Hama | "Trekkingtour" 160 Camera Backpack | Black

The Hama Daytour 230 is a great backpack with plenty of room for a whole lot of gear. The whole bag is padded and seals out dust and moisture well. The harness is comfortable and includes a padded waist band making this quite easy to hike with. The bag holds a lot of kit: - two full frame DSLRs, one with attached 70-200mm; and the other with attached 24-70; - 50mm & 85mm primes; - 90mm Macro; and - three speed lights. with room for lots of other remotes, filters and general odds and ends, as well as a travel tripod on the outside. Despite the space, I use this bag mainly as a travel pack. I find myself usually removing the dividers from the top compartment and using it as a day pack, while I carry a smaller selection of gear in the bottom compartment. There are a lot of well thought out touches such as the water bottle holder (on the outside so water stays the hell away from your equipment) or the dedicated pockets for lens cloths, CF cards and batteries. I also like that the main access flap for the top compartment is on the harness side, so that you don't have to put the harness in the dirt to open the bag. There are a couple of quirks that don't affect me a lot, but you should be aware of: 1) The quick draw flaps are large enough for a big SLR, but not one with a battery grip attached. A 5D or D700/800 should be fine, but if you have a 1D or D3/D4 look elsewhere. 2) The internal Velcro battery pockets are a little flimsy and only hold one or two batteries, not the fistful that I usually travel with. Overall, a great purchase - I'm very happy.

I bought this bag as I my current bag was struggling to hold all my gear, the photos looked good and gave the impression that it would meet my needs nicely. The bag itself is good quality, padding, zips etc all looked fine. The problem I had was with the design of this bag. The curved design means that the depth of the sides of bag were very restricted, I really struggled to get the back to hold my 5DII, 70-200, 70-40 and 24-105. Outside of the 70-200, these lenses aren't that large, it was a real struggle to get them to fit in the side dividers, due to the lost space. In summary this bag could have been so much better, but it sacrificed practicality for design. It is very well priced, so if your kit consists of small primes rather than larger zooms it may work well for you. But unfortunately not for me.

A very good backpack. Room for a 5DmkII with 24-70 2.8L attached, with another lens (135mm 2L), lunch, waterproofs and spare battery/filters etc. Access to gear inside is easy from several angles, and the reinforced bottom reduces worry about putting it down on wet or muddy ground. The rain cover is good but the only downside is it doesn't quite fit around a tripod strapped to the bag. Overall, an excellent purchase, very good value and highly recommended.

It's surprising after deciding you need a new bag just how hard it is to find one that fits all your requirements! Amazon have literally hundreds and it took hours to whittle them down to half a dozen. I eventually went for the Hama Daytour 230 as it seemed to be a nice quality good looking bag and it's getting on for being a third of the price of the big Lowepros etc. which of course are great bags. This bag arrived via DPD delivery which was a great service and included an email and text to give me a one hour window for the delivery time (which was spot on). Very good delivery! The bag is a beauty, the dividers inside are far better than I am used to, it looks good, is far better made than any bag I have ever owned and sits on my back very comfortably when fully loaded. There are lots of little places to store items such as batteries, memory cards etc and there's even a good quality lens cleaning cloth included free of charge in one pocket marked specifically for cloths. I thought that was a nice freebie... The bag is tough and I expect it to last for a lot of years. There is one thing to consider before you buy (and this probably applies to most other bags too) and that's the dimensions quoted on the listing. There's nothing wrong with them but they suggest the bag is quite deep and I assumed large bulky items could be stood on end to save space rather than lying them flat. I even sat with a bit of paper and knowing the dimensions of my gear came up with a layout that would allow me to use the main top compartment soley for equipment and the bottom compartment for a plastic rainproof coat or food etc. When the bag arrived I quickly realised the top of the bag is curved and it's only the maximum depth right bang in the centre of the compartment and as you move towards the edges of it, it becomes more and more shallow. I knew as soon as I looked at it that I would not be able to fit in my gear as I originally hoped. Since I want to carry a Canon 5D II and a Sony A7RII, I need my glass to fit in well too but since it's all bulky stuff (Canon 70-200 f2.8, Canon 24-70 f2.8, Canon 85 f1.2 and a Sony Zeiss 55 f1.8) it wouldn't fit regardless of the number of times I tried rearranging it. That means the bottom compartment that I wanted free for other things is now occupied with a camera body and a lens attached and I have therefore run out of space. It is true that if I only carry one body at one time I can get the whole lot into the top compartment but not with both cameras AND my main lenses. I suggest you bear that in mind when trying to assess if the bag is big enough for your needs. As I said, I suspect many other bags will suffer the same problem, being curved rather than "square", reducing the total storage area available. I do believe, however, that it will suffice providing I don't try to carry everything including the kitchen sink, it is a beautiful bag and sits very comfortably on my back. Now that I have it, if I had to reconsiderit's purchase, I would still buy it as it's a cracking bag and it's so cheap compared to other competitors' products. All in all a great bag and excellent value.

