Chantal, buy the bag I got, it's a STEAL!
Holds ALL the camera gear I have (Refer to my "gear" photo) + I can hold my laptop in it on top of the gear.
Tons of pockets for extra batteries etc.
reg 69.99$
on sale 49.99$ for Boxing week::

http://www.blackphoto.com/blacks/product.jsp?prdId=5413

hmm is that blacks bag weather proof or water resistant?

This one looks nice and its water resistant

http://www.crumplerbags.com/Lite/English/Products/Customary-Barge-CU04A.html

The Blacks bag is waterproof, windproof and dust wont get in it if you have the zipper covers folded on.
VERY Good bag for the price.
full customizable foam Velcro padding inside.
padded back w/ chest strap so it won't bounce around if your hiking or something.

Seriously, I was there talking to the in store professional photographer to buy the $99 National Geographic bag, he told me this would be MUCH better.
National Geographic bags don't have foam padding inside and are a "messenger" style which will bounce around. And that's bad because without padding
lenses will hit other lenses.

He did not even go into the Crumples with me.

You know you are not suppose to listen to anything those sales persons say to you unless you personally know them They are a bunch of liars whose pants are constantly on fire
but the bag you have seems to be really good at that price. Do you know if there is a Blacks store in Regina? My problem now is that I can't use my European VISA to buy stuff online here in Canada.

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 28 2008 06:44pm

EDIT: argh i meant to edit my post but somehow I posted another. SORRY!

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 28 2008 06:44pm

I dunno, The guy who helped me is kinda one of those sales persons who you only buy from at the store.
He's incredibly nice, my 70-200mm Lens was $679.99 at Blacks, I asked him to match it up, he searched it on Futureshop and found it there for
$649.99, sold me it for about $620 in the end. (Gave me a discount)

Also, when my dad got me my Manfrotto tripod from it he gave us a sweet shirt that you could only have gotten
if you were a staff member at the 2008 Calgary Camera Trade show.

Anyways, I think you can buy products off Blacks's website. It's an online store, much the TheCameraStore.

Hmmm - hard to choose a back pack, I guess, when you can't really see the insides (not referring to yours spencer, yours looks nice haha)

I'm still undecided, blaah. Guess I'll have to go to a better camera store later.

Well I think when it comes to bags you better go to different stores and check out what they have and I know it's a very time consuming thing to do lol but at least the gas price is quite low now
hmm is there a Future Shop where you live? I have heard that they have quite a lot of camera stuff there and they have this lowest price guarantee.


This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 29 2008 01:58am

Futureshop has nothing. The only bags they have are for small point-and-shoots.
I checked. 2 stores.

Lowepro make some good camera bags.