Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we take a look at this Tarion XH camera backpack
with a rolltop and a hard cover on the front. Just keep in mind that they sent
this to me to check out, let's get started! I'm gonna go from the top to the
bottom. Going over features. I did take this bag out to a local park. Spent
around three hours walking around trying it out, taking photos. Starting from the
top we do have that rucksack style roll top. It has two different zippers. One for
the main top area, and then one in the back so you can access it from those two
different points. That's pretty convenient. With the rucksack style roll
top it's convenient to put clothes in, especially. Which is what I did with my
outing. Put a jacket in there just in case. I had a little umbrella and two
different hats. Get my car serviced today. This bag just
arrived... The Tarion bag. So far so good. Thought it would be a nice opportunity
to use that time to try it out in a photography setting. There's a strap that
comes from the back it goes all the way around and connects to the front clasp,
which is metal. Nice shiny reflective metal and then has a little bit of
material as well that has a reflective quality to it. The zippers are metal,
labeled SBS and they have cords so you can easily pull them around. Most of the
material of the bag is a thick polyester. That is the top section and some of the
bottom area. It also covers the hardshell. There are two pockets, one on each side
of the bag with strap also on each side. In my case I had a large 24 ounce
700 milliliter water bottle and it worked just fine. And I connected
the strap to the water bottle so it wouldn't fall out. I also used a small
Manfrotto tripod and that work just fine as well. I did have a little cord that I
brought to add a little bit of additional connection for that tripod.
Before the outing I did to try to see what I could fit in there. Had the two
M50 camera bodies with lenses. I had the 50mm plus the adapter and then
also the 11 to 22 millimeter for vlogging stuff. Had a microphone. I also
had the 55 to 200 milliliter and one of the standard kit lenses for the EF-M system.
There is a laptop area in the back. It zips down about halfway, or a
little bit less. You can easily put a 14 inch laptop, which I did try mine out
and it works decently well in there, but they do rate it for 15-inch laptops.
On the entire back of the bag and the straps it has a breathable mesh material.
Extremely similar to other camera backpacks. Has a nice flex to it and that
breathable nature. On the straps it has two lugs to
connect some type of camera strap. I really like that on camera bags. It is
very convenient. I've used that in the past with other backpacks that I have.
Having those lugs is really nice to just connect some type of strap. Have an old
Kata strap that I use in those situations because as these nice
connectors that work perfectly with those lugs. Before I get to the things
that I really liked about the bag, I'm gonna go into kind of a wish list of
things that I potentially like to see modified. Of course, some of these would
probably increase the price of the bag, just keep that in mind. In the padded
camera area of the bag I'd like to see more velcro, the soft velcro. So that I
could connect to more areas. In the top section there isn't any of that soft
velcro. Especially with that padding that goes between the rucksack area and the
padded camera area. That fully is removable but it doesn't have any soft
velcro on it. So I can't connect anything to that piece. And then some of the soft
velcro areas don't fully go around the interior of that padding area. It's just
a little bit more would be nice to be able to adjust things how I'd like it.
On the backside of the hardshell there is a zippered mesh compartment that's
nice.. I did did use it with this outing, it worked well. I would like to
see a few more zippered smaller compartments just to put the odds and
ends. Like batteries and such. I don't really know where they could fit them in
this bag, in there, but it would be nice to see one.. two.. three more of those
little zippered areas. Of course, that would really increase the price because
the zippers and the compartments and all the engineering that has to go into
something like that. Now I'm gonna go over things that I really liked about
the bag in use. Different features that I think are good to have in a camera
backpack. The first one is something I mentioned before with the straps. Having
those lugs on there for a camera strap is really convenient.
I use those and it works well. The build quality and materials seem up to the
standard level of a camera backpack. Ahh, I see extra stitching for the interior
zippered mesh. In use I tried to back out that time and I don't see any issues. Of
course, that's just a little bit of use in the future as I use the bag more
we'll see how it turns out. I really do like that secondary zippered mesh in the
camera area. It's nice to have. It kind of holds all the gear closer to the padding
and just keeps it all in place. That reflective material and the metal clasp
are nice if you are out in the dark... On.. near roads or something like that it'll be
nice to have that little bit of extra safety to the back of the bag. The hard
cover is interesting. I wasn't sure what to think about it before getting the bag
and trying it out. Trying to think of ways that it could be useful.
Of course added protection is always nice, but also maybe if you put the bag
on the ground. Don't have a tripod.. just put your camera right on that hard cover
and it'll be pretty stable. My main favorite thing of the bag is the
rolltop. That's really convenient. It's super useful to put a jacket in there
and a lot of other things. You can have taller objects in the bag. It just is
very versatile and very useful to have that rolltop. That was a look at the Tarion XH
camera backpack with the rolltop and the hard cover. Interesting backpack...
Definitely very versatile gonna try it out a lot more in the future. Using it
more in the field. See how it works out with more time. Again thanks to Tarion
for sending me this bag. Just keep that in mind with the video. Hope we enjoyed
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