This covers the most efficient backpacks for commute pictures at Walt Disney Global, Disneyland, and past. Over time, I’ve examined dozens of various baggage in all kinds of instances–from lengthy weekends to multi-month journeys, triple-digit temperatures to snowy climate. This runs down my favorites.
In truth, you may name this vintage “contractual legal responsibility” content material. Admittedly, digicam baggage are just a little of an obsession, as is my quest to search out the excellent one. I stay purchasing digicam baggage, and Sarah helps to keep asking (mockingly, I imagine) whether or not I plan on opening a digicam bag museum. I’ve instructed her it’s for analysis, and I want to do extra checking out. She doesn’t purchase it. Lengthy tale brief, this put up is the outcome of all that. I additionally promised you one in Walt Disney Global Upgrades to the Pepsi of PhotoPass Cameras, in order that’s two causes to after all apply via in this.
Something to notice from the outset is that “perfect” is very subjective. Some other folks need chic baggage that blend shape and serve as, or that may grasp digicam tools and different provides for an afternoon in Walt Disney Global or Disneyland. Others are purely utilitarian, and plan on packing as a lot tools as conceivable.
In truth, my very own pictures personal tastes & priorities have modified through the years. As I’ve downsized my apparatus through the years, listed here are my private priorities for a digicam bag:
- 50/50 tools cut up
- Devoted house for digicam and lenses
- Simple get right of entry to to apparatus
- Exterior tripod attachment on facet of bag
- 15″ pc sleeve
- Garage for different small pieces
- Water bottle pouch
- Light-weight
- Breathable
- Relaxed
- Cheap choice of wallet
To the most efficient of my wisdom, there isn’t a unmarried digicam bag in lifestyles that exams all of those bins. It’s all about compromises. However I’ve discovered a pair that come lovely shut, and so they’re my new go-to digicam baggage.
In figuring out what your individual “perfect” digicam bag would provide, it’s important to ask your self an identical questions on worth, dimension, taste, format, compartments, and extra. Finances and dimension are more than likely the perfect questions to respond to, while format and elegance aren’t really easy, most commonly as a result of figuring out your excellent bag format isn’t all the time conceivable till you’ve used a few baggage.
Taste can also be the trickiest attention. Utilitarian baggage lack it utterly, while one of the most most well liked chic baggage sacrifice application to manner too massive of a point. For numerous other folks, the glance of the bag is understandably vital. Maximum digicam baggage I’ve encountered just about scream “dorky photographer,” which is okay for me as a result of I am a dorky photographer, so the label suits.
All issues to believe, particularly if taste issues. With all of this in thoughts, let’s have a rundown of luggage that I’ve used within the final a number of years…
Top Design Backpacks
Let’s simply get started with the logo that each and every chic photographer, and plenty of not-so-stylish ones or even non-photographers, turns out to like: Top Design. That is perceive, as Top Design merchandise glance nice, and feature remarkable consideration to element, have compatibility and completing.
It’s no wonder to me that the entirety Top Design makes is cherished and sells extremely smartly. The luggage have numerous considerate options, provide smartly, and simply feel and look like elegant merchandise. Top Design is a logo that I in reality need to like. Such a lot so, actually, that I’ve now owned 4 other Top Design baggage:
To not be a contrarian, however my giant factor with Top Design is that their baggage are in fact over-engineered. Truthfully, I’d take {that a} step additional and assert that the luggage are over-engineered in ways in which ceaselessly don’t subject, as to elicit a “wow, that’s artful!” response whilst within the retailer or when looking at a video. However they’re in fact under-engineered the place it counts.
The straps are show off A on this regard. Top Design backpacks are themselves relatively heavy, and in addition better baggage that experience prime capability scores, which means the overall weight as soon as packed goes to be at the upper facet.
And but, Top Design straps are probably the most uncomfortable available on the market, which makes them ill-suited for prolonged use. I might additionally upload that I in finding the group of the smaller digicam baggage to be just a little nonsensical, and insufficiently insecure for those who’re sporting more than one lenses.
