As a five-foot-two female, I’m as a rule gulped by climbing camera backpacks implied to carry a lot of equip on bigger torsos. It’s troublesome for me to discover a comfortable camera bag for climbing. The NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is a huge climbing bag with movable shoulder straps and a well-padded midsection belt. And, on the littlest shoulder strap settings, it fits like a hug.
But there’s more to the Fjord than rich shoulder straps. It’s made from reused nylon. It can be carry-on compliant for a few carriers, however two diverse ways to grow it permit the same bag to carry up to 60 liters. If that’s not sufficient flexibility, the camera cube can be expelled, there are two ways to get to the primary compartment, and it comes with numerous attachment points. Be that as it may, there are a few staying focuses that may keep numerous photographers from choosing it.
Table of Contents
- The Huge Picture
1.1 Pros
1.2 Cons - Gear Used
- Innovations
- Ergonomics
- Construct Quality
- Ease of Use
- Who Should Buy It?
- Tech Specs
The Big Picture
The NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is a ample camera bag with extravagant, movable straps that fits like a embrace. A midsection strap and inner outline help take a few of its weight off the shoulders. Bounty of pockets, outside lock straps, tripod pockets, a helmet net, and a portable workstation stash implies there’s a wide extend of things it suits. The bag grows in two places, with a collapsing best compartment and two zippers to include more profundity. It’s nylon — but that nylon is recycled.
While the NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is a comfortable bag, it’s estimated like a extravagance backpack, not a nylon bag. Camera gear is troublesome to move, and the nylon can be a bit noisy.
While the NYA-EVO is a decent bag, there are decent bags out there for half the cost with simpler get to and calmer materials. If you need extravagant movable straps, extending pockets, and bounty of flexibility in an earth-friendly bag, the NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is a great but expensive option.
Pros
- Folds level, counting the camera cube
- Two ways to expand
- Plushly cushioned straps
- Adjustable bear strap stature and chest clip height
- Made with recycled nylon
- Lots of pockets and outside connection options
- Some water-resistant zippers
Cons
- Fabric is noisy
- Needs to be expelled to get to gear
- Pretty pricey
Gear Used
I utilized the NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C with a expansive detachable camera cube (sold independently or as a set). Both were given to me by NYA-EVO. I filled the bag with my own gear:
- Two Fujifilm XT4 bodies
- Fujifilm XF 18mm f1.8 LM WR
- Fujifilm XF 50mm f1 R WR
- Fujifilm XF 90mm f2 LM WR
- Flashpoint Zoom Li-ion III Flash and triggers
- MagMod diffuser
- Holdfast Swagg dual camera strap
Innovations
NYA-EVO as of late overhauled the Fjord — it’s not a totally modern bag. The upgrades are decent to see. The bag is presently made from recycled nylon, and at the conclusion of its life expectancy, it can too be reused to be turned into something modern. The camera cubes were too updated, and the bag comes in a few modern color options.
Ergonomics
The NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is a large, rear-entry backpack that is congruous with three diverse sizes of camera cubes. The pack and the camera cube crease level, so when there’s nothing reserved interior, this won’t take up much room in your closet.
Access to the primary compartment is through the back board, which unfastens clamshell fashion. On the interior of that raise board are two mid-sized zippered pockets. This primary compartment is where the camera cube sits. With three diverse sizes of camera cubes, the bag can be customized to fit parcels of camera adapt or a small bit of camera adapt along with parcels of other things. Any space not taken up by the camera cube is open through a zipper at the beat of the bag. This region grows to hold more stuff or folds/rolls down level for a more compact look.
The camera cube too folds level but tucks in the four cushioned boards, and the cube picks up inflexible sides to ensure equip. The whole front of the camera cube zips totally off the cube, so there’s no annoying fold in the way. Truly, why don’t more bag companies do this? Most concoct a way to tuck that best fold, so it’s not in the way. But if it’s detachable, it would be lighter and have as it were one zipper between me and my gear.
If you need to change over the NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C into a customary backpack, disregard the raise get to and utilize the beat raise zipper. This permits get to to anything put away over the camera cube but underneath the extending rolltop. There’s a detachable divider here that can be utilized to keep things isolated or it can be evacuated for get to to the full fundamental compartment. Interior is moreover a work zippered pocket that stashes the rain cover.
The growing best of the bag is a partitioned compartment from the fundamental adapt zone. The top can fold down or roll down and clip to a latch. Or, it can be filled to take this bag from 44 liters to 60 liters.
The front of the bag has a expansive zippered opening. Interior is the tablet take as well as another zippered take. Exterior this pocket, there’s another littler, nearly hidden zippered pocket.
Two zippers on each side of the front grow the sides of the bag to make the primary compartment a bit greater. This takes the profundity from 9.8 inches to 12.6 inches.
Both sides of the bag have water bottle pockets. With straps at the beat and expandability, these pockets can moreover be utilized for tripods.
