Carry more without compromising comfort. Camera gear rides securely in the fully adjustable bottom compartment while personal gear and additional accessories fit in the roomy top compartment. Ergonomic technical harness has fully adjustable torso, padded CollarCut™ shoulder straps, load adjustment straps and DryFlo™ mesh-covered back pad and waistbelt. Removable center divider folds away to create a single compartment. Built-in hide-away tripod holder includes an adjustable bungee cord system for optimum stability and balance. Lowepro’s patented All Weather Cover™ protects from extreme weather, sand and dust.
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Author
Dennis1234567 Wild Member
Registered: October 2006 Location: 200 feet below the Heathrow flightpath, London Posts: 159
Review Date: Thu 11, January, 2007
Would you recommend it? No |
Total Spent: £99.00| Rating: 1
Strengths:
None
Weaknesses:
Bad design flaws
This combi photographer’s backpack comes in the identical internal format as the smaller and massively cheaper Orion Trekker 2. The camera section is the same six segment pigeon hole set up as the Orion Trekker 2, but with larger, and deeper pigeon holes. In other words, don't upgrade to this one if you have more photography equipment unless you plan on stacking one lens on top of another. The top personal section is again the same standard format as the Orion, only larger. It has three pockets, one zipped, one mesh, and one large top to bottom pocket at the rear. The base of the personal section is held in by Velcro and can be removed, along with the photography padding to make an all through standard rucksack.
This backpack is to be ignored like the plague. It is both badly designed, and dangerous to wear. Firstly the removable divider between the personal and photographic section caused problems when the rain stopped. I couldn’t put the wet weather gear back because of the divider setup isn’t waterproof. Any leakages from the personal section will end up amongst the camera kit if not dealt with straight away. The rear of the backpack has two zipped storage pockets. If you check out the photograph you’ll note that the zip does not fully close, both are designed that way. The backpack makes extensive use of bungee straps. When I had my backpack set up ready to leave I had loose bungee from three sources, each over a foot in length to try and hide. I went to Seaford by train and those bungees were very much in my mind when an express passed. The problem is shown in two of the photographs. Getting the cameras out involved fighting with a dead octopus all knotted up. Snipping them to size isn’t an option due to warranty issues. The tripod setup puts the tripod in too low a position (pictured), so no sitting down with it installed. I also included the amount of surplus bungee in the picture. The backpack comes with a rain cover, you have to remove the tripod to it use though. On the journey home the rain cover came undone as I was getting of the train due to bad positioning of the carry handle. The bottom fastener for the tripod is fixed to the center of the base, when you put the thing down it gets battered or caked in mud (pictured) When not in use it makes station platforms interesting if you don’t secure it using the dead octopus technique mentioned,
I tested the backpack out in Seaford on the south coast of England in hurricane forced winds, torrential rain, both on cliff top and sea front for one day.
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