With all of that stated, I completely love the Top Design Shuttle Backpack 45L. Now not such a lot as a digicam bag, however as a carry-on substitute.
It has the similar pitfalls with weight and straps, however the aforementioned consideration to element plus the facility to enlarge and contract the bag, in addition to its compatibility with digicam and packing cubes (which I some distance desire) makes it a standout.
It’s a in point of fact very good carry-on backpack, however no longer one I’d use for hikes and even days in theme parks. It’s simply an ideal backpack for buying to and from a vacation spot, after which leaving within the lodge room. I’ve additionally taken it out and about for days in more than a few towns, and it’s labored in reality smartly in the ones settings. For instance, this bag has accompanied us round Tokyo on a number of journeys to Nakano Broadway (IYKYK), and served as my ‘buying groceries bag’ for all the day.
Lowepro Backpacks
I’ve long past via smartly over two-dozen Lowepro backpacks since getting began in pictures again in 2007. And in contrast to Top Design, it’s no longer as a result of I’ve sought after to love Lowepro. I do love Lowepro baggage–they’re typically my favourite logo. I’ve simply outgrown sure baggage, and wiped out numerous others.
It additionally hasn’t helped that Lowepro has discontinued my favourite lineup, which was once the Lowepro Game Flipside collection. This lineup checked such a lot of of the above bins, together with being the uncommon bag that was once light-weight, breathable, comfy, and extremely environment friendly. If any person from Lowepro is studying this, I’d love to peer a right kind revival of this line, married with the present Fastpack lineup. Another way, your perfect guess for those baggage is eBay, the place you may in finding your self bidding in opposition to me!
There’s in reality no sense in “recommending” digicam baggage which can be out of manufacturing, so I’m going to run via a couple of of my favourite choices within the present lineup:
Lowepro Flipside BP 300 AW III – This was once my major digicam backpack for the final 3 years, up till this summer season. This is a nice backpack with a ton of cupboard space for pictures apparatus. It’s been my private merchandise on numerous flights, with this bag’s maximum notable journeys being two other month-plus journeys to Japan, in addition to extra Walt Disney Global and Disneyland journeys than I will take into account.
This exams numerous the above bins, and has served me extremely smartly. There’s nonetheless quite a few existence left in it, however I’ve discovered it to be overkill 90% of the time now, particularly as I deliver much less pictures tools and extra different stuff. It’s workable in the ones eventualities, however no longer excellent. Nonetheless, it’s a extremely really useful backpack for Disney or commute photographers.
Lowepro ProTactic BP 450 AW III – Previous to that, my major digicam bag for ~5 years was once the ProTactic. I went via two of those pups all through that point. No marvel I’ve again ache now. That is more than likely the dorkiest digicam bag possible, taking a look like what a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would possibly put on into struggle. However it’s extremely environment friendly and will grasp a ludicrous quantity of substances. When you deliver more than one cameras and a half-dozen lenses, believe it. That is going to be overkill for 99% of you, so I’m no longer going to fixate on it.
Lowepro Truckee 250 LX – After looking out low and high for a bag like this previous this yr, I compromised at the F-Prevent Rju Air 18L. That’s a logo I liked again in my critical climbing days, however their extra ‘city’ backpack was once less than snuff. Then I simply came about to bump into this Lowepro backpack by chance, which seems to be at the precipice of discontinuation.
I don’t know the way I by no means discovered this earlier than, nevertheless it’s nearly excellent. It has a 50/50 tools cut up, sufficient room for a digicam frame and 2-3 further lenses, two water bottle pouches (one in every of which can be used for a tripod), 15″ pc sleeve, and exams the appropriate bins for convenience, weight, and so on. I want I might’ve been ready to search out the black model as a substitute of sunshine gray, however up to now, I’m loving this bag. My one minor grievance is that it’s no longer fairly bit or sturdy sufficient for longer journeys.
