Bower SCB1350 Digital Pro Series Sling SLR Backpack

by Bower

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 15.2 x 5.5 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001JD3R7U
• Item model number: SCB1350
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #87 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Cases & Bags
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 27, 2008

Product Description

The Digital Pro Series sling SLR backpack offers protection and convenient on-the-go storage for your cameras and accessories. Made of durable weather- and stain-resistant nylon, it can accommodate up multiple SLR lenses, with room for a camera body and flash unit, memory cards, flash bracket, tripods or cables. The sling design offers swift, easy access to your camera accessories when the moment presents itself and its fully padded shoulder strap maximizes comfort as you move from shoot to shoot.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Adventure Bag, August 10, 2010

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Rusty Spoons (North Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bower SCB1350 Digital Pro Series Sling SLR Backpack (Electronics)

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

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great DSLR Backpack for Great Price, June 4, 2010

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Ralph "Ralph" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bower SCB1350 Digital Pro Series Sling SLR Backpack (Electronics)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Amature Backpack!, February 8, 2010

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J. Horst - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bower SCB1350 Digital Pro Series Sling SLR Backpack (Electronics)

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!