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By: Steve Kossack
Photograph Courtesy Lowepro
You might remember this rather silly phrase from the 1960’s — but in retrospect maybe it wasn’t that silly after all. Back then it was a statement of lifestyle, attitude, position and passion. In the world of today's photography I think this is still somewhat true. Naturally I’m speaking of camera bags in this context. Your bag can help or hurt you. It was true then and it is true now.
I remember my first camera bag. I still have it! It was a statement of fact then. What fact? Well the fact that I had so much photo gear that I needed to have a bag! My first approach was to just strap everything to my shoulder and carry it — and I did — but this soon became unmanageable and I needed to have an equipment bag. A watershed moment in my photographic life.
From here the story of which bag, how big, what it should and should not do is a long one that I think we all have experienced. For most of us, it’s a...

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