Staff note: This post may contain affiliate links, which means Pentax Forums may earn a small commission if a visitor clicks through and makes a purchase. If you would like to support the forum directly, you may also make a donation here.
For quite some time I've owned a pretty nice smaller-sized Lowepro shoulder sling bag that I use pretty much only if I'm doing an incredibly dedicated photo shoot... It's a very useful bag, but I find it useless for any other purpose so most of it's time is spent as a glorified storage container. Even if I'm taking more stuff, I will far more often take my everyday Osprey messenger style bag, or a much smaller canvas shoulder bag I bought in Amsterdam for cheap if I'm just wanting something to hold a cam with a small to mid-size lens mounted and a couple other things. If I am just out and about, those are the two I usually (pretty much always) use simply because they're more versatile and they also don't scream "I HAVE A NICE CAMERA WITH ME!" like dedicated camera bags do.
I came across this line of bags by ONA (dont' remember how) and while they're nice because they're tastefully made and much more non-descript (avoiding the "i'm a camera bag!" problem), they're almost ridiculously expensive. I nearly picked on up anyhow. They are reviewed very well and seem well made, disregarding the unavoidable "hipster chic" thing they have going on, even in their marketing. B&H carries them and you can check'm out here:
ONA | Shop
And then, I went on the Bay and started browsing around.... there are so many bags (such as this one below) that you could buy 10 of for the same price.
Casual Vintage Canvas Cross Body Messenger Bookbag Shoulder Bag School Men Women | eBay
I'm all for quality workmanship, but the difference is just ridiculous and unwarranted IMO.
Last edited by Eyewanders; 04-04-2014 at 12:59 PM.
Reason: i cant spel