Lowepro Fastpack BP250AW III Backpack – The general advice is the Lowepro Fastpack, which is similar to the Truckee except for rather better (it is available in two sizes) and with extra skilled grade sturdiness and lines, corresponding to an AW rain quilt.
Despite the fact that that is similar to the Truckee, there are particular tactics every is awesome (that has 2 water bottle pouches, is lighter and extra breathable; this has better sturdiness, options, construction and dimension). In consequence, I’ll use each in tandem because the instances dictate. More or less like I used to do with the ProTactic and Flipside Game.
Notice: those are the 2 backpacks pictured side-by-side on the most sensible of the put up. The Truckee is the sunshine gray coloured bag at the proper, and the Fastpack is at the left.
In the long run, those are my new go-to backpacks for commute, even with the above-mentioned asterisks. No digicam bag is excellent, however those Lowepro backpacks come lovely shut for me, and be offering plenty of layouts that swimsuit my functions in reality smartly.
Lowepro tends of addressing not unusual lawsuits with its baggage and liberating up to date fashions, and I’m in reality hoping that occurs with updates to the Truckee and Fastpack, as either one of those are near-perfect backpacks for the ‘downsizing’ commute photographer. Likewise, the Top Design Shuttle Backpack 45L is unbelievable, however that’s extra of a carry-on bag than this is a pictures backpack.
Need to be informed extra about pictures to take nice pictures within the Disney theme parks and past? The most efficient position to start out is Tom’s Final Disney Parks Images Information, which covers plenty of subjects from hyperlinks to tutorials, guidelines, and tips to suggestions for level & shoots, DSLRs, lenses, and extra!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What’s your favourite digicam bag or commute backpack, extra typically? Do you favor Top Design, or assume it’s puffed up? What’s your thought of a “excellent” digicam bag? Another options you believe vital? Agree or disagree with our exams? Please ask any questions or proportion your ideas beneath, and I’ll be offering my comments!
This covers the most efficient backpacks for commute pictures at Walt Disney Global, Disneyland, and past. Over time, I’ve examined dozens of various baggage in all kinds of instances–from lengthy weekends to multi-month journeys, triple-digit temperatures to snowy climate. This runs down my favorites.
In truth, you may name this vintage “contractual legal responsibility” content material. Admittedly, digicam baggage are just a little of an obsession, as is my quest to search out the excellent one. I stay purchasing digicam baggage, and Sarah helps to keep asking (mockingly, I imagine) whether or not I plan on opening a digicam bag museum. I’ve instructed her it’s for analysis, and I want to do extra checking out. She doesn’t purchase it. Lengthy tale brief, this put up is the outcome of all that. I additionally promised you one in Walt Disney Global Upgrades to the Pepsi of PhotoPass Cameras, in order that’s two causes to after all apply via in this.
Something to notice from the outset is that “perfect” is very subjective. Some other folks need chic baggage that blend shape and serve as, or that may grasp digicam tools and different provides for an afternoon in Walt Disney Global or Disneyland. Others are purely utilitarian, and plan on packing as a lot tools as conceivable.
In truth, my very own pictures personal tastes & priorities have modified through the years. As I’ve downsized my apparatus through the years, listed here are my private priorities for a digicam bag:
- 50/50 tools cut up
- Devoted house for digicam and lenses
- Simple get right of entry to to apparatus
- Exterior tripod attachment on facet of bag
- 15″ pc sleeve
- Garage for different small pieces
- Water bottle pouch
- Light-weight
- Breathable
- Relaxed
- Cheap choice of wallet
To the most efficient of my wisdom, there isn’t a unmarried digicam bag in lifestyles that exams all of those bins. It’s all about compromises. However I’ve discovered a pair that come lovely shut, and so they’re my new go-to digicam baggage.
