The Gear, Equipment

I used a Minolta system till 2005 when I switched to Canon. I bought my first digital camera, the Canon 20D, in 2006. So, most of the images you will see are scanned images of transparencies shot using Fujichrome ISO 100. Till 2005:

• Minolta Maxxum 7xi
• Minolta Maxxum 700si
• Minolta lens 100 - 300 f 4.5 - 5.6
• Minolta lens 28 - 80
• Minolta 100 f 2.8 macro
• Minolta flash systems
• Minolta 1.4x and 2.0x TC

Present equipment:

• Canon 1D Mark III
• Canon EOS 3 SLR film camera
• Canon 20D SLR digital camera
• Canon 500 L IS USM f 4 lens
• Canon 70-200 IS USM f2.8 lens
• Canon 100 - 400 IS USM f 4.5 - 5.6 lens
• Canon 70 - 300 IS f 4.5 - 5.6 lens
• Canon 18 - 55 f 3.5 - 5.6 EF - S lens
• Canon 28 - 90 f 4.0 - 5.6 lens
• Canon 1.4x TC
• Canon EX 580 flash
• Better Beamer fresnel lens for flash attachment
• Lowepro bag
• Bean bag
• Wimberley head
• Gitzo tripod

All the digital images are captured on 1 GB, 2 GB, and 4 GB cards and transferred to an Epson P 4000 image storage device. The latter has 80 GB memory and a large LCD screen and is invaluable in the field. These images are, later, transferred to an Apple Macintosh Power PC to work on, using Adobe Photoshop. Back ups are then made on DVDs as well as on a 250 GB Iomega external hard drive. The Mac has been calibrated for colour and brightness using the Optix XR software.