Gear

The photographer takes the picture, not the camera. Yet, I don’t skimp on equipment. My roots are in PhaseOne and Nikon cameras and good glass I trust. Below is a list of “what’s in my bag.”

Medium Format digital camera equipment

-PhaseOne 645 DF camera w/ IQ 140 digital back system

- 80 mm leaf shutter f/2.8 Schneider Kreuznach lens

- 55 mm leaf shutter f/2.8 Schneider Kreuznach lens

- V-grip Air

Nikon digital SLR camera equipment:

- Nikon D-700 w/vertical grip (2)

- Nikon 14-24mm AF-S f/2.8 G ED (a favorite)

- Nikon 24mm AF-S f/1.4 G ED (a favorite)

- Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 D ED-IF S AF zoom

- Nikon 60mm f/2.8  AF-S macro (for rings and details)

- Nikon 85mm f/1.4 D AF (for portraits)

- Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 G VR II

Lighting equipment:

- Nikon SB-900, SB-700

- Alien Bees AB 1600 & 800 w/ Mini Vagabond Lithium Portable Power

- Creative Light 5′ Octabank softbox

- Creative Light 13″ Lightstand w/boom

- Creative Light Softbox RF Strip w/ grid (2)

- Avenger AVA630B Black Light Stand (3)

- Pocketwizard II (4)

Hardware:

- 17” Apple MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM

- Dual 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt Displays

- 2TB Raid Western digital external hard-drives, 1TB rugged LaCie firewire external hard-drives

Software:

- Adobe CS3 Design Premium
- PhaseOne’s CaptureOne raw converter (the best for the IQ140).
- Kevin Kubota & Totally Rad Actions

Necessities:

- A slew 4 & 8 & 32 GB compact flash digital media cards

- Rechargable AAA & AA batteries (dozens)

- Tripod: Gitzo carbon fiber G1128 MK2 and Manfrotto ball head 486RC2

- Think Tank International bag