Equipment

Body:

  • Canon EOS 7D
    An upgrade from my old XTi (400D). It’s a much bigger and heavier body, but it has more features and better controls.
  • Canon AE-1 & Canon AV-1
    I picked up these two 35mm bodies for pretty cheap and did a repair on one myself. They’re letting me try out this ‘film’ stuff.
  • Canon Canonet 28
    A 35mm rangefinder for when I want a small film camera to carry.

Lenses:

  • Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
    An upgrade from the f/1.8 “Nifty Fifty”. This one doesn’t feel like a toy and the colours look nicer as well.
  • Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 lens (with EW-65II hood)
    This lens, which is a wide-angle on a film or full-frame sensor body, works out to be a normal focal length on a small sensor camera. It’s also pretty good in low light at f/2.8.
  • Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens (with EW-83E hood)
    This is my favourite lens of the bunch, it’s really wide, and the image quality is fantastic.
  • Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens (with ET-65B hood)
    I bought this lens to replace my 55-200mm, which I thought wasn’t quite long enough. It’s become my main walkaround lens.
  • Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM lens
    My go-to portrait lens.
  • Lensbaby Composer
    A selective focus lens for some more ‘creative’ photographs.
  • Canon FD 50mm f/1.8
    This is for the AE-1 and AV-1, manual focus, but seems very sharp.
  • Canon FD 28mm f/2.8
    A wide-angle lens for the two film bodies.

Accessories:

  • Canon Speedlite 430EX flash
  • Canon BG-E7 Battery Grip
  • Lowepro Slingshot 300AW Bag
  • Slik Able 300DX Tripod
  • UltraPod II Mini Tripod
  • Garmin eTrex Venture HC
  • Canon Wireless Remote Control RC1
  • Canon CanoScan 8800F For scanning negatives and prints.

Software:

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
    I do almost all my photo editing and organizing in Lightroom. It’s a great piece of software for RAW processing and full image adjustments.
  • Pixelmator
    When I need to get down and edit parts of an image, I use Pixelmator, it’s a simple, but very fast and functional image editor.
  • Gimp
    When I find something that Pixelmator doesn’t do (or doesn’t do well) I fall back on the Gimp. I used the Gimp for years on Linux, and would continue to use it on OS X but it still relies on X11 and therefore doesn’t support pressure-sensitive tablets on OS X.
  • GPS Photo Linker
    A free piece of OS X software for geocoding image. I use it to encode coordinates in my photos.