Photography Equipment
One
of the keys to photography equipment is knowing your photography equipment. Regardless
of your photography equipment, you need to know how to use it.
The most important photography equipment is the photographer's mind....but not wanting
to comment too much on my mind, here are some of the other photography tools I use.
Camera System Of Choice
- Canon 1D Mark II - Professional
DSLR (Best camera I have ever owned)
- Canon EOS3 - Professional 35mm
SLR Light Sources of Choice
- Natural Window
Light with Westcott Illuminator
- Metz 45 CL-4, Canon 580EX and Canon 430EX
- Photogenic
Studio Mate II (AC/DC) Strobe Lights
Lenses of Choice
- Sigma EX 15m f2.8 Fisheye
- Canon 17-40L f4
- Canon 24-70L f2.8
- Canon 24-105L f4 (If I only owned one lens, this would be the lens)
- Canon 28m f1.8
- Canon 50m f1.4
- Canon 100m f2.8 Macro
- Canon 70-200L f2.8
- Canon 300L f4,
1.4x, 2x
All the above Canon Lenses have the Ultra Sonic Motor (USM) for fast
and quiet focus.
Camera Support of Choice
- Bogan 3001
w/Ball Head
- Bogan 3021 w/Pistal Grip
- Custom Bracket and JustRight Camera Bracket
Film of Choice
- Color Negative Film Kodak 160NC/400NC
- Color Slide Film Fuji Provia
100
- Black and White Kodak TMax 100/400
Darkroom Items of Choice
- Besler Enlarger
(Only Black and White Darkroom Work)
- Ilford Developer
- Ilford Multigrade IV RC
Technology Helpers
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- IBM ThinkCenter P4 Workstation (2GB Ram)
- IBM
eSeries Windows 2003 Server
- IBM Thinkpad
- Epson 2200P Photo Printer and Epson
Picture Mate Deluxe
- Epson Inks using Epson with
Epson and Ilford Paper