Your camera is a great way to take pictures. It is not however, an even remotely good way to transfer data.
When you leave the card in your camera and simply connect it directly to your computer, you make a choice to turn your camera into an extremely expensive USB drive.
The primary problem with most camera backpacks is that they are either a good camera gear storage device, or a comfortable means of transport – but rarely both.
For most people, this isn’t a huge deal as most of the time, people don’t care much about the comfortable transportability aspect. Camera bags (of any style) are typically a way to keep all of one’s gear together in one protected place, and that’s it. It is taken off the closet shelf, the camera is used, and then it is put back on the closet shelf.
Oh sure, there is the occasional trip to the zoo, or a wedding or some family event, where it is taken from the closet to the trunk of the car, and then from the car to the bottom of the baby carriage or to grandma’s kitchen table – but when you consider that just about everyone has a digital camera these days, it is comparatively rare that one actually “travels” with it.
There are however those of us who require a truly portable, comfortable, useful means of transporting ridiculous amounts of gear to the zoo, to grandma’s house, and also to far reaches of very odd places. And so the quest began.
