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Lowepro Mini Trekker AW Backpack (Black)

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Company : Lowepro
List Price : $139.95
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Average customer review : 4
 

Features

Product Description

Lowepro's ever-popular Mini Trekker - now with an All Weather Cover - is lightweight, compact and holds a surprising amount of gear. Includes an integrated quick-release tripod holder, attachment loops for optional SlipLock accessories, compression straps and lots of pockets - including a large front pocket with a weather flap and a quick-access front pocket. The ergonomic harness features wide, padded shoulder straps and a sternum strap.

Customer reviews

good, but could be better 3
This backpack has a great potential to be my favorite, but it has some serious design flaws.
PROS:
- excellent protection for equipment
- has just a right amount of room to fit all of my "field" gear (including my precious 80-200 2.8)
- internal separators are very flexible in adjustment to desired compartment configuration
- ideal for hiking, travel and as a carry on. Very comfortable fit.
- THE BEST PART: built in weather protection - has protective stow-away cover. This alone is good enough reason to buy this!

CONS:
One of the things I love most about lowepro is flexibility of using street&field system. With this backpack there are only 2 SlipLock tabs on each of the sides. Look carefully at the photo featuring the product. The bag has compression straps which work really well, however, once the pouches are attached, the feature becomes useless. Straps are not long enough to go over most pouches, and there's no way to slip them under as they stretch right across the tab. Why? Why? Why?

There are also no loops on the shoulder straps, which would be nice to have for smaller slipLock pouches or a memory wallet.

Another design draw back is the way tripod is mounted. The holding pouch folds out and hangs, so it makes it impossible to set the bag vertically. The system however, is secure and convenient for carrying around tri/mono-pods. It held up great on my travels and hikes.

I should probably also mention that it is rather heavy, but for carrying around thousand[s] dollars worth of gear, the protection it extends at the cost of the weight is something I don't mind. This item is designed exclusively for photo gear, so there really no expectation for storage for anything other than that.

With a minor revision to the overall design this would be a 5-star product. Either way, I'm still satisfied with this backpack, and do trust it.

Great Backpack 4
Plenty of room for equipment. I carry 2 Canon bodies(1 w/powerwinder),1 telephoto lense, 1 midrange zoom, 1 wideangle lense and a flash. The outer pocket has all my extra batteries, memory cards and cables. Very well made. I have two minor issues with the bag. First the shoulder straps are fine but the quick-release sternum strap is much to high and is more like a neck strap. The second is really minor but the velco in the inner compartment goes about 3/4 of the way around the inside. It would be better if it went completely around so you could have more flexability in creating your interior design. I would recommend this backpack if you need to carry lots of stuff around all day.

good stuff 5
This is a very well made product. It holds a complete digital slr set with room left over for other items I might need for travel on an airplane.

Excellent Backpack 5
This is an excellent backpack. It is small enough to be comfortable carrying it on you back all day, yet big enough to carry a digital slr and a variety of lenses. I carry a NIKON D80 with 28-200mm lense attached alomg with a Sony video camera, and another digital camera (Sony power shot). All three fit very easily with additional room for more equipment.
The all weather cover is a great plus as it protects the bag well.

Great quality backpack but you can get close for way less money 4
I actually use the Canon 200EG photo backpack and it's about the same as this Lowepro, but for a lot less money. Sure, it's not quite as well made and sturdy as this Lowepro but it's also not nearly as expensive. While I wouldn't really hesitate to buy this Lowepro, especially if it were a bit cheaper, I'm very happy with the Canon backpack as I get nearly the same functionality (minus the built-in all weather sheath) for a lot less.

A note about the layout-I like this style photo backpack better than the type where the camera gear is placed in the bottom of the pack and the top part is for other items. This style is more space efficient-it can hold more lenses and photo gear in the main compartment, yet the outside dimensions of the bag are less. Granted, you do have to take the pack off and set it down to access it. But I tried a Tamrac backpack (the kind where the camera stuff goes in the bottom part of the pack) before buying the Canon one and I found it way too big and not any more convenient to use as I had to also remove that one from my back to access it. In the end, the Canon pack (and this Lowepro) holds extra stuff too. In the flap pocket, I can fit a shirt, light lunch and other items like a magazine. In fact, I can even fit a small laptop in the main compartment (in a separate laptop slipcase for protection). I would say a 13"-15" laptop would fit fine, but not a 17" or larger one.

If you want something that you can work out of without having to take it off and yet carries all of your photo gear, I doubt you will ever find it. I would instead recommend a shoulder bag that you carry only one or two lenses in (for weight reasons) for walking around with, and a back pack for transporting all your stuff. I also use the backpack for long walks/hikes and it works fine not fully loaded too. In other words, just because you can take every single photo item you own, doesn't mean you have to or should.


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