The camera bag world is truly fascinating. The camera world itself has shrunk. Fewer people are buying dedicated cameras, according to sales data of the past decade. But camera bags are ever more proliferated. With the addition of the brand new Morally Toxic company, the folks behind 3 Legged thing are getting into the game. Their Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L was designed and had input by a team of men and women. What’s more, the folks are all different sizes and shapes. And perhaps this is what helps to make the Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L a genuinely fantastic bag.

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Pros and Cons

Pros

Cons

Innovations

Gear Used

Tech Specs

Ergonomics

Build Quality

Ease of Use

Conclusions

Likes

Dislikes

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The Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L helped me comfortably bring a lot of gear around in cars, on the subway, and while doing a lot of walking. I’ve got a few qualms with the dividers, though, as does most of the staff on the Phoblographer. There are also a few issues with the zipper placement. But overall, it’s tough to complain about everything this bag does right.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Comfortably held 22 lbs of gear

Feels good on the back

Lots of pockets

Storage for everything as well as lots of separation.

The dividers have pockets on them too!

Great to hold a flash, cameras, and lenses.

Cons

Sometimes grabbing the zippers can be confusing. Their placement is pretty close to one another.

Dividers I wish came in more sizes and usefulness.

I can’t figure out a way to rearrange the dividers to hold a Profoto B10 or an Elinchrom One light.

Innovations

The Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L is a camera bag. And quite honestly, it’s hard to innovate. But this is the only brand I’ve seen that puts extra pockets on the dividers. I’ve tested bags from pretty much every company out there too. It’s incredibly comfortable and fits a variety of shapes and sizes. They also put a lot of emphasis on the frog pocket.

Gear Used

We tested the Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L with the

Canon EOS R5

Canon EOS R

Apple MacBook Pro 2015

Canon RF 50mm f1.2 L USM

Canon RF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM

A Tripod

Tech Specs

Tech specs are taken from the Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L press info:

25L

Premium fabrics

Frog pocket to keep certain things dry and separate from other electronics in the bag

Storage in the dividers themselves

Laptop storage

iPad storage

Three colors

$309.99

Ergonomics

Here’s the Morally Toxic Valkyrie 25L. This is what you’re going to see on the outside and the front. It’s a nylon bag. And on the front, there are zippers and straps. The two straps you see here are adjustable and designed to hold a tripod.

There are pockets on either side of the bag to hold things like a water bottle and other random things. I’d probably stuff a hard drive in here or something.

Take a look at the back here. You’ll find various straps. There are the shoulder straps, which are contoured for your body. Then there’s the sternum strap which you’ll see lower down. And then there are the adjustable waist straps. These are super well-made and very comfortable. I can’t hate on this bag’s ergonomics at all–especially the lumbar support. In yoga, we’re always told to gently tuck the pelvis in for better posture. But this hugs the C-curve just perfects.

The lumbar support also doubles as the Frog pocket to store wet things. Personally, I avoid it. The rain cover storage is below the bag and not the same slot.

On the sides are areas to hold even more things, as you can see here. They’re very convenient. But they could indeed cause unbalance as one side is for a proper water bottle and the other is just for little things. Lots of little things.

However, it all stays super well-organized. The design team said that they’re all about organization and pockets to us, after all.

Now let’s starts exploring the front pockets. You can store a bunch of stuff in here. But I ended up really just keeping my Kindle here.

Underneath that pocket is another layer. You...