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Gear

I’ve been asked a number of times what gear I travel with, especially as it relates to photography equipment. I don’t always travel with everything listed here — really depends on the purpose and duration of the trip.

Cameras

  • Canon 7D SLR body
  • Canon Vixia HF100 Video Camera
  • Olympus point and shoot with underwater housing
  • Canon G12 point and shoot with underwater housing
  • Go Pro Hero 2

    Some of the newer gifts to myself!Canon G12

Lenses

  • Canon 10-22mm Wide Angle (replacement for Tamron 10-24mm wide angle)
  • Tamron 90mm Macro
  • Canon 100-400 mm (replacement for Tamron 28-300mm telephoto zoom)
  • Canon 50mm 1.8F
  • Canon 18-55 kit lens
  • Canon 55-250 zoom kit lens
  • Canon 24-105mm L series

Flash

  • Canon 580EX II External

Underwater

  • Ikelite underwater housing for Canon G12 camera

Camera Phones

  • iPhone 3GS (local Taiwan phone)
  • iPhone 4 (US phone and one I use almost exclusively for photos)

Computer, Software, and Storage

  • 17″ HP Wide Angle Laptop
  • 13″ MacBook Air (use almost exclusively now – battery life is unmatched for long flights!)
  • HP Netbook
  • 2 Western Digital 1TB portable hard drives (thank you to Dave from TLWH for this gem)
  • 7 CF cards, 4 SD cards
  • Shutter Release
  • Extra batteries and double AA’s for the flash and point and shoot cameras
  • Monfrotto Carbon Fiber tripod
  • Photoshop (CS4 Master Suite) for Windows
  • Photoshop (CS5 Master Suite) for Mac
  • Adobe Lightroom 3
  • Photomatix Pro

Camera Gear Wish List

My wish list has dwindled some since I just got several items knocked off!

  • Underwater housing and strobe for Canon 7D
  • Canon 35mm 1.4F
  • Strobe for Ikelite G12 underwater housing
  • Canon 5D Mark III
  • Canon 60D (for spare body)
  • Macro ring flash/strobe set up
  • New tripod
  • iPad
  • iPhone 5