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Crumpler's official blog is a must read and the first posts detail our recent adventures at the cutting edge of retail design: check it at The Courier !

Crumpler NYC West Village BIG REVEAL on 3rd Ward

Truly a conflagration of collaboration and literally months in the making, 3rd Ward pulled the wraps off the best looking window display we've seen since June Glasson was in town :-) !!! Check out the entire story HERE...

Crumpler Heritage Hitches Hip Ride on Treadlie!

Check out this sweet new ride on Melbourne's newest Bike Berzerk Blog and now, Magazine!
Because backintheday, some 15 years ago, the very first Crumpler bags were stitched up by Stu from truck tarp canvas! Roots, man, roootsszzz... :-)

What camera bag would you recommend to carry an iPad and DSLR with a couple of lenses ???

The Crumpler Six Million Dollar Home is my favorite shoulder bag, it's like a 5 Mill for chunkier pro gear and as such I like to lug a big dslr with a prime lens, standard or wide zoom attached, a 70-200 f2.8 alongside, and maybe a speedlight , just in case... It's also a good size for a more comprehensive prosumer kit or...

I get all the tricky photo and video related customer service questions at Crumpler HQ... Here's a recent corker!
Q: "What camera bag would you recommend to carry an iPad and DSLR with a couple of lenses ???"
"Hi B - I was able to configure a 6 Million Dollar Home to suit that setup.



Rip out all the dividers, fold the 4 velcros back on the 2 large middle pieces, make a box shape from the middle 4 pieces, add the 2 side pieces to the rear outer edges of the box.
Insert into Home and unfold the folded back velcro at the front to anchor the insert. (Easier to insert this way)
The gear should also help hold everthing in place...

Should be good for D300 with or without grip, attached standard lens and 2 extra lenses or lens and speedlight - and an iPad!

Use a Crumpler Fug on the iPad for more protection.

If you have bags for your lenses you can use any of our Laptop Shoulder Bags for a similar, if somewhat less organized setup.
E.G. iPad in Fug in front pocket, camera and lens in laptop slot, lens in bag/s in cargo pocket.
Skivvies for just the camera and lens - iPad in Fug in front pocket.
Embarrassments are less padded in the cargo area than the others which can be advantageous or not depending on your needs... Cheers, BBB"

Apologies for the shockenhausen camera phone pix :-P !!!

Crumpler does the Eagle Rock!

Whilst I've been locked solidly into the Crumpler studio in Kensington, either pushing buttons, or getting hooked on (Wacom) tablets (that is, shooting bags or retouching images) I still get to live vicariously through other's adventures, ususally when they get in contact to ask for the skinny on our camera and tech bags, most of which are perfect for travellers! And we *always* ask to stay in touch. Here's a reply, mid trip, from M + K...


"We've finally returned from Africa, and have some photos of Crumpler in the wild. Africa was incredible - so much life and death, and such harsh conditions to live in! These photos were taken on top of Eagle Rock, just inside Botswana in the Tuli Block, where we participated in a wildlife conservation and research project for a couple of weeks.

The C-list Celebrity worked beautifully, fitting all our camera gear in for the flights and transfers around Africa. When fully loaded it exceeded 8 kgs, but the stitching and material easily held up to the weight, and it also remained dust free inside despite the dusty conditions we encountered.

We used Industry Disgrace camera straps for our cameras and binoculars, which were always very comfortable, even in the 40+ degree heat and sweaty conditions."

We'd like to thank the pair for staying in touch, and for their feedback and photos - AWESOME!
Pictured: Canon IS binoculars on the Crumpler Industry Disgrace .

Still time to win a Limited Edition CNY Crumper at Habitus

Surely one of the most desirable Bags we've ever released is up for grabs at Habitus Living !
Now we don't just love Habitus because its a coolasacucumber design blog, nay they also broke news on our hot-with-three-tee's range of tech bags, A.K.A. The Heist! Mutually inclusive lurve,wot?

Dungog Film Festival 2011

The past few years Crumpler has been sponsoring the Dungog Film Festival and it's all on again this March 2011. Wot da? Well apparently it's "THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FESTIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN FILMS", so of course we're sponsors! Here's a pic from last year's showing volunteers getting exited in their festy clobber AND exceedingly handsome customized Crumpler bags - 'cos the Dungog graphos rule! Detail coming soon :-)

Crumpler Boston Heist previewed at Crunchgear...

