![]() ![]() The soft leather means the bag is kind of floppy, but the bottom is reinforced and triple stitched, so it stays flat, which is nice. The lining appears to be something like wool, very soft and well padded. Not the thin and flimsy stuff they put on car seats or the thick, plywood-like water buffalo leather we see so often on cheap leather clothing, but soft but hefty. It's thick but supple, like something your grandfather might have used for a few decades and handed down. It's really elegant, the workmanship is superb and the leather is, well, confusing. I've read comments that it seems so small my first though was that it seemed bigger than I expected (although it's almost exactly the same size as my Vanguard Havana 21, my other favorite bag). It's really, really nice, and perfect for my walk around Pen F, 12-32, 17 f/1.8, and Sigma 60 f/2.8, a couple of spare batteries, maybe the 9 mm BCL, room for the silly little flash that ships with the Pen F, and even room for the charger with a duckbill adapter so no cord is needed, if I happen to be traveling. ![]() Anyway, when I found a new leather Bowery in dark truffle, whatever that is, for about half of list, on ebay, I jumped at it. I see bazillions of tourists with their new, shiny, packing crate-sized black nylon Canikon-embossed bags dragging them down and they always look like they're suffering. The Bowery, the second-smallest, looked about right for a minimal 4/3 walk around kit, and does not look like a camera bag, which always looks dorky. ![]() I'd admired the various Ona bags for some time, but they're godawful expensive, especially the leather ones. It's also nice if it fits inside some piece of carry-on luggage, which severely limits dimensions. Mostly, a bag has to carry a few photo-related things (why is it that some people take every lens they own everywhere they go?), be reasonably protective, look nice and not like a cheap nylon camera bag from Walmart, and make me happy. Of course, "right" depends on what, exactly, I'm planning. Like so many, I'm always looking for that moving target, the "right" bag. I have maybe 9 or 10 bags of various sizes and shapes, not counting the ones I've discarded. ![]()
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