Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black)

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

This camera bag is exactly as described and just what I needed. Plenty of room for all of my cameras and supplies. As an amateur photographer studying black and white I have a lot to haul around. Perfect bag for me!

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I intended to use the Tamrac 5606 bag to carry a
Canon 6D with three lenses, short telephoto,
85 mm prime, 70-200 4-5.6 tele.
and 600 EX-RT and other usual stuff.
There is no way an additional body and even hoods
will fit in there comfortably. Unloading is going
to cause something to fall out.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

The design of the bag is good but it does not accommodate lenses well that are attached to the camera body that are large in diameter. My 28-70 f/2.8 attached to my D800 barely fits and restricts access to other compartments. The D800 with a battery grip attached is not really an option with this bag. I bought it for a trip to travel light. The bag is carrying my D800 with 28-70 attached plus a 70-300 and SB910 flash. I can also squeeze in a 50 and 24 but they are not easily accessed.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Love the camera bag. It has so many pockets to put things in. It's lightweight and easy to carry to places.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

GREAT SIZE FOR DIGITAL REBEL XT W/18-200MM LENS ATTACHED. ROOM FOR FLASH, POINT & SHOOT (SX150 IS), ROOM TO SPARE FOR ANOTHER LENS. PLENTY OF ROOM FOR BATTERIES, DISKS, FILTERS, ETC. GOOD WEIGHT. GREAT BUY FOR THE MONEY.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

good amount of room and built well. Good protection for an expensive camera and accessories

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

It's big enough to hold 3 lens, flash, body, and all the little extra's with great organization. It's big but not oversized and bulky which I hate. Seems to be good quality. Really like it.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Just bougt the new Nikon D800 with a large zoom and the extra battery pack and this is the perfect bag for it and the rest of the equipment I use.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I am new to SLR cameras, so learning how to carry everything that goes with one is new to me. The Tamrac 5606 is my second carrying case, after the waist pack I purchased proved clumsy as a general use bag. The waist pack would be useful on a hike if the camera was to be available but not frequently used, but for frequent use it proved awkward. The 5606 shoulder bag has proven very practical for general use.

My camera is a Canon 5D Mark II. I have two lenses, an EF 70-200 f/4L USM telephoto that is 3" in diameter and 7.75" long, and an EF 50mm prime that is 2.25" in diameter and 2.75" long. The camera itself is 6" wide by 4.75" tall by 2.5" deep. The camera with the long lens fits horizontally as designed, with about 0.5" to spare at the end of the lens. The prime is easily stored, but it needs additional protection because the Velcro-attached dividers do not completely separate items and the two lenses can rub together. With the prime on the camera, the long lens fits vertically, comfortably but with no room to spare. The only other item I carry in the main compartment is a battery charger, 1.25" by 2.5" by 3.5", which fits easily. I tried to carry a 4" diameter by 3" long sun hood that came with the 70-200, but it is a tight fit, and for what little benefit it provides I stopped carrying it. With the long lens on the camera, there is about 2.25" on one side of the lens and 1.25" on the other side, too little to fit anything else very easily.

Positive comments: The bag is comfortable and attractive, and easy to carry. It can be carried by the shoulder strap or by the top handle. It holds and protects the contents securely (with one exception-- see below). The lid has a velcro fastener, three latches, and a zipper. This seems overkill, but there is no possibility the bag will pop open when being carried. There is a pocket on the back that will carry papers or other flat objects; I use it to carry a 6" by 9" Porta-brace white balance card, which just fits. I haven't used the side pockets yet but they seem like they should be useful. Overall, the 5606 is a bag I enjoy picking up and taking somewhere.

