Photography can be a very equipment heavy pastime and it
can lead to a pretty unhealthy obsession with having the
latest piece of kit. Whilst I haven't signed up to
camera-persons anonymous just yet, this page could be an
indication that I am not far off it.
A lot of my equipment is second hand, sourced from
ebay. Some very
specialized bits are ordered from Calumet. For cheap
consumables/processing I tend to use mail-order suppliers
like 7 day shop,
IJT carts and
Truprint. I am
fortunate enought to have knowledgeable staff at my local
branches of the high street stores Jessops and Snappy Snaps.
If I am doing a model shoot I always, always carry spare
kit. This means that if a piece of equipment fails, I can
keep shooting.
90% of what I shoot is digital using high quality Canon
equipment:
- Canon EOS 5D
- Canon EOS 10D, D60 + Battery Grip (spare bodies)
- 28-135mm,75-300mm image stabilization lenses
- 15-30mm, 28-80mm, 70-210mm zoom lenses
- 20mm, 50mm prime lenses
- 50mm, 100mm macro prime lens
- Canon 380EX Flashguns
- Remote Switches
- Canon G5 powershot
- Underwater housings for the above
10% of what I shoot is film, using either 35mm or
medium format and generally shot to colour slide film and
then scanned. Whilst I have shot black and white and done
my own processing at college, this is not my favourite part
of photographic process.
- Canon EOS 5
- Bronica SQA + Speed Grip
- Bronica SQ + Speed Grip (spare body)
- 80mm, 150mm prime lenses
- Cable Release & Clockwork timer release
I find tripods extremely useful. Every cheap tripod I
have ever bought has quickly developed problems so I am now
using:
- Manfrotto 190CLB PRO + UNILOC ball head
- Benbo Trekker + UNILOC ball head
- Manfrotto 679 monopod + UNILOC ball head
For studio lighting
- Bowens Esprit 250 plus stands, umbrellas,
softboxes
- Portaflash 336 plus stands, umbrellas, softboxes
- Radio Flash Triggers and recievers
- Bubble Machine
- Fog Generator
- Coloured Gels
- Reflectors
- Background cloths and fabrics
- Light Tents... various sizes
- EPSON LCD projector
Printing
- Canon CP-300 portable dye-sub printer
- Canon IP-6000D Inkjet printer
Scanning
- Epson 4180 flatbed/film scanner
Storage/Backup
- Apacer Steno CP-200
- X-Drive II
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