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