Last Updated on 01/26/2026 by Chris Gampat
In May 2025, Two Red Tabs reached out to us to review their latest camera bag. They’re a brand new company — and from the email, it seemed like this bag was something completely different. Oh boy, is that the understatement of the year. This camera bag sat in my office for several months as my staff heard me complain about it over and over again. Finally, I asked Reviews Editor Alberto Lima to come by and take a look at it with me. Granted, I’m the world’s most experienced journalist with camera bags — I shouldn’t have to ask for help.
This is after I emailed the reps asking for help, who sent me a one-hour-long video about how to use the bag.
An hour? Really? I need an hour-long tutorial on using a camera bag?
After a few minutes, Alberto was frustrated too. In fact, I’ve seen him frustrated by products before. In this situation, he almost looked like he was about to lose his cool.
So I’ve sat on writing this review for a while. And I’m currently doing it in the middle of November 2025. I’ve reasoned this: if you asked and prompted an AI to make the perfect camera bag in just the right way, you’d probably get the Two Red Tabs backpack.
During my review period, I searched for other reviews from notable publications. The only one I came upon was FStoppers, which is more notable for not even hiring journalists or declaring when they get products for free reviews. This review on their website was no different.
So what’s wrong with an AI making a backpack? Does an AI understand how different bodies work if the sample reviews on the web are mostly made for thin, taller, Caucasian men? Does it understand how you need quick access at times?
No, it can’t. So instead, Two Red tabs took a bunch of camera bags and stuffed them into this one big, fugly backpack.
The only other camera bag that has felt this non-human was made by Gitzo a while ago.
I immediately have to say that this bag is very innovative in that it offers a lot of customization – perhaps the most I’ve ever seen. Originally, I wrote in this that the bag looks like someone with autism, extreme anxiety, and OCD designed it to ensure that no one was left out in the design process. But after a really, really long time and thought, I think that that’s wrong. Instead, the Two Red Tabs Backpack looks like a product of asking AI what the best camera bag is and it decided to put a bunch of bags into a single thing.
The bag also comes to you as a bunch of random parts not configured at all.
This would’ve been so much easier if they had sent it to us configured already.
Immediately when I look at this bag, I go looking for the backpack straps. I realize that I have to dig and dig through the contents of the bag to get to them. After two minutes, I give up and tell myself that I’ll deal with this another time when I don’t have a ton of work to do.
Plus:
- There’s too many damn ways to open the front of the bag
- The zippers jam like crazy and don’t let you smoothly open and close the bag
I could go on and on about the different ways this bag frustrated not only me, but a fellow very experienced staffer with over 10 years in the photography journalism world.
I’d be doing a major disservice if I didn’t write about this bag, so I have to be frank. This is the single biggest failure of a camera bag that I’ve ever seen — and I hope that the brand starts to make things for humans eventually.