David’s gear

Cameras

My main camera is a Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR
Backup is a Canon Digital Rebel XT (aka 350D).
I also use a c. 1968 Canon Canonet QL17 rangefinder.

Lenses

• Canon 17-40 f/4L
• Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM
• Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM
• Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II (aka “the nifty fifty”)
• Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
• Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
• Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
• Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
• Canon 70-200mm f/4L USM

Hardware and Software

I use a MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2GB 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 3 duplicated external drives (acrosss two locations) and backed up online using the impressive Mozy service, Smugmug and PhotoShelter. I also use multiple offsite DVDs.