SlingShot 300 AW Camera Bag review

With this bag fully loaded, you can easily end up with a very heavy load on your back. The strap is well-padded, however, and there is also a padded waist belt that does an effective job of keeping the pack over your center of gravity. In fact, it ends up transferring a lot of the pack's weight to your hips. Of course, you have to take the waist belt off if you want to bring the bag around front, but the belt is very nice to have in other instances. Another nice feature, which Lowepro includes on a lot of its bags, is the built-in rain cover. A Velcro-sealable pocket in the bottom of the back of the bag provides a home to the cover, which is made of ripstop nylon and could potentially save your equipment if you get stuck in a sudden downpour.

My biggest complaint about the SlingShot 300AW is simply that it is a sling bag, and since I often end up wearing a camera bag with a dress shirt (with buttons all the way up the front), I am not a fan of the fact that all sling bags end up putting undue stress on my shirts' buttons. Putting that slightly unfair criticism aside, the Lowepro SlingShot 300AW is a great bag for anyone in the market for a sling-type camera bag. Its innovative design gives you easy access to everything you need while shooting, while providing a good amount of storage for ancillary items. Plus, as usual, Lowepro includes top-notch construction on the SlingShot, a bag that should last a long time.