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Okay, let's get into this.
I’ve had a lot of requests, recently, about what gear I'm using.
People want to know details about the cameras, the lenses that have captured particular shots.
So I thought what I would do is create this video and give you a full rundown of everything
that I have in my bag.
It seems to be the sort of video that all photographers on Youtube seem to make.
I'm not going to disappoint.
I’m going to create that video today.
I’ll go through the current bags I’m actually using, the camera bodies and lenses and also
the accessories that can make or break a shot.
I’ve put links to everything down in the description for you to check out after you’ve
watched the video.
I’ve also reviewed many of these items before so there’s loads of good stuff in the descriptions
today.
Head down there and check it out.
So we start with… so we start with the bags.
This is my recent addition to my arsenal.
This is the F-Stop Sukha bag and is an absolute beast.
I reviewed it recently or previewed it recently.It just carries everything.
It is perfect my vlogging when I'm getting out and about up the mountains.
It carries absolutely loads and also has room for camping gear, outward bound stuff like
that.
It is waterproof.
It is an absolute beast of a bag and I absolutely love it.
This next one is a slightly smaller bag, for a sort of day-type activity.
It’s still got room for all your camera gear in the front here and there’s a bit
of space here for the things and accessories and things like that.
It also has room for your laptop and anything else you want to put in there.
A good bag.
It did me for years on its own.
I did use this in some of my earlier vlogs.
It’s a good bag.
It’s not brilliant but it’s lasted me well.
It’s in good condition and I still use it for those day type activities like shooting
a wedding that type of thing.
It is perfect for that.
Then we come on to my smaller bag.
I do like to travel light, as much as people have said I’m carrying loads with me at
the moment, which I am because I’m shooting video, apart from anything.
I do like to travel light.
Sometimes, I will just carry this.
I’s another one from Lowepro.
I don't know the model number but it is a small bag, enough to carry out one camera
and lens.
Then there’s bits and pieces for accessories.
You’ve got room for your cards, your batteries and a little pocket at the front here which
often I’ll put a microphone in.
A good bag.
If you want to travel light, it’s perfect.
It is nicely padded and will do a job for you.
Sometimes though, I don't want to carry any bag at all and I'll just have my camera strap
and camera with me.
This is the Black Rapid Sport R. It’s a great strap and it goes over your shoulder
and the camera will sit on your hip like this.
Camera straps don't come much better than this.
It means you don't have to wear the horrible straps that come with the camera round your
neck and make you look like a tourist.
Right let's take a look at the bodies and lenses that I have in my bag.
This is my current main body.
It is the Canon 5D MkIV.
I still haven’t released the full review of this.
That is coming, I promise.
This is a truly a superb camera.
It is, pretty much, the best camera I have ever used.
Autofocus, spot on.
Lots going for it.
Won’t spoil the review but an amazing, amazing camera, sadly, with a price tag to match.
I currently have on here the 17-40 mm L lens and that is, at the moment, my main landscaping
lens.
I have attached the circular polariser to the front and this is a great lens as well.
It is reasonably priced now and does a job.
17 mm pretty wide really.
You can get some really good landscapes and, if you attach this to a cropped body, it's
also a pretty reasonable walk-around lens.
A good little combo there.
So if we start off at this side, I have the Canon 400 mm F5.6 and this is my wildlife
lens.
I’ve said before, it is pretty much, I think, the best wildlife lens out there due to the
weight, the quality, the cost, all put together.
I think this is a truly magnificent lens.
It focuses really quickly as well which makes it ideal for capturing birds in fight.
Because of that lightness, you can hold all day and pan around.
I’ve made a few videos about it before so you can check them out.
We have the Tamron 24-70 mm lens.
This is a great lens.
It's not quite as well-built as the Canon lenses but the quality of it is absolutely
brilliant.
It compares well to the 24-70 Mk1 but it’s still going to capture great pictures that
you’re not going to notice the difference between this and the more expensive lens on
most occasions.
This does, however, have the image stabilisation which the Canon versions do not have.
That makes it superb for video as well.
This spends a massive amount of time on my 5D here for video, for weddings, things like
that.
Just general shooting as well.
This spends a lot of time on the camera.
Now we come over to this one here which is the Canon 100mm L macro lens.
Now, as macro lens go, it doesn't get much better than this.
It is also good for portraits.
When it comes to macro, it's got the stabilisation that corrects all kinds of movement, left
and right, up and down and backwards and forwards as well which is the difference with this
hybrid IS in here which just makes perfect for macro photography.
This is the lens I use for all my water drop photography as well as in the videos when
you see panning shots all the other gear, this is generally the lens that it’s filmed
on.
Amazing lens.
Again, quite expensive but a great lens.
If you bought this, you would never ever need to buy a macro lens again.
So we come over here and we have the Canon 85mm F1.8.
This is, again, another fantastic lens.
It’s in a similar sort of range to the Canon 50mm F1.4 but it is slightly better quality
than that one.
It might be a little bit too long if you have a cropped sensor body.
The 50mm might be better but if you do decide to go for this one, it is just so nice to
focus even at 1.8 aperture.
It never ever seems to miss.
Bokeh is beautiful.
I’ve not actually review this one yet.
