Discount Lowepro Pro Runner x450 AW DSLR Backpack (Black)

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I have had many good Lowepro camera bags over the years and was looking forward to a rolling bag that would save my need to add a luggage cart to my large backpack going through airports. This roller surprised me with how heavy the bag was empty, right out of the shipping box. Nonetheless, I decided to give it its due and transfer my equipment from my Lowepro backpack into this roller, and was immediately frustrated by the lack of nooks and crannies built into the roller. The backpack actually has more room and more innovative ways of storage than this overweight, under thought through cousin. There are so many design flaws that after a couple of days of dragging it around the house to see if I was being too finicky, I happily reloaded my backpack, and returned this overpriced, overweight, overnight bag. Sorry Lowepro, you need to rework this one completely. On a separate note, something I thought Lowepro would have figured out in this newer than my backpack model, Lowepro the two little "pockets" are too small for actually holding my stash of digital media cards. A photographer carries more than two, and Nikon uses larger media than you have accounted for.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program If you have a SLR camera with some large lenses, a flash, a laptop and all the other accessories that go with this set up, then you have a lot of equipment to carry around. Typically camera backpacks come in small, medium and large sizes. This is the large model, from Lowepro, a respected maker of camera bags.

I evaluated this bag for a long overseas trip with a lot of photographic equipment. The challenge is to get all the equipment to the destination and then be in a position to carry it from photo-op to photo-op. These goals are contradictory. A big bag will let you take all your things by plane or car but then is impractical in the field. This bag, therefore, is to transport all your equipment where you are going. After that, switch to a smaller bag and only carry selected items. Alternatively, see if you can make do with a medium-sized, dual purpose bag.

Pros

Spacious: probably big enough to fit all your stuff in one bag. Will accommodate one pro DSLR with large lens or two smaller DSLRs and accessories, including medium laptop.

Has wheels.

Tripod mount.

Will fit in most big airplane overhead compartments. Not in the small planes, though.

Sturdy construction, but light for its size.

Padded straps for backpacking

Cons:

Big: If you can manage with a smaller bag you should. This one is hard to maneuver in crowded spaces. Also do not imagine you will be backpacking with it. Even if the weight is not an issue, the bulk and square profile is.

In summary, I would use the Lowepro ProRunner 450 AW to carry all my photographic equipment in one bag as carry on luggage on an airplane or in a car. If real walking, hiking or crowded places are anticipated I would eliminate some stuff and use a smaller bag.

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Its a pretty pricey product, but not ergonomic at all, ordered it via amazon.de, and realised that after seeing the product. It cant be noticed from any videos or anything. The waistbelt of the bag continuously bruises the ground when u use the roller, and u need to be very well built to carry the bag around (filled) tucking on your shoulders. I emailed Lowepro about the design flaw, but no reply. Thinking of returning to amazon.de, but it would cost me almost 100 from Finland. So not really suggestable to buy, unless your physique is equivalent of Stallone. They claim it is suitable for carry on baggage on domestic airlines, which is completely baseless unless u travel business class only

Was very happy with the old computrekker and nova products, changed to this most costly one and regretting

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I did not know how to go with rating this product ... yes it is heavy, really heavy (you can forget carrying it on your back for more than 15 min if you load it with your gear). Being heavy means that if you are using a shipping forwarding service (like Shop and Ship from Aramex) then there is a lot of money going into the shipping cost (almost as much as I paid for for the bag itself)which brings me to the good price published here (my local dealer was actually selling it for the original price). The bag, as all Lowepro products, is made of really good quality material:

1Good quality zippers / buckles

2Very good paddings

3sturdy wheels

4Very comfy shoulder paddings when used as a back packpack (for 5 min!)

5The famour wheather protection cover

All in all, and in all fairness, if we are demanding that much of items to be cramed in one bag we should expect it to be a heavy (I did!! but I did not expect it to be THAT heavy). If you need to take a lot of gear around (using your car then rolling it to the event venue where you would transfer the gear into a harness and a belt setup)then this is the perfect bag for you ... and I think that would be the perfect setup.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Other reviews have already covered how useful and versatile this is, and I agree with most of them. The only point I want to make here is its size. I was under the impression that I could take this as a carry-on and I planned to take it with me on my recent trip to China. After I received it, I was a little disappointed, most of the airlines require carry-ons less than 45", length, width and height combined, but this one was obviously over the limit by a few inches. I certainly was not gonna risk being stopped at the security check point and having this checked-in with my camera, lenses and ipad in it, so I left it at home and took my small camera bag with just one extra lense in it, plus I had to stuff my ipad into my daughter's rolling back-pack.