this is my 2nd boundary purchase. I have a sling and now the prima system. the quality is top notch. the functionality is amazing and very detailed. the technology is over the top from the locking magnetic straps to the snaps of certain compartments so they are suspended in your bag. I've been showing this bag off to all that will listen.
This is the Swiss army knife of bags and the looks are killer. I used this for work, travel and my smaller bag as a hip bag on hikes and as a tank bag on my motorcycle. Love love love love this bag. If you are torn on decisions then go with this one, you won't regret it.
My first impressions of this bag were great. I loved the quality of the construction, especially the latches on the front. I wanted a modular backpack - one that would hold a camera insert that I could bring separately. I really appreciated how the camera insert snapped into place to make it a seamless backpack with side camera access. However what was missing or me was a separate top compartment. I really wished there was a divider between the top and bottom half when the camera insert is in place.
Like:
Great materials. Many, many clever design. Magnetics everywhere, fanny pack can be attached to the side of the backpack yet a tight carry as one without flopping around. Great place to temporarily store your camera on the move. Comfort, I've tried all the brands you can relate to in this class.(peak, wandrd, lowepro, etc.) This has about as comfortable of a strap as the wandrd which is about the best two among all of them. But on top of that this has a load adjuster which helps much more than wandrd. (not only it helps to adjust the comfort level, it helps to save the back zips.) Side access is better designed than wandrd. Great idea to have waist belt as a side sling belt. Like I said, many, many clever design decisions.
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Tight, really TIGHT. once you load up your laptop, you sleeve for ipad/other stuff, the back became really tight to operate. This tight feeling also extends to the mk1 full size camera cube that fills up the entire internal. It is a positive they used really great, thick materials for the protection and dividers. But at a cost of tight fit internals, and a really heavy bag even when empty. If I ever needed to carry all my main gears on a flight for overseas assignment/job this usually worries me because it definitely exceeds 7kg easily and might cause the airline to ask me to check this in which is a never for any photographer. The mk1 camera cube only integrates with the backpack at the top or the side access. You don't have the freedom…
I had a very niche ask when looking for a backpack. I wanted something that would cover all bases, from light daily use to pack as much as I can for travelling, Prima system does not fail!
For daily use, I wanted a bag that could be compact and ideally a good looking bag, and the Prima bag has straps that can be tighten for a slimmer look and design which makes it quite aesthetically pleasing.
For travel the straps expand and it's a big bag that can fit quite a lot + the zipper goes all the way down the middle which is super helpful when needing to access something very specific.
This is not even touching on all the little things that make this bag even better. It is a very well built and high quality bag, would recommend!
PS in my opinion, the bag looks better in person than in the photos for some reason haha xD
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