I was looking for a small bag to fit the Tamron 150-600mm mounted to my Canon 60D. I had seen the review with Jared Polin for this bag. He was able to put in lots of pro lenses in that small bag. He was very surprised by how good the bag was and was saying it was light weight. So I thought I have to try the bag to see what the fuss is all about.

I was checking it out in the store and I also had my camera and the Tamron 150-600 mm lens with me to try it out.

First thoughts of this bag was that the lens and the camera fits in the bag! That is a good start.

When the padding came into the picture, the issue started. The shop keeper and I tried to build it up so that you would be able to fit the camera house mounted on the big Tamron 150-600 lens and still have some lenses on the side of  the big lens. That was not easy.

The good thing about Glass Taxi bag is that it has a option where you can choose to only have a big lens in the middle of the bag but then there will be no space for any other lenses. See the picture above to understand what I mean.

As you can see from the picture above you can fit lenses on the side if the big lens is straight. The problem with the Tamron 150-600 mm lens is that it is not straight and that makes it little harder to fit in this bag. The Tamron lens becomes wider in the end of the lens. That puts the camera house in a strange angle in the bag and the padding does not fit then. I am not saying it wont go, but I am saying that the camera bag is not built for the Tamron 150-600m mounted on a camera house.

 This is what you can use the bag for:

• Holds up to a 500mm f/4 lens.
• Holds a 300mm f/2.8 with DSLR
• Holds a pro DSLR

Technical Specifications:

• Interior Dimensions:  8.3” W x 16.3” H x 8” D (21.1 x 41.4 x 20.3 cm)
• Exterior Dimensions:  8.5” W x 17” H x 9.5” D (21.6 x 43.2 x 24.1 cm)
• Weight:  2–3.7 lbs (0.9–1.7 kg)

Glass Taxi can be used as a backpack or a shoulder bag. You can attached a monopod or a middle size tripod on the side of the bag. With the speed/skin belt you can attached even more components on the belt, if you want that.

Another thing I noticed with the Think Tank Glass Taxi bag is that the side of the bags are very thin. This means if you happen to drop the bag your lenses and camera equipment can take damage. That is the reason I did not buy the bag. To bad Think Tank, other wise it would have been a nice bag. I am not willing to take a risk with this bag.

It does not matter that the padding in the middle on the inside of the bag is thick because there are no padding on the sides of the bag. This is something Jared Polin forgot to mention when he did his review and praised this bag.

A good advice is to always try out the bag in a store before you buy it. If you order the bag online you will not notice these things until you open the bag and then it might be to big of a hassle to send it back.

The price is right now around 159 US dollars. The pictures are from Think Tank’s site.

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