My equipment
- I use whatever equipment is necessary for the photograph that I am after. Consequently I own and use a wide range of equipment. I take images using both film and digital capture. The following list gives a taste of my eclectic range of equipment.
- Minolta, Nikon and Canon film cameras including the two underwater nikons that do not require housings the Nikonos 111 and V.
- Underwater Housings for the above cameras
- Infrared triggers - designed and built for my requirements
- Olympus e series dslr system has superb lenses and can take my minolta manual lenses that are of high quality
- Canon L-series lenses
- Canon, Nikon, Kodak and Sigma (foveon sensor) dslr bodies
- Nikon lenses (including their manual 55mm and 105mm micro lenses - I like that the auto aperture still works on the nikon and kodak digital slr bodies that I own)
- Tamron lenses including their great sp series ( I particularly like my 300mm 2.8 on both film and digital bodies)
- Sigma lenses
- Tokina lenses (I like their strong build quality)
- Sigma dp2 merrill compact camera (if you can live with its idiosyncrasies it gives superb image quality)
- Hasselbad V series medium format bodies and lenses - you can get a large range of digital backs for this system all the ones I have used have been superb including a mono back by phase one, leaf and hasselbad backs. I still use this system with film backs to use black and white films and fujifilms velvia transparency film.
- Zeiss and olympus photomicroscopes with their superb objectives.
- Minolta autobellows
- A range of manfrotto tripods and monopods and the versatile Benbo tripod
- Linhoff view camera lenses that I use for large format photography
- I think that the "best" lens that I ever used was a 1980's 35mm aspherical leica lens on an M6 leica camera loaded with Kodachrome 25.
- In the field I use my leica binoculars to help identify birds that I am photographing.