Cam and Cheese

Crumpler's 6 Million Dollar Home is the second largest of their messenger bag style camera bags. At a cost of $110 and plenty of room for extra lenses, it is a great bag for a day out.

The 6 Million Dollar Home is a nice looking camera bag made out of sturdy 1000D Nylon material. It has a removal padded strap for additional comfortability, but if you plan on carrying a lot of camera equipment, the weight will still take its toll on your shoulder. I'd recommend this bag for shorter photo walks. I'd actually take this as my carry on for vacations if I didn't also need to bring my laptop.

This bag is fairly thick, but not nearly as big as the Crumpler Brazilian Dollar Home which is ginormous, and costs $260 versus this one that costs $110.

The top of the 6 Million Dollar Home has a hand strap in case you just want to carry it by the handle, instead of on your shoulders. The flap of the bag that covers your camera gear is secured by velcro, and also clip-on strap. If you were to hold it by the hand strap, I strongly recommend securing the bag's flap with the clip-on strap, or else the bag may open and there goes all your gear.

Inside the bag, you have a fairly large area for your camera gear. It easily houses my Nikon D80 with a lens, along with my Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8, and also a few smaller lenses. The inside is lined with a nice felt like material. It also comes with a bunch of separators and flaps to create sections as well as provide padding to stop your camera gear from hitting each other while transport your equipment. It comes with 2 large separators, 2 small separators and 2 extra flaps. I recommend putting your two lenses on the outer sections and your camera in the middle. You can use the 2 small seprators to keep your camera propped up, with your lens in the middle.

Apart from holding your expensive camera gear, it also has two pockets to hold additional items. The one inside the camera compartment is a fairly large mesh pocket that can be opened and closed with a zipper. The other pocket is outside of the camera compartment and is held shut by velcro. This pocket has another mesh pocket within that can also be closed by velcro. You have to open up the main flap to access this pocket.

Furthermore, Crumpler has provided two loops for you to stick a tripod leg into. You will need a tripod that does not have the braces that connect the middle to each leg.

The sides of the bag actually do not feel very padded and they give in pretty easily. With your lenses being there, I'd be a little bit worried about hitting that side against a hard edge. You can reinforce the sides a bit by folding the flaps over so that it touches the sides of the bag. The bag overall feels fairly sturdy. I think the bottom of the bag is very stiff and sturdy which will protect the front of the bag from collapsing. But, this makes the bag very wide. 

Overall, I'm very happy with this bag. I can easily change my lenses with the bag still on my shoulder.

Pros

• Large compartment for your camera gear
• Sturdy bottom protects your equipment from being squished from the front
• Loops to hold a tripod
• Comes with a bunch of separators so you can customize the camera compartment
• Extra padded strap

Cons

• The sides aren't as strudy as the front of the bag
• Messenger bags loaded with heavy camera equipment aren't comfortable for long periods of time
• No room for laptop