The 20l K&F Camera Backpack is a compact day style camera backpack. About 70% of the volume is a padded cell to store your cameras; there are several tabs you can insert. The tabs are quite thin as is the padding in the bag – it’s certainly one I would put down carefully.

You can see from the photos I set the side opening of the bag to allow me to pull my camera out through the side flap. It is a backpack though; so, you can’t spin it around like a sling style bag to get easy to that flap. The side opening flap is quite useful as it has extra pockets for batteries and memory cards – one nice thing of the bag generally is there are a few pockets around the bag you can use for storage. The remaining 30% of the bag is the day part; you can put a lightweight raincoat in it; or a lunch box. There is a water bottle pocket on the side.

I’m not a huge fan of the overall design; as the side opening lets you remove your camera easily which is great. It doesn’t give you easy access to your other accessories/ lenses though. You need to open the entire back of the bag (which includes opening the flap) to get to them. That is a bit frustrating if you want to move from a zoom to narrow lens.

That said this design will save your back if you like to fill a bag. The lens section let me load an EOS R and an R5 easily. With a 100-400 lens attached to the body. I could then store a 24-105, 16-35 and 50mm lens in the bag. This covers most bases for a day in the city – and cutting it down to what would fit results in a somewhat light bag.

I have been working in London a few days this week which involves a two hour commute each way and it’s been the bag I take with me. The laptop pocket happily stores my work 14” laptop’ and the day pocket had space for my charger, and small pockets for wires and my mouse. The laptop pad goes against your back. When you are using it, I found it feels quite rigid.

The shoulder straps have decent padding; and come with rings you can hang things to. If you use camera clips the padding makes affixing them VERY difficult but using a clamp, I was able to get it to attach. On the back is a luggage loop if you want to attach it to a carry on whilst walking around the airport it will be useful, though for some reason it’s not elasticated so it won’t go around the handle on my full sized Rimowa luggage

The materials are an interesting mix most of the bag is a soft feeling textured plastic; this seems to repel water on its own – there is a separate rain cover that was useful in a very wet London. The bag doesn’t have any reflective elements so if you are using it in the city just bear in mind its black There are reinforced leather feeling anchors, and the affixes are often metal. The zips have nice pull tags that will help you open the bag when wearing gloves.

Overall, this ticks several my preferences – I find a 20l backpack is much more practical for day-to-day use than a 30l bag; 10l of extra camera gear can weigh you down. K&F have given a reasonably 80/20 split between gear and living If you use a compact tripod the underslung tripod holder is far better than a side mounting one. The K&F backpack is much stronger, and the materials feel a step up from the cheaper bags I have used. It isn’t the cheapest backpack out there but when you pick it up and the materials don’t sag you can see it’s a good quality bag. K&F have added are several useful touches, from all the storage pockets to a key chain clip inside the bag which go to explain the price.