I'm sure I'm in the same boat as most budding photographers. I'm always looking for a new pack that's more efficient and comfortable for carrying my gear. I'm going on a two week honeymoon in Croatia this year. My new wife and I will be flying into southern Croatia and driving, busing, train riding our way up the coast. We are both taking backpacking packs just cause they are easier to carry in airports and around when we don't have a place to leave our luggage. Since we'll checking our bags I would like an option to carry my camera gear and iPad onto the airplane with me. I also want a small pack that I can carry around town when we do have a small base camp for the locations we are in. I'm planning on carrying my Canon 6D, 24-105, spare batteries, and maybe a prime (would be a 50 or 40mm). I might also carry my Gorilla Pod. I don't know that I want to take a full tripod. Although I've considered renting a small carbon travel tripod. I've toyed with the idea of getting a small backpack that I can compress into a ball or something when on the ground, but for the airplane that I could put my iPad and some other random stuff in. Under that I was thinking a good camera belt pack. It would be useful in town, and I could spin it to the front if I was carrying my luggage backpack. I've looked at a few belt packs and have it narrowed to two brands....LowePro and Clik Elite. I've been looing at the Clik Elite Report, Clik Elite Trekker, and the LowePro's Inverse 100 and 200.

Does anyone have any experience with these three packs? I'm also open to suggestions for more efficient carrying along with comfort and security.