I thought as it was made by Hama it would have been a lot better than it was. It's large and it's spacious. The water bottle pouches on the side are rubbish and of no use unless you have a tiny water bottle. The padded compartment for the camera is thick and well padded, the rest of the bag though is paper thin. On my first trip out the top handle tore. I only had 1 DSLR, 2 lenses and a waterproof jacket, not exactly a heavy load. Unfortunately it's being sent back for a refund. I wouldn't recommend it, even for a quarter of the price.

i own 3 lowepro bags and 1 of them is still my favorite as it has vertical side pockets with zippers. I bought daytour because i liked the side pockets mainly and wanted to add lenses to the external pockets allowing faster access than opening the backpack. Looking at the front side of backpack the material is indeed of nice quality. One disadvantage is the whitish reflective piping/ outlines which glow/ are fluorescent at night under minimal light, and this causes me problems when i walk in mountains and i immediately get spotted by passing by car lights etc. Definitely not the backpack for the more discreete photographers like me. The external side pockets are made of 2 materials, 1 part made neoprene which is soft but not shake-proof and another part made by another material which seems to be watherproof. Side pockets can be streched some more due to neoprene basically and allow 1-2 lens to be hosted each side, which i like a lot. The tripod holder is ok for a small tripod but the strap in the middle of the back is too thin to hold a tripod in firm possition. The bottom of the bag did not convince me it is made of quality material that will not be worn out, and seems it has no extra padded protection and is very thin to the touch. the raincover is black in coulour with elastic material and wraps around the backpack very well. Top of the bag we see a very well designed quality handle, maybe the best i have seen insofar. The most annoying part of this bag is at the back. The shoulder padded straps are very nice, but... they are very bad designed. They are sewed close to the center of the top of bag and when i wear the backpack it is 15cm above my wast, and straps fall back and sideways instead of staying vertical at the chest. As a lowe owner i have external pockets/ tubes that attach on the shoulder straps. Hama has 2 of those possitioned very close to the top of the shoulder straps, which pull back when i wear the backpack and the tubes immediately fall on my shoulders towards my back as well as close to the neck/ thouching the face. If you try to pull the straps down to balance pockets etc. you will find that there is no way to do that, simply because straps are very short for a medium fit adult body. The hip belt must always be used in order to walk comfrotably which makes me feel more stressed than without belt. the belt strap in the height of chest, does not lock parallel to the body, always moves diagonally and very close to the neck. i would not advise this purchase for an adult person at all. the possition of shoulder straps in relation to my body inc. hip / chest belt are definitely the worst i have seen in the industry in the last 15years. When opening the bag i realise another annoying issue with its design delaying the access time to the contents. The shoulder pad straps are sewn on the external (towards the front of bag) side of bag while the bottom part where the straps end are sewed in the inner part of the zipper area/ opening shoulder back. this means when you try to open the bag, you must move the shoulder straps to the sides, unzip from top to bottom and when approaching towards the bottom ends of backpack, you move again the shoulder straps (at the bottom) inwards to allow the zipper to move down. that is totally insane design implementation. Opening the bag we see it has ample space but in the sides of the bag the areas are restricted in a way because of the non-rectangual desing to the sides of the bag mainly. The separators are of low quality and velcro's are very thin and narrow (compared with lowe) and do not stay in possition on fabric sides very well for long. They are very small also, meaning you need to find some bigger ones from your old accessories mix and match to your needs. The elastic fastening inside the mesh does not even attach on the mesh, i wonder why is included .... The tiny pockets inside are eating too much space for nothing... who needs tiny pockets to fit 1 SD card only nowadays ? The black net pocket at the top of bag is secured by using two small velcros in the middle of it. If you have lots of filters etc, this small case will open imediately and contents will be spread in the mesh compartment. The bigger pockets at the bottom are not tranparent so you cant see what you got stored there, slowing you down to dig the right accessory. Zippers look fine at first but they get stuck when trying to close the bag especially at the bottom of it when the 2 zippers meet together, and sometimes in the middle of the route. Today, my day1 with this bag, i have fitted a panosaurus panoramic head, 1 micro to the external pockets, 2 lowe strap attachment tubes/ pockets which dont balance at all on my body and 1 tripod with its bag to the field. Due to the lack of proper side shield/ protection this bag immediately gave me the impression of another cheap bag in the industry. If the bag falls down and sideways i am not convinced inner side located contents i.e. lenses will not get damages. The bag looked gig in the photo but is smaller and if you want a very tight fit of many contents in a bag this bag serves for this purpose despite the dad design and quality issues. I will keep the bag for a while and i reckon i will sell it very soon. For me the price did not work and with 100GBP i could buy a lowe/ tamrac etc. with superior protection compared with hama. If i decide to keep it then i would definitely cut the hip belt and or the chest buckles.

good size day bag, easier to carry than shoulder bags when in great outdoors, cycling, scrabbling up mountains, crawling over sand dunes, wading through streams and rivers just to get the right shot. will take an slr and a couple of spare lenses and basic cleaning kit, has internal pockets for small ancillaries(couple of filters remote trigger) ,2 external pockets for water bottles or other items and a bottom compartment which I put rain jacket into(without fleece lining)which could also take a second camera or more lenses or small amount of food if need be, well built and I have found it comfortable on mountain hikes during the summer, although if you are a serious hiker that goes up in all weather and still wants to bring all your camera gear in addition to your hiking gear, getting all of this into the bag would prove impossible (lowepro 450 might suit better) .tripod holder in front of bag really only good for small travel tripod or maybe monopod. Rain cover is easily extracted but yet to test in really bad rain and if carrying tripod this has to come off to fit raincover.good build quality and would recommend it highly to especially to photographers who occasionally go off the beaten track

I was looking for a backpack which would comfortably accommodate all my camera gear and still leave sufficient space for food, water, overtrousers, GPS etc for a full day out in the hills. This backpack fits the bill perfectly, and has the added advantage that it can also be used as a conventional medium sized rucksack if the internal dividers are removed. It is thoughtfully designed, with plenty of adjustable dividers in both top and bottom compartments for items of camera equipment, along with pockets for batteries filters etc and two large external side pockets. All areas are easily accessed by zips. The backpack is just under 2Kg in weight, but is very comfortable to wear and has well padded shoulder straps and a good waist strap. It appears to be very well made, has a quality feel, and represents very good value when compared with other backpacks of a similar size.