I finally got 'round to it! :D
I'll start this off with a little disclaimer, if you'll indulge me;
Who I Am; A 23 year old amateur photographer, favouring Macro photography and (at the moment) classic & modified cars. Due to the subjects I'm usually photographing, and the locations (99% of the time are moving/static cars at car shows), I don't carry a great deal of gear with me. My usual kit at the moment consists of a Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20mm, Sigma 150-500mm, and Tokina 100mm Macro. 3 lenses and a fairly small body. Sometimes I may only take the supertelephoto, sometimes it's just the 10-20mm.
For the reasons I just mentioned, I actually have 6 different camera bags. I snapped up the Event Messenger 250 because, sometimes, I also photograph wildlife. In which case, it's the Sigma 150-500mm that becomes my most important bit of kit.
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| The Lowepro Event Messenger 250 is just one of the many bags I seem to | be accumalting. |
The main reason the I purchased the Lowepro Event Messenger 250 is that it has a Dual-Mode Flap - in busy places, you can enable the Maximum Security feature of this bag by folding the hook/loop fasteners down so of course, you can hear someone opening the bag. If you unfold these fasteners, it's so quiet that even my local woodpecker doesn't hear me coming. Unless I step on a stick. Which is my fault.
This bag will take a laptop up to 13", but for now, this feature does go unused because a) I have a 17" screen, and b) It's ancient and quite frankly, too slow to use in my photography. If I do acquire a 13" laptop, however, I would fully entrust it to this bag - the compartment is fully padded, and the position of the laptop compartment at the back of the bag means it's unlikely to take any jarring or hits. Score 1 for the Event Messenger 250.
Now, I have received a bit of criticism for my next reason for buying this bag, but I'll tell you anyway. This bag will take my 150-500mm. If I'm shooting wildlife, I take my wide-angle, my 105mm macro, the big lens, and of course, my camera body. I will mention now, that the lens and the body will NOT fit into this bag attached. The way I balance my bag out is for the 500mm to sit, wound in, down the centre of the bag, with the other two lenses down one side and my camera body down the other. Having the 500mm lens in the center of the bag means it doesn't try and slide one way or the other over my shoulder.
The reason I don't mind that my camera and 500mm lens don't sit together in the bag is quite simple - I'm forever switching the lenses over. We're talking every 10 or so minutes. I'm awkward.
Now, my shoulder's aren't exactly forgiving these days, so you may ask why I've chosen a slim bag to carry my 500mm lens in? I chose this bag for this task because as I've said, I don't tend to carry a lot of equipment for wildlife photography, and the shoulder pad that comes on this strap is just brilliant - it's wide enough to take the pressure and spread it evenly. If it could talk, my shoulder would happily agree with me.
The front compartment in this bag isn't the biggest, but then, this bag isn't going to be one of your 'I'm taking everything and the kitchen sink' bags. It's lightweight, it's street-wise, and it's just what you need when your main bit of kit is a tall bit of glass.
Another reason I like this bag is the physical design - this sort of thing is a big plus for me. I like simplicity. This bag is simple - it's an attractive light olive colour called Mica, and it's not complicated in the slightest. It's functional, it's affordable, and it carries the same high quality I expect from all of my Lowepro bags.
Overall, I'd give it a 5 out of 5. Go Lowepro! :D
This bag will take a laptop up to 13", but for now, this feature does go unused because a) I have a 17" screen, and b) It's ancient and quite frankly, too slow to use in my photography. If I do acquire a 13" laptop, however, I would fully entrust it to this bag - the compartment is fully padded, and the position of the laptop compartment at the back of the bag means it's unlikely to take any jarring or hits. Score 1 for the Event Messenger 250.
Now, I have received a bit of criticism for my next reason for buying this bag, but I'll tell you anyway. This bag will take my 150-500mm. If I'm shooting wildlife, I take my wide-angle, my 105mm macro, the big lens, and of course, my camera body. I will mention now, that the lens and the body will NOT fit into this bag attached. The way I balance my bag out is for the 500mm to sit, wound in, down the centre of the bag, with the other two lenses down one side and my camera body down the other. Having the 500mm lens in the center of the bag means it doesn't try and slide one way or the other over my shoulder.
The reason I don't mind that my camera and 500mm lens don't sit together in the bag is quite simple - I'm forever switching the lenses over. We're talking every 10 or so minutes. I'm awkward.
Now, my shoulder's aren't exactly forgiving these days, so you may ask why I've chosen a slim bag to carry my 500mm lens in? I chose this bag for this task because as I've said, I don't tend to carry a lot of equipment for wildlife photography, and the shoulder pad that comes on this strap is just brilliant - it's wide enough to take the pressure and spread it evenly. If it could talk, my shoulder would happily agree with me.
The front compartment in this bag isn't the biggest, but then, this bag isn't going to be one of your 'I'm taking everything and the kitchen sink' bags. It's lightweight, it's street-wise, and it's just what you need when your main bit of kit is a tall bit of glass.
Another reason I like this bag is the physical design - this sort of thing is a big plus for me. I like simplicity. This bag is simple - it's an attractive light olive colour called Mica, and it's not complicated in the slightest. It's functional, it's affordable, and it carries the same high quality I expect from all of my Lowepro bags.
Overall, I'd give it a 5 out of 5. Go Lowepro! :D
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