San Francisco-based Peak Design — shaper of 1 of our all-time favorite backpacks — is backmost pinch its first caller container lineup in five years. PD says its caller Outdoor statement of backpacks and slings tin beryllium worn together for usage beyond nan pavement. They characteristic nan company’s “most precocious soft-goods creation to date,” pinch tons of accommodation points for a assortment of assemblage types and loads. The caller bags are compatible pinch nan company’s modular packing cubes that make it easy to shape and quickly entree camera equipment, clothing, and different gear.
“Peak Design has been synonymous pinch ‘outdoor photography’ yet we still haven’t created existent outdoor bags...until now,” says Peak Design laminitis and CEO Peter Dering successful a property release. “The Outdoor Line is not only nan culmination of everything we’ve learned arsenic container designers, it’s besides a elephantine motion to our astir loyal and longest-tenured customers.”
The Outdoor Backpack is disposable arsenic an internally framed 45L (L for liters) exemplary for dense loads and a smaller 25L type for shorter excursions. Both connection quick-cinch roll-top entree from nan apical arsenic good arsenic nan expertise to splay nan container almost wholly unfastened from nan backmost for easy packing and “total visibility” of your gear. The bags besides characteristic sleeves for laptops and hydration packs (with drinking hose passthrough), slash-proof and “weatherproof” building (with an optional Rain Fly sold separately), and a committedness of “superior comfortableness and fresh pinch importantly little bulk” compared to different backpacks (including PD’s ain bags, I hope). The bags besides support respective options for outer hauling including heavy pockets and a cord strategy for carrying things for illustration tripods, sleeping pads, jackets, and h2o bottles.
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It’s worthy noting that nan 45L Outdoor Backpack weighs 3.97 pounds (1.8kg) while nan 25L exemplary weighs 2.54 pounds (1.15kg). That’s dense if your superior extremity is backpacking done unfastened state wherever immense 60-liter bags often measurement little than 3 pounds (1.36kg). Still, nan 45L Outdoor Backpack is decidedly an betterment complete Peak Design’s erstwhile flagship, nan 3.88 lb (1.76kg) 30L Everyday Backpack.
Besides nan soul framework and other hauling capacity, nan 45L container differs from nan 25L container by shipping pinch a removable hep loop that’s sold arsenic an add-on for nan 25L Outdoor Backpack. Both bags are disposable successful black, “cloud” white, and a purple-ish “eclipse.”
Each backpack is compatible pinch Peak Design’s camera and packing cubes that travel successful a assortment of sizes and cloth choices that prioritize weight aliases upwind resistance. The camera bags are designed to thief haul everything from diminutive mirrorless systems, to multi-accessory drones, connected up to afloat master rigs. Only nan 45L container is suitable for nan largest packing cubes sold by Peak Design.
The Outdoor Slings are disposable successful 7L (weighing 0.74 pounds) and 2L (0.39 pounds) sizes and person quickly from crossbody to waist bags. The larger 7L container features stowable cogwheel loops for outer storage, and it tin besides fresh PD’s smallest camera cube. Both tin beryllium worn connected nan thorax erstwhile mounted to nan enarthrosis straps of nan Outdoor Backpacks for speedy entree to your astir important gear.
Given Peak Design’s crowdfunding history, it’s unsurprising that nan Outdoor statement is launching arsenic a Kickstarter exclusive coming done October 15th, pinch a January 2025 targeted vessel date. There, you’ll find discounts of 20 to 25 percent disconnected unit pricing, according to PD, earlier nan bags yet make their measurement to peakdesign.com, Amazon, and different world retailers arsenic early arsenic precocious November 2024.
Retail pricing will beryllium arsenic follows:
- Outdoor Backpack 45L: $329.95 (add $29.95 for Rain Fly)
- Outdoor Backpack 25L: $249.95 (add $29.95 for Rain Fly, $44.95 for Hip Belt)
- Outdoor Sling 7L: $89.95
- Outdoor Sling 2L: $59.95
A statement connected crowdfunding:
Crowdfunding is simply a chaotic section by nature. Companies looking for backing thin to make large promises. According to a study tally by Kickstarter, astir 1 successful 10 “successful” products that scope their backing goals neglect to really present rewards. Of nan ones that do deliver, delays, missed deadlines, aliases overpromised ideas mean that there’s often disappointment successful shop for those products that do get done.
The champion defense is to usage your champion judgment. Ask yourself: does nan merchandise look legitimate? Is nan institution making outlandish claims? Is location a moving prototype? Does nan institution mention existing plans to manufacture and vessel vanished products? Has it completed a Kickstarter before? And remember, you’re not needfully buying a merchandise erstwhile you backmost it connected a crowdfunding site.
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