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[Andy_T]

Bodies:
Canon 20D w/ Haoda focusing screen mounted
Canon G2
Porst M42 manual camera (ca. 1970)
Canon Ixus (APS )

Canon EF Lenses:
Sigma 10-20/4-5.6 EX DC HSM - takes care of most of my wide angle requirements
Tokina ATX 17/3.5 Pro: nice sharp wide angle lens. A bit slow to focus. Positively crappy lens hood/cap
Canon EF-S 18-55 (only used for reverse macros since getting the 17/3.5 and Sigma 10-20)
Sigma 30/1.4 EX HSM DC(my most used lens nowadays )
Canon 50/1.4 USM (beautiful for portraits)
Tamron 28-75/2.8 (bit of a lackdown, my copy is soft wide open, but sharp at f/4.0 )
Canon 80-200/2.8L (purchased used, f/2.8 speed and bokeh, but f/4.0 price 8))

Ex kit:
Canon 28/1.8 USM: fast, sharp, very similar to 50/1.4, but just not as sharp and fast as the Sigma 30/1.4 EX.
Canon 50/1.8 MKI: Optically identical to the new MKII version, but with metal lens mount and much nicer 'feel'.
Small, sharp, fast, my only reason to upgrade to the 50/1.4 was the higher 'keeper ratio' with the 50/1.4.
If you pay attention to the background in your image (peculiar bokeh of that lens), it's a great lens.
Carl Zeiss Planar 85/1.4 ... unfortunately I could not get a good adapter to mount this beauty in Rollei QB mount on my 20D

M42 mount lenses:
Jupiter-9 85/2.0 manual M42 lens
Carl Zeiss Jena 135/3.5 Sonnar MC manual M42 lens
Carl Zeiss Jena 135/3.5 Sonnar 'Zebra' manual M42 lens
Tair-3 300/4.5 manual M42 lens (part of 'photo-sniper'-kit)

Mono/Tripod:
Manfrotto 3021 Pro tripod w/QR tilt/pan head
Manfrotto monopod w/ QR

Flash:
Metz MZ40-II with EOS adapter (manual mode only) ... definitely an area of improvement

Bags:
Tamrac Velocity 7 ... small, inconspicuous, packs the bare necessities
Tamrac Velocity 9 ... great bag, packs all my EOS gear and is still on the small side

[neil_r]

Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII
Canon EOS 1D MkII N
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EOS M
Canon PowerShot G9
Canon XH-A1 HD Video Camera
GoPro HD Hero II Video Camera
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L USM
Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 500mm f/4.0L IS USM
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX DG Macro
Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 EX DC Macro (underwater use only)
Extender EF 1.4X II
Metz 76 MZ-5
Speedlite 550 EX
Speedlite 580 EX
Canon WP-DC21 Underwater Housing For Powershot G9
2 x Ikelite DS161 Strobes
Ikelite 6871.07 Underwater Housing For Canon EOS 7D
Ikelite Extended Modular Port Body
Ikelite 8 Inch Dome Port With Shade


And a collection of bags, monopods, tripods, heads, digital media, storage devices etc, etc that I possibly should be looking to put on e-bay, but I won’t

[mrclark321]

Canon 1DMKII
17-40 L
50mm f/1.4
135mm f/2 L
400mm 5.6 L
Canon 430 EX
Canon A80 ( Sons )
Canon CP 220
B+W 77mm CP
ND Graduated filter
Set of Kenko Extension Tubes
Manfrotto 728B Digi Tripod
Kata R-102

[stupot]

Canon EOS 350D | EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 II | EF 50mm 1:1.8 II | EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM
Canon Ixus 40

APPLE Powerbook G4 15"

[ssim]

The following is used by myself. In addition to this I have bought both of my children 350D XT's but I do not show them here but have some experience with them.
Bodies

EOS 1DX
EOS 1DMKIV
EOS 1DsMKIII
EOS 20D
EOS 30D
EOS 1DMKII
EOS 1DsMKII
EOS 1DMKIII
EOS 5D
Powershot G9
G9 Underwater Case
Canon Vixia HFS10 Camcorder
S70 P&S with underwater housing
S50 P&S with underwater housing
EOS 10D
The 10D has been permanently converted to IR by Life Pixel


