Peak Design Camera Cube V2 review: Padded pouches keep your camera safe in any bag

Peak Designs two new digital camera dice sizes: X-Small and Smedium Picture: Jeanette Moses

This morning, Peak Design introduced two model new sizes of its Digicam Cubes: X-Small and Smedium. We had been fortunate sufficient to examine these new sizes out earlier than the announcement. The entire new V2 Digicam Cubes additionally get new waterproof zippers, greater important openings, fold-away lids, and 360-degree exterior handles.

Though these might not be as thrilling as a brand new piece of glass or a elaborate mild, they’re extremely useful and versatile equipment that make it straightforward to hold your gear and hold it secure once you aren’t taking pictures. One in all my favourite elements of a digital camera dice is that it provides you the flexibility to show any bag right into a useful digital camera bag.

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Peak Design already makes its Cubes in sizes small, medium and huge. These newly launched sizes sit proper under and above the present small-sized dice, making them a wonderful alternative for a photographer or videographer who likes to journey mild and favors a bag that does not essentially seem like a conventional digital camera bag.

Specs

X-Small

Exterior: 23 x 12 x 15 cm (9 x 4.7 x 5.9 in)
Inner quantity: 3.5 liters
Two x-small dividers
$49.95

Smedium

Exterior: 31 x 23.5 x 15 cm (12.2 x 9.25 x 5.9 in)
Inner quantity: 10 liters
Two medium dividers, one small shelf divider, one small divider, 2x-small dividers, one removable pocket
$64.95

Design and Building

The Smedium dice comfortably holds a digital camera physique, a further lens, and a flash with room to spare.Picture: Jeanette Moses

The X-Small and Smedium digital camera cubes each have a weatherproof recycled 400D nylon canvas exterior and a high-density foam inside – a combo that can hold your gear secure and sound whereas packed contained in the dice. The Cubes additionally function anchor factors that make it straightforward to mount into any Peak Design bag or strap, however they will simply as simply slide into any bag to create an on the spot digital camera bag.

The X-Small bag options two tiny dividers that break up the inside into three distinct areas. The Smedium sized bag options two medium dividers, one small shelf divider, one small divider, two x-small dividers and one removable pocket, which will be custom-made in quite a few methods to carry all kinds of apparatus.

General, the Cubes function an easy design, and the velcro dividers make it straightforward to change up the inside group to suit the quantity of substances it is advisable to carry.

In Use

The X-Small dice is a stable alternative when you need not carry a lot gear. It properly holds my Canon R5 with 50mm lens and a compact point-and-shoot movie digital camera.Picture: Jeanette Moses

The use circumstances for these two new sizes of Peak Design digital camera cubes are very completely different, however having multiple-sized cubes means that you can customise baggage relying in your wants. If I am heading out with a digital camera and need not carry a laptop computer alongside, I am at all times attempting to journey as mild as attainable and sometimes want to hold my gear in a small Herschel backpack relatively than certainly one of my digital camera baggage.

The X-Small digital camera dice suits completely inside my compact Hershel backpack.Picture: Jeanette Moses

The X-Small digital camera dice is a superb match for this; it comfortably match my Canon R5 with a 50mm lens and allowed me to slip a small point-and-shoot movie digital camera into the dice as effectively. It was additionally a pleasant match for carrying round a 35mm vary finder and an additional lens.

This straightforward, compact bag turns into a secure strategy to carry my digital camera gear as soon as the Peak Design digital camera dice is inside. Picture: Jeanette Moses

There are a whole lot of shoots the place I want a bit greater than the naked minimal, although, which is the place the Smedium digital camera dice comes into play. Its exterior is 31 x 23.5 x 15 cm (12.2 x 9.25 x 5.9 in), so it suits finest in a full-sized backpack. I favored utilizing this measurement with my Db backpack finest, because it allowed me to entry the gear within the digital camera dice with out utterly eradicating it from the bag.

The Smedium dice’s variety of dividers made it so I might comfortably carry a digital camera physique, just a few lenses and a flash; the removable pocket was an excellent area for storing further batteries or reminiscence playing cards.

Conclusion

The Smedium dice packed inside my Db backpack. Picture: Jeanette Moses

These two new sizes of Peak Design Digicam Cubes make it straightforward for photographers to show any bag right into a digital camera bag whereas nonetheless holding their gear protected and arranged. These cubes are notably interesting for photographers who get pleasure from carrying their gear round in a bag that does not seem like a conventional digital camera bag.

“These cubes are notably interesting for photographers who get pleasure from carrying their gear round in a bag that does not seem like a conventional digital camera bag.”

They’re additionally extra budget-friendly than investing in a conventional digital camera bag – making them possibility for anybody simply getting began with pictures. Though we love the idea of the x-small measurement, it could be good if this dice had a bit extra depth to suit a full-frame 24-70mm lens.

In the end, the Smedium dice can be a extra versatile alternative for many photographers because it permits room for longer lenses, further batteries and different small equipment. It is also sized to suit inside any fashion of full-sized backpack. Along with turning any bag right into a digital camera bag, the Peak Design cubes are a good way to maintain completely different items of apparatus organized even once you aren’t taking pictures. These are extraordinarily helpful digital camera equipment, and we’re happy to see Peak Design increasing the scale vary of its digital camera cubes.