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In my experience, it is weirdly difficult to find camera inserts for bags which are not massively overkill. Generally speaking they're way overpadded and can end up taking up more volume than the actual stuff you want to carry in them.

For normal day-to-day situations, you do not need your camera bag to be able to survive being dropped off a roof, and in fact what you mostly want is just to keep the bits inside from damaging each other by getting bounced together while you carry the bag.

This is intended to customize the layout of bigger professional camera bags, but it has a couple of features that I think make it interesting for setting up a simple division inside a non-camera bag.

  • The foam is very dense and thin, so it hopefully provides moderate protection with minimal bulk. It also seems like it would provide a decent amount of structure for a bag that lacks it.
  • It's sold in long strips that you cut to fit, so you can have whatever length pieces you actually need for your bag. However, you may need multiple kits depending on your bag and layout. The very minimal example above is cut from one kit, which is just enough for this bag. (A Greenroom136 Quickdraw)

I haven't actually tested it yet, and it might be a little while before I do, because my back has been hecked up lately.

A couple of annoying things so far:

  • Slightly a pain to get hold of. It seems like most retailers don't stock most of the kits, and the mfgr doesn't sell directly, so you have to order through a retailer and then get it drop-shipped.
  • The connection of the hook and loop is not super duper strong. I think it'll be fine for my needs, though.

kukkurovaca
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Had mostly pretty good results, actually, with the original setup, but when the bag is emptied (i.e., if most of the equipment is in use) the vertical dividers had a bit of a tendency to flop over, necessitating standing them back up again when repacking the bag.

So, I'm trying out a back piece to stabilize them. This certainly fixes the instability, but it might add too much structure, resulting in a bag that is no longer floppy enough to conform to the wearer. We'll see!


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