Glass

EF 50 f/1.4
EF 16-35 f/2.8 L
EF 24-105 f/4.0 L
EF 24-70 f/2.8 L
EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS
EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L IS
EF 14 f/2.8 L
TS-E 24mm f/3.5L
EF 100 f/2.8 Macro USM
EF 85 f/1.2 L II USM
EF 135 f/2.0 L
EF 300 f/2.8 L IS
EF 500 f/4.0 L IS
EF 600 f/4.0 L IS
Lens Baby 3G with macro kit
Tamron SP AF28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)
Extender EF 1.4x II (two of them)
Extender EF 2.0x II
24-85mm f/3.5-4.5(not in use much)
100-300mm f/4.5-5.6(not in use much)
Lighting

Speedlight 550EX x2
Speedlight 580EX x2
Speedlite 580EX II
Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX
Quantum 1+ Battery for powering 550 and 580 EX
Lightsphere
Lumedyne Ring Flash
Opus 300 series mobile lighting. A variety of umbrellas, soft boxes and other accessories to go with these.
Opus OPL-SE250 & OPL-SE500 Strobes.
Speedlight Transmitter ST-E2
Quantum T5DR flash with a few different reflectors, umbrellas and a soft box for this setup as well.
Quantum Turbo 2X2 battery pack
Mecablitz 76 MZ-5 digital
Pocket Wizard 1 transmitter/3 receiver
Better Beamer
Sekonic L-358 Light Meter with Pocket Wizard built in trigger
Quantum Trio with Freewire
Elinchrome BXrI 2- 500ws heads with Skyport wireless
Older Film

Canon EOS 3
Canon Rebel Ti
Canon AE-1
Canon A-1
Several FD mount lenses
Mamiya RB ProS67 and lenses
2-Pentax 6X7 and lenses
Pentax 645
The Mamiya and Pentax are still used in some jobs depending on the client requirements.

Bags & Cases

Lowepro Roller 3
Lowepro Roller 1
Lowepro Nature Trekker backpack
Lowepro Commercial Shoulder
Tenba LL300 This is for my 300 f/2.8 L IS. What a great little bag.
A number of other cases too numerous to mention. The ones above are the ones that I currently use mostly. I also use a couple of hard sided suitcases to move equipment around on flights that I cannot carry on board. Works like a charm and they don't scream "steal me" like a Pelican type case does.


Other Stuff

Nikon Super COOLSCAN 9000 ED Film Scanner

This scanner accepts all film types up to 120/220. I purchased to start archiving the some 200,000 negative and slides that I have on hand. These are a mixture of 35mm and 120 films and transparencies. This beats a flatbed scanner hands down. Too bad Canon didn't make anything of this quality.

Epson Perfection 3200 Pro Flatbed Scanner
Gitzo 1325 MKII Carbon Fiber tripod with Kirk BH1 head
Gitzo 1345 tripod with Wimberly Head Version II
The Time Machine a programmable controller and intervalometer for special photographic effects
Wacom Intuos 6X8
Portable background stands and several different muslins and paper backdrops.

Software/Post Processing

3 desktops and 1 laptop networked together with 12 TB of disk space.
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite CS3 Premium Digital Film Tools plugins 55mm and Digital Film Lab2
ActionDex This is a small standalone application that helps manage photoshop actions. If you have lots of actions, give this a look.
Breeze Systems products Breezebrowser Pro, Downloader Pro and DSLR Remote Pro
DxO Lens distortion correction and now a raw converter too.
Neat Image Pro+ Noise Management Software
Nik Color Effex Pro Photoshop filters....lots of them
Nik Dfine 2.0 Noise Management software
Nik Sharpener Pro 2.0
Digital Film Tools Digital Film Lab This is a image enhancer for everything from temperature (on a jpg too), hue and saturation, grain, graduated filtering.
Digital Film Tools 55mm plugin This is a filtering add-in for photoshop. It comes with over 65 filters that can be applied from within photoshop.
On One Software This comes with the products Intellihance, MaskPro, Genuine Fractals, PhotoTools and PhotoFrame Pro. I could have lived without the framing tool but it came with the suite.
Phase One C1 Pro This is my preferred RAW Converter.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 licenses
Site Grinder Web site generator from within Photoshop. This is one cool product.
Photomatix Pro
ProShow Producer Image to video production software
Raw Shooter Premium This is a decent RAW converter but is now owned by Adobe and no longer on sale. It had its day and I don't use it anymore as it doesn't support my latest cameras.
Total Commander If you like a double paned file manager, you’ll love this one. It has a plethora of other functions and I use it for batch file renaming a lot.



