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Hello everyone, the quest for the perfect camera bag continues. At this point, my wife makes fun of me since I now own more bags than she does. What she, and all women (/s), fail to understand is that every bag serves its unique purpose.
I think I'm pretty well covered on the messenger bag end, but I keep looking for a backpack that I can use as an every day bag and another that works great for travel. My big thing is that I want something that doesn't actually look like a camera bag. Currently, I'm using a Northface backpack with an insert and that works pretty well for the most part, but whenever I want to carry around a flash and a extra lens or two, that bag gets pretty tight and uncomfortable.
For every day stuff, I'd love to be able to carry around my laptop (Surface Pro 4), camera (Pentax K1 or Sony A7ii), lenses (24-70, a prime or two), and a flash. For travel, I'd love to carry the same, plus maybe a few other accessories. I don't mind purchasing two different bags if it doesn't break the bank too much.
The military type bags are what have been catching my eye, but I don't have any surplus stores near me and there seems to be a lot of bags out there that have that feel, but probably don't have the quality. I don't want anything too rigid, I already have some bags like that. Anything besides that type of bag that I should look into?