Review of Lowepro 200
I’ve been in the market for a new camera bag ever since I bought a 300mm telephoto lens. My plain old 35mm camera bag just didn’t cut it anymore. I wanted to take my camera with me, and be able to swap to a different lens if the need arose. Considering my 35mm camera bag from Lowepro has lasted the better part of 12 years or so… I figured they would be a good brand to continue using. At the recommendation of a friend who is a far more experience camera buff than me, I decided to go with a single strap, over the shoulder bag. This makes for easy pickup and reduces some of that back pain from carrying a load of equipment on one shoulder.
I’ve been using the bag for about 6 months now. I have to say I’m impressed. At first the over the shoulder strap confused me over and over again (my old age?). Now I leave my camera bag at the ready by the door. At first I was taking it everywhere, but that novelty wore off when I forgot it at a Moxies for a week (took me that long to remember where I was last with it… old again again?). Since then I’ve been trying to just take it when I expect some chance of a good photo op.
Right now I have my 300mm, 35mm and flash in the bag. I store the battery charge in the top, along with an extra usb cable and some cleaning supplies. Having the ability to swing the bag under my arm and swap lens is very liberating. Getting used to the way the bag opens up is a bit of a learning experience, so practice on your bed or something. Dropping a lens is never an amusing situation…
This bag has enabled me to causally bring my camera with me places I wouldn’t normally consider taking a camera. In that sense, I feel more opportunities to take pictures, even if they are of non-sense stuff that no one cares about. Experience composing pictures is experience composing pictures. Anyways, I give it an arbitrary two thumbs up.
