Peak Design Everyday Sling 3L, 6L and 10L

Small, sleek, and beautiful. Easy to recommend.
I have a love/hate relationship with Peak Design products. I love their often-copied large Tech Pouch. I hate their Everyday Pack V2 and its wildly uncomfortable harness system. This 3L Everyday Sling sits on the “love” end of the spectrum. Like most Peak Design products, it is beautiful—particularly in the Coyote X-PAC colorway—and its design is well suited to my use case.I’ll begin by confessing that I don’t love slings and shoulder bags for carrying camera gear. They tend to wreak havoc on my back if they are even moderately heavy. I much prefer a small pack that will evenly distribute the weight across my shoulders when I need to carry a camera, an extra lens, and a few personal items on an outing. But with a sling as compact and light as this 3L Everyday Sling, I find that it comes in very handy for carrying a single camera with attached lens in situations where I might not want to carry the camera on a strap, perhaps because of the weather or other concerns. This sling fits my Canon R5 + RF 24-105 F4L with a reversed hood perfectly. And it carries it more comfortably than hanging the gear around my neck. If I’m exploring Old Delhi, for example, the sling gives me a place to put my camera where it is protected and out-of-the-way should I stop to eat.My second use case is when I want to carry a second lens but don’t want to carry a pack that is going to be empty except for that one lens. Let’s go back to Old Delhi. In Old Delhi, it is stupid to put my camera away while I’m walking around. Something amazing could happen at any time. The camera stays out. But if I want to take a second lens—say an RF 100-400, I need a way to carry it. A pack is overkill. This sling is perfect. The lens I’m not using stays in the sling. The camera with other lens attached stays around my neck. Or maybe it isn’t a second lens. Maybe it is my gimbal. Regardless, this sling is a great place to keep that extra bit of gear. (Note: the R5 with the RF 100-400 attached will not fit in the sling.)There are a few other aspects of this sling that make it exceptional:• With the dividers removed (I don’t use them at all), the pack flattens so that it can be packed inside a suitcase when traveling. While still bulky, this collapsibility comes in handy. Better yet, it can be used as a packing cube inside a suitcase or bag.• The strap is excellent. It is padded. It is removable. Best of all, it is fast and easy to shorten or lengthen.• The sling can be converted to a waist pack.• Despite its small size, a travel tripod can be carried beneath the bag.• Because of its small size, the sling can be carried in front of you rather than behind you. This is particularly useful in crowded areas or on busy trains where you want to keep an eye on the sling while keeping it out of the way of others.• A Capture Clip (or competitor) can be attached to it. While I wouldn’t walk around for extended periods with a camera hanging from the outside of this little sling, this capability can be handy when I want to temporarily free up both hands for doing something else and I’m not using a camera strap.• The materials, zippers, and quality of construction are all excellent.About the only aspect of the Everyday Sling 3L that I don’t love is the lack of extra compartments. There is a single compartment inside the sling but it isn’t very spacious. For my use case where my R5 and lens take up the entire interior of the bag, it is only useful for things like memory cards that are relatively flat. There is a single external compartment but it is a fight to get anything into or out of it. And because this compartment expands inward rather than outward, I am limited with what I can fit in it when my camera is in the sling. Gussets would solve this problem, but at the expense of the sling’s sleek look. If there’s one thing we know about Peak Design, they will always choose form over function. The end result is that with my R5 + 24-105 F4L inside, I can carry extra memory cards and a couple extra batteries in the sling but not much else. No wallet, for example. My iPhone 16 Pro would be a light squeeze. I have to be fair though. I love that this sling is sleek and small with no extra space or bulk. I can’t have it both ways—and I like the way it is.Before I selected this sling, I considered several others including the offerings from WANDRD, the company that makes my all time favorite pack, the PRVKE, as well as Nomad’s Peter McKinnon slings. I found the WANDRD Rogue slings to be boxy and, IMO, ugly. The sizes were either too small or too large. The McKinnon 5L Camera Sling worked equally well with my camera/lens combo. Its innovative design provided plenty of small storage spaces that the Peak Design sling lacked. However, it was heavy and lacked many of the features that makes the PD sling special: not collapsible; strap not padded, removable, or quickly adjustable; no option for a camera clip; and increased bulk.Everyone’s use case is different. For mine, the Peak Design 3L Everyday Sling is a great match. For anyone shooting with smaller gear or using primes, I can see it working even better. This is one Peak Design product that is easy to recommend. Five stars.

Great bag that I have 1st world problems with
I want to highlight the good things about this bag first:The fit and finish is great. The material is thick and durable and I imagine is going to be really nice once it breaks in a little bit.The bag looks great, its got a sleek, but simple profile. It looks professional but stylish.PD is very good about making things multi use, your divider walls can also be shelves for 2 lenses in 1 pocket instead of 1. While I haven’t used the tablet sleeve yet, I’m sure its pretty easy to get to and there are pockets and attachment points everywhere.Now on to my first world problems. I use this strictly as a camera bag. I carry a Canon R7 and usually between 2 and 3 lenses depending on what I want to bring that day. I always have my Sigma 24-70mm 2.8 with me (that needs an adapter) as thats pretty much my go to lens. I have to keep that lens on my camera in storage, because it wont store any other way. If I store that lens and body separate, I can’t carry any other lenses. The other 2 “configurations” I bring out is either a 100-400mm, or a 16mm and 30mm. The 100-400 is too long to store on the body in bag. If I put the 16 or the 30 on the camera I can bring the 24-70, but not the lens that is left out.So its a great bag, but the dimensions are just a little weird and like I said, 1st world problems for me.

First Impressions
Nice bag; made well with quality materials, comfortable and secure fit, sleek design. Should work well for my purposes: using it as an EDC bag for my Fuji XT2 with XF 23 mm f/2 WR lens (attached to camera) and XF 35 mm f/2 WR lens (tucked away in corner separated by insert). Both lenses wearing Hoague square lens hoods. I can easily remove my camera when I want to take it out. Not much room for anything else inside of the main compartment with the exception of a couple of spare batteries, recharging cable and SD cards. But that’s what I wanted. Haven’t tested it for water resistance. This bag is a trade-off for a small Lowepro cube bag that I was using that is also made very well, just clumsy to carry.

Pratique, léger, beau quoi dire de plus, moi je l’adore. Couture solide, beaucoup d’attache, fermoir étanche.Je recommande

Fantastic bag for equipment and keeps everything dry in downpours