Negative comments: With the long lens on the camera, it is hard to fit other items, especially lenses bigger than the 50mm prime. The remaining room either side of the long lens is too small to use effectively, and the space under the camera and lens cannot hold long objects because of the Lens-Bridge dividers. The 3-D pencil sketch Tamrac provides on their website that shows a vertical lens next to a horizontal lens is not correct. My second frustration is that lenses are not protected from each other, because not everything fits like the pencil sketch and the Velcro-attached dividers do not provide padding where it is needed. Additional packaging is necessary to store loose lens. The bag doesn't seem waterproof (nor is it advertised to be), which limits its usefulness outdoors. It looks like it would protect the contents from getting wet in a downpour though.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Roomier than I thought it would be. I can store a lot more stuff too. The zipper is a bit annoying since you have to fold up the flap to get to the zipper. Very roomy. Good construction.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Originally we had a small camera bag and with additional glass and flashes we needed something with more capacity. This camera bag is excellent--we use it to transport our camera (and camera equipment) to off-site shoots on a regular basis. It easly fits our Nikon D90 Camera with attached Tameron 200mm lens with space for our flashes (2 speedlights) and one more 24-74mm lens (and some other smaller things). The management system for the memory cards is nice (the red tabs) and the pockets make things easy to separate and store.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I love Tamrac camera bags. I have 3 of their bags and nobody else's. But the latest "Memory & Battery Management System™" that uses red flags to identify available and used memory cards, batteries and other accessories" is the weakest link in their system. When you've loaded precious shots on an SD card (or whatever memory you use), you do NOT want it to accidentally slip out of your bag--in this case, unsealed slots, however cleverly labeled. The little slots, labeled "Used or Not Used" are so insecure, even with the cute red tags. You want that memory card securely stored in a pouch zipped and used for nothing else. The leads on the cards are easily corrupted so you want them stored tightly and not rubbing against a dozen other components, in their own little plastic containers. Throwing the cards in a large zipped pouch (as in the top of this particular bag) leads to loss because that's a major storage area and you hate to waste it on a few SD cards because, by design, storage is limited. So you put in extra filters, maybe a lens cleaner cloth, then you pull out a polarizer lens, accidentally pull out a tiny little SD card which falls to the ground, and 16 GB of shots are gone. Or you can further encumber yourself with the (another accessory you have to pay for) pouch for memory cards, or whatever. attached to your camera case strap. No! I want my camera stuff in one place, not scattered over accessory pouches, even if they're attached to my strap. THEY CAN FALL OFF!! Yes, you should've already backed up the SD card on a netbook or thumbdrive or external hard drive, but me? I like to keep my SD cards intact even after I've downloaded them until I get home and can download them with my dedicated camera software, to my computer which I'll use to edit shots. That's why I travel with a lot of cards. The little slide in, cleverly labeled, UNZIPPED pouches in the current Tamrac bags do not fulfill any of these wishes. As I said, I bought the bag because I like Tamrac, but I store my SD cards in the large zipped pouch on the top, without anything else stored there, so I've wasted precious storage space so I can protect my shots. Small price to pay, but this isn't the smallest bag Tamrac makes so they could do storage better. Make the top zipped pouch into 4-5 small pouches or 3. Just give me a zipped/velcroed memory story pouch. Another small concern is the wobbly storage walls in the interior of the bag. Moveable walls with velcro so you can build the interior to meet your own needs is way better. My 15 year old Tamrac bag meets all the above concerns. Just trading it in becase a couple of zippers have broken and my bulk of "necessary" equipment for a simple shot have outgrown the current bag. B&H, please pass this on to Tamrac. I don't think I'll be the only one with these concerns.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I currently have 4 lenses, and 2 bodies and there is still room to fit more.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

For the Nikon D5100 w/ 2-lenses, the Tamrac System 3 (Originally purchased) was not large enough, but the System 6 is just the right size. I now have 3-lenses plus the 700 Speedlite and everything fits great

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Organized storage

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Spent ages trying to find the best bag. The features and size of this bag are just great. Has huge amount of room for all my lenses and extra gear. Fits a DSLR body with battery grip attached. Plenty of room for bits and pieces, and the extra pockets on the end of the bag are handy for non camera equipment.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I am extremely pleased with this bag. I was somewhat apprehensive about the type of closure latch on the front being too cumbersome, but they are not. Tons of room to get everything you need in the bag. I really like the removable pouches inside the top flap. I can put HDMI and other cables in there for travel and then remove them to save weight once at my destination. Excellent value and B&H is always the best.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

i needed a small bag to hold a lot of gear and this does it...canon 1D and three lenses..24-70, 135 and 15 and add to that 2 battery paks and a flash and there is still room for more in the side pockets..
this is a great bag.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I like the bag overall, but I thought it was bigger than what I originally anticipated. It does work for me, but if I carried my equipment, I may need another, or a larger one.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

This bag holds alot of camera equiptment and accessories which is convienient.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

This camera bag is exactly as described and just what I needed. Plenty of room for all of my cameras and supplies. As an amateur photographer studying black and white I have a lot to haul around. Perfect bag for me!

