Photographer’s delight
MindShift rotation180° Panorama: This backpack allows instant access to your DSLR camera equipment, binoculars and other essentials. It has an integrated threesection camera belt bag that slides out of a port in the lower portion of the pack and can rotate to the front of your body. The camera bag can be worn separately. Likes: It works. When you see an albino antelope, you won’t have to stop, dig into your backpack for your camera and end up missing the shot. Reaching back with your right hand, simultaneously slide off a simple vertical-format buckle with your thumb and pull the waist belt with your left hand. In a second, the camera bag is rotated into position in front of you. The backpack includes a top zippered external pocket for smaller items, a fold-away tripod pocket on the back, a 13-inch-long zippered left-side pocket that is designed for a hydration bladder (a suck-hose window is built in, but a hydration bladder is not included) and a cargo compartment in the main pack above the camera-bag port. Dislikes: I could never get the camera bag to slide into the backpack port as easily as it slid out. Also, there’s not much cargo room in the 10-by-4-by-9-inch compartment above the camera-bag port. And because the water bladder is on the side, not in the center, it makes the pack feel unbalanced when filled with water.
Price: $199.99. www.mindshiftgear.com