Lowepro Stealth AW

I am a big fan of Lowe Pro bags, and own two of them, but think they missed the mark on this one. The three "lens Pockets" have very little padding to them and no padding at all between the lens pockets and the top of the bag where the ends of the lenses will ride. All other Lowe Pro back packs I have seen have a thick layer of padding that runs the perimeter of the bag adjacent to the zipper. I also found that for such a large bag, there is little room for a larger (e.g. Canon 400/4.0 DO) lenses and no padded pockets or arrangeable padding to protect them. The internal laptop case, on the other hand, is huge and has lots of padding. In short, this is a nice computer bag that has little room and inadequate protection for camera equipment.

Lowe Pro's usual high-quality construction. Great protection for laptop. Neat cellphone case.

No padding on perimeter of bag to protect camera equipment. No room for larger lenses.

Lowe Pro Mini-Trekker. Lowe Pro Photo-Trekker.

Did not use.

It's a good bag for carrying camera plus pc around. It's not a particularly good sac by modern standards, and you can't shoot out of it.

It's a narrow bag which looks ok around town; you don't feel like a nerd when using it, and in all but very formal business situations it's looks are fine.

It accommodates a body, lenses and a flash gun plus a decent sized portable. There's a separate compartment for paperwork, and another one for a change of clothes. It's ok as an airline carry-on.

It's a heavy bag. There's too much padding for the PC, and not enough pockets for camera bits. If you want to carry more than (flash, body, three lenses) then you're out of pockets.

If you leave the PC padding out of the bag it lightens the weight a bit, but the bag loses structure.

The detatchable hip belt is useless, and I can't see what the chest strap would do in a bag like this.

There's a channel down the back, but there's no real structure in the sac so it's sweaty.

Lowe Pro Reporter servies; TLZ stuff, numerous others.