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I intended to use the Tamrac 5606 bag to carry a
Canon 6D with three lenses, short telephoto,
85 mm prime, 70-200 4-5.6 tele.
and 600 EX-RT and other usual stuff.
There is no way an additional body and even hoods
will fit in there comfortably. Unloading is going
to cause something to fall out.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

The design of the bag is good but it does not accommodate lenses well that are attached to the camera body that are large in diameter. My 28-70 f/2.8 attached to my D800 barely fits and restricts access to other compartments. The D800 with a battery grip attached is not really an option with this bag. I bought it for a trip to travel light. The bag is carrying my D800 with 28-70 attached plus a 70-300 and SB910 flash. I can also squeeze in a 50 and 24 but they are not easily accessed.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Love the camera bag. It has so many pockets to put things in. It's lightweight and easy to carry to places.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

GREAT SIZE FOR DIGITAL REBEL XT W/18-200MM LENS ATTACHED. ROOM FOR FLASH, POINT & SHOOT (SX150 IS), ROOM TO SPARE FOR ANOTHER LENS. PLENTY OF ROOM FOR BATTERIES, DISKS, FILTERS, ETC. GOOD WEIGHT. GREAT BUY FOR THE MONEY.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

good amount of room and built well. Good protection for an expensive camera and accessories

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

It's big enough to hold 3 lens, flash, body, and all the little extra's with great organization. It's big but not oversized and bulky which I hate. Seems to be good quality. Really like it.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Just bougt the new Nikon D800 with a large zoom and the extra battery pack and this is the perfect bag for it and the rest of the equipment I use.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I am new to SLR cameras, so learning how to carry everything that goes with one is new to me. The Tamrac 5606 is my second carrying case, after the waist pack I purchased proved clumsy as a general use bag. The waist pack would be useful on a hike if the camera was to be available but not frequently used, but for frequent use it proved awkward. The 5606 shoulder bag has proven very practical for general use.

My camera is a Canon 5D Mark II. I have two lenses, an EF 70-200 f/4L USM telephoto that is 3" in diameter and 7.75" long, and an EF 50mm prime that is 2.25" in diameter and 2.75" long. The camera itself is 6" wide by 4.75" tall by 2.5" deep. The camera with the long lens fits horizontally as designed, with about 0.5" to spare at the end of the lens. The prime is easily stored, but it needs additional protection because the Velcro-attached dividers do not completely separate items and the two lenses can rub together. With the prime on the camera, the long lens fits vertically, comfortably but with no room to spare. The only other item I carry in the main compartment is a battery charger, 1.25" by 2.5" by 3.5", which fits easily. I tried to carry a 4" diameter by 3" long sun hood that came with the 70-200, but it is a tight fit, and for what little benefit it provides I stopped carrying it. With the long lens on the camera, there is about 2.25" on one side of the lens and 1.25" on the other side, too little to fit anything else very easily.

Positive comments: The bag is comfortable and attractive, and easy to carry. It can be carried by the shoulder strap or by the top handle. It holds and protects the contents securely (with one exception-- see below). The lid has a velcro fastener, three latches, and a zipper. This seems overkill, but there is no possibility the bag will pop open when being carried. There is a pocket on the back that will carry papers or other flat objects; I use it to carry a 6" by 9" Porta-brace white balance card, which just fits. I haven't used the side pockets yet but they seem like they should be useful. Overall, the 5606 is a bag I enjoy picking up and taking somewhere.

