David’s gear

Cameras

My main cameras are a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and a Canon EOS 5D full-frame digital SLRs

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
• 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)
• 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, I’ll get some money to help fund the blog. And buy coffee.)

Hardware and Software

I use a MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz Intel Core i7 Duo with 8GB of RAM. Apple Aperture takes care of organizing and almost all processing. Adobe Photoshop CS3 steps in for the rare heavy lifting (fixing perspective issues and some layer mask stuff that I’m not very good at).

Day to day images are on duplicated external drives including a Drobo (acrosss two locations) and backed up online using the impressive Dropbox (affiliate link) service, Smugmug and PhotoShelter. I also use multiple offsite DVDs.