They make a Kiboko 30L with a laptop sleeve separate from the split compartments which I did not get, wish I would have. Would be nice to be able to pull out a laptop while traveling without people realizing you were totin' around $10K+ worth of camera gear!
Apparently the sleeve reduces the camera compartment’s depth just enough to make putting in large lenses with hoods either difficult or impossible.
If you’re talking about tourists/travelers in the airport glancing at your expensive camera stuff, I do think the overwhelming number of them aren’t going to steal anything.
They tend to be more well-off than the average population and know that committing a crime in an airport might be only slightly less stupid than doing the same in a post office. Plus there’s plenty of cop-like people in airports and then there’s that pesky security perimeter they might have to cross to escape.
Now at a coffee shop downtown, yeah, you have a small point. But I reckon thieves are going to want that laptop you just retrieved more than any bulky and harder to fence (& hide) camera gear.
I might be wrong, of course.
For example, I remember being on a plane and I saw this fellow with a Leica who was obviously very self-conscious with it. See, he had placed some black tape over the small red Leica dot logo, which adorns the front of many Leica M rangefinders.
Being a Leica aficionado, of course I immediately knew what it was.
After deplaning, I found myself next to him on the moving sidewalk coming from the arrival gate. I casually asked him about his Leica and saw his eyebrows nervously rise a little lol.
That was kinda fun.
My point here is that a slightly knowledgable camera thief knows what a camera bag looks like and what the typical brands are.
I suppose there are those thieves who are relatively well off, but like to steal for the kicks.
But I wouldn’t worry about it.
In public with $$$ gear, I’m still a little self-conscious, but I’ve learned to largely ignore it. Keeping an eye on it is the most important thing…and of course I’m only talking about being in the civilized world and not in a war zone etc.