Negative comments: With the long lens on the camera, it is hard to fit other items, especially lenses bigger than the 50mm prime. The remaining room either side of the long lens is too small to use effectively, and the space under the camera and lens cannot hold long objects because of the Lens-Bridge dividers. The 3-D pencil sketch Tamrac provides on their website that shows a vertical lens next to a horizontal lens is not correct. My second frustration is that lenses are not protected from each other, because not everything fits like the pencil sketch and the Velcro-attached dividers do not provide padding where it is needed. Additional packaging is necessary to store loose lens. The bag doesn't seem waterproof (nor is it advertised to be), which limits its usefulness outdoors. It looks like it would protect the contents from getting wet in a downpour though.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Roomier than I thought it would be. I can store a lot more stuff too. The zipper is a bit annoying since you have to fold up the flap to get to the zipper. Very roomy. Good construction.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Originally we had a small camera bag and with additional glass and flashes we needed something with more capacity. This camera bag is excellent--we use it to transport our camera (and camera equipment) to off-site shoots on a regular basis. It easly fits our Nikon D90 Camera with attached Tameron 200mm lens with space for our flashes (2 speedlights) and one more 24-74mm lens (and some other smaller things). The management system for the memory cards is nice (the red tabs) and the pockets make things easy to separate and store.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I love Tamrac camera bags. I have 3 of their bags and nobody else's. But the latest "Memory & Battery Management System™" that uses red flags to identify available and used memory cards, batteries and other accessories" is the weakest link in their system. When you've loaded precious shots on an SD card (or whatever memory you use), you do NOT want it to accidentally slip out of your bag--in this case, unsealed slots, however cleverly labeled. The little slots, labeled "Used or Not Used" are so insecure, even with the cute red tags. You want that memory card securely stored in a pouch zipped and used for nothing else. The leads on the cards are easily corrupted so you want them stored tightly and not rubbing against a dozen other components, in their own little plastic containers. Throwing the cards in a large zipped pouch (as in the top of this particular bag) leads to loss because that's a major storage area and you hate to waste it on a few SD cards because, by design, storage is limited. So you put in extra filters, maybe a lens cleaner cloth, then you pull out a polarizer lens, accidentally pull out a tiny little SD card which falls to the ground, and 16 GB of shots are gone. Or you can further encumber yourself with the (another accessory you have to pay for) pouch for memory cards, or whatever. attached to your camera case strap. No! I want my camera stuff in one place, not scattered over accessory pouches, even if they're attached to my strap. THEY CAN FALL OFF!! Yes, you should've already backed up the SD card on a netbook or thumbdrive or external hard drive, but me? I like to keep my SD cards intact even after I've downloaded them until I get home and can download them with my dedicated camera software, to my computer which I'll use to edit shots. That's why I travel with a lot of cards. The little slide in, cleverly labeled, UNZIPPED pouches in the current Tamrac bags do not fulfill any of these wishes. As I said, I bought the bag because I like Tamrac, but I store my SD cards in the large zipped pouch on the top, without anything else stored there, so I've wasted precious storage space so I can protect my shots. Small price to pay, but this isn't the smallest bag Tamrac makes so they could do storage better. Make the top zipped pouch into 4-5 small pouches or 3. Just give me a zipped/velcroed memory story pouch. Another small concern is the wobbly storage walls in the interior of the bag. Moveable walls with velcro so you can build the interior to meet your own needs is way better. My 15 year old Tamrac bag meets all the above concerns. Just trading it in becase a couple of zippers have broken and my bulk of "necessary" equipment for a simple shot have outgrown the current bag. B&H, please pass this on to Tamrac. I don't think I'll be the only one with these concerns.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I currently have 4 lenses, and 2 bodies and there is still room to fit more.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

For the Nikon D5100 w/ 2-lenses, the Tamrac System 3 (Originally purchased) was not large enough, but the System 6 is just the right size. I now have 3-lenses plus the 700 Speedlite and everything fits great

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Organized storage

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

Spent ages trying to find the best bag. The features and size of this bag are just great. Has huge amount of room for all my lenses and extra gear. Fits a DSLR body with battery grip attached. Plenty of room for bits and pieces, and the extra pockets on the end of the bag are handy for non camera equipment.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I am extremely pleased with this bag. I was somewhat apprehensive about the type of closure latch on the front being too cumbersome, but they are not. Tons of room to get everything you need in the bag. I really like the removable pouches inside the top flap. I can put HDMI and other cables in there for travel and then remove them to save weight once at my destination. Excellent value and B&H is always the best.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

i needed a small bag to hold a lot of gear and this does it...canon 1D and three lenses..24-70, 135 and 15 and add to that 2 battery paks and a flash and there is still room for more in the side pockets..
this is a great bag.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

I like the bag overall, but I thought it was bigger than what I originally anticipated. It does work for me, but if I carried my equipment, I may need another, or a larger one.

Comments about Tamrac 5606 System 6 Camera Bag (Black):

This bag holds alot of camera equiptment and accessories which is convienient.