Review of Bower SCB1350 Digital Pro Series Sling SLR Backpack

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As a job I travel about filming various abandoned locations (this sounds weird, but it's true).

This bag has been my traveling companion through countless broken windows, up numerous trees, and across many state lines.

It has been inside and throughout abandoned asylums, castles, resorts, factories, homes, and hospitals...

I trust it with keeping a lot of expensive equipment safe and secure, it has yet to fail in it's duties.

Having the side-mounted tripod holder is a wonderful feature, and is the thing that actually sold me on the bag.

This bag is far from huge, but carries all of my equipment without being cramped.

It's smaller size is actually a great advantage when you need to be nimble, or climb up something to get a shot.

This backpack comfortably carries the following for me:

My D-SLR camera body (in camera armor).

Two lenses, one of which is a very large wide-angle.

Two external flashes.

Two remote flash receivers and a transmitter.

Two LED flashlights.

A wired remote trigger.

8 AA batteries in a case.

Three Pentax Li-ion batteries.

The wall charger for the Pentax batteries.

My memory cards in their case.

An entire lens and camera cleaning kit (blower, lens cloths, distilled water).

My Jeep keys, my wallet, and my cell phone also come along in the side pocket.

Lastly, on the side of the bag two tripods are secured (one standard size, and a skinny telescoping one for my flashes)

As you can see, this thing has adequate space for most everything you would need to carry on your back.

In fact I could fit more if needed, but I really don't have anything else I need to tote around with me on a daily basis.

My only concern is that the seam on the left shoulder strap is starting to fatigue and some of the stitches are letting loose.

I am partially to blame for this however, since I am not the most gentle person with my bag...

~Rusty

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I'll add my two cents in short, I don't even see how they can make and sell this bag at this price. You can spend as much as you want for a similar camera backpack, but you won't get more bang for your buck. Very nice materials, well constructed, with good protection for your equipment. A few reviewers claim this is a bag for "middle class" photographers. Lol. These are folks who still think that owning recognized brand names makes them better photographers. It doesn't. If you don't need something bigger, and you're not going to be putting a huge amount of weight in it, this is a great bag. I keep my medium format camera, two extra lenses, and general paraphernalia in it, and it fits nicely and is comfortable to wear for many hours. You can't go wrong with this one.

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I have scoured the Internet for low priced DSLR backpacks. I refuse to pay $79.99 for a backpack like the lowepro. I settled on this bag. This bag is very spacious, has adjustable/customizable velcro pockets inside for camera, lens, and other items, and has sufficient padding to protect everything. It also has an exterior tripod holder (which I have not used yet). Bag quality is good--the materials and zippers are not cheaply made. All in all, for the price you can't beat this backpack.

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I can use this backpack to carry/store my SLR camera with 3 lens, accessories, and external flash. It's very flexible and well built (and padded) for the price. The only downsides are if you need to take more then one camera or need something that's waterproof/resistant (or can carry a hydro pack) for extreme hiking. Either way, it is an amazing buy and is highly recommended!

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First, this is not a sling, but a back pack. The description say this is a "sling SLR backpack" I bought this on a gamble that was a sling and surprise surprise, it's actually a back pack; but Amazon did a wonderful job of letting me return the product for full refund. Wish they had a picture of the straps or re-word their description.

But for the backpack, the straps are well padded, but the interior compartment and padding felt "cheap" for a $30.00 product. I tried to put my DSLR in the bad and walked around and can feel the camera move around (front to back, not side to side). Additional padding would have solve this problem, but the included padding was very minimal. I also wish they had more padding dividers. The side tri-pod holder works well.