Nikon Imaging Japan is releasing a robust and water-shedding high-end camera bag – the Shooting Master Shoulder Bag L on June 27. Its material is the same as that used in a bulletproof vest.
Inside of this camera bag, there is enough room for a digital single-lens reflex camera with a standard lens, a few interchangeable lenses, and a speed light, all carried together.
And although it holds a lot of things together, the shape is narrow-designed so that the camera bag looks very stylish.
When it starts raining, you can take out a rain cover that is built into the bottom pocket and put it on the camera bag.
Estimate price: 40,950 yen Size: (Outer size) W520 x H280 x D240mm, (Inner size) W420 x H250 x D180mm Weight: 2,600 grams Accessories: Name tag with the Nikon logo on, rain cover, large-sized shoulder pad
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Virtuoso
Will it protect the contents from bullets then? If so, up to what caliber?
badsey3
40,950Y = sort of pricey for a kevlar/aramid bag, but very durable and professionals will want to go this route.
You can buy rolls of this fabric pretty cheap. $1-2 a sq ft. Dyneema is stronger/thinner.
Ranger_Miffy2
If the material is bullet proof, how do you sew it?
badsey3
The issue is cutting it (need the special scissors). Fabric is a mesh (it moves aside for the needle).
nicolls
if it moves aside for the needle. will it move aside for the bullet/bullet fragments?
songwillem2011
About the equivalent of $400 is reasonable I think for a kevlar/aramid bag specially crafted for camera carrying. Aramid vests can fetch up to $1500 while kevlar reinforced items like surfboards and bicycle frames can cost several hundred.
As for bulletproof durability probably very low to non-existent. Kevlar vests are actually composed of laminated layers of fiber weaves designed like padding often dozens of layers thick but this only stops standard 9mm without modification like armor piercing. For higher caliber and pointed ammunition like those used in rifles ceramic insert plates are needed. Kevlar is also used in ships and vehicles to stop fragmentation known as spalling which can produce high velocity fragments as small as a grain of sand but shape is not uniform and definitely not needle shaped or angled. But again this must be specially designed and if I'm not mistaken formed into a composite for it to work that way. Thus a kevlar weave bag like this will probably have no issue where sewing is concerned (a problem police sadly have is that their vests can actually be pierced by needle-like shivs in fights, they're working on it mind you) but you'd need a very special pair of scissors for cutting. This kevlar bag is made more for durability ie roughing it through hazardous terrain, not that I imagine the camera itself would survive.