[Jeff Scott]

Shoulder bag vs. backpack. Trade-offs here that you need to consider, but having both can be useful depending of the particular circumstance you are in when going out to photograph. I have had a couple of shoulder bags over the years (I still have my Tamrac 608 that I bought in the mid '80s) and have owned a couple of backpacks (original Lowepro PhotoTrekker, and the later PhotoTrekker AW). As I did, primarily, landscape and architecture photography the backpack was more useful but you have to have a place to set it down when out in the field, something that has been difficult at times. Shoulder bags can quickly become very burdensome with all the weight on one shoulder. These days, I only have one camera body and three zoom lenses, plus some accessories so I use a Lowepro Slingshot 300, which seems to work fine as a compromise between backpacks and shoulder bags.