18 Best Camera Bags, Slings, Straps, and Backpacks (2024)

We've tested a lot of camera bags. Here are others we truly similar but person been eclipsed by our apical picks.

Long Weekend Morro Convertible Backpack for $150: I powerfully considered replacing our apical backpack pick, Brevite’s The Jumper, with the Morro. They're precise akin successful benignant and organization, with the Morro offering an other pouch and, successful my view, a nicer plan (especially successful the moss color). This is inactive an fantabulous backpack that doesn't shriek camera bag, and you get beforehand and broadside entree to your cogwheel (make definite you adhd the Camera Cube bundle, which adds an other $70 to your purchase). It's lightweight, tin acceptable a 16-inch laptop, and is made of water-resistant materials with a two-layer waterproof coating. My lone gripe is the camera cube is an awkward fit, jutting retired a spot astatine the openings. If the institution altered it slightly, this would beryllium my favourite camera backpack astatine the sub-$200 price.

Nanuk Backpack N-PVD 30L for $300: If you transportation around a drone, this is simply a bully backpack with a compartment astatine the precise apical that tin easy acceptable your drone kit. It's a well-padded and structured container that comes successful respective sizes (I tried the 30-liter version), and you tin acceptable a tripod successful the broadside pouch and clasp it securely with a strap. There's an easy-to-reach broadside pouch for speedy camera access, but I don't emotion however you entree the main compartment. It's connected the rear of the bag, and the enarthrosis straps and waist straps perpetually get successful the way, which is conscionable a spot annoying. Once wrong though, determination are padded sleeves for laptops and tablets and zippered pouches for extras. The main country is cavernous, truthful you'll person to bash immoderate Tetris with the included Velcro dividers to laic everything retired neatly.

Clever Supply Camera Sling for $224: I emotion the look of this waxed canvas container and its flourishes of full-grain leather. It's a classical and classy plan that makes maine blessed whenever I caput retired the doorway with my camera successful tow. It's comfy and casual to set the enarthrosis strap, and determination are 3 drawback handles connected the apical and sides truthful you person a batch of carrying options. It tin acceptable my Nikon Z 6, 2 tiny lenses, and a compact tablet. (Smaller than 11 inches; it didn't acceptable the OnePlus Pad.) There's a zippered pouch wrong to store retention cards and a zippered pouch connected the exterior for cables. My main gripe is that opening the main compartment sometimes requires 2 hands—the zipper gets stuck connected the country truthful I request my different manus to support the container successful place. I privation the beforehand pouch besides had much give; erstwhile the container is full, it feels excessively choky to enactment thing successful there.

Peak Design Everyday Backpack for $280: This is the somewhat bigger and much feature-packed mentation of the Everyday Zip we urge above. Instead of a zipper that goes each the mode around, you person 2 zippers for each broadside and a flap astatine the apical that you tin usage Peak Design's MagLatch strategy to cinch up if you don't request the other abstraction up top. There are assorted pouches for enactment throughout, arsenic good arsenic broadside pockets that tin clasp a compact tripod. I tried the 20-liter model, but if you person a batch of gear, you whitethorn privation to outpouring for the 30-liter.

Peak Design Everyday Sling for $160: The Everyday Sling has agelong been 1 of my idiosyncratic favorites for mundane transportation oregon heading retired for a time of shooting. It comes with flexible dividers you tin set oregon remove, depending connected however overmuch enactment oregon retention abstraction you need. It comes successful 3-, 6-, and 10-liter sizes. The 10-liter mentation has country for a 13-inch MacBook Pro, a charger, and my FujiFilm X-Pro 2 camera. If you request country for further lenses oregon a larger camera body, you mightiness privation to forgo the MacBook; it tin get a small choky successful there. —Jaina Grey

Hex Backloader Backpack for $200: I usually similar bags with broadside access, but I've been rather blessed with the Hex Backloader. Yes, you request to instrumentality it disconnected your backmost to entree all your gear, but an entree constituent astatine the precise apical makes it casual to rapidly propulsion retired the camera. The main compartment successful the backmost is truly spacious and is outfitted with tons of Velcro dividers, truthful you person tons of country for customization. There are organizational mesh pouches and pockets galore, a padded conception successful the beforehand that tin acceptable a 15-inch laptop, straps connected 1 broadside for a tripod, and a pouch connected the different for a bottle. It's ace comfy to transportation around, sternum strap and all.

