National Geographic's Earth Explorer Medium Shoulder Bag is an everyday, functional shoulder bag that will hold all of your personal gear along with a laptop, camera, or camcorder. It's a great camera bag for your worldly excursions.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
17" laptop DOES fit (with compromise),
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This review is from: National Geographic NG 2475 Earth Explorer Medium Shoulder Bag (Electronics)
I quite like this bag - I think it will become my airline travel bag of choice. It will be great for the purpose, even with no camera equipment at all!
It is not quite true that it won't hold a 17" laptop. I have a 17" Macbook Pro - it fits fine inserted vertically into the internal laptop pocket. The bag is cleverly designed because the soft internal roll up zipper flap will fold down over the laptop and still allow the zipper to close around the contents with ease. That said, with an oversize laptop the bag's exterior flap will not fall far enough to fasten the quick-lock snaps, and the carry handle will be a bit off center, but it is still secure and comfortable to carry, especially with the shoulder strap. The quick-lock deficiency could be fixed with either a) longer straps or b) additional snaps above the exterior pockets. I have a D2X which does not fit into the padded internal compartment with lens on, but the camera body alone does fit, with room for a lens off to the side. The D2X with lens mounted does fit in the bag next to, but not in the padded internal bag, so spare lenses could go in the internal bag. My D80 with lens fits beautifully in the internal compartment, and of course the bag is designed for a medium digital SLR, not a large. The fabric is soft and inviting (great color, too), the accessory pockets useful and well thought out, and the bag is very comfortable to carry on the shoulder. I would not want this bag loaded with camera equipment to be tossed about indiscriminately by, for example, baggage handlers...but in my own hands as my personal carry-on, I would be confident in the protection it offers.
58 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great marketing, poor execution,
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This review is from: National Geographic NG 2475 Earth Explorer Medium Shoulder Bag (Electronics)
I bought this bag with great expectations, having gone through several others that did not meet my needs. Needs were to carry a DSLR, three or four lenses, two flash units, a laptop and other miscellaneous photographic bits and pieces. The advertising, literature and photographs gave the impression that these items could be accomodated comfortably, perhaps with room to spare.
Here is what worked and what did not. What worked: 1. I was able to fit the two flash units into the two pockets very nicely, together with a some spare batteries, cleaning materials, memory cards and the like. What did not work: 1. The space for the laptop is laughable, unless you carry a very small 12 inch screen machine. My HP 2000, an inexpensive, 'thin and light' model with a 14 inch screen, barely fitted when inserted vertically, and lacked any sort of protection for the edge sticking out the top. I could not put in this relatively small laptop correctly, in the horizontal position. (Perhaps they need to indicate in their literature the size of laptop that will fit right). 2. The inner padded case (the full bag is not padded, there is a small padded insert)can accomodate just one extra lens in addition to a DSLR with a lens mounted. The width of the padded case is approximately the width of a typical meduim size DSLR (without an external battery pack). So if youstore a camera with a typical zoom lens mounted, there is room inside for just one more lens. There is space outside the padded portion for more lenses, but that is just that - unpadded, with no protection whatsoever against impact, which brings me to my next point. 3. The strap, all of two inches wide looks very sturdy. Unfortunately, the material of the clip that lets you adjust its length was extremely flimsy - at least in my bag. A few hours after I had loaded the bag and was carrying it on my shoulder, the clip broke and the bag crashed down, damaging a $200 lens when the bag hit the ground. Had to complete the trip with a broken lens, the strap knotted around the bag to hold it, looking very ugly indeed. I had high hopes that this would be my ideal bag for carrying a small laptop plus a simple camera outfit. Unfortunately, its design meets neither the needs of a general purpose bag - to carry a laptop, some papers plus a simple camera outfit, neither will it work as a proper camera bag which offers reasonable protection for its contents. I will be returning my broken bag with deep regret, since I had great expectations for this bag which carries the National Geographic logo.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The crummy clips are gone, now has sturdy straps,
By Shorescapes "Sage photo" (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: National Geographic NG 2475 Earth Explorer Medium Shoulder Bag (Electronics)
The problems mentioned by others regarding the strap clips seem to have been addressed. There are no clips! The strap is now non-removable and there is no fear of the strap system failing. I bought this bag figuring I would remove the clips but it was already done for me. The bag feels great, looks great (not just another black camera bag). It would be nice if the whole bag was padded. The laptop compartment is to small for a normal laptop but I find it useful for other things --my back up drive. reflector, other flat(ish) accessories. I am happy to have something more casual than another black, stiff, gear bag. So if you know what you are getting, you might just like it.
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