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by Mike McNamee Published 01/10/2014

With tripod attached, the bag must be placed down on the straps.

The tripod mounting arrangement fits the Manfrotto 190 very well. The lower leg pocket sits inside the base of the bag for deployment by simply pulling it out. The tripod then sits a few inches below the bag. This has disadvantages. The bag cannot be stood on its base with the tripod in place, it must be rolled onto its straps. Another issue with the location of the tripod is that you have to be very careful moving through doors and in the vicinity of cars - either can easily be scratched or chipped by swinging around too fast and too clumsily. Personally I prefer the arrangement on the f-stop bag, where the tripod is tight to your side and does not protrude below the bag at all.

The tripod foot pocket tucks neatly away into the base.

Overall

This is a neat, very well made bag suitable for a great many applications from jobbing photography on a construction site, through weddings, to short-distance landscape work. It is stylish enough to drop down at a wedding reception but robust enough to wear climbing up scaffolding,

should the need arise. One thing which did trouble us was packing f2.8 zoom optics. By design these are big beasts and if set three abreast in the Manfroto Pro 30 they force the sides of the bag outwards. This looks vulnerable to a sideways blow, should one occur. The main problem is the lens hoods which have to be rather large by design

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