Peak Design announced a new Kickstarter campaign last week for its new Everyday Messenger camera bag designed in conjunction with Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs.
The overall goal in designing the bag was to build a bag that you would carry every day – no matter what kind of camera or work kit you have with you. As such, the bag will contract or expand for a variety of options.
It includes a dedicated laptop and tablet sleeve and has easy access to the front panel, which contains a number of smaller pouches for photography accessories.
Check out the Kickstarter campaign video below.
In four days, the Peak Design Everyday Messenger bag crested the $1 million threshold and still growing, which is over 10 times its goal of $100,000.
Peak Design says it anticipates the Everyday Messenger to retail for $250 but is offering up pre-orders via Kickstarter for $195 each. There are a number of other tiers available, including a $5,500 package that includes all of Peak Design’s products and a New Zealand Adventure Photo Workshop with Trey Ratcliff.
There are still almost two months remaining in the Peak Design campaign, which you can find here on Kickstarter.
But no water bottle pocket? Is this bag made for camels?
No water bottle pocket for me! A foolish idea. I do NOT want any liquids drenching/soaking my gear.
I WOULD like to learn more about your new camera bag, though. Because I already have at least five camera bags, all of them excellently made of top quality materials by evident experts in sewing etc…and expensive, too. But NONE of those bags are comfortable. All of them are bulky, hard to load and unload, All of them are awful and exhausting burdens which make carrying my photo gear a torture, especially into wildernesses and over rough terrains. I want a camera bag which will be COMFORTABLE, SAFE, PRACTICAL, EASY TO LOAD AND UNLOAD, HIGHLY PROTECTIVE OF MY GEAR IN DIFFICULT SURROUNDINGS, A CAMERA BAG THAT WILL NOT LEAVE ME EXHAUSTED TO THE DEGREE THAT MAKES PHOTOGRAPHY A DREADFUL EXPERIENCE FOR ME.
Can you produce such a camera bag? I do not blame or condemn you if you cannot. I have never encountered such a product. And I could never design or produce such a product, myself.
Thanks for your efforts, though. And thanks for reading this, too.
N. Wilson
Relax!! lol water bottles don’t come with the bags.. water bottles are an option for those who like to have bottles inside the bag or hanging outside the bag on a lanyard clip.. The bottles are not compulsory items that “MUST” be in the bags.. If you do find a bottle in them, just take it out and use the space for an extra lens or anything else.. Its your bag.. you do what you want with them ;)
just add your own favorite bottle.. i dont think they include water bottles.. you can put your bottle in the bag provided its well sealed or have it hang outside by a lanyard attachment
It looks like a great bag that is about $150-200 overpriced. The cost of tons of design engineers in San Francisco creating a camera bag by committee I guess. There seem to be people that think it’s cool enough though, so good for them. I’ll stick with my very high quality, and very comfortable, non-photography specific messenger bag that is fully weatherproof, cost about $50, and has been converted by adding an insert to complete the deal without screaming “full of expensive camera equipment.” Has served me very well for years now.
could you send me a link to the site that carrys the messenger bag you mentioned? whats the brand of your bag?.. Im looking to get something small to carry a mirrorless camera and a few lenses and a iPad
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have just ordered mine :)