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.