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Mountainsmith Borealis AT Camera Backpack
 
Manufacturer: Mountainsmith
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Product Description
The Borealis AT Camera Backpack is designed to meet the demands of advanced location photography by providing photographers with a high level of protection for a wide array of photo equipment, a laptop computer, and all of the associated accessories and peripherals. Its generous size and convenient design allows easy access to lenses, accessories, and a laptop computer for quick uploading.

Additional Features

  • 430d Ballistic nylon reinfocements
  • 420d Velocity nylon body fabric
  • Hypalon reinforcements
  • Load-stabilizing compression system
  • Contoured shoulder straps
  • Padded, stowable waist belt
  • Top and side rubber molded haul handles
  • Two front pockets (one with fleece-lined eyewear compartment)
  • Side mesh pocket
  • Two laminated mesh interior zippered pockets
  • Main pocket interior with organization panels
  • Bottom clamshell padded pocket for camera organization with adjustable dividers
  • Side access padded laptop compartment
  • Removable storm cover
  • Rapid-access tripod mount

Size Specifications

  • External dimensions: 12.5-by-21-by-10-inches (W x H x D)
  • Internal dimensions: 11.5-by-19-by-8.25-inches (W x H x D)
  • 4 pounds, 10 ounces
  • 1,282 cubic inches
  • 18-to-22-inch fit range

Product Details
  • Bottom clamshell padded pocket for camera organization with adjustable dividers.
  • External mesh accessory pocket. Two zippered external pockets with key clip. Comfortable contoured shoulder straps.
  • Main pocket interior with organization panels. Two laminated mesh interior zippered pockets. Front pocket lined with fleece for eyewear protection.
  • Rapid-access tripod mount. Side access padded laptop compartment (16" x 13.25" x 1.75") Top and side rubber molded haul handles.
  • Removable storm cover. Load-stabilizing compression system. Padded, tuck-away waistbelt. Tuck-away side compression straps.

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Customer Reviews
Good bag for the buck!
 
Review Date: April 10, 2008
Reviewer: B. Bunderson, WI
Nice full size bag to get plenty of gear,camera and an easy in and out spot for a laptop. It does anything and everything I can expect it to do with style.
A nice bag but limited in comfort
 
Review Date: June 2, 2010
Reviewer: Cat Bennet, Austin, Tx
This seems to be a decent camera bag. We ended up returning it in favor of a waist pack. It's pretty big and somewhat stiff so it doesn't conform to your body very well. If you're not accustomed to wearing a backpack you probably won't notice but if you are -- it kinda feels like you're wearing a box on your back.
Good, but could be better
 
Review Date: January 21, 2010
Reviewer: Timothy Morrow, France
This does the job for me, kind of.
Plus points: Sufficient padding in the bottom compartment for Camera gear; sufficiently large top compartment for all the things you need to carry around (toiletries, plane tickets, a book or two, journal, pens, USB keys, etc.), padded laptop compartment; stowable straps; rain cover; stowable tripod cover.
Negative points: It is slightly larger that many competing bags, and you need to stuff it with care in overhead compartments; on smaller planes it will fit neither under the seat, nor in the overhead compartment.
But the biggest issue for me is: how - how on earth - are you supposed to carry water? When CamelPaks began to take over the universe (for better or worse), many backpack manufacturers jumped on board and thoughtlessly got rid of the simple net side pocket for water bottles. There are a few exceptions, but in my quest for the perfect camera (day-)pack, I regret to say that the Borealis AT is the closest I have come to finding it. I was recently in Papua New Guinea, and climbed Mt. Wilhelm. To carry the water I needed to keep hydrated, I had to remove all the bottom compartment padding and carry my water in there, while I used the top compartment to carry my gear - a D300, 17-55mm, and 70-300mm. The top compartment is not designed to carry camera gear, so I had to go through the motions of wrapping and unwrapping then wrapping then unwrapping the unused lens in socks. Fun anecdote in retrospect, but it would have been much nicer if the good folks at Mountainsmith would put on their thinking caps and attach bottle-sized pockets on the sides. People sometimes get thirsty when out shooting photographs, and already have enough to carry without having to either take an extra bag for water, or go thirsty. There's room on this bag for pockets, and it would require very little design modification.

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