Gear doesn't make a good photographer.
(This list is just for me; insurance and the documenting of fun memory sparks.)
LEICA Q2 Monochrome
— OH NO, starting that Leica stuff again (thanks airfrogusmc— 28mm and bw is my jam, but not sure it’s a keeper)
CANON 5DIV
CANON R, R5
CANON 70-200 LII IS ̆2.8 (too big to use)
ZEISS Vario-Tessar* 24-85 ҆3.4-4.5 (Conurus conversion)
ZEISS Distagon T* 15 ҆2.8
ZEISS Distagon T* 21 ҆2.8
ZEISS Distagon T* 25 ҆2.0
ZEISS Distagon T* 28 ҆2.0
ZