Canon 80D DLSR

This is my current interchangeable lens system. The Canon 80D camera is an APSC (cropped sensor camera) DLSR that takes truly wonderful images and is very easy to use. I purchased it with Canon’s 18-135mm Nano USM kit lens. My previous DLSR was a Canon Rebel XTi so I was able to migrate my Canon 50mm 1.8 (it’s since been replaced by a newer 50mm 1.8) to this body. I later added the wonderful Canon 70-300 Nano USM Mark II telephoto lens. It’s probably my favorite lens in my kit at the moment. On the 80D body its equivalent focal range is over 400mm.

Sony RX100 Mark VI

The Sony RX100 Mark VI is a complete camera system in a compact body. This little camera is truly the most phone camera I’ve ever owned; once I got past the completely non-intuitive menu system. This tiny beast has a 24-200 equivalent focal length with decently fast glass at 24mm, and not horrible on the long end. She isn’t great in low light, but no compact camera is going to be with a 1” sensor but it does well enough. In the full light of day the images pop with color and with a start-up time of about 2 seconds she is ready to take photos at a moments notice. The best part RX100 is small enough to go anywhere I go and has replaced my iPhone as the “camera I have” most of the time.

The Rest of my Kit

While the Canon 80D and the Sony RX100 make up the bulk of my photographic hobby they aren’t alone in the kit. I have a DJI Pocket 2 4K camera. This camera takes drone camera technology and puts it in your hands. It’s camera mounted on the world’s smallest gimbal allowing for some very steady video. I also have a DJI Osmo Action 3, which is an action cam that can used both above and below the water as well as survive extreme heat and cold while producing very steady 4K footage.

Then of course there is my current iPhone camera, the iPhone 14 Pro Max. While I do use it take photos with great regularity, the night shot mode is incredible, the iPhone spends most of it’s time as one of three devices I use for editing. Being the Max version of the iPhone its large screen allows me to easily edit many of the photos I take on all my devices. It shares editing duties with my iPad Pro 12.9” 2020 and of course my MacBook Pro 13” Early 2015.

The Bags

You can’t talk about what’s in your bag without talking about the bags themselves. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a bit of bag’o’holic. An endless search for the “perfect” bag. It’s a search without end, but I have come close and in doing so found a company that I like to call the “Apple” of camera bag accessories. The company is called Peak Design and their bags, while not inexpensive, are designed with care and presented with style. I currently own two of them, the EveryDay BackPack 1.0 (currently be phased out, replaced with the 2.0 version) and the EveryDay Sling 2.0 6L. The backpack for carrying just about every photographic item I own and the sling for carrying my compact systems like the Sony and the DJI Osmo Pocket.

The Software (Under Construction)

I use a collective of software solutions to make my photos and videos happen. Everything is on iOS or iPad OS and relatively easy to use, but also powerful. Some of them can actually be very powerful and at the moment still beyond most of my understanding.

LightRoom:

I use this on my iPad and iPhone all the time. Anytime I take photos with my Sony RX100 or any other RAW enabled camera, I import them into LightRoom for editing. In LightRoom I’m able to sort through my images, make my picks and do rather sophisticated edits.

PhotoShop:

LumaFusion:

This is an amazingly powerful non-linear video editor for iPad. It’s powerful enough to edit long form 4K videos. It’s not very difficult to learn if you have a general understanding of non-linear video editing.

Photo:

Darkroom:

DJI Mimo: