BellroyVenture Camera Sling 10L photography bag - Black, One Size

As the title says, it's a very premium feeling bag. However, it falls short in most other areas. The Peak Design and WANDRD options might not look as good, but you'll likely regret not going in that direction when you're trying to get your camera out of your bag and the zippers wont get out of the way.

I already owned a Peak Design Everyday Sling 10L before I picked up this Bellroy bag, but because I also had a small Bellroy Lite Sling, I couldn't resist giving this one a try.I'm pleased to say that Bellroy's great reputation for quality production remains strong here, with a water-resistant, ripstop recycled nylon exterior, detachable strap and 'self-compressing gussets' to pull the bulk of the bag closer to your body, a large interior with padded dividers, a zipped interior pocket for batteries and memory cards, a large front pocket for your various accessories and everyday carry, and a padded exterior for protection and comfort.The exterior in particular feels tough and hard-wearing, although the nylon does collect scuffs and marks easily – the white patches you can see on my well-used bag is salt from a long and sweaty hike on a hot day, but thankfully it wipes clean nicely.The interior dividers are permanently stitched to the walls of the bag, rather than being fixed in place with velcro, but they have the advantage of elastic sides so that they can be pushed around to make more room in any of the three divisions as needed. However, this design means they're not closed at the bottom, so you'll need to be careful to not use the main interior space to store tiny items that could slip beneath the dividers.Small elastic pockets at either end of the bag interior offer extra space for smaller items – if your camera and lenses will allow it.As you can see in my photos, the bag comfortably swallows my large Sony A7 camera and long 35-150mm lens, but there's not much room for other items with this combination in place. I find I can just barely fit my small Ricoh GRIIIx camera in one of the pockets, but then I have little room for anything else. Bellroy's photos show the spaces occupied by a camera body and two lenses, each in their own slot, but you won't fit a longer lens in this orientation.The bag is extremely and uncommonly light at just 500g, which is very welcome because my camera and lens blows that out to 5kg. Thankfully, the wide strap includes a nicely proportioned shoulder pad, while the integrated padding in the rear of the bag ensures comfort against the body.The strap also has a 'Quick Slide' buckle that makes it fairly easy to adjust the length of the strap one-handed, if you suddenly need to loosen or tighten it on the go.Overall, I quite like the Bellroy Venture Camera Sling 10L, particularly its quality construction – which, at the asking price, counts for a lot. Sadly, it's hard to feel that the claimed 10 litres of space is truly there, and it's a bag you'll quickly fill if you tend to carry extras like filters, additional batteries and/or a power bank, a cleaning kit, and so on. The individual pockets are large, but filling any of them eats into the others.Practise some restraint, though – switching out my long lens for a compact option would make an obvious difference – and you should be happy with this one.

I use a domke Domke F-1X Little Bit Bigger Shoulder Bag for most of my kit but this doesn’t offer that much protection so I use this sling as extra protection whilst travelling and storing my equipment but then once I am at the shoot I use this to carry my lenses that I require and their close by and easily accessible. I wore it all day on my last shoot and not once did it get in my way and most of the time I wouldn’t even know I was wearing it!It’s a great size and ideal if I ever just go on a day trip with one or two lenses as well. The build quality is great and it looks good too.I can’t recommend this bag enough!

La borsa più comoda che abbia mai provato! Dentro c’è un spazio abbastanza ampia, mentre la borsa è piccola e comoda per portarla facilmente in giro.Qualità e disegno è ottimo e piacevole.Consiglio! 👌🏼

カメラバッグとして割りきれば、とても良いが、普段使いとするにはポケットが少いのが残念。