BillinghamHadley Digital Camera Protective Bag, Sage Green/Chocolate

Absolutely fantastic bag...I own a Billingham 335 which I use when I go on professional shoots. I am in the habit of carrying what I need rather than what I own, so when I decided to go to an airshow to see the last year of the Vulcan Bomber I decided I didn't need the Big Guns just an adequate camera. So I kitted up with my Canon EOS M3, and it's kit lens...Also the EF 24-105 L f/4 IS, rocket blower and cleaning stuff, case with SD cards, viewfinder, spare battery, remote, 77mm Polariser (in plastic case) and my Manfrotto PIXI tripod slides perfectly into one of the leather slots on the side that takes the Avea 5 and room to spare. And for all you folks that are wondering if it takes a DSLR, the answer is most emphatically YES. My Canon EOS 7D and EF 24-105 f/4 L IS fits perfectly. Snug but perfectly, and there is still room either side of the lens. So anyone that says this bag is too small for an SLR is talking tosh...Oh and of course the unmatchable quality synonymous with Billingham, holding up a British tradition that is rare to find in these current days trashy eastern imitations...

Really well made bag. Obvious quality. Easy to get camera in and out of quickly. You can leave the camera strap outside the bag if wanted, which can be useful. No zips. Just less messing about involved using this bag. Expensive, but should last ages and does the job very well.Not laden with lots of small pockets, as some other bags are, but I have not really missed that.You need to watch what you put in the front pocket. I have had no problems, but very small items could fall out if the bag was shaken hard or upside down.I use it for a D7200 with a standard zoom. This fits fine. I tried it with a D700 and this is definitely a bit too tight.

I own a bigger Billingham bag, which has been great, but was a little too large to use as an everyday camera bag. I find offerings from Lowepro and camera manufacturers own bags scream "camera bag" a bit too much. The classical Billingham design is somewhat love or hate, but it is a piece of art. Extremely well made and thought out, I think they are amongst the best bags available, but of course come at a price.I was worried this bag was going to be too small for my Canon 7D with a 24-105 lens attached, but I found a review online saying there was no issue fitting in even a 5D with an average sized lens such as the 24-105 with space for a 50mm prime or similar sized glass. I'm pleased that the reviewer was indeed correct and whilst snug, I can get my 50mm tucked into one corner and my 7D with 24-105 attached in the rest of the bag, with room for a lens cloth, spare card and a filter in the front pocket. Whilst packed this way the bag is not light, but it does fill a nice portable size which is not cumbersome to carry around

This is beautifully made as are all Billingham bags. With the internal separators configured to take a camera body placed face down with the screen facing upwards, it is perfect for my Fujifilm XPro2 with either 18-55 lens fitted, or 14mm lens fitted, and the other under one separator flap, and three spare batteries in plastic protector cases under the other separator flap. The front pocket takes lens hoods, exhausted batteries in cases, and USB download lead. Its also very easy to "work from" to change lenses with the bag over your shoulder on it's strap. I fitted the matching Billingham shoulder pad to the strap which is well worth doing to prevent it slipping off your shoulder. Very highly recommended.

I bought this as a solution for the age-old problem of how to protect and carry a DSLR for a weekend away. In the past I've tried Lowepro Top Loaders (Bulky), wrapping the camera in a sweatshirt (Bulky, and not much good when you are out and about and it rains) or not bothering with anything (risky and potentially expensive as the camera bashes against the duty-free scotch in a carry-on.This little Billingham therefore looked well worthy of a try-out, and I'm glad I bought it. It is absolutely beautifully made, in typical Billingham canvas/leather trim materials. As website reviews elsewhere have said, it is a bit 1950's public schoolboy satchel in style (evidently supposed to be a derogatory remark), but as I was a 1970's/80's public schoolboy it appeals to my psyche. The internal padding is soft and not bulky, the dividers are moveable and infinitely re-configurable. The deep pocket on the front is handy for guidebooks, cigarettes, filters, memory cards, sunglasses etc, but not in great quantities.As to the camera, I use a Nikon D300, with an AF-D 24-85 f2.8/4 as my travel/walkaround kit, and this bag is perfect for that. The Camera fits the bag either top down (almost like a glove, the bag could have been made for a D300 body) or side down. There is then enough room to configure a divider internally to provide a compartmented area for a spare EN-EL3e battery, a spare c/f card, a lens cloth, and a 72mm Hoya Pro-1D polariser filter in the Hoya filter case. The only exclusion is the lens hood, which slightly irritatingly the bag is about 3cm too shallow to accommodate on the lens fixed in place. You could of course reverse the hood on the lens for storage, but as the hood makes almost no difference to the lens performance in any case I tend to leave it behind at home.The strap is blissfully free of anti-slip pads, and is made of a soft but heavy duty webbing material. The idea is that you extend the strap and wear the bag over your neck and under your arm. This is what I do and it is very comfortable for an extended day out. Alternatively, if you have the camera out (which I do for most of the day) then the bag gets stuffed into the pannier basket of my son's Bugaboo Bee pushchair, where it squashes down well and takes up very little room. Oh, and its light enough that when said son is older, he could happily carry it for me!!Four stars only because I'd like the strap to be an inch or three longer (I'm tall - its almost perfect but an extra bit of adjustment would be nice) and also because Billingham criminally left off a full height slip zipped pocket on the back of the bag, which would be really useful for tickets/passports/maps etc, which on a bag like this, intended for hols and city breaks, would have been hugely useful.That aside, buy with confidence. Its a great product, and British built as well!

