Originally Posted by
cyccommute
With all the futzing around that you are doing, you could have just sprung for the Ortlieb. It is waterproof...by which I mean torrential downpour waterproof. It's very, very rugged...mine has several thousand miles on it and the plastic bits are holding up just fine. It will carry an SLR in a suspended bag and always at the ready. And Ortlieb got it's name by making outstanding equipment of very high quality.
It's a lot of money for something like that. A LOT. I get that it's quality, but I will gladly spend my spare time futzing around, if it means a work-around that costs me less.