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This is my 3rd Crumpler bag, I sold my 6 million dollar home because with the addition of the Nikon 14-24, SB 600 and 900 flashes, and a couple other lenses, I had outgrown it. The 8 million dollar home is big enough to grow into, even if I went overboard and added a second camera body.

Great quality, pretty water resistant (even though they dont look it) and classy looking enough that I can wear a suit and have it on my shoulder without it looking out of place.

And the "super stealth" velcro cover is a stroke of genius...

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Very stylish, well built, tons of room to move, grow and adapt. This seems to be the perfect size camera bag for an event shooter. Incredibly comfortable after a long hot day of shooting, with a full bag, this met our needs. The silent velcro, made sure folks didn't have an alarm go off every time the camera came out of the bag. Adjustable, soft dividers separated yet supported the gear. Only wanted some shorter pockets to keep certain items closer to the top, so less digging in the bag. otherwise, another solid, cool, Crumpler product.

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I bought this bag to hold a 15 inch laptop and all the assorted stuff that goes with. It holds my T60 laptop (sideways) in it's rigid sleeve in the center compartment. The configurable interior makes keeping cables, cameras, phones and extra stuff simple and orderly. Very tough, very comfortable and best of all it stands upright when emptied unlike most floppy messenger bags. The velcro interior dividers are highly configurable and the velcro sticks them firmly in place. Setting up the compartment spacing took a few minutes. I dinged the score on this bag one star because it smelled like a petro-chemical plant when it first arrived. That has subsided with a little time. Good bag would buy again.

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I wanted a bag that was deep and wide enough to take a Nikon D7000 with grip, plus 18-200 lens, plus lens hood attached and not reversed, plus thick Crumpler neck strap, while still accommodating existing other gear and future equipment purchases within reason. The 8MDH ticks every one of those boxes excellently.

It swallows up the camera, grip, lens and lens hood no problem at all, as well as the SB-400 flash unit and a Sony HD camcorder. There is still a ton of room left for future equipment purchases or just for carrying round other stuff like wallets, cell phones etc without the need to use any of the pockets.

The numerous velcro dividers mean you can configure the interior just about any way you like. Some of the dividers have folding top portions, meaning you can put say the Sony in at the bottom, fold over the top portion so it creates a flat solid surface, and then put the SB-400 on top of that. That still leaves the other half of the bag empty on the other side of the camera body.

The bag fastens using velcro and plastic catches. The velcro sections are huge meaning that you have to give the flap a pretty good tug upwards to dislodge it, but that is a good thing I think from a security viewpoint, and you can always use the velcro silencers if you need to. The plastic catches are a little fiddly, as they partly recede into a recess and you have to reach in and up to be able to squeeze the 2 sides of the catch to release it (see product pic, red flashes on front of bag). From a security perspective that is a good thing, but if you have the 2 catches closed, don't think you are going to have almost instant access to your camera. It is security versus convenience.

If you lift up the flap, there is a large pocket the whole size of the bag on the front secured by a single velcro fastener, and this has a handy little tab on it to help you open it. Inside that pocket there is a further pocket again fastened by velcro (2 strips), but it gives access to one big pocket rather than 2 or more. This means that little items like an infra-red remote shutter release, any spare battery, memory cards etc swim around in there and you have to fish around to find them. I think a couple of small zippered pockets for smaller items like that would improve the bag, as well as maybe a zippered pocket for a cell phone, ipod etc.

There is a single zippered mesh pocket on the underside of the bag flap, and once again anything small in there will just move around, but at least you can see it rather than fishing around blind as is the case of the 2 separate pockets on the front of the bag. At each side of at the top of the bag there is a small pouch area which is the perfect size for a lens cap or filter in its case. I use it for filters currently.

The construction is very high quality, with excellent materials and workmanship, and I get the impression this bag will last a good few years. The nylon is very heavy duty, and the interior padding gives you confidence that the bag will protect your gear well unless you do something really stupid. It is rigid enough to stand up by itself when placed on a flat surface, but I guess that it will possibly topple over if it is really top heavy not tested that. Although it is a decent sized bag, it is still pretty light and easy on the shoulder. I will generally be using it on vacation as a carry everything bag, so as well as my camera gear it can take a small compacted umbrella, a couple of plastic rain smocks, wallet/purse, a small souvenir or 2, that sort of stuff.

One thing it does not have is catches or straps for carrying a tripod, but I have seen someone suggest that this could be laid across the top of the bag and underneath the flap, as long as the camera body is protected adequately. Again, not tested this so I am not sure how well it would work.

It also will function very nicely as my carry on bag when flying, as there is enough room for books, tickets, passports etc as well as your camera gear. I went with the grey/red colour combo, as some of the funkier ones were just way too loud and noticeable snot green (that's the Crumpler name, not mine!), electric blue, bright red....all a bit much for me, and the black was the reverse, pretty boring and anyway, just about all camera bags are black. Even with the grey colour, Crumpler make it a little funky with a lime green interior and red flashes on the front, but apart from that I think the bag is pretty anonymous, which is what I like.

All in all, I am very pleased with the 8MDH as it suits my needs now and in future perfectly, and although it is pretty expensive, it is a high quality well-made product. Recommendation buy with confidence.

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I shoot a lot of landscapes in my home area as well as other spots across the US. I usually have worked with large backpacks and smaller sling bags and have dealt with the problems of getting things out quick. I recently purchased the Crumpler 8 Million dollar home and it is a god send. Here is what is in that bag: Main location: 1) in the middle: Canon 5D Mark lll with 24-105 mounted with lens hood on(not reversed) . 2) Left hand side: 100-400L with lens hood 3) Right hand side: 17-40 L , 50 1.4, 85 1.8 all with lens hoods on. I actually can mount either my 7D or 5D mark ll with any of these lenses along with my 5D MArk lll and any lens mounted with hood in here also by just taking out two of the smaller prime lenses.

Upper Mesh pouch: 5 Singh Ray 4 x6 ND Grad filters, all in their leather pouches

Bottom Pouch and mesh pockets:2 spare batteries, extra CF cards, large Ghitto blower, lens brush, lens cloth and cleaning fluid, 3 BW polarizers in pouches, Singh Ray Vari Duo ND filter in pouch. HiTech 4 x 6 ND Grad filter holder.

Side Pocketsfingerless gloves and headlamp

All of the above allows me to shoot and work out of the bag at the same time. With the firmness of the main compartment area, it is a breeze to change lenses or filters protected without taking off the bag. No more dropping the bag in the dirt and fishing around in the dark.

I am 67 years old, 6 ft. and a little over 200lbs and find it easy to carry all of this around in the bag for most all of my shoots. When I have to walk very far I find that just rotating the bag around the bag over your rear balances the load very well. And if you have the camera with a lens already slung over your shoulder with a long strap like the Black Rapid, it is even lighter and better. If I am hiking back longer then a mile or so and want to go lighter, I just take my LowePro Sling Shot 202 Sling bag instead.

This bag changed my mind completely about messenger style bags and I am glad I got it!