

#CAMERABAG CINEMA REVIEW PRO#

There are very few bespoke monitor cases on the market, but the CineBags Monitor Pack is by far the best I have come across. Finding a safe way to store and transport your monitor is important and having been on the hunt for such a product myself, I’m glad to say I found the perfect solution. Even more expensive when they are both a monitor and an external recorder like the Atomos Ninja V. Picking your own zipper pull colour is a great way to personalize your kit for just a few dollars.ĬineBags sell additional zipper pulls in many different colours to customize your pack. Given how few bags are out there that are designed for this purpose, it’s highly likely you will come across other CineBags bags on set. I immediately picked a colour for myself as this is a great way to differentiate my pack from the pack of the DP that I often work with. When browsing the B&H website to buy my Monitor Pack, I also discovered that CineBags sell packs of coloured zipper pulls in about ten different colours. The thick, perhaps even overly-padded handle.A removable keychain comes with the pack.But I do always have one eye on that stuff myself because my locations are often accessed by foot, without the luxury of a cart. If you primarily work locally on your productions, shuttling gear around on carts and in grip trucks, the weight won’t be a concern at all. I just don’t need such a chunky handle to do that. Realistically the only time you use the handle is to pluck the case from within a larger bag or pelican case. I also think the large padded handle is unnecessarily thick and padded for a bag of this size.

Large metal D-rings are provided for clipping the pack to another bag, or a production cart, but I’m not sure that two were needed. The only real negative about the Monitor Pack is that it’s quite heavy for a bag of its small size. This is a fairly simple and easy to understand product so it’ll be a relatively short review by my standards. The zippered size is designed to hold your cables, brackets, batteries and monitor arms.
