I get asked about this a fair bit these days, so this is a little post to serve as an “FAQ” style answer! What have we here?
That would be the Tamrac 9 rucksack that adorns my back these days. It looks a little better out of it’s wrapping:
The back is home to a very padded compartment that even fits my 17″ MacBook Pro, and inside of the front is somewhere for my Canon DSLR to snuggle, complete with a selection of lenses:
The top also houses a zip-up compartment big enough to fit a flash, filters, batteries and the like - including little pockets to store memory cards.
You can find the Tamrac Adventure 9 on Amazon, or dig around on eBay.
Oh, and I went for a red one. Obviously.
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August 18th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Don’t know if AP are still running a subscription offer including a small tamrac bag, but it’s no where near the size of your monster!
Plus the offer (if it’s still current) is only available through the magazine, not online. Nice one, BTW.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
It is pretty large.. Tamrac do a 6, but that doesn’t take the laptop, which was a ‘must have’ feature for me. The other thing I didn’t mention is that it is beer-proof - as I discovered when someone tipped a whole bottle of beer over it at a Techcrunch event ( The 7 habits of highly effective pitchers ).