Digital Home Thoughts: Tenba's Small Messenger Photo Bag: A Worthy Bag For Your Laptop and DSLR

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Tenba's Small Messenger Photo Bag: A Worthy Bag For Your Laptop and DSLR

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Laptop Thoughts Accessories" @ 07:00 AM

Figure 4: The clips are made of heavy plastic and seem like they'd be quite durable. That grey strip between the clips is 3M Scotchlite reflective trim.

Figure 5: I appreciate the non-ostentatious logo on the shoulder strap.

Figure 6: The shoulder strap is thick and wide; the padding isn't as effective as the AirSquare straps I've reviewed on some Skooba Design bags, but it still feels pretty good on the shoulder even when the bag is loaded up. I weighed the bag with all my gear and it was 18 pounds (8.2 kg).

Figure 7: This is the zippered pouch on the back of the bag.

The rear pouch is quite large, big enough to hold magazines, etc. Though hard to see in this photo, there are a series of small pouches along the inside top of this large pouch. They were hard to photograph because they're equally hard to access. The zipper on the large pouch only runs horizontal; it doesn't come down at all, meaning that you can't view any of the smaller pouches from the front. This makes them of dubious use - I didn't use them at all for my trip. A smaller number of larger, deeper zippered pouches would have been more useful, or a back zipper that came down vertically so the pouches could be seen and easily accessed.

Figure 8: I owned a laptop bag that had a back pouch that was 95% the size of a magazine...talk about a bone-headed design! No such problems with the Tenba bag - it can fit several magazines, paperwork, etc.

Figure 9: The carrying handle is centrally placed, so even when the bag is filled to the brim, it's nicely balanced when carried by the handle.

That idiotic laptop bag I mentioned above? It too had a single carrying handle, but it was at the back of the bag, so when you carried it by the handle, the whole thing tipped backward awkwardly. Seriously! Worst. Bag. Ever.


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