Customer Reviews Peak Design 45 L Travel Backpack

it weighs more than the typical backpack, but it's very rugged and can withstand a lot of abuse. i wish the zip pockets of the waist belt were more centered so you can look down to see what you're grabbing. currently they are on the sides.

I bought this back pack with the Camino in mind and whilst it is well designed and capacious with lots of pockets to secure stuff out of sight, it is actually too heavy and I found myself lightening the load wherever possible. I also found, perhaps because it was hot and I was perspiring a lot, that I frequently had to adjust the straps to keep the back pack in the correct position. That was a trifle irritating. I was walking with it on my back for up to 7 hours a day over a mixture of cobbled paths, gravel paths, grass tracks and pavements.

Bought this because of side access and "ease" of getting to my gear. The side flaps do NOT open wide enough for the flaps to lay flat while accessing gear and try to close due to zippers not being quite long enough. The zippered pockets on the inside of each flap are fine, but the slide in one's do NOT hold anything in unless the pack is vertical...so a bit useless. The outside slide in pockets are not wide or deep enough to secure gear, although they both have securing straps. Their travel tripod should slide further down. Also, the side flap zipper gets caught on the corner of the main pack flap when trying to zipper one handed...so the main flap has to be pushed to the side. I was photographing to wet and windy conditions trying to access and store my R5 and attched lens quickly which was a challenge with this pack. High quality, but not perfect and does not hold much gear if you plan on having space for your coat or water bottle. It's close, but not quite there.

Bought this backpack to carry equipment to work each day, so I got some pretty immediate heavy mileage out of it. I ended up giving it to someone else and buying a different backpack. Overall, the whole pack seems to be designed to look pretty and depend heavily on the Peak Design cube system. Pros and cons: PROS: - VERY spacious for its size; can hold a ton of gear. - Looks super cool. I can see why Peak Design is a photographer status symbol. - High grade materials with very high build quality. Feels solid. - Versatile storage - relates to one of my CONS below however CONS: - Strap design is not comfy. Dug into my shoulders after several hours. Ok for short trips, but hurts after a long day. - no load lifter straps. For a travel backpack this should be a no brainer; similar sized backpacks have these as standard. - overly dependent on the Peak cube system. Lots of space in the central compartment, but out of the box organization is very limited. This might be a PRO for some people. - The size-down snaps are weirdly thought out and compress the backpack into an odd shape. This would be a much better backpack if a few key concessions were made around how pretty it looks and put more into function. It's OK, might work well for you under very specific uses and if the strap design fits you better than it did me.

Pretty thin straps, hard back without ventilation, uncomfortable velcro on the laptop & tablet compartments - it's bad, but I was ready for it. But there is something else... The best zippers. No. These are the tightest zippers ever. When you try to fasten them, it seems that they will come off. The best build quality. No. Doesn't match the price. Pellets in internal compartments. Sticking threads. And what is the biggest issue in my case - asymmetrical straps (see video). This makes the backpack uncomfortable to wear when it fully loaded. So, I don't recommend this. For its price, it is better to look at the competitors offers... PS: I'm not sure if I got a defective backpack and everyone else has no quality issues, but as a buyer I shouldn't care about this.

I bought a 20L Everyday Backpack (V2), which for the most part, I'm super happy with it. I figured that this would be of similar quality, both in features and in materials, and while the materials are like always top notch, the features I found weren't very useful a lot of the time: For one thing, there's the grab handles on nearly every side of the bag. great feature, but the lack of padding on what should be the most used handles (sides and front) make it really difficult and uncomfortable to hold. the straps are stiff, wide, and almost cut into your hand when you hold it via these three handles. I can understand why the bottom handle is unpadded, but the other three just doesn't make sense. The top handle is padded, which is nice, but not to the same level of the Everyday Bag, and the shoulder straps aren't padded nearly as much as they should be. What's probably my biggest gripe, however, is the laptop/tablet compartment. enough space to easily fit any laptop, but for the tablet compartment, you don't get to fit anything larger then an 11" iPad Pro, which even that is a struggle. Its held together with velcro, which just feels cheap when compared to the magnet/zipper combo on the Everyday bags. That's another thing worth mentioning, the zipper and magnet situation just doesn't feel as nice as the Everyday line either, which considering the price, is a little disappointing. The Bottle holders, while generally staying flush with the bag, don't have that satisfying click that the magnets give, and there are often zippers or velcro where magnets could and should be. The zipper pulls also don't have that same level of quality or comfort, and the side access flaps aren't nearly as useful as packing tools take up most of the bag space, and they don't have any pockets on the flap like the Everyday Backpack does. Maybe I'm being picky here, but even the tether points don't have that same level of satisfying resistance. They still click, but not as tightly as the Everyday V2 series bags. Overall I guess the general issue here is that it still feels like a V1 product, which in fairness, it is. The bag just feels like its greatly in need of an update, and for that reason alone I just can't justify the crazy high price tag that it commands. If a V2 travel line comes out I'd be eager to give it a fresh shot, as I have a good feeling that Peak Design will nail it

