Santa's bag is swell, but can it snugly and safely carry a laptop computer, a digital SLR, a couple lenses, your iPod, and all those devices' associated cables and memory cards? My Crumpler bag can do it, with style, comfort and room to spare.
The odd Aussie bagmaker with the strange naming convention recently sent me a sample of their "Sinking Barge (http://www.crumplerbags.com/Cart/index.php?catId=22)." It's a backpack about the size of the one your favorite college or high school student might use, but with so much more going for it. The inside back of the bag contains a padded compartment with a hook-and-loop closer that locks a laptop into place. My 15-inch MacBook Pro fits perfectly.
Separate compartments safely hold pens, wires, chargers, etc. But it's real trick is the front pouch, that place normally reserved for car keys and granola bars. Zip it open and you'll find a medium-sized camera bag hidden inside. There's a compartment to snugly hold a digital SLR and an attached lens, and compartments on either side of the lens-hole to hold additional lenses, flashes or other accessories. The well-padded rigging secures your gear with a zippered mesh top, then tucks back and into the backpack. It's all easily accessible while the pack is suspended from a shoulder. It's also secure -- your camera gear stays in the bag, rather than dumping out onto the ground when you open the compartment, a problem with some other hybrid laptop-photo backpacks.
Tom Gromak
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