Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6036 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Lowepro
• Model: 35019
• Released on: 2008-04-17
• Dimensions: 18.50" h x 11.80" w x 13.80" l, 7.32 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
A durable, professional backpack that's deep enough for a Pro digital SLR & 15.4" notebook. The Vertex 200AW includes a lightweight harness system with high density padding & 8 adjustment points for maximum comfort.Two front accessory panels centralize all your digital accessories and personal gear for quick , easy access

Customer Reviews

Extreme trekking protection for your valuable gear!
Its a bit of an honour to be the first to review this superb product. If you like to take a lot of photo gear off the beaten track or up mountains, then this is a bit of kit you should seriously consider.

Firstly, its very roomy - deceptively so. And the chunky depth allows lenses to be placed vertically which increases the gear carrying capacity. It comes with a multitude of dividers and once you've customised it to your taste there's plenty of padded panels left as spares. And there's a useful padded outer zipped section for your notebook PC for those of you beaming your pics back to your editor whilst on the move - or if you like to check your emails up a mountain.

Secondly, it's comfortable - for your gear and for you. LowePro's photo trekking experience has been combined with LoweAlpine's rucksack know-how to produce a comfortable 8 point adjustment system with a broad padded lumber waistband to transfer some of the weight to your hips for comfort and crucially for better balance. And the protection for your gear is as good as it gets.

Thirdly, it's just so functional - a real gem of product design and 'knowing your customer'. It has an all-weather cover with a clinch belt to stop it flapping in wind, which is not only water but also dust and sand resistant. The side and back clinch straps for attaching a tripod or other items use the new LowePro "Glide-Lock" system, which allows them to be slid up and down and then fixed to suit the item being carried. Very clever and very stable indeed. It also has a plethora of slip lock attachment loops on the side, back and waistband for Lowepro sliplock pouches for carrying a compact, binoculars or whatever else you need at your fingertips. Inside there are 3 window zippered pockets for filters and other accessories and an additional padded central velcro closing section for a photo viewer or passport hard drive. A nice inclusion. And on the outside, there are two easy access zippered sections for storing even more bits and bobs - including nice padded pockets (4 of them) for additional memory cards. It just has everything you could possibly need in a photo rucksack. Be sure to check out the demo video on the LowePro website to verify what a masterpiece of a bit of kit this is.

All-in-all, this is a fantastic piece of equipment for those of you who take your precious photo gear to wild places. And for climbers and hillwalkers, this is the camera protection we've all been waiting for. Simply superb.

Too heavy!
I have a number of backpacks to carry my 5D and 10D cameras with a selection of 5 prime and telephoto lenses and extra gear. This backpack offers great protection from the weather and the knocks my gear gets but it is a heavy weight of a bag! Not enough lightweight padding and too many complicated straps as well as tough but really heavy fabric makes this a hard bag to hump around.

As a result it is rarely out of my house and I tend to use my older, lighter packs instead.

BTW the easy slide fasteners are anything but! A good job that I don't need to slide them much. Also the double lock flaps on the sliding clips don't last long... I am now missing 3!

Lowepro Vertex 200 AW
The item arrived 3 days after the purchase from CameraKing in a HUGE box and the bag was also covered with the common Lowepro plastic bag. The bag itself a bit bigger than I expected but 4-6 lenses and other accessories comfortable fit inside. The quality is just perfect. Lowepro used only the best materials to create this bag. It's a real AW bag which comes with the AW cover but thank to the superior materials I won't really use it. Highly recommended!