I love the sturdiness of this bag, it is heavy but most good camera oriented bags are. The supports in the bag itself are well thought out and makes loading the bag easy. There are a good amount of pockets with lots of easy access points. I don't use side access so I have the side zippers locked in the main compartment, thanks PD for thinking about this security feature. I have been trying to use this bag for most trips for the last few years, restrictions really cut down on where I could go. But this is not a bag that you want to wear as a backpack. I carry it around like a duffle bag 90% of the time because the shoulder straps are not comfortable at all anything over 10 lbs will start the straps digging painfully into your shoulders because of limited padding and poor bag stabilization. If the straps had more padding, load lifters to stabilize the straps and hip belt stabilizers it would be a different story. Or if the bag just had wider straps similar to the shimoda backpacks it would probably be my favorite bag. With a travel backpack V2 please take some tie to look at other camera backpack manufactures like shimoda or hiking bag companies like Osprey for a better harness system and improve the straps so we can use this bag to actually carry equipment.

I have been using this bag for over a year on many trips. It is overall ok and once you get used to its quirks you really appreciate it more. The good: -High quality materials that look very sleek, are sturdy, and easy to clean. -The inside is very spacious with many compartments and pockets. -Compresses down to a smaller size and can confirm that it passes as a personal item on Spirit flights when compressed. -It stands upright by itself. -Side access is great. -Being able to tuck the straps in is nice to keep everything looking organized. The bad: -Bag is heavy. -The sternum strap is a pain to use. It looks nice but functionally it is hard to engage, and to disengage you need both hands, not ideal when traveling when one hand is most likely holding something else. -Hip supports are pretty much useless. -Straps are not the most comfortable and the back is not well ventilated, so it will get hot. -The compression clips come undone easily, especially if the bag is fully loaded and you grab the side handles. -Side pockets are too tight. Getting a water bottle in is hard and is a two handed operation.

I got the Sage color. Stylish, Great design and material! but find it very bulky and a bit clumsy. Space fills up so quickly than I thought :-(. maybe I'm the only one feeling this way?

I bought the travel bag for an 11 day trip through Japan with four city hops and a light but fair amount of walking. This bag was incredible in so many ways: tons of storage, the exact right amount of pockets, able to fit a ton of gear plus enough space to fit cold weather clothes. The only problem is that I experienced a fair amount of back and shoulder pain, because I couldn't get the bag to sit on my body right. I'm 5'5, 115 lbs, and I've been on multiple backpacking trips where I'm carrying a similar amount of weight 5-10+miles per day. While my torso is pretty long for someone my height, the only conclusion I can come to is that this bag is just not for shorter torsos. I couldn't pull the shoulder straps tight enough to be balancing the weight across my hips while relying on my shoulders for stability, even with the chest strap (which don't even get me started on the boob-bruising that strap caused). I really love this bag and wanted it to work, but I just don't know that it was made for me.

Honestly I own this bag and it's got to be the most uncomfortable bag I've ever worn. Did three trips with it already and only take it to put my camera gear in for carry on. The sternum strap design is not very well designed as it pulls the backpack straps in towards your chest making it even more uncomfortable. Be warned this is not a bag you can uses as a backpack more of a duffel bag with straps. My straps stay 100% stored in the back panel

The bag he a lot of storage and packs well, but the sternum strap always falls off.

I haven't seen this comment in other reviews so maybe it's a fit issue for me alone, but the shoulder straps rotate inward and dig into my shoulders and chest making uncomfortable to wear for even 20 minutes. In every other way the bag is perfect, but the straps issue makes it unusable for me.

For a larger person 6'3 the shoulder straps are absolutely terrible. The problem is the hardware to adjust them connects inline with the padding. If you look at some other bags like lowpro stuff the adjuster actually sits on top of the padding. The result of the peak design straps is the most weight ends up actually resting directly on the metal adjuster and digs into the chest. Was trying to figure out why this was so uncomfortable and came to this realization. If you are smaller and thin I don't see this being and issue but if you are a larger person, this single design flaw is what makes the bag terrible when loaded. Really sad about it as I use everything else from peak design so this was a surprise to me that Law being about same size as me didn't catch it in product testing. Oh well :(