Dimensions idéales pour un Leica M + flash

Bona mida per una X-E4 amb un objectiu. Justa per portar-ne més d'un. El material i la confecció és veuen de qualitat, però fins que no passi un temps no puc assegura-ho del cert.

¡Estupendo! Es el tamaño ideal para la Hasselblad X1D.

Il meglio che il mercato possa offrire

Zu meiner Billingham L2 Alice hat sich die Hadley Digital gesellt, dafür hab ich meine geliebte Hadley Small verkauft.Alle anderen Fototaschen hab ich schon seit Jahren aussortiert, dabei waren auch Billingham.Nicht, weil diese schlecht verarbeitet waren, sondern einfach zu groß für die heutigen kleinen Systemausrüstungen.Eine Billingham 225, Packington und 107 waren auch dabei, heute alle zu groß.Wenn man sich eine oder zwei Billingham Taschen kauft sollte man sich bewusst sein das diese ein Leben lang halten!Das bedeutet, die Fotoausrüstung sollte über Jahre mmer ähnlich groß sein und man diese nicht ständig wechseln und dem Neuesten hinter her hächeln, dafür ist die Anschaffung einer Billingham zu Kosten intensiv.Oder man hat für jede Ausrüstung seine eigene Billingham ;)Warum nun die Hadley Digital wenn ich doch schon die L2 Alice im Einsatz habe.Ganz einfach, die Hadley Digital hat 2/3 der Größe meiner L2 Alice und ist somit ideal für die kleine Ausrüstung bei mir.Eine Olympus PEN E-P5 mit aufgesetzten Sucher passt in die Mitte.Rechts und links, durch die beiden mitgelieferten Einteiler getrennt, passen jeweils 2 kleine Festbrennweiten.Bei mir das 1.8/25, 1.8/45 und auf der anderen Seite das 2.0/12 und das 3.5/30Macro, nur als Beispiel.Es passt aber auch die "Große" E-M1 MkII oder die gute alte E1 und z.B. das 2.8-3.5/14-54II oder das 3.5-6.3/18-180 hinein.Damit hat man alles dabei für den kleinen Ausflug.Ein Vorfach, mit einen Druckknopf gesichert, gibt es auch für z.B. Ersatzakku, Filter und anderen Kleinkram.Die Tasche ist, wie bisher alles was ich von Billingham habe und hatte, vorbildlich verarbeitet.Das Leder, bei mir TAN (braun), ist jetzt dunkler wie früher und geht eher in Richtung Schoko.Auch die neuen AVEA Taschen 7 und 8 und das Schulterpolster haben ein dunkleres TAN wie früher die AVEA 5 und anderen Billingham Taschen der älteren Serien.Da ich die AVEA 5 und die AVEA 7 mir neu gekauft habe sieht man dies besonders gut.Besonders fällt es an der L2 Alice und der AVEA 7 auf, das Leder der L2 ist wesentlich heller im braun Ton.Ich hab die L2 mit der AVEA 5 und die Hadley Digital mit der AVEA 7 kombiniert, hier passt beides farblich perfekt zusammen.Dies ist auch keine Alterungsverfärbung da meine L2 Alice und AVEA 5 neu gekauft wurden, von Billingham direkt in England.Zurück zur Billingham Hadley Digital.Super ist das jetzt auch die AVEA Taschen angebracht werden können, das war auch der Hauptgrund das ich meine geliebte Hadley Small verkauft habe.Die AVEA 7 passt in der Form und Größe perfekt an die Hadley Digital, als wäre diese AVEA 7 explizit für die Hadley Digital produziert.Auch für die Hadley Digital empfehle ich das Schulterpolster SP40 dazu zu kaufen, wie bei allen Billingham Taschen wo dieses nicht mitgeliefert wird, die Ausrüstung lässt sich so viel angenehmer auf der Schulter tragen.Vor der ersten Nutzung pflege ich bei meinen Billingham Taschen immer das Leder mit Sport Wachs von Maindl und wiederhole das 2x im Jahr.Somit sind das Leder und die Nähte immer ausreichend geschützt, Schuhe putzt man ja auch.Ich kann diese Hadley Digital für die kleine Ausrüstung und den kleinen Ausflug jeden empfehlen.Sie ist innen größer wie erwartet und man erkennt auch nicht sofort die Fototasche sondern denkt eher an eine edle kleine Umhängetasche.