Portege,
I purchased the 3n1-30 in mid December, shortly before a 2 week holiday. I don't have Canon equipment but I carried with me Nikon D700 with the 14-24 F2.8, 24-70 F2.8, 80-200 F2.8, SB800 flash, spare battery handphone and some personal sundries. The bag is really quite big and can fit all these stuff quite comfortably. The weight however is too much to carry around all day - weighing in at 8.5Kg.
Access to all the gear is quite good when it is carried sling-style but that puts a lot of weight on one shoulder and the spongy stuff in the strap was "compressed" (i.e. became thinner than the other side) after just a few days of use. So much so, i ended up buying two Crumpler shoulder strap I happened to chance on during my trip. Even with the Crumpler shoulder strap in, it was still possible to store the other "loose" side into the strorage compartment when not needed though a bulge would be formed though with no ill effect on my back. Best way to carry the bag i found is the criss cross front. But that then makes it a little more troublesome to access the bag as you have to release one side first. No big deal really.
I packed the 80-200 lowest in the bag, with the 24-70 mounted in the middle and in the top compartment, the 14-70 and then the flash. This meant that all the weight of the equipment was resting on the 80-200. Not good. As a result the 80-200 had some low level abrasion marks. I didn't like that. So I was really quite careful not to put the bag down on it's bottom (it won't stand upright by itself anyway) but flat down.
Other than that, if your equipment is lighter, it's great. Why did I choose this bag in the first place? Important to me at that point of purchase (or at least I thought) was that I could mount any of the above lenses on the camera, with hood attached (not reversed) and ready to shoot anytime. It IS that big.
Not Canon specific, but hope it helps somewhat.
I purchased the 3n1-30 in mid December, shortly before a 2 week holiday. I don't have Canon equipment but I carried with me Nikon D700 with the 14-24 F2.8, 24-70 F2.8, 80-200 F2.8, SB800 flash, spare battery handphone and some personal sundries. The bag is really quite big and can fit all these stuff quite comfortably. The weight however is too much to carry around all day - weighing in at 8.5Kg.
Access to all the gear is quite good when it is carried sling-style but that puts a lot of weight on one shoulder and the spongy stuff in the strap was "compressed" (i.e. became thinner than the other side) after just a few days of use. So much so, i ended up buying two Crumpler shoulder strap I happened to chance on during my trip. Even with the Crumpler shoulder strap in, it was still possible to store the other "loose" side into the strorage compartment when not needed though a bulge would be formed though with no ill effect on my back. Best way to carry the bag i found is the criss cross front. But that then makes it a little more troublesome to access the bag as you have to release one side first. No big deal really.
I packed the 80-200 lowest in the bag, with the 24-70 mounted in the middle and in the top compartment, the 14-70 and then the flash. This meant that all the weight of the equipment was resting on the 80-200. Not good. As a result the 80-200 had some low level abrasion marks. I didn't like that. So I was really quite careful not to put the bag down on it's bottom (it won't stand upright by itself anyway) but flat down.
Other than that, if your equipment is lighter, it's great. Why did I choose this bag in the first place? Important to me at that point of purchase (or at least I thought) was that I could mount any of the above lenses on the camera, with hood attached (not reversed) and ready to shoot anytime. It IS that big.
Not Canon specific, but hope it helps somewhat.
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