Crumpler Product Development

This company from Austrailia makes some fairly kick ass photo bags. The founder is some crazy-assed Ausie, you'll have to get to see the video to see how wacky he is. If you hit the link and let the site load, you'll get some weird stuff and it will give you a taste of what he's like, in person. He ranted for several minutes about Ausie Two Up, some coin toss game popular in the outback, for no reason. The booth was a HUGE blow version of one of his bags, beanbag chairs all around it, the booth was popualr as a resting spot.

He had a prototype of a new camera bag he showed me to get some feedback."Make the bag sutiable for location work with a laptop" I said. I made some suggestions, like make something bendable to use the huge flap as a sun shield for my laptop that would sit on the top of the bag. I then suggested an elastic to hold the laptop secure.

"BLOODY HELL!" he exclaimed in his thick Ausie accent "That's F***ing Brilliant, that is! Thats why I bloody well come out! That F***ing right there, is great! Thank YOU, Bloody Hell!"

Well I felt like I did my bit, we'll see in a year or so, if my suggestions make it to a bag. I mentioned he could name the idea after me, but upon looking at my name he didn't seemed to think he could work with it! Oh well.

Nice bags, they need a dealer here in town, I know the Cdn rep and can make the connections.