Designed for cycling photographers, Walco O-Bag and MOVePAK are introduced.

Originally, the designer's merchandise image shop had little to do with the author, so it should be of interest to the big bosses who stood there (you can laugh). However, when the designer AmoreDainel's image store opened yesterday, the Taiwan Province brand WalcoDesign exhibited two different styles of camera backpacks O-Bag (left) and MOVePAK (right) designed for the cycling community, which aroused the author's interest and made a chat with their PM about the product design concept.

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Although the cycling craze is slightly less than before, it has not decreased significantly. People who are willing to travel by bike are in a stable state, and many people can easily take pictures when they see beautiful scenery on the journey. Because the camera function of mobile phones is getting stronger and stronger, the equipment used for taking pictures is also more polarized, either using mobile phones or simply using monocular cameras or interchangeable lens cameras. Mobile phones are of course easy to carry, but monocular cameras need to be packed and stored.

After all, riding should consider the physical load, most of them will carry a lighter combination, and rarely choose more than one lens to use. Generally, cameras use tourist lenses or standard lenses, and carry at most one fixed-focus lens. The camera bag you need is not too big, and it is best to have a portable design.

However, at present, there are few camera bags designed for cyclists on the market, and most of them use ordinary camera bags or bicycle bags not designed for photographic equipment. However, whether it is a general camera bag or a bicycle bag, it is difficult to provide convenient and reliable equipment storage for cyclists.

The two designers of WalcoDesign are a group who love cycling and photography at the same time. They used to ride with ordinary camera bags, but found that ordinary camera bags were not so suitable for riding, including the fixed way, the size of the backpack and the convenience of storage. Therefore, based on different concepts, two camera backpacks with different application scenarios are designed for cycling photographers.

Although the designers of the two backpacks are different, the idea of how to bag is the same, that is, to keep the design of the traditional camera bag zipper quick button. Although the double design will make it more troublesome to put the camera in the camera bag, the traditional zipper design can ensure that the internal camera is not easy to fall out.

Let's talk about the introduction of MOVePAK, which can be worn on the shoulder and hung on the bicycle faucet. This one-shoulder bag is a small-sized backpack, which can probably hold one machine with two mirrors flashing, or an entry-level Quan Huafu body with a standard zoom lens. Therefore, compared with similar camera bags on the market, MOVePAK specially measured the lengths of several tourist lenses on the market and Quan Huafu standard zoom lenses to deepen the depth of the camera bag, so as to accommodate the Quan Huafu fuselage with standard zoom lens combination.

The strap hanging on the bicycle faucet is designed with a press button, which can conveniently hang and disassemble the bicycle; In addition, considering the situation of stopping to take pictures after assembling the faucet, the front lift design opposite to the general camera cover is adopted. To put the camera on the bike, just lift the camera cover towards your body.

There is also a small storage area in front of the backpack, which can be used to put mobile phones, change and other sundries.

In addition, MOVePAK comes with a camera raincoat, which is generally covered from top to bottom. Because the camera bag is fixed on the faucet and needs to be removed, MOVePAK covers the orthographic projection area of the bag by turning it from bottom to top, which is a bit like the concept of backpack raincoat after photographing, but it is still rare in this shoulder-mounted small camera bag.

As for O-Bag, it is a shoulder bag with front and back design, which is designed for small-sized monocular cameras and interchangeable lens cameras. What's the difference between the front backpack designed for bicycles and the general rear backpack or one-shoulder backpack? O-Bag's round shape is also full of mystery.

When you open it, you will find that there is almost no compartment behind the backpack, and there are only a few small storage bags on it. Is it really safe to put the camera in the backpack like this?

In fact, this is because this is a front and rear camera bag for riding, so the front of the camera bag is set with an interlayer for fixing the camera. Putting the camera in the bag is the way to put the lens in the sky, so that the lens can be fixed through the front interlayer; When riding a bicycle, because people lean forward, the camera is just in front. When opening the bag, the camera leans forward slightly, which is easier to take out than the general bag design.

Different from the backpack with a back to support the backpack, considering the situation of the front back, the straps on both sides need one more cross buckle to fix the two sides, otherwise the front backpack will slide forward because of its weight, which will affect the flexibility of the arm, which is quite dangerous for cycling, so O-Bag also adds two cross buckles to fix the backpack.

However, to the surprise of WalcoDesign designers, although the O-Bag is a front backpack design, some female friends decided to use it as a back backpack because of its unique shape and the position of the back just at the waist, which was unexpected by designers.

Talk to WalcoDesign and others about why they want to launch a camera bag for bicycles. They think that there are many brands of camera bags now, and it is difficult to stand out in the fierce competition environment if the traditional concept of camera bags is introduced, and the bicycle photography group is growing gradually, but there are almost no backpacks designed for this situation in the market. Instead of jumping into the Red Sea, it is better to choose the blue ocean market without significant competition.