In figuring out what your individual “perfect” digicam bag would provide, it’s important to ask your self an identical questions on worth, dimension, taste, format, compartments, and extra. Finances and dimension are more than likely the perfect questions to respond to, while format and elegance aren’t really easy, most commonly as a result of figuring out your excellent bag format isn’t all the time conceivable till you’ve used a few baggage.
Taste can also be the trickiest attention. Utilitarian baggage lack it utterly, while one of the most most well liked chic baggage sacrifice application to manner too massive of a point. For numerous other folks, the glance of the bag is understandably vital. Maximum digicam baggage I’ve encountered just about scream “dorky photographer,” which is okay for me as a result of I am a dorky photographer, so the label suits.
All issues to believe, particularly if taste issues. With all of this in thoughts, let’s have a rundown of luggage that I’ve used within the final a number of years…
Top Design Backpacks
Let’s simply get started with the logo that each and every chic photographer, and plenty of not-so-stylish ones or even non-photographers, turns out to like: Top Design. That is perceive, as Top Design merchandise glance nice, and feature remarkable consideration to element, have compatibility and completing.
It’s no wonder to me that the entirety Top Design makes is cherished and sells extremely smartly. The luggage have numerous considerate options, provide smartly, and simply feel and look like elegant merchandise. Top Design is a logo that I in reality need to like. Such a lot so, actually, that I’ve now owned 4 other Top Design baggage:
To not be a contrarian, however my giant factor with Top Design is that their baggage are in fact over-engineered. Truthfully, I’d take {that a} step additional and assert that the luggage are over-engineered in ways in which ceaselessly don’t subject, as to elicit a “wow, that’s artful!” response whilst within the retailer or when looking at a video. However they’re in fact under-engineered the place it counts.
The straps are show off A on this regard. Top Design backpacks are themselves relatively heavy, and in addition better baggage that experience prime capability scores, which means the overall weight as soon as packed goes to be at the upper facet.
And but, Top Design straps are probably the most uncomfortable available on the market, which makes them ill-suited for prolonged use. I might additionally upload that I in finding the group of the smaller digicam baggage to be just a little nonsensical, and insufficiently insecure for those who’re sporting more than one lenses.
With all of that stated, I completely love the Top Design Shuttle Backpack 45L. Now not such a lot as a digicam bag, however as a carry-on substitute.
It has the similar pitfalls with weight and straps, however the aforementioned consideration to element plus the facility to enlarge and contract the bag, in addition to its compatibility with digicam and packing cubes (which I some distance desire) makes it a standout.
It’s a in point of fact very good carry-on backpack, however no longer one I’d use for hikes and even days in theme parks. It’s simply an ideal backpack for buying to and from a vacation spot, after which leaving within the lodge room. I’ve additionally taken it out and about for days in more than a few towns, and it’s labored in reality smartly in the ones settings. For instance, this bag has accompanied us round Tokyo on a number of journeys to Nakano Broadway (IYKYK), and served as my ‘buying groceries bag’ for all the day.
Lowepro Backpacks
I’ve long past via smartly over two-dozen Lowepro backpacks since getting began in pictures again in 2007. And in contrast to Top Design, it’s no longer as a result of I’ve sought after to love Lowepro. I do love Lowepro baggage–they’re typically my favourite logo. I’ve simply outgrown sure baggage, and wiped out numerous others.
It additionally hasn’t helped that Lowepro has discontinued my favourite lineup, which was once the Lowepro Game Flipside collection. This lineup checked such a lot of of the above bins, together with being the uncommon bag that was once light-weight, breathable, comfy, and extremely environment friendly. If any person from Lowepro is studying this, I’d love to peer a right kind revival of this line, married with the present Fastpack lineup. Another way, your perfect guess for those baggage is eBay, the place you may in finding your self bidding in opposition to me!
