David’s gear

Cameras

My main cameras is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II but there’s also room in my bag on occasion for the Olympus OM-D E-M5 and the much-maligned (pretty unfairly) Canon EOS-M.

I also use a c. 1968 Canon Canonet QL17 rangefinder on occasion.

Lenses

The lenses that make me money – the ones I use for most of my portrait shoots – are the 35mm. f/2, the 50mm f/1.4 and the 85mm f/1.8 – here’s why I shoot with primes for fun and profit. The others have come in handy too at various times, but I like keeping things simple, so have sold on a lot of lenses I wasn’t using that much).

• Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM
• Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM
• Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM (review on a crop body)
• Canon EF 35mm f/2
• Sigma 35mm f/1.4
• Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II (review)
• Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
• Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM (review)
• Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM (review)
• Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8
• Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM (review)
• Canon 70-200mm f/4L USM

(Lenses with lines through them are the ones I used to have but no longer use. Links from all the lenses are affiliate links to their page on Amazon (US) – if you buy them through these links they won’t cost you any more,  but I’ll get some money to help fund the blog. And buy coffee.)