AER Go Pack vs WANDRD VEER 18L Packable Bag

These are going to be more suitable for ‘true’ one bagging (ie when you travel without a checked bag). If you decide to opt against a checked bag, perhaps look at a packable day bag and one of your options above, or take a look at the Peak Design Travel Bag, as this is designed with photographers in mind, is effectively a big bucket of a bag, and can expand from 35-45l (although I think when expanded to the full 45l it is slightly too big for most airlines). For a daily carry, you ideally want to be looking at something 25l or less, even under 20l.

The are two big drawbacks I see and they are only reason I wouldn’t give it 5 stars. 1) For a packaboe daypack it is huge. No other packaboe day pack protects camera gear like this so it can slide but it still worth noting that it packs down 2-3x bigger than the competitors. 2) there is no good place to put a laptop, especially when you have the camera cube installed