You can see gallery of gear related images at My Gear Gallery


Some of my favorite Links

Canon EF Lens Chart
EOS Flash Photography
Where I buy just about everything

[Belmondo]

Sheldon:

All that gear might be spread out among your family members, but as I recall, you bought it all.

Makes me wish we were related.

[ssim]

Originally Posted by belmondo

Sheldon:

All that gear might be spread out among your family members, but as I recall, you bought it all.

Makes me wish we were related.

Isn't that what parents do. Now I'm just trying to get them to participate here.

[Adrian]

Here is a list of all the gear I use.


Cameras
EOS-1D Mark IV
EOS-1Ds Mark IV
Canon PowerShot G11
Canon PowerShot D10
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-V3
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F717



Lenses

Zoom
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

Fixed Focal Length
EF 14 mm f/2.8L USM
EF 35 mm f/1.4L USM
EF 50 mm f/1.2L USM
EF 85 mm f/1.2L II USM
EF 135 mm f/2.0L USM
EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM
EF 600mm f/4.0L IS USM

Macro
EF 180 mm f/3.5L Macro USM
EF 100 mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

Extender
EF 2X II
EF 1.4X II

Extension Tube
EF 25 II
EF 12 II

FLash
Speedlite 580 EX



Accessories
Manfrotto 475B Pro Geared Tripod
WFT-E2 Wireless File Transmitter
Wimberley Gimbal Head
LightSphere II
Jobo GIGAVupro (Evolution)

Bags
Lowepro because I like their stuff!

Cases
Pelican 1650
Pelican 1560


Studio Stuff
Elinchrom Style 1200RX lighting
Elinchrom Style 600RX lighting
Various Softboxes and umbrellas
Bowens Jetstream Wind Machine
Lastolite Background system with different backrounds

[calgaryphotographer]

Cameras:

Canon EOS300D

Glass

Canon 75-300 III USM
Canon 50 f/1.8
Canon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6

Accessories

Lowepro Mini-Trekker
Sandisk CF Cards
Canon RC-1
DVD Burner
Canon BG-E1
Canon 430EX

[cking2]

Canon 60D, Canon 7D

Zooms
Canon 24-105 f/4L IS USM, Canon 17-40 f/4L USM


Misc
Stroboframe, Bunch of Interfit studio stuff...


Wish List: Canon 5dIII, Canon 300 f2.8L,

[Sledhed]

Cameras

Canon 1D Mark III
Canon 1D Mark II N

Lenses

Sigma 15 f2.8 FE
Canon 17-40 f4 L
Canon 24-105 f4 IS L
Canon 70-200 f2.8 L
Canon 400 f2.8 IS L
Canon 1.4 Extender

Lighting

Canon 580 EX (2 of them)
Canon 430 EX
Canon ST-E2 Transmitter
Norman ML 600 Monolights
Pocket Wizards (3 of them)
Quantum QB1+

Software

Adobe Photoshop CS
Neat Image/Plug-in
Photo Mechanic

Misc

Gretag Macbeth Eye-One Display 2 monitor calibrator
Bogen 3030a legs
Manfroto Monopod
Portable backdrop
Pelican 1550 w/dividers
Think Tank Belt System
Think Tank Airport Security Roller
Think Tank Hydrophobia Rain Cover
Lightware Z600 Long Lens Bag
Upstrap

[Leorooster]

BODIES
Canon 1D Mark III
Canon 5D II

CANON GLASSES
EF 16-35mm L II
EF 24-70mm L
EF 24-105mm L
EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS L
EF 70-300mm DO IS
EF 100-400mm L IS
EF 35mm f/1.4 L
EF 50mm f/1.2 L
EF 50mm f/1.4
MP-E 65mm 1-5x MF
EF 85mm L
EF 135mm L
EF 180mm L
EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS
EF 500mm f/4 L IS
EF 1.4x II
EF 2x II

