a third lens I can set my 55mm Zeiss on top of the lens attached to my camera and the bag still closes easily and keeps the shape of the bag well. Doesn’t look forced at all. It would also make an excellent vlog/street video bag if you only used one all around lens or 2 small primes. Would have plenty of room for microphone and maybe a small external recorder.

ONA Bowery!

PROS

Very cute bag, and a smaller size, which I appreciate. I had another Ona bag earlier, but decided to go with the non-leather this time to save a little weight. This is perfect for a mirrorless camera + 2 primes in the f/1.4 range. In other words, great for light travel!

OKAY

The color wasn't quite what I expected - it's not as blue in real life. Just expect it to start off a little more muted and darker in real life and you'll be ok. I do understand how these things are difficult to take accurate photos for (and yes, I'm on a color-corrected screen).

CONS

I think for a little while the blue dye was coming off the bag and onto my shirts - a tad annoying. Also when the bag is brand new, you can feel the wax on your fingers. It goes away fairly quickly though.

COMPARABLES

I think Peak Design is the only real comparable to Ona Bags. I will give Peak Design the nod for having more functional design, and a slightly lower price point to boot.Their designs are more geometric whereas Ona is a little more old-school. I ultimately go with Ona to get something that doesn't scream "camera bag!".

Great, though pricey

Buy it!

A simple, right sized bag. Well made of high quality materials, hangs well and easily holds any mirrorless camera with a lens mounted, plush a good size zoom and a few batteries. Great product.

Just Right

Wonderful bag, firat rate leather and interior, clasp hardware a little ornate

Great real goods

I keep my Leica TL2 with a lens mounted on it, another lens, and the EVF in this bag. There is probably room for a third lens, but there are only two compartments in the bag so you would have to make another compartment.

The bag is just a skosh tight if the EVF is mounted on the camera. There is no room for an external flash. The catch is a bit too fiddly. But otherwise it looks nice, has room for the essentials, and is not too heavy.

Tight fit, but it works

This bag is extremely convenient given the size.  There are lighter weight bags out there, but this one is extremely well made and also looks great.  The pockets are perfect for smaller items.  I use it with my Sony a7r, and it is perfect for smaller camera set ups that don't require a lot of bulk.  The styling is the biggest plus... the smoke color goes with almost any style (girl or guy).

This bag is extremely convenient given the size

This is a great bag for the money - sturdy, functional and fashionable all at the same time.  Suitable for both men and women - highly reccomend!

Great Value

I love the ONA Bowery leather camera bag. Very classy but functional as well. Perfect size for a mirrorless camera like the Fuji x100S that I purchased it for. It would also work well for a mirrorless camera with a couple of lenses. I don't think that a large DSL and a couple of lenses would work. You could get one in but it would be very tight.
I was a little concerned that it would look like a man purse but that is not the case. I bought the Truffel Color and I love it.
I also recommend that you purchase the extra dividers (at $250 you would think that ONA would include them with the bag) for $12.

A very nice camera bag

It's a nice size, compact.  Perfect for the "Q" and accessories, like the changer, spare batteries , memory cards and a cleaning cloth.  Great for a fixed lens camera, but I think too small for a "M" series with spare lenses and accessories.

The Bowery Bag for Leica

This bag is the perfect size for a small kit, I have an X-Pro2 and a couple lenses in it and it's just right.

My only complain is the leather is little soft and prone to scratches. You have be careful, but you WILL scratch yours. But it does add a charm as worned...

Beautiful and well made

Love the feel, look, and quality of the waxed canvas.  I own the waxed canvas camera strap in the same color and love the feel of it.  I expected the same waxed canvas to be used on the strap, but instead it's a slick nylon, that although is easily adjustable, it continually slips off my shoulder.  I would have given it 5 stars if the strap was waxed canvas.

Quality Bag, Disappointing Strap

Very solid, wonderfully build - had purchased size-up but too large for my mirrorless Oly with a couple lenses, other items - this one was perfect! Highly recommend, it'll last a while I'm sure

Workmanship and quality of materials are outstanding. Just right for the mirrorless cameras from Sony, Fuji and Olympus. Would like the option of a shorter carry strap in adition to the shoulder strap.

Great Bag When One Body and Two Lens Are Enought

I am a female M43 user. I purchase this bag for daily use with 1 camera body and two lens. There is still some space for my wallet and cell phone. It fits for all different occasion and outfit, like dressing for a concert or jeans for work. I really recommend it.

Really good design for daily outfit

I had hoped to be able to fit my D700 or my Df with a prime lens, but the bag is not quite thick enough for that. On the other spectrum the Bowery is much too large for the Fuji X100. I have ordered the additional dividers for this Bowery also, as it comes with only one divider. The X100 camera was in it, and in the bigger space I just piled all my other junk: wallet and sundries. Additional dividers will organize it better.

Despite these shortcomings I am keeping it. I just purchased the X100S and this will ride in the Ona bag. The layout of the bag is not nearly as useful as the bag that I carry almost daily--the Domke F4AF Pro--I sometimes get sick of this bag but I am SO accustomed to having those large side pockets for the unwieldy elements of daily life--wallet, lip balm, keys, extra batteries, pens, eyeglass cleaning cloth, plus in the Domke there are places between the padded protection to stuff all manner of things--cable releases, polarizing filters, business cards.

The Ona has NONE of this. But it still has its charms. It's much cooler to carry the Ona on a more social outing. The Domke is a big black blob. The Ona does not have nearly the functionality of the Domke, but I love the truffle leather. I would say I wish it had more flexible pockets and storage areas, but that would ruin the aesthetic. One way they could fix this is to steal a little trick from Domke--make the whole insert removable. That would provide those nifty little areas to tuck things like batteries, business cards and keys. Unfortunately, that would also make the interior compartment for the camera gear a bit smaller. 

As another reviewer somewhere noted, this Ona would rock for active shooting--carry the big DSLR (outside of the bag) and put your two primes and wallet in the Ona and look uber-cool. (The extra dividers, when they arrive, will be critical for this. Lens | Wallet & Junk | Lens. (As looking into the bag.) I can totally see using it that way.

I also got the Ona Roma insert as I am sometimes keen to take gear along on a trip with clothes and shoes and that kind of thing. This little thing is GREAT. About the same aspect as the Bowery, but seems to fit more and has the benefit of better external pockets. The Df does fit in that.

Lovely

I've had many camera bags, several of them from Think Tank. I liked them, but I was never excited or in love about them (with exception of the Retrospective series). 
I used to have a Canon 5D2 and needed bigger bags, but after switching to Fuji X I needed something more portable.
This is the first bag I loved immediately.  The bag fits my X-T1 and 35 1.4 with hood on (not reversed), the 55-200mm and with an extra divider I can even have the 14 2.8 in there.  The 14 2.8 wouldn't get it's own spot, it kinda sits partially above the hood of the 35, but it all fits! Of course I have other small goodies on the side pocket like cleaning, cloth, two extra batteries, Gordy Sling Strap, etc..
If I take the 55-200 out, then I can still nicely have 3 lenses in there. Oh and the pancake 27mm always fits in there size it's so little.
I like the padding all around.  The leather accents are a super nice detail. The strap is wide enough that the weight is well distributed and comfortable.
In general, this bag is awesome for me and my small camera needs.
I did not expect this bag to be so so nice.
I was in love with the bowery cognac leather look, but decided against it because of the extra weight. So I opted for the Smoke. My switch to the smaller camera system was about reducing weight. That said, the extra weight is probably not an issue at all for most people.