Manfrotto MB SS390-7BC AGILE VII Sling Bag (Color: Bungee Cord)

For the price, this bag offers a good mix of protection and accessibility. It is rather comfortable to carry, the padded camera pocket provides enough space for my D7000 with 18-200 mounted, a 35mm prime, sigma 8-16mm wide angle, and all my other accessories. There is also a top zippered and buckled pocket that I use to carry my personal belongings. The bag is decently rigid, without feels like a big box. The padding is acceptable, but I placed the unused dividers to give extra padding to the camera body. The best part about the bag is the super quick and easy accessibility of the camera. Just swing the bag to your front, unzip and start taking pictures; it's the primary reason I went with the sling instead of the backpack. Perhaps the thing I like best about the bag, is that when the bag is in front of me, it actually acts as a very good stabilizing platform for shooting. I don't know it they designed it that way or not, but it works very well. Overall, good product for the price.

I already own a large bag that I use for taking on hiking trips and I was looking for something that could carry some of my camera gear for casual use. I saw the Manfrotto sling bag on sale with manufacture's mail in rebate so I decided to give it a shot. The bag was large enough to fit my kit lens, 70-200mm, 50mm, flash, batteries and accessories with room to fit probably another lens. The compartment to hold the lens/camera is fairly large and my biggest complaint is that there are not as many dividers to break up the compartment into smaller sections. There is only the main compartment which holds the camera body + mounted lens(up to a 70-200mm lens)and a compartment next to it that is divided into 3 (two compartments side by side that are covered by flaps and a section above those compartments. I wish that it would come with another divider to give you the option of adding another compartment. There is also a small top compartment that can hold some accessories ect which is secured with the buckle, zipper and Velcro (a bit overboard, but I guess that would guarantee that nothing will fall out.

The bag slings over your shoulder with an additional strap to add extra support. This is my first sling bag and I can say that it is not as comfortable as a regular bag, probably because most of the weight is concentrated on only one strap compared to two on a traditional backpack. I can stand using it for an hour or two but after that, it becomes tiresome to carry around.

I have not tried using the supplied straps to carry a tripod on the bag yet. the straps are fairly small so I would only suggest using them on small and light tripod.

Pros:

Competitively priced w/ a rebate and it was also on sale

Fits more than enough equipment for the causal user and probably enough equipment for a semipro photographer

Padded compartments to keep your equipment safe

Cons:

With a little more provided accessories (more dividers) users would be able to use the space more efficiently.

Not too comfortable for extended use

Other thoughts:

I have carried my larger 70-200 lens in the accessory compartment so that I don't always have to have it mounted to the body if I want to put the camera back in the bag.

Would be nice to be able have to option to change the way that the bag slings over your body (it currently slings from your right shoulder to the left waist)

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I like the bag, somethings that bother me is that the strap sits on the right shoulder, I generally like them sitting on the left shoulder. It is spacious and carries what I need it to. I wish there was more dividers though.

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I hated this bag. Dividers were not provided that would allow effective use of this bag. And the swing around height of the bag made it awkward to remove my camera. Overall, I just wasn't happy and had to return it. I would definitely recommend looking elsewhere. I am, although I have yet to find something...

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Bag is good, I don't knock it for the price, I'm able to store two DSLR bodies, a 70-200, 24-105, 17-40, and 50mm plus one 580ex 2 flash. So that's the good part, the downside is after carrying a bag with all that gear the one strap over your shoulder starts to put a strain on you. I still believe the bag is worth getting as a 2nd bag, my main bag is a Tenba double strap bag which gives better back support than a single strap. I got this bag during cyber Monday so it was worth it for me :)

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