Lowepro Fastpack BP250AW III Backpack

I was looking for a bag to comfortably carrying 10- 20 lbs of camera equipment on a road trip that would include plenty of day hikes of 5 miles or more. I looked at the K&F Concept Bag (see my review), which is a great-looking, well-made bag and a steal at under $100, but it lacked the heft shoulder straps and waist-belt that I thought I'd need for comfortable hiking. I also looked at the LowePro Flipside 300, which, like all of the LowePro bags, is sturdy and well-made, but it is really just one compartment for equipment with no space for personal items so I returned that too. (Also, not large enough to accommodate a 15" laptop.)For a very reasonable price, this Fastpack has the sturdy comfortable design that I wanted, as well as separate compartments for equipment and personal gear. Ideally, I'd have liked the two compartments to be more configurable but the personal gear compartment is well-padded, so if you want to use it for equipment, you can. Another thing I like about this bag is that the side access is actually big enough to be usable.All in all, a well-designed comfortable bag at half the price of other premium brands.

You can easily fit a full size DSLR, a back camera body, and a couple lenses in this bag. The Zipper on the side helps with access to the main camera. Very Useful for trips and outings

A+++ Exactly as described! Great value and quality! Will definitely buy again!

I do a fair amount of bird photography so I'm usually carrying telephoto lenses. Typically a 200-500mm at least. I like that with careful arranging I can fit that and 2 or 3 other smaller lenses or if I don't want to use the extra backpack section I can fit my 800mm lens if not attached to the body.A lot of the cheaper camera bags didn't have enough space for lenses and accessories such as this one does. I also like the camera quick access.Only negative I can think of is I wish the inserts gave me a little more freedom to organize my setup the way I want it.

I used to use a Tamrac sling style backpack but lost access to it and decided to try this bag since they didn’t make the Tamrac one anymore.This bag has nice quality feel to it and is durable for general day use. It has a ton of storage space for plenty of gear. I’ve put in a DSLR with grip, mirror less camera, telephoto lens, and three more lenses varying in primes and zooms. And still, there’s more room up top for action cams or a smaller drone and other accessories.Feels great on the bag and functions great on the go with the side access for quick equipment change. Laptop protection seems decent but not for heavy usage/bumps IMO. Overall a high quality backpack that’s highly recommended.

Filling it up entirely makes is VERY heavy. But it's comfortable enough that hiked to a waterfall with it.Can fit my Laptop, Medium Format Camera, 300mm, 180mm, 90mm 45mm, two flashes, light meter, batteries, tethering cable, 4x clips, tripod, light stand, and other small things. I imagine if you bought straps you could also attach a bounce, but likely couldn't fit a large one in the bag. It can practically hold an entire mobile studio.

Coming from a normal backpack with tons of zippers, I'm sadly unable to transition to this one which only has 3 zipped pockets.Sad thing is, there's many many spaces for zipped pockets like the main flap to access the camera storage could easily have had 3 extra zipped pockets but is instead just wasted blank space.3 or 4 more zipped pockets and this would've been the perfect pack for me since I don't need all the adjustable cube spaces that most other camera backpacks have.Good points if you don't need a lot of pockets:-super comfortable-ocd friendly (you can neatly tuck away all excess strap bits)-sturdy, will not deform much-orange/light grey interior makes it easy to find things (as opposed to black like many other packs)

I love this bag. I had the original BP 350 model that had for about 10 years. The zippers were going out so when I got this new model the zippers were much higher quality and easy to zip.This bag held a lot. 2 Godox AD200 Pros, Godox AD300 Pro, Olympus OMD EM1 with 12-40mm pro. Olympus OMD EM5, Olympus 45mm, Olympus 60mm, 13” MacBook Air, cables, chargers, medications, insulin pen, diabetes kit and batteries.There are some drawbacks to the new model, it is not weather sealed like the original model. It will still keep water out but not like the original one without a cover.There are definitely more pockets. The pockets are larger leaving for more compartments to put things in.The zipper are faster and easier to access. But this is what prevents it from being weather sealed. Again, it will protect it from light rain or short exposure to rain.If you have a regular dslr and not a mirrorless, the camera compartments are smaller. Luckily I shoot m4/3 so my cameras are small and fit easily.Over all I am happy with the bag.