a bag from peak design!

Does it come with spare phone shown in the picture? It looks like side pocket designed to lose mobile phones from it. :)
 
Looks great...might be the first camera bag to make me consider giving up the flexibility of interchangeable inserts in ordinary bags. Wish it were a little smaller, but I'll give it some thought and decide if I want to back this project.

Thanks for the heads up, grand bag master in chief!
 
Backed. Seems like an extremely nice day bag. I think I'll stick to a more traditional bag for photography, but the two clip mounts and the large laptop compartment sells this for me.
 
i would trade off/sell bags more frequently if shipping wasn't so pricey…i'm actually currently pretty low on bags...
 
I can't justify $195 for something made in China. Sorry, just can't. Workers there make less than $1 an hour; so why, exactly is this bag so expensive? I'm not picking on them exclusively; I won't buy Lowepro or Crumpler bags for the same reason.

When will photographers stand up and say NO to being taken advantage of? If this wasn't a 'camera bag' it would sell for $50 at most.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I can't justify $195 for something made in China. Sorry, just can't. Workers there make less than $1 an hour; so why, exactly is this bag so expensive? I'm not picking on them exclusively; I won't buy Lowepro or Crumpler bags for the same reason.

When will photographers stand up and say NO to being taken advantage of? If this wasn't a 'camera bag' it would sell for $50 at most.
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*Sign* It's this argument again.

Let's see. First of all, In current Chinese cities if you are single and make less than $230 per month(from memory, don't know if this is outdated) you qualify for aid. That means that unless you're not registered and work illegally, the very least you'll get is about $10 per work day. But in reality very few people work at this wage level, just as few people in the US actually make (exactly) the legal minimum wage.

Now the wage-purchasing power divide would have been true a decade ago. But at the moment the labor cost gap between US and China has softened quite a bit, partly because of the stronger Yuan and partly because manufacturing sector wages have not moved in sync with inflation in the US. Current estimates range from 35% to 60%. Certainly not the $1/hour figure you quote.

Of course, I don't know what labor source Peak Design uses, and shame on them if they use illegally sourced workers. But realistically, it seems to be a nice and solid bag. People that can make high quality bags tend to be compensated accordingly. I also assume that Peak Design is a smaller company, and tends to drive costs up across the production chain as such.

Tl;dr: Super-cheap labor in China is largely a myth. Especially for high quality items.
 
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