Tamrac 5550 Adventure 10 Photo/Laptop Backpack
- Tamrac’s Adventure 10 is a lightweight, uniquely designed backpack with a completely foam-padded lower section for camera gear, a large upper section for personal items, and a separate compartment for a 17″ screen laptop.
- Inside the main compartment, foam pillars support the SLR with lens attached, ready for action, while adjustable, foam-padded dividers protect other equipment.
- The comfortable, foam-padded backpack harness with sternum straps is contoured to distribute the weight of the camera gear across the shoulders, while a foam-padded waist belt helps to distribute the weight of the pack.
- Double zipper pulls provide quick access to photo gear while a weather flap and quick-release buckles provide security and weather protection.
- A Windowpane-Mesh pocket organizes filters, cables and other accessories. On the outside, two mesh pockets provide quick access to water bottles or accessories.
Computer Backpacks Product Description
Tamrac’s Adventure 10 is a lightweight, uniquely designed backpack with a completely foam-padded lower section for camera gear, a large upper section for personal items, and a separate compartment for a 17″ screen laptop. This bag is designed to hold a pro DSLR (such as Canon’s EOS 1D Series or NIkon’s D Series) with a grip and an 8″ lens attached (such as Canon’s 70-200mm f/2.8), numerous additional lenses, a flash, accessories and a 17″ screen laptop. Inside the t… More >>
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9:28 pm on October 21st, 2009
OK, this bag is much larger than I thought it would be. It is awesome that everything fits in it, but I just don’t know about the size. It seems a little too large to be carrying around, I’ll feel like I’m backpacking.
Verdict is out, I need to think on it a bit. Not sure if I should keep or return. Like I said, it does fit everything, it is easier to carry one bag over 3.
Rating: 3 / 5
10:35 pm on October 21st, 2009
I own an ASUS M70 which is roughly 16.25 inches wide, 12 inches deep, and 1.75 inches thick. I had the hardest time finding a bag that would fit the ASUS M70 – until I found this pack. Incredible! It fit my laptop!
The other reviewers are right – top compartment could use some work. I’m going to put some sort of drop in organization system in place.
Straps are decent – nothing to write home about.
As for being too large – I like this bag because it is tall but narrow. Many other bags (BOOQ for instance) are very wide. This didn’t work out well for me. Narrow seemed to be much more useful. We’ll see.
Rating: 3 / 5
12:24 am on October 22nd, 2009
While the bag’s camera compartment is just what I needed–It actually FITS (just) the 5D with 70-200 2.8L, plus 24-70L and 16-35L– the bag overall length and strap system is designed for a much taller person/longer back. If you are 6-feet or above, this should be ideal. However, I’m 5’7″, with a long back for a woman. A short back-country hike today revealed what is, for me, a major problem. The bag hits far too low on my back/hip area to be worn for very long. PLEASE Tamrack, we don’t need a huge upper compartment. Make the upper compartment smaller and reduce the overall length of the bag!
Both the Adventure 9 and Lowe-pro’s 250 fit my frame well, but neither will haul my needed gear unless I stuff the 70-200 in the top compartment–which defeats the whole purpose—and even then the second lens requires a battle to get into the pack. So these bags are just too smal to haul what I need for an all-dya back-country shoot.
That top compartment on the Adventure 10 needs, as a previous reviewer noted, a couple of pockets and the kind of thoughtful extras that LowePro provides–especially the sewn-in key lanyard.
The Adventure 10 IS well-constructed, with adequate padding, and a good compartment for the camera–I especially like the extra straps to help secure the zippers–BUT they are not adjustable, and they should be–Tamrac is cutting corners here too much for the price of the bag. And should you bust one of the clips, it’s hard/virtually impossible to replace them, and they are sewn on, not on an adjustable strap like most back-packs.
In short, nice try. A good bag if you have a long back, but a pain in the back and below that if you are under 6-feet tall.
Rating: 2 / 5
1:21 am on October 22nd, 2009
Well made and it certainly does the job but it’s definitely bigger than I had anticipated. Simply just too intrusive as a day pack in my opinion and it is not my choice as such.
I pack it up for my weekend photo trips but I also bring a smaller pack to break out my gear for each days local jaunts with my cameras.
Would I buy it again ? No, but not because of quality…it’s just too big for jaunting along the beaten path which is where I spend most of my time. If however I were hiking along a deep trail to do some shooting in a hidden valley, I would definitely shoulder it up in a heart beat and be very happy I had it ! It would not let me down for that type of use.
Rating: 4 / 5
4:03 am on October 22nd, 2009
While the Adventure 10 is certainly up to Tamrac construction quality, the bag design is certainly not worth about $170. The lower compartment purports to be tall enough for a long lense mounted on a camera body. My Canon 40D and the Canon 100-400mm zoom combination fits only if the lense hood is removed. So, I won’t have a camera immediately ready. Had Tamrac gone another 1-2 inches, things in the camera department would have been perfect.
The top compartment is real disappointing. No place to hook keys, no places for pencils or a notepad. No internal zip compartment to hold valuables like wallet and travel papers. All there is is a big “hole” for things to move around and get lost. My $40 Canon backpack (albeit smaller) has all these things. Tamrac doesn’t seem to think that being organized is an important thing in the field. It tries to make up for the deficiency by supplying one small zipper bag for the big “hole”
I’m keeping the bag. But, I plan to make modifications to make up for Tamrac’s lack of foresight.
Rating: 2 / 5