Small but Perfectly Formed

Camera bags come in many different shapes, sizes and price brackets! It’s also hard, if not impossible to find one camera bag to suit all your needs or one that you might consider perfect. There is always compromise to be had somewhere. So always be weary of a review that says a camera bag is perfect or it’s the “most amazing camera bag ever”.

I’ve recently identified the need to have a small camera backpack in my gear cupboard. Something that is lightweight, carries a decent amount of gear, is comfortable and can be used for more than just carrying camera gear about.

While I was at the Photography Show in London in March, I spotted a new brand of camera bag, Summit Creative. I’d never heard of them, but by being able to pick it up in person and have a proper look at it, it did at least on paper seem to fit my needs.

Fortunately for me the distributor for Summit Creative bags in the UK is Photo Specialist UK, the company behind Kase Filters UK. I am a Kase Filters partner, so I already have a working relationship with Photo Specialist UK. The team there very kindly gave me a Metropolis 16L so I could put it to good use.

Over the last 8 weeks I’ve been using the bag for all sorts of photography and non-photography related activities and I’m now ready to share my thoughts with you in this review video. I create these videos not to try and convince you to buy this bag, but because many of you ask questions about the gear I use so it helps to have a video. Enjoy!

🛒 You purchase the Summit Creative Metropolis 16L Backpack here - https://summitcreativebags.com/product/metropolis-16l-backpack/?ref=jbairdexp

🔗 Check out my review of the tripod you saw in this video - https://julianbaird.com/blog/2024/10/22/manfrotto-befree-gt-pro-carbon-tripod-review