I should do that at some point in the future.
A great lens.
One of my favourites.
Now, over here, we have the Canon 700D.
This is my main vogging camera and that’s what l use it for, on the whole.
But it is a decent camera and now you can get on the second-hand market for, around,
between £300 and £400 in the UK.
That is an absolute bargain.
If you're looking to get your first DSLR, I highly recommend picking up one of these
on the used market.
It is an EFS camera so here we have the 10-18mm Canon lens attached that, the STM one.
That’s a fairly cheap and cheerful lens but a nice introduction to wide-angle photography
for a reasonable price of around £100.
It’s sitting on the Job GorillaPod.
It’s a nice little set up for my vlogging I use that on pretty much all of my vlogsw
I've done so far.
Coming across to here is another EFS lens.
I used this on one of my vlogs and it was absolutely brilliant for a lens that is 18-135mm.
It has a massive range but the quality is excellent.
If you're looking to just have one lens with your EFS camera, then I can highly recommend
that for a reasonable cost combined with a camera.
If we come back to the 700D, I’ll just go ahead and switch that on and start recording
and I will show you the camera that’s filming this video and that is my 5D MkII.
I got rid of the 5D MkIII when I upgraded to the MkIV but I held on to the %D
MkII and that films a lot of these videos.
That currently has the Sigma 35mm attached to it.
That is a great lens.
Again those art lenses from Sigma are absolutely brilliant and really Canon and Nikon should
be worried and Sony as well about what Sigma are doing.
That 35mm that’s filming all these videos, when I'm in the studio, is a really great
lens and is perfect for walk-around street photography as well.
That 5D MkII, I absolutely love it.
I’ve been through hell and back with that camera and It has always come good for me.
So that’s the lens and bodies so let's move on to the accessories.
Okay, so these are my accessories.
These can make the difference between a successful shoot, well captured shots and then nothing
at all.
An example of that is the tripod.
In a lot of circumstances, especially if you’re shooting landscape photography, a tripod is
an absolute must.
This is the Manfrotto B3 travel tripod.
It’s absolutely brilliant.
I’ve been using this a lot.
It's small, it's light but it's also very stable and goes to pretty much the size of
a full size tripod.
I’ve, actually, stopped taking my full size tripod, which the camera that you're looking
at me on, the 5D MkII, is sat on a Manfrotto 055.
Again, superb tripod but heavy and big but if you need solid, stable base, that is the
one to take.
Filters are another thing if you are into landscape photography.
This is a Cokin system that has the filters that fit into the bracket that fits in front
of your lens.
Then you have the filters that you sort of slide into that.
That is what a lot of people use.
Systems like Lee, like Nisi.
I much prefer, however, the screw in filters.
I know some people may find that strange but it’s just how I roll.
You've already seen the circular polariser screw in filter I have…just dropping some
of them on the floor…also, I have this at infrared one as well.
That’s the Hoya R72, good infrared filter.
Then I have these two neutral density filters: one is 6 stop, one is a 10 stop.
They both screw in and you can also stack them to make it 16 stop.
The reason I like scew in filters more is… look how small they are.
That’s four filters there compared to the one big thing that you need to take with you.
I just find that screw in filters do that for me.
There’s no faffing about with attaching different bits and pieces to the front of
your lens and sliding in and out.
For some reason, I just prefer screw in filters and that’s that.
The next thing is this which is an anchor battery.
All that is is a rechargeable battery that will charge up your iPhone, your Android,
your iPad, that kind pf thing.
When you are in the field and you need that extra power, this is brilliant.
it’s about £20.
Plug this llittle bad boy in and you’ve got juice again to keep going keep, keep you
flowing and that has saved me quite a few times.
A card reader.
Straightforward.
You’re going to need one if you, especially, are using CompactFlash.
Then the shutter release cable here.
Very cheap piece of kit that will let you use the bulb mode on your camera.
Perfect if you’re using long exposures.
No reason to not buy one of them, so cheap.
Then a stack of spare batteries and cards.
Don't scrimp on your cards.
Buy decent ones, the best you can afford because they store all you pictures at the end of
the day and, if they fail, all of this becomes absolutely pointless when your images disappear
from cheap, rubbish cards.
So don't scrimp on your cards.
Then we have my flash.
This is the Canon Speedlite 430EX MkII.
Very straightforward, a flash is a flash.
It produces light.
I don’t find I need one any bigger than this, in the majority of circumstances that
I’m shooting in.
You don’t need to spend a lot on flashes if you don't want to.
You can get some very cheap second-hand ones on eBay.
The might be manual, they might not have the through-the-lens automatic mode but for your
external flashes that isn’t always necessary but a flash is a flash, it produces light.
They all, pretty much, do the same thing.
A nice little tip at the end here is a reflector.
This is a kind of travel reflector which can, sometimes, take your portrait photography
to the next level.
Very simply, if you’re just taking a headshot of someone, get them to hold this and then
the light will be reflected up at her face, lighting around this area.
It provides a nice, flattering light for your headshot.
Give it a try.
You'll be amazed at the difference it makes.
Again, these are very, very cheap to buy.
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in your bag.
What’s your favourite camera?
What’s your favourite lens and what is your favourite accessory?
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