There’s in reality no sense in “recommending” digicam baggage which can be out of manufacturing, so I’m going to run via a couple of of my favourite choices within the present lineup:
Lowepro Flipside BP 300 AW III – This was once my major digicam backpack for the final 3 years, up till this summer season. This is a nice backpack with a ton of cupboard space for pictures apparatus. It’s been my private merchandise on numerous flights, with this bag’s maximum notable journeys being two other month-plus journeys to Japan, in addition to extra Walt Disney Global and Disneyland journeys than I will take into account.
This exams numerous the above bins, and has served me extremely smartly. There’s nonetheless quite a few existence left in it, however I’ve discovered it to be overkill 90% of the time now, particularly as I deliver much less pictures tools and extra different stuff. It’s workable in the ones eventualities, however no longer excellent. Nonetheless, it’s a extremely really useful backpack for Disney or commute photographers.
Lowepro ProTactic BP 450 AW III – Previous to that, my major digicam bag for ~5 years was once the ProTactic. I went via two of those pups all through that point. No marvel I’ve again ache now. That is more than likely the dorkiest digicam bag possible, taking a look like what a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would possibly put on into struggle. However it’s extremely environment friendly and will grasp a ludicrous quantity of substances. When you deliver more than one cameras and a half-dozen lenses, believe it. That is going to be overkill for 99% of you, so I’m no longer going to fixate on it.
Lowepro Truckee 250 LX – After looking out low and high for a bag like this previous this yr, I compromised at the F-Prevent Rju Air 18L. That’s a logo I liked again in my critical climbing days, however their extra ‘city’ backpack was once less than snuff. Then I simply came about to bump into this Lowepro backpack by chance, which seems to be at the precipice of discontinuation.
I don’t know the way I by no means discovered this earlier than, nevertheless it’s nearly excellent. It has a 50/50 tools cut up, sufficient room for a digicam frame and 2-3 further lenses, two water bottle pouches (one in every of which can be used for a tripod), 15″ pc sleeve, and exams the appropriate bins for convenience, weight, and so on. I want I might’ve been ready to search out the black model as a substitute of sunshine gray, however up to now, I’m loving this bag. My one minor grievance is that it’s no longer fairly bit or sturdy sufficient for longer journeys.
Lowepro Fastpack BP250AW III Backpack – The general advice is the Lowepro Fastpack, which is similar to the Truckee except for rather better (it is available in two sizes) and with extra skilled grade sturdiness and lines, corresponding to an AW rain quilt.
Despite the fact that that is similar to the Truckee, there are particular tactics every is awesome (that has 2 water bottle pouches, is lighter and extra breathable; this has better sturdiness, options, construction and dimension). In consequence, I’ll use each in tandem because the instances dictate. More or less like I used to do with the ProTactic and Flipside Game.
Notice: those are the 2 backpacks pictured side-by-side on the most sensible of the put up. The Truckee is the sunshine gray coloured bag at the proper, and the Fastpack is at the left.
In the long run, those are my new go-to backpacks for commute, even with the above-mentioned asterisks. No digicam bag is excellent, however those Lowepro backpacks come lovely shut for me, and be offering plenty of layouts that swimsuit my functions in reality smartly.
Lowepro tends of addressing not unusual lawsuits with its baggage and liberating up to date fashions, and I’m in reality hoping that occurs with updates to the Truckee and Fastpack, as either one of those are near-perfect backpacks for the ‘downsizing’ commute photographer. Likewise, the Top Design Shuttle Backpack 45L is unbelievable, however that’s extra of a carry-on bag than this is a pictures backpack.
Need to be informed extra about pictures to take nice pictures within the Disney theme parks and past? The most efficient position to start out is Tom’s Final Disney Parks Images Information, which covers plenty of subjects from hyperlinks to tutorials, guidelines, and tips to suggestions for level & shoots, DSLRs, lenses, and extra!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What’s your favourite digicam bag or commute backpack, extra typically? Do you favor Top Design, or assume it’s puffed up? What’s your thought of a “excellent” digicam bag? Another options you believe vital? Agree or disagree with our exams? Please ask any questions or proportion your ideas beneath, and I’ll be offering my comments!
