Purchased this vest just prior to my African Photo Safari. It was perfect. It is lightweight with about a gazillion pockets--pockets inside, outside and even on the back. It was great on the plane, the pockets carried all my fragile items. I even place two books in the back pocket. It was breeze going through TSA, I simply took off the vest and placed it in one of the trays. That was it.

My Weakness: with so many pockets, at times it was a bit tricky remembering where something was placed.

Product Weakness: I took two camera bodies. I kept a midrange zoom on one and a long zoom on the other. I wanted to secure the camera's neck strap beneath the epaulet on the sholders; however, the epaulets are not wide enough for an average camera strap. However, that should not be a deal breaker for 99.44% of the people.

This is a great product at a great price.