TRIPOD / MONOPOD

Gitzo GT3530LSV Two-Stage Carbon Fiber Composite Tripod
Wimberley Gimbal Type Tripod Head II
Arca-Swiss Z-1 Ballhead
Manfrotto 3021 BPRO + Manfrotto 488RC2
Velbon Neo Pod 7 + Manfrotto 486RC2

FLASH
Canon 580EX Speedlite
Canon MT-24EX Macro Twin Lite Ringlite Flash
Canon Off camera cord 2

CAMERA BAGS
Lowepro Off Road Camera Beltpack
Lowepro Stealth Reporter 650 AW Camera Shoulder Bag
Lowepro CompuTrekker Plus AW Backpack
Crumpler 6 Million Dollar

STORAGE
Epson P-4000
Sandisk CF Extreme III 8GB
Sandisk CF Ultra II 4GB
Sandisk CF Extreme III 4GB
Sandisk mSD Extreme III 2GB
Sandisk SD Extreme III 1GB

OTHER
POTN Strap x 2
Canon Remote Switch RS-80N3
Kenko tubes 68mm for Canon
Kenko tubes 68mm for Nikon

[GTogs]

1D Mark IV
1D Mark II N
1Ds Mark II
EOS 5D w Grip
EOS 20D w Grip

Red, Black And Green POTN Straps

Upstraps

Zooms:
EF 17-40 f/4L
EF 24-105 f/4L
EF 70-200 f/4L IS
EF 100-400 F4.5-5.6L
EF 24-70 f/2.8L
EF 70-200 f/2.8L

Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 XR DI
Sigma 12 - 24 f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM
Sigma 150 - 500 f/5.0-6.3 HSM OS

Primes:
EF 20 f/2.8
EF 35 f/1.4L
EF 50 f/1.4
EF 85 f/1.2L
EF 135 f/2.0L
EF 200 f/2.8L
Sigma 150 f/2.8 DC HSM Macro


Speedlite 420;
Speedlite 580II x 2;
E*****om D-Lite 4 it x 2;

Canon 1.4xTC, Canon 2.0xTC
Tamron 1.4xTC, Tamron 2.0xTC

Manfrotto 681 B Monopod w RRS LC
Gitzo GT3541LS w RRS BH55 head
Benro Travel Angel C-268M8 w RRS BH40 head

Kenco Extension Tubes

Cokin Filters

[foto202]

Body:
20D
A2E

Glass:
Sigma 10-20
Canon 24-70 2.8L


Light:
Canon 580 EX
Canon 430 EX x 2
Canon ST-E2
Ebay Wireless Transmitter/Receiver

Bags:
Lowepro Mini Trekker
Lowepro Slingshot 200
Lowepro Slingshot 300
Lowepro Computrekker Plus AW

Tripod:
Bogen/Manfrotto 3021BPro legs
Bogen/Manfrotto 679B Monopod
Bogen/Manfrotto 488RC2 Ballhead

Misc:
Custom Bracket
Lightsphere PJ II
Sofen Omni-Bounce
POTN camera strap
Stands,umbrellas,filters and other stuff

[corterlifecrisis]

Bodies

Canon 20d w. grip
Canon Powershot A85
Canon EOS 10S (film) w. grip
Canonet QL 17
Bronica SQ
Holga 120N (120)

Lenses

Sigma 17-35 mm F2.8-F4.0 EX DG HSM
Canon 50mm f/1.8 mkI
Canon 85mm f/1.8
Canon 70-200 f/4 L

Lighting

Canon 580 ex
Canon 430 ex
Sekonic L-308S
umbrellas and stands and reflectors
PocketWizards

Etc.

Phototrekker clone bag
Dynatron CF883 Carbon/Aluminum tripod w. ball head
Lowepro Mini Trekker
assorted memory = 7.75gb
assorted cords, cables, and memory reading devices
120 & 35mm film (Velvia please )

Processing & Technology

Mac 15" Powerbook
Adobe CS2
Lacie 250gb External HD
Epson Stylus Photo2200
Canon Canoscan 8400f

Wishlist

Sigma 30mm f/1.4