{"id":2886,"date":"2016-10-30T06:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2024-01-14T13:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T18:27:55","slug":"gear-photo-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/gear-photo-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear: Photography Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Dave duChemin said in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/davidduchemin.com\/2016\/11\/choosing-gear\/\">blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we spent more time analyzing our photographs as we did analyzing gear, we\u2019d make much better photographs no matter what that gear is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How true.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, this photography gear page remains one of the most visited pages on Station Studios.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Digital Single-Lens Cameras<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>My main DSLR body remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/nikond7000\/\">Nikon D7000<\/a>. There is a lot to like about this camera, in particular the two user-configurable modes.<\/p>\n<p>For lenses, you will \u00a0find one of the following on the D7000:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/en\/nikon-products\/product\/camera-lenses\/af-s-dx-nikkor-18-200mm-f%252f3.5-5.6g-ed-vr-ii.html\">Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-200 mm f\/3.5-5.6G DX ED VR II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/en\/nikon-products\/product\/camera-lenses\/af-s-dx-nikkor-10-24mm-f3.5-4.5g-ed.html\">Nikon AF-S Nikkor 10-24mm f\/3.5-4.5G DX ED<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/en\/nikon-products\/product\/camera-lenses\/2183\/af-s-dx-nikkor-35mm-f%252f1.8g.html\">Nikon AF-S Nikkor 35mm f\/1.8G AF-S DX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigma-global.com\/en\/lenses\/17_50_28\/\">Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC (OS) wide-angle zoom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robin still uses a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/nikond40x\">Nikon D40x<\/a> from 2007. The D40x is a relatively small camera which Robin likes and the jpegs straight of the D40X remain in my opinion the nicest of the three Nikons we&#8217;ve owned.\u00a0 Robin also uses a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/en\/nikon-products\/product\/camera-lenses\/af-s-dx-nikkor-18-200mm-f%252f3.5-5.6g-ed-vr-ii.html\">Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-200 mm f\/3.5-5.6G DX ED VR II<\/a>\u00a0on the D40X.<\/p>\n<h4>Flash Equipment<\/h4>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been more and more interested in expanding my photography skills from using only available light to using flash technology. To that end, I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/en\/nikon-products\/product\/flashes\/sb-700-af-speedlight.html\">Nikon Speedlight SB-700<\/a> flash unit and a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/pocketwizard.com\/flextt5-nikon\/\">Pocket Wizard MiniTT1\/FlexTT5<\/a> wireless trigger systems. I&#8217;ll likely add a second flash very soon to complete my Strobist kit.<\/p>\n<h4>Bags and straps<\/h4>\n<p>To carry all of this equipment all around, I&#8217;m using two\u00a0camera bags for different purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinktankphoto.com\/collections\/retrospective-series\/products\/retrospective-30-v2-0\">Think Tank Photo Retrospective 30<\/a> shoulder bag for studio work;<\/li>\n<li>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowepro.com\/us-en\/photosport-outdoor-backapck-bp-24l-aw-iii-gy-lp37343-pww\/\">LowePro Photo Sport 200 AW backpack<\/a> for more active sporting activities like hiking and cycling. The Photo Sport 200 AW is the best photo backpack I&#8217;ve owned so far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve both replaced the standard Nikon neck strap with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackrapid.com\/all\/camerastraps\/single-camera-straps\/\">Black Rapid straps<\/a>. There\u00a0are a great alternative to traditional camera straps.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Point and Shoot Digital Cameras<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We&#8217;ve owned a number of smaller digital cameras over the years including a number of Canon SD series cameras. In 2013, I bought a serious new point-and-shoot, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/index.php\/notebook\/gear-sony-rx-100-camera\/\">Sony DSC RX-100<\/a>\u00a0and it&#8217;s been a great camera for cycling and hiking.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Digital Darkroom<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I continue to use Adobe&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop-lightroom.html\">Lightroom<\/a> as my main digital photo editing\u00a0tool; I&#8217;m up to version 6.5. I also purchased the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on1.com\/apps\/\">ON1 software suite<\/a>, including Perfect Effects, \u00a0for further processing outisde of Lightroom. I also added the Nik suite of photo editing software when Google made it free in March 2016. I&#8217;ve also made good use of a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\">Jeffrey Friedl<\/a>&#8216;s Lightroom plugins, including\u00a0 Geoencoding\u00a0 Support and PhotoSafe<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, I bought\u00a0a new computer (a Dell XPS) specifically for my digital darkroom. \u00a0For the display, I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eizo.com\/products\/flexscan\/sx2262w\/\">Eizo FlexScan SX2262W<\/a> color-corrected monitor and Eizo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eizo.com\/products\/accessories\/easyPIX\/\">EasyPIX monitor calibration system<\/a>. In early 2016, I added a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-tablets\/intuos-pro-small\">Wacom Intuos Pro Small Digital Tablet<\/a> for more precise editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Dave duChemin said in a recent blog post: If we spent more time analyzing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/gear-photo-equipment\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gear: Photography Equipment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","post_format-post-format-image","excerpt","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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