Think Tank Urban Disguise 60: The Ongoing Review! (56k will take a long time to load)

[timnosenzo]

Originally Posted by IMAGEMONSTER

I was wondering if any Urban Disguise 60 owners have managed to pack a gripped body with lens attached and a laptop in the bag at the same time? If so do you happen to have any pictures of this configuration?

For the sake of clarity and for the benefit of anyone else thinking about this configuration, I'll post my reply to the PM I received:

Originally Posted by timnosenzo

Hello,

To be honest, the UD series of bags don't handle cameras with vertical grips very well (outside of the UD35 + UD70). You could probably get away with it in the UD60 without the laptop in there, but if the laptop takes up most of the laptop compartment, you may have trouble closing the bag. I don't know what the dimensions of your laptop are, but my 17" MacBook Pro takes up all of the space in there, and I don't think I could close the bag if I had a camera with a grip mounted.

All of that said, there's probably people out there that would disagree with me and just force it closed. I'm pretty careful with my gear, so I don't like to force anything to fit--I feel like it doesn't leave any room for stuff to bounce around.

So... could you get it to fit? Probably, though I think it would be obvious that the bag wasn't made to hold it.

Hope that helps!

I figured I would try and get a few images with a camera + grip to illustrate what I mean. Some people would be OK with how this fits, but it would bother me. With that said, on to the pics.

You can see the top of the bag being pulled here:




Here's showing the inside with the camera in here. If you had the bag on your shoulder, it could be difficult to get the camera out.


I have my 13" MBP in here, and you can see how the bag is being pulled in at the top. This would be more difficult to close with my 17" MBP that takes up the whole compartment



And here you can see the top of the camera protruding out quite a bit. Add some batteries, CF card wallets, or filters in the front and you might have trouble here



So you can see it works, but it just doesn't fit quite right. Hope that helps!