Two detachable connection straps sit at the best and foot and wrap around the front and two sides of the bag. These can be utilized for things like climbing posts. The bag moreover incorporates a net that can hook onto these straps to carry a head protector or coat on the bag’s outside. And it’s moreover consistent with a hydration bladder.
At the raise, the shoulder straps can be balanced to three focuses, pleasing distinctive statures. This is a incredible include for pleasing littler torsos. The shoulder straps are exceptionally thickly cushioned and have a few flexible groups for joining more things as well as an movable tallness chest clip. The midsection belt is fair as lushly cushioned. But, if you don’t like abdomen belts, the belt can slide off where it is circled through the back panel.
The rich cushioning and movable straps make wearing the Fjord lovely comfortable. The straps don’t burrow or rub, and there’s bounty of cushioning on the back board of the bag as well. Completely loaded, there’s sufficient weight to make a few soreness, but the midsection belt and lightweight outline help offset a few of it. It’s not enchantment for overwhelming loads, but it is beautiful good.
Build Quality
The NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is made with recycled nylon, which makes it lightweight. The fabric too feels lovely strong; its Econyl has almost a center ground thickness. I’ve tried reused nylon that was more slender, and I’ve utilized bags with thicker, more luxurious fabric. It repulses water beautiful well, and most of the zippers are weather-sealed, but the primary zipper against your back is not.
While fabric feels strong, it’s uproarious — it sounds comparable to a noisy raincoat. I didn’t listen it much when strolling with the bag on. But, when moving around the bag to get to adapt, it’s a small noisy.
The Fjord feels like a quality climbing bag, but I’m not persuaded that it feels like a $500 bag. I cherish the earth-friendly nylon, but regularly nylon is moreover more wallet-friendly. For a nylon bag with plastic buckles, it’s expensive. The only fabric that feels extravagance is the cushioning on the bear straps and midsection belt.
Ease of Use
Because the waist belt interfaces to where the back board unfastens, this bag is not perfect for getting to adapt without expelling the bag. Evacuating the bear straps and swinging it around on its abdomen belt to unfasten the pack, you have to keep one hand on the bag or it will tip forward. This implies it’s not simple to get to equip without taking the bag completely off.
But, it is simple decently simple to convert the bag. The camera cube can be pulled out totally. Then, if you expel the divider, you can get to the fundamental compartment from the back like a camera bag, or from the beat like a more conventional backpack.
The midriff belt can slide out effortlessly if you prefer to go without it. Altering the stature of the shoulder straps is somewhat irritating and time-consuming, but most photographers will as it were require to do this once.
Who Should Buy It?
The NYA-EVO Fjord 60-C is a open bag with comfortable straps and an earth-friendly development. The flexible shoulder straps are very thick and, along with the abdomen strap, make a comfortable carry. The detachable camera cube and additional straps for carrying anything from ski posts to a protective cap make this bag very versatile.
However, this bag is very expensive. It retails for $419 alone, or $498 to $538 with the distinctive estimate camera cubes. I’ve attempted extraordinary bags for half that cost, like the Wandrd PRVKE. Camera bags estimated over $500 are regularly made with more lavish materials like leather or canvas, not nylon. Of course, reused nylon is more earth-friendly, but I fair wish it were both soil and wallet-friendly.
The other issue with this bag is that it’s difficult to get to equip without totally taking it off. That’s not exceptional for backpacks, but it needs simple raise passage or a fast get to side entryway that a few bags have. The texture can too be a bit boisterous, which may frighten off a few wildlife photographers.
Ultimately, the NYA-EVO has a comfortable fit for such a huge bag and parts of smart pockets. Those extravagant, adjustable straps may win over a few photographers, but it will require parts of cash.
Tech Specs
NYA-EVO records the following tech specs for the Fjord 60-C:
- Volume expanded: 60 liter
- Volume not expanded: 44 liter
- Weight: 2400 g / 5.30 lbs
- Weight stripped down: 2000 g / 4.41 lbs
- Dimensions expanded: 34 (W) x 70 (H) x 32 (D) cm / 13.4 (W) x 27.5 (H) x 12.6 (D) in
- Dimensions not expanded: 34 (W) x 56 (H) x 25 (D) cm / 13.4 (W) x 22 (H) x 9.8 (D) in
MATERIALS
- Outer body texture: 100% ECONYL® Recovered nylon, 200 Denier Rip-stop with thermoplastic polyurethane on insides and water-repellant coating on outside of the backpack.
- Internal liner texture: 100% reused polyester 200 Denier Rip-stop with polyurethane coating.
- Soft touch, speedy dry weaved texture for all contact points to the body.
- High-density closed cell froths for suspension system.
- Glove-friendly aluminum zip pullers and Woojin® or Duraflex® plastic side discharge buckles.
- Outside zippers are all YKK®️. Overwhelming gage for Arear zip and Aquaguard® zip for best and front zippers.
- Nylon webbing.
- Hypalon® base.