Review: Peak Design Slide Lite Strap II (On the Sony a6000)

The new Peak Design Slide Lite strap is Peak’s most comfortable strap yet.

With the Peak Design Slide Lite strap, you’ve got a brand new option and some cool innovations from the favorite company of many outdoors photographers. The Peak Design Slide Lite strap is a camera strap designed for lighter cameras–like mirrorless options. But to be honest, I think that it’s more than good enough for most APS-C DSLRs. It uses Peak Designs quick release system and has soft seat belt webbing along the entire area of the strap. Additionally, the Peak Design Slide Lite strap has a very quiet but subtle handsomeness to it that in my mind actually makes it sort of stylish.

But most of all, it is adjustable and not necessarily caters to the less curvy photographer–or, you know, the one who wears a lot of layers in the winter.

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The Peak Design Capture Clip V3 Was Designed by an Apple Engineer

A special five day Kickstarter campaign is being done to fund the new Peak Design Capture Clip V3

Yes, you’re reading that right: there’s a brand new Peak Design Capture Clip V3. The Peak Design Capture Clip V3 has been significantly redesigned and looks much different from the previous two versions. The clip, which is designed to attach to your camera and securely let you harness it into their holster, is arguably the most secure way I’ve ever seen of using a camera without a strap. In fact, I’ve seen the new product a number of times this year and when I first saw it, I was wondering how Peak Design was going to improve on it. In my opinion, it’s Peak Design’s best product. For starters, they made it smaller and lighter–and it was designed by a former Apple Engineer. With that in mind, it’s mostly a single piece of aluminum with some moving parts.

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