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Lowepro Fastpack 350 (Black) | 
| Brand: Lowepro
Category: Photography
Department: Unisex-adult
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $112.95
You Save: $37.04 (25%)
New (15) from $112.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 12.8 x 19.9
MPN: Fastpack 350 (Black)
Model: Fastpack 350 (Black)
UPC: 056035351976
EAN: 0056035351976
ASIN: B000YIWR8G
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Side Entry Compartment provides easy access to D-SLR equipment and accessories, even when pack is being worn | | • | Triple Compartment Design ensures superior camera protection, notebook protection (fits up to a 17" Widescreen) | | • | 180-Degree access panel with adjustable dividers provides excellent protection in a customized fit that's easy to load. | | • | Outer accessory pockets provide external storage for other accessories with fast access | | • | Tough, water-resistant outer fabric protects against moisture and abrasion |
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Product Description
Go all day with the lightweight, comfortable Fastpack 350 backpack. It protects your pro digital SLR and 17 widescreen notebook compactly while providing generous storage for other gear. Side-entry compartments let you quickly grab equipment and accessories, even while you're on the move. Customize the easy-to-access main compartment with adjustable dividers. Capacity for 1 pro digital SLR with
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| Customer Reviews: Read 65 more reviews...
 Muy buen maletin July 27, 2010
Un muy buen maletn, me lo imaginba ms pequeo, pero debido al sistema de proteccin acolchado que posee hace que su tama se incremente, pero esto se convierte en su fortaleza, protege considerablemente las cmara sy el portatil, adems que tine bastante estacio, es comodo de llevar, resitente.
 too big..... July 24, 2010
I was looking for a bag that would handle both my camera and lenses, but also my lap top. However, in receiving it, I found it to be too big. Once I put all of my equipment in it, it did what I wanted it to do, but I could not see myself carrying that size of a bag all around with me during my travels. Especially knowing that once I reach my destination, I would not be carrying all of that around at one time. I typically leave my lap top in the room, and go with the camera. Thus I would have a big empty bag to carry.
Good Pack July 7, 2010
Backpack is a bit heavy but does a great job 9f holding photo equipment and camera se curely. Ability to custom the sections was valuable.
Great all-in-one pack for sports photography & carry-on air travel July 5, 2010
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the 350 just over a month ago on the advice of another reviewer who described a use case very similar to mine. This is my first-ever review.
This is a very well thought out all-in-one pack that I use primarily for sports photography. I have a Canon camera with a rather long 70-200mm lens, and my normal use is to take this to the ice rink, soccer fields, and swim meets to shoot youth sports. Especially when at the ice rink, I'll often have periods of time where I'm done shooting, and want to download my shots to a mac laptop on the spot. And finally, I need to have some extra space in the pack for a jacket or sweater, glasses, etc.
The other use case for me is travel. We just took a vacation and I used this backpack as my carry-on to take camera, pc, and a few odds/ends for the plane. Stuffed under my seat just fine, enabling me to keep all my gadgets in one place. Perfect.
For these uses the pack has worked out great so far. Though kind of large, it does a great job protecting my gear and helping me make sure I don't damage anything in transit. I was previously always packing two backpacks to do the same job, so this is big improvement. It is *not* the compact carrying case that you would want if you wanted to walk the Louvre all day with the Canon, nor is it something that you might take on a day hike in Yosemite. But for what I described above, it's about the only thing I found on the market that would really protect both a camera/lens and laptop and still leave some space for incidentals. So my main message is: make sure you know your specific use case before making a backpack purchase, and get the closest match. No backpack will suit all cases, trust me.
Pros:
- Great for all-in-one use including laptop and camera --- plenty of pockets on the inside, esp in the camera compartment.
- Straps are comfortable and easy to navigate.
- Not too ostentatious --- I always worry about carrying a pack that looks like something for expensive camera equipment. This looks pretty low key.
Cons:
- zippers worry me a bit, since they feel a bit wimpy for the long term
- too bad there aren't some more velco or other straps on the outside to enable attaching a mono- or tri-pod to the side. This was a dumb omission, and there are so many cheap ways this is done on normal backpacks. Seems Lowepro could borrow some.
- there's a weird non-detachable mini-storage bag in the top section. don't know why velcro wasn't used instead of stitching this.
- too big to take the camera to a larger public sporting event; i.e., college football, pro-hockey, nba game. You'd need something smaller, like one of the Lowepro sling bags for that. But like I said, one bag cannot meet all use cases.
- Rain protection.. ? Not much rain in my part of the country, but I would consider just scotch-guarding the upper half of the bag if you expect wet conditions. The good news is that the camera and laptop are located where they'd be the last things to get wet.
Overall, I'd endorse this pack and even extend a recommendation for Lowepro in the process --- it's my first bag from them, but they do seem to put effort into configuring bags around specific user needs. I'm just a dad who likes to get near-professional shots of my and others' kids playing sports, and this was a good purchase.
Good luck !
 Good build quality, but a compromised design in all other respects July 1, 2010
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In terms of the specifications, this pack looked promising, since I do day hikes and travel through airports. The build quality is excellent, and the laptop pouch functions as advertised. The auxiliary pouch on the top is spacious and adaptable. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.
The camera section is large, but the available space is oddly distorted, as though the circus purchased a large van and yet could only fit three clowns inside. The flipside camera storage area could easily hold a pro SLR body or a semi-pro body with a battery grip installed, but you better plan on using your pro or semi-pro telephoto as a walk-around lens, because it isn't going to fit anywhere else in here. The height of the lens pouches (i.e., the depth of the pack area) is equally odd, as it won't stack two medium-grade primes in most cases, yet one lens alone will have space to walk unless you jam it down with a 1.4x teleconverter or a couple filter hardcases.
Then there's the strap assemblies. Everything fits snug, particularly the extra waist and chest harnessing straps, but that begs the question of what to do with them when I want to wear the bag loosely for quicker camera access, since they don't neatly stow away anywhere. I also hope you're not a female who is old enough to have attained feminine proportions about the upper torso, because the chest strap is likely to cut off circulation to some tender areas if you try to use it.
I really want to like this pack, and maybe after trying it for a couple days I'll adjust. The external proportions and advertised features suggest exactly the bag I needed. However, the real live thing doesn't deliver; it's as though it were designed by someone who had read the technical dimensions from a selection of cameras and lenses, but had never used any of them and didn't bother to talk to anyone who had -- and thus had no idea what kinds of hardware combinations an actual photographer would be likely to assemble.
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