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The original Peak Design Field Pouch was launched many years ago alongside the very first Everyday Messenger bag and has been a fan favourite ever since. A few small tweaks were made along the way, but never enough to justify the V2 name, until now.

The Field Pouch uses a hook and loop system to adjust the internal volume. When compressed into its smallest size, the bag has a volume of 1.5L. When expanded to use the full length of the hook and loop closure, the volume is doubled to 3L.

A basic shoulder strap is included with the bag. As you can see, this strap is relatively thin so you would not want to go carrying any lead bricks around in the bag. For a collection of small accessories, though, it does the trick. And you could always up the ante by pairing it with a Slide Lite strap if you did want something with more width.

You can wear the bag on a belt like a fanny pack. The smaller slits are for using with a regular belt from your pants. If you use the larger holes, you can more easily thread it onto the waist belt of a backpack.

The interior of the bag has a stretchy zippered pocket, behind which you will find a series of small elestic pockets that are suitable for items such as memory cards or USB thumb drives. The zippered part of the pocket will stretch to accommodate large items like USB battery banks, or awkwardly shaped items such as sunglasses.

If you want to use the Field Pouch to organize your small items for day-to-day usage, there is plenty of room for memory cards, a couple of spare camera batteries, a couple of filters, your phone charging cable and a USB battery pack to keep your phone or camera topped up throughout the day. On top of that, you could easily get your sunglasses in there, your phone, a lens cloth, a pen and a small notebook. As far as EDC gear goes, the Field Pouch has you covered.

The Field Pouch V2 makes a better organizer for daily use items that you are grabbing multiple times a day while you are on the go. For photographers, the smaller size of the Field Pouch makes it much easier to fit into an existing camera bag, and the inclusion of the Capture camera clip rails is a nice bonus if you are already invested in the Capture ecosystem. If your camera is small enough, such as the Fuji X100 series, you can even use the Field Pouch as a small camera bag.

Anyone who owns a Nikon DSLR will feel very comfortable shooting with the Nikon 1 V2. Thankfully the update from the V1 added many external controls including a PASM mode dial. Video shooters will love the fact that you can adjust both shutter speed and aperture on the fly with external controls. All Nikon DSLRs from the D610 on down do NOT allow this degree of manual control in video. You have to go in and out of LiveView in order to change your aperture. This may seem like a small issue, but when you are on-location shooting video for a client it can save a lot of time.

The photo below shows my Nikon 1 V2 with the Nikon 1 30-110mm lens (efov 81-297mm) mounted on a very small table top tripod. When shooting video the diminutive size of the V2 has allowed me to put it in very tight or awkward spaces, capturing very unique angles and perspectives that would not have been possible with a DSLR or micro 4/3 format camera.

The video capability of the V2 was one of the primary reasons that I bought the camera, and I have found it to be very competent shooting video in 1080HD at 30p and 720HD at 30p or 60p. For typical industrial productions that I do like product reviews, safety videos, and YouTube promotional videos the Nikon 1 V2 produces very acceptable results and the limited number of frame rate options is not an issue as most clients prefer 1080HD at 30p. There is also a capability to shoot video at either 400 fps or 1200 fps. Resolution changes to a panorama at those speeds and the 1200 fps (320120) setting is more of a marketing gimmick than a practical application. The 400 fps setting, even given its small resolution (640240), can actually be helpful in specific situations where, for example, you may want to capture slow motion footage of industrial machinery in action; then superimpose the small-sized clip onto an explanatory graphic in your video assembly.

Since the Nikon 1 V2 is such a small, compact camera you need to be aware that it can overheat when shooting video if you try and run a continuous clip of 20 minutes or more, or if you use it capturing clips in rapid succession for more than 20 minutes. Under these conditions it will give you an overheating visual warning on the screen and shut-down, and will not be operable until it cools sufficiently. This means that the Nikon 1 V2 is not a good choice to do interview-on-camera scenes where long uninterrupted scenes or numerous back-to-back takes are the norm. I always turn the V2 off between capturing video scenes to help keep it from overheating.

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