A tech bag SO new, it's not even out till November!!! Crumpler's Boston Heist 17" laptop/gear brief case/shoulder bag barely survives Crunch Gear's 2010 bag week marathon. Which leaves me around 3 months to reveal it's all of it's charm in the Crumpler photo studio.

Spring Peeper featured in Jetstar Mag this Month!

High flyers can look out for the Crumpler Spring Peeper featured in this month's Jetstar in-flight magazine! Co-incidentally we popped a rather hansome ad in there too ;-) ...

Kransky reviewed!!! Not your average sausage...

My folks love 'em (sailing gear and over-nighting) , my son uses one for his b'ball kit (grey Old Banger) - even industry behemoth Bicycling loves Crumpler's new holdall....

Crumpler.ca rocks Apple Expo 2010

Crumpler Canada big cheese Jason made a splash at the Apple Expo - with a hyper minimal booth no less. Proves that if you give 'em enough rope...

Crumpler Cork and Fork Photo Roller Reviewed at JohnBiehler.com

An excellent review by John Biehler at his eponymous blog, the feller takes a mean picture too.
Rather relevant as he uses the case for it's intended purpose: transporting a bunch of gear via commuter jet.
There's a pic, too, of the bags ON the luggage measuring device, nearly there!
By way of an excuse - I'd like to point out that the bag was designed to those dimensions cumulatively (H + W +D = target dimension) not verbatim. That is, the dimensions differ slightly, but overall the volume is within limits.
At any rate, the John and the crew had no problemo with the bag as a roll-on - probaly they were too busy drooling over it's obvious style, class and customised features ;-) Nice, REAL nice!

Additionally John has written a bunch on Crumpler, not all of which I have previously linked, but you can get it all (scroll down the page) HERE!

$5 Mill up for grabs at DPS AGAIN!!! LOVE IT!

One of the world's VERY best online photo-community-blogs thing, the legendary Digital Photography School, aka DPS to it's friends, is offering readers the chance to win a Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home shoulder/sling photo bag AGAIN! Just participate in their Weekly Assignment... Which is always accessible via their Blog page. Love ya, DPS...

Our gift to YOU - get nekkid - get stencilled - this weekend at Meredith !

You've got the hottest ticket in town, now go the whole hog! If you still have the required energy, or have the means to recreate it, this Sunday at Meredith Music Festival, punters can literally go in the (naked) running for a cool dozen Custom Crumpler Bags on offer to participants in the Meredith Gift nude running race, hosted by the Town Bikes.

This pic is from our inaugural sponsorship year - 2003?

Full details on the race, it's history, quirks and rules are to be found HERE, about halfway down the page. As usual the wonder-folk at the Crumpler Custom Shoppes have out done themselves with the prize bags. You can take a peek at some of my photos from previous years HERE - mind - may be NSFW - of course... :-)

See you under the BIG tree, stage right around 2pm!

Crumpler San Francisco Retail Location infested with Yahoo's!

Yahoo!Tech drops in on Crumpler USA's very first west-coast retail operation, a vending machine inspired shoppe at Westfield Mall in downtown San Fran. I'm hopefully visiting this outlet for the full photographic survey next March, on the flipslide of our BIG appearance at PMA Las Vegas '09 - Yaaahoooo!!!

Bugged by Crumpler Ambient Campaigning!

Jayvee cops and reviews the now legendary Crumpler bog-roll at the PhilMUG party in Manila, courtesy of the legendary Charlie Paw - our disty in the 'Pines...
Since making it's first big splash-down at InterBike Las Vegas this year, Crumpler bog-roll is available (gratis with purchase) at Crumpler shoppes in Australsia, Asia and North America till supplies crap out.
Like most fans, Jayvee has alas negelected to post any pics of his paint-by-numbers masterpieces tho' we live in hope...

Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home mini review by Foofookie

Thai blogger Foofookie proves that if you want something bad enough you'll get it, and ahhh... review it :-)

Happiness can't be bought with Million Dollars? ...oh wait

It sure can with the latest assignment at the Digital Photography School Forums!
A cool 5 Mill to the lucky winner of the DPSF Happiness comp.
Get in, sign up and git snappin!

Beer for Bags reprise on Mikes

Nice pic! :-)

Cork and Fork outed as ultimate Mac luxe on the Apple Core!

Read the esteemed Jason D. O'grady's impressions at The Apple Core or catch it abbreviated on Twitter! Here's hoping there's one under my Xmas tree :-)