Yes, all of that gear in one bag means it is for transport primarily. In August, I met with the SE RFF folks in Asheville, NC. After carrying the full bag with four cameras + everything else for 6 hours and a 10 hour round-trip drive....I could hardly stand the pain to get out of bed for a week.😱
That is a lot of weight.
But, since then, I have a separate waist pack for the Ciro-Flex and am now about to get a Domke rugged wear bag for my usual two-camera shooting. Can't think of a better bag than the Hadley pro for a lot of things, but walking around all day shooting with all that gear is not one of them, IMO. It is fantastic with just one or two cameras though.
Better to use it for transport/storage and have a smaller bag(s) for configuring the walkabouts and photo shoots.:angel:
When I had the Hadley Pro, I'd carry a one body-two or three lens compact SLR or RF kit in it (the Panasonic L1 is only a little thicker than an M9, otherwise the same size, and if you choose your lenses carefully, you get a lot out of three lenses with it). That's a light enough kit and fits with space in a Hadley Pro.
I sold the Hadley as I needed space for a pro DSLR at that time. The Tenba Mini Messenger was perfect ... not that much bigger to carry, vastly more space inside. And just as light. I could carry it with the Olympus E-5 and four lenses comfortably all day, and work out of it easily.
When I went back to smaller equipment, I chose the Black Label Bag
Oskar's One Day Bag Mark II, which is a slightly more developed clone of the A&A ACAM 7100 or 7000 model. That holds a two body, three to four lens Leica M kit easily and with plenty of space for easy shooting. That's pretty much my standard photo shoot bag nowadays, whenever I go traveling. It's trimmer than the Hadley Pro and a little lighter, but holds more due to a squarer shape. It can also hold an iPad alongside the padded camera insert.
The Tenba Mini Messenger continues to do service, currently as a storage bag for my Nikon SLR kit. It's on the floor next to me ... three bodies, five lenses, accessories, etc. It's what I grab when I need to carry both medium format and Leica gear too, as it has enough additional depth for a Rolleiflex or Hasselblad to fit without having to pilot it in or out in a surgical fashion. (And the Mini is the smallest of the range ... If you need space, go for the medium or large versions. They are capacious yet still light and easily wearable.)
My day to day bag right now is a very light Lowepro Teraclime 100 into which I've dropped the camera insert from the A&A ACAM7100. Just the right size for a camera and my other day to day junk, very very light, etc. It crushes to form fit the insert and whatever stuff I've jammed into it, wears very nicely, and doesn't look fancy or expensive either. A fine bag.
I've got way more bags than I think I ought to have, but I keep using all of them. That really means I have way more equipment than I ought to have ... sigh.
