My go-to hiking and travel bag
This has become my go-to bag for most of my travels / vacations. It is airplane carry-on size, so together with another small backpack as my "personal item", I can travel to Europe or on a week-long vacation with toiletries, clothing, and my camera/drone without needing to check a bag. It't not big enough for an overnight backpacking camping trip with a tent and sleeping bag, but I love this bag so much I have considered getting the larger ThinkTank Rotation180 50L+ size for those trips. With prior camera bags I've owned, I hated having to swing the backpack off my shoulders to access the camera, or put the backpack on the ground to pull out my camera, vs keep the camera on a strap over my shoulders in front with the rest of the backpack in back. The rotational hip-belt system on this bag is completely unlike anything else I've found on the market, and I love it. I like this Rotation 180 bag even much better than camera bags like the LoPro Flipside and other companies' offerings that have a back-entry option and hip strap where you can keep the backpack on your waist and access your camera by taking off the shoulder straps and folding the backpack down in front of you. It's so much nicer to keep the shoulder straps on with this Rotation 180 bag. Even when hiking in the mountains, it's easy to swing the hip-belt around, access my camera, snap a few pictures, and then put my camera away and keep hiking without breaking stride. This is especially nice when out with my family who often aren't tolerant of a "stop to take pictures" moment, when there's snow on the ground, or when I unexpectedly see some wildlife. It's so much faster accessing the camera with this bag than with other bags that you have to take off your shoulders. Further, this hip-belt style where the camera pocket is not accessible unless you swing the hip-belt out, adds a degree of safety when traveling in urban areas where you have to worry about pick-pockets. When on vacation, the top section is large enough that I can get a change of clothing for a week, with my toiletries and extra supplies for a vacation in another small backpack that I leave in my hotel room. I then use this bag as my day-bag when wandering around cities or hiking. When I'm hiking, the outer jacket pocket, pouch for a water reservoir, and webbing loops for clipping panniers and extra gear is especially nice. When in cities, the pocket for a water bottle is great, and then I use the water reservoir pouch to hold a laptop or my iPad. I can fit a mirrorless camera with a 20-70 lens attached, a small drone, and extra batteries / charging supplies in the hip-belt. The latching system for the hip-belt works great, and is easy to handle one-handed. I only rarely travel with a tripod, even when hiking, but the tuck-away tripod holder on this bag works well. I only wish they made this bag in more colors. I also bought third-party velcro dividers to customize the storage spots in the hip belt the way I wanted in order to efficiently fit my drone and batteries and camera with lens the way I like it so that the drone and camera are both instantly accessible - as another reviewer noted, if you rely on the dividers that come with the bag, there may be wasted space in the hip-belt because they don't have good velcro attachment points to allow you to organize equipment vertically.
