Lowepro Photo Active BP300 AW 25L - How much do you want to know?
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
- Seriously, how much do you really want to know about this bag? Haha! In this video, I go probably more in-depth than anyone cares for, but I do think it could be valuable information if you’re looking into this bag. There's also a cool, but not free, modification around the 17:30 minute mark.
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Black Friday - Paid less than 90$.The Peak D is twice as expensive and should have better build quality. The main problem with this is the space is to narow for a full size EOS DSLR with grip. Like the light weight.
I watched a lot of backpack reviews. I feel like this one is the most honest and true backpack review, both for the lowepro and the peak design. Thank you so much for this review!
I really appreciate your comment!
Imo Peaks Design's side opening direction is a design miss. It makes it easier to accidentally drop your gear out when you open the bag. And as you mentioned it's also blocking the inside view. I definitely prefer Lowepro's solution.
excellent review. Thank you. It's on sale and I'll get one now.
"meandering" max is about right. Thanks for the effort in making the video but this was honestly hard to watch in order to get to some useful info about the bag (it felt more like a review of the peak designs dividers!). The review really doesn't start until about 4:40 and despite watching all of it, it didn't cover the main points I was interested in. I also think you're completely missing the point of this bag. It's lightweight (
Haha, no worries; I get what you’re saying. Thanks so much for sharing your experience with the first gen Photo Sport 200AW. Good to hear it held up so long. My biggest worry we’re the zippers on this one, but hopefully I was wrong and they’re sturdier than they felt. No doubt I rambled too long about the Peak Design dividers fitting, but that was by far the thing I liked best about the bag. I don’t go through all the details that I feel you’ll find easily enough elsewhere because my videos are just to give some insight from a personal perspective. Those are the videos I get the most out of when I’m researching and I like the idea of them more than reading a spec sheet; they’d be way too long if I did both. I’ll try to include a little more of that info going forward though, and trim down the babbling a bit 🤣
Thanks for the comment, take care!
Cool video, Max. I never had my hands on a Lowe Pro bag but I kinda love the sturdy look on them, they must use high-quality materials. I am rummaging through some of your videos and there is some good stuff on your channel. I'm glad I subscribed, hope you'll get way more viewers this year, you deserve it! :)
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
Yeah, looking at some parts of the video again, I saw that Max criticized some of the materials for feeling cheap. I guess it's just the outside look that convinces me. It looks like Peak Design but it's certainly not. Thanks for your tip Adrienne!
Hi, actually a good video. But towards the end you don't really know whether you should rate the product as good or bad. A dilemma, isn't it?
I've been looking for the ultimate backpack for weeks. There is no such thing as perfect. You have to make some kind of compromise. Be it the material, the fasteners, the iPad compartment, the lap belts, the possibility of attaching a large tripod, etc... But in the end I stuck with this one. He is actually a very good all-rounder.
Nice video. Never been impressed with lowepro. Tried there bags several times. Mostly cheaply made . Shimoda been a excellent brand so far. Lowpro photo sport 24l version 3 . Has been my go to photo biking bag though. Its small works well for mountion biking with a sony a64000 and 2 extra lenses. Most of the time though disappointed with lowpro.
Thank you! Lowepro’s part of a huge company and seem to be more about the profit. They seem to make things for as cheap as possible (low quality imo), for as wide an audience as possible. I like a lot about Shimoda, they probably overdo it in some areas for me tho… the weight and straps are too much, and the water bottle/tripod pockets really don’t do it for me.
There are so many options of bags and items for your kit… I’m not carrying that much daily so I’m switching to bag inserts in pretty standard bags; I might have a custom bag made to work around inserts I like if I find the right person/company.
Nice review. Will the side pockets hold a standard 32oz (1 liter) Nalgene bottle?
Sorry, I don’t know.
@@MeanderingMax No problem. Thanks for the reply.
Hi Max, thank you for your video. Could you confirm that it was really impossible to fit a capture clip on this bag where the pockets are? Or do you just think it's a bad choice to lose a pocket for that?
It's really hard to find this information
Sorry, I didn't end up keeping this bag, and it was so long ago I just don't remember exactly how the straps would handle a capture clip... the only thing I can say is for me personally, pockets on straps haven't been very useful, so I wouldn't care about blocking one, it's really a personal preference tho. Back to fitting a clip, it would definitely depend on how the bag fits on you/where it will fit comfortably. Meaning if you can get away with the clip low on the strap without it digging into you and still accessible, you might be ok. I suggest trying to find a store with them in stock so you can go try it out, or find a store online that will pay for return shipping if it doesn't work out. Just don't tighten your clip on all the way, from my experience they always put a permanent dent in the foam, and it just wouldn't be cool to do that to a bag you aren't sure you're going to keep.
@@MeanderingMax Thank you for your answer on such an old video!
Have a nice day :)
Were you showing the 20L or the 30L PD origami dividers, and were these V1 or V2?
20L V2
@@MeanderingMax Max, I watched the video again and from the top angle they actually look like the 15L on the Peak Design site.
Not sure what’s up there… These were from the Everyday 20L, not the Zip though.
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I am lucky to chanced upon this video that by getting Peak Design's bag dividers really will increase the user experience for these LowePro bags
Looking at the dimensions. The everyday 20L (Non-ZIP) bag dividers fits the internal camera compartment for the LowePro bags. I got these for my Protatic AW 300 II.
Note that peak design site is saying the internal dimensions for the Everyday Backpack 20L (Non-ZIP) is 27cm by 13cm.
While the ProActive 300 is 26CM by 13cm. Protatic AW 300 II is 28CM by 12.5CM.
Height doesn't matter here.
While I got the everyday 15L ZIP bag dividers for the Proactive 200 backpack.
Peak design site says the internal dimensions 22cm by 12cm.
Proactive 200 is 22cm by 11cm.
Agree with the pointers in the video where the orange dividers have to be ripped off to access the other end. And also prefer the execution of how the cameras are accessed with LowePro bags.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!