This bag arrived in a fairly plain cardboard box with the usual K&F branding printed onto it, inside the box you get the bag itself, a couple of Velcro dividers and a matching shoulder strap for the bag. It’s a very nice looking bag with no painfully obvious branding or designs on the bag that might give it away as a bag containing potentially thousands of pounds worth of camera gear, which is always nice. There is a small stamped leather patch on the front pocket that has the brand name on it, but it’s not something that detracts from the appearance or is notable from a distance.

This is a good bag for all the basics while taking photos on the move, you can't fit a massive amount of gear into it, but you can quite easily fit a DSLR with multiple lenses and some other odds and ends like cables, memory cards and other essentials for a day-trip. The pocket on the bag which is shown as a tablet pocket feels a bit undersized for any of the typical 8-10 inch tablets most people own. It’s also not the most protected of locations as there really isn’t any external padding around the rear pocket itself, as it’s just fabric and a pocket with a hook and loop tab to secure it shut.

Overall I can’t fault the build quality like any of the K&F stuff, it’s very well put together, and arrives with everything they claim it does. With that said, despite the quality being stellar, it’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. The back pocket as mentioned feels like a bit of an afterthought and the carrying straps are very much in the way of you when you’re trying to access the main compartment. Other than those nitpicks it’s a reasonable enough shoulder bag. I’ve taken to leaving the carrying straps separated as when they’re buttoned together it’s just an extra irritating step you’d have to do and undo every time you needed into the bag, which isn’t ideal if you need to swap things with any sort of frequency.

The materials used throughout the bag are solid and likewise all the manufacturing is up to the standard you’d expect on a bag of this price point and the K&F brand as a whole for those familiar with them. Most of the hardware (except the tripod/front pocket buckles) on the bag are metal which has been nicely finished in a complementary colour to the material and the bottom is lined with a robust feeling PU textured leather. The provided shoulder strap has the typical padded section and it has more than enough adjustment for typical users. The modularity of this bag isn’t huge as it’s just a small shoulder bag and you only get the two moveable sections, but it does allow the interior to be adjusted to accommodate practically any type of camera or setup, within reason.

As for the protection, the padding is thick enough and surrounds the interior in every direction, although the top section isn’t quite as padded as the sides and bottom. The padding from the sides does extend into the flaps that make up the top of the bag and offers some protection, but it’s not quite as substantial as the rest.

If you’re not someone carrying a ton of gear this is a good middle ground before going to a much more bulky and cumbersome backpack dedicated for photography gear. You can get a surprisingly large amount of stuff into the bag and unless you’ve got especially large lenses or a lot of stuff, it’ll do the job for the vast majority of day trips.

The current price of £42.99 is the only real sticking point as there really isn’t anything particularly special about this and you can easily find similar capacity bags for half the cost if you’re just someone who cares about functionality and value. To be fair you are paying extra for the unique appearance and the brand name itself to some degree as K&F isn’t one of the hundreds of brands just shovelling generic white-label goods.