Shimoda Explore V2 25 Backpack for $373: I similar this backpack, but it's a interaction excessively expensive. It's supremely comfy to carry, acknowledgment to its extended padding, and the full happening is water-resistant to support your cogwheel safe. I was capable to worldly it with a astonishing fig of items contempt its comparatively slim size (all of which you tin entree from the rear), including a tripod successful its broadside deployable pouch that you tin cinch choky with a strap. There's broadside entree to the camera, tons of pockets for enactment (I emotion the small pouch connected the limb straps), and a padded sleeve for a 13-inch laptop.

Wotancraft Scout Daily Camera Bag 9L for $299: If you're aft a stylish messenger, I've ever liked the designs from Wotancraft, and the Scout is nary different. It's made of durable Cordura with immoderate cowhide leather thrown successful for the straps connected the flap. The main compartment is spacious and separated by sturdy dividers, on with a padded laptop pouch that tin hardly acceptable a 13-inch MacBook Air. Two pouches successful the beforehand tin loosely transportation immoderate tiny items, but there's not overmuch successful the mode of enactment here. There is simply a luggage pass-through and a rear zippered pocket, but nary broadside pockets and nary casual mode to connect a tripod.

Ona The Bowery Compact Messenger Bag for $209:  I've owned this container (the achromatic waxed canvas version) for 7 years, and it remains successful large shape. It's charismatic and cleanable for abbreviated outings, with plentifulness of padding and a divider to support your cogwheel protected. You'll lone beryllium capable to acceptable a camera and 1 other lens. There's a pouch connected the backmost I've utilized to stow a Nintendo Switch oregon a Kindle, and I shove my cables, batteries, and SD cards successful the pouch connected the front. Unfortunately, the 2 broadside pockets are excessively choky to acceptable thing bigger than a pen oregon a microfiber cloth. One perk? You tin rapidly detach the strap to crook the Bowery into a camera cube for a bigger backpack. It comes successful an array of colors and materials.

Tenba DNA 16 DSLR Backpack for $230: You tin entree your camera from the beforehand of this bag, and the compartment cooly folds out, similar a drawer. There's capable abstraction to acceptable a large camera and a fewer lenses, but don't hide the padded laptop compartment successful the back, a roll-top you tin expand, and different zippered country for further items. You tin comfortably enactment a h2o vessel and a tripod into each broadside pocket. I took it with maine connected a travel to DC, and the beforehand looks a spot scuffed up already, but it's an different good bag.

Manfrotto Pro Light Frontloader Backpack for $234: Unzip the main beforehand compartment and you tin entree each your camera cogwheel neatly sectioned isolated by the included Velcro divider system. This 25-liter container is roomy, but that besides makes it rather puffy connected your back—you mightiness bump into folks successful crowds if you're not careful. There's broadside entree for the camera, which is nice, but it's an different dreary-looking pack.

Tenba Fulton V2 16L Backpack for $140: I similar bags that person immoderate mode to rapidly drawback the camera, and that's wherefore the Fulton V2 isn't higher above: The lone mode to propulsion retired the camera is by taking the container disconnected and unzipping the backmost compartment. (Technically, you tin entree this compartment from the rotation top, but that requires undoing a batch of Velcro.) Otherwise, it's a nice, tiny container that tin acceptable a bully magnitude of gear, with an expandable rotation apical to store luncheon oregon spare clothes, a stretchable mesh broadside pouch for bottles, and a canvas broadside pouch that tin acceptable tiny tripods. Tenba says this tin acceptable a 16-inch laptop successful the padded compartment connected the front, but I could lone compression successful a 13-incher. It's water-resistant and comfy to tote around.

Lowepro PhotoSport Outdoor Backpack III 15L for $155: This battalion looks bully connected the way and tin lone acceptable a tiny DSLR oregon mirrorless successful its removable cube (with broadside access!). It'll mesh good with your different hiking gear, and there's a bully magnitude of country for snacks and thing other you'd privation connected abbreviated hikes (including a 2-liter hydration bladder). It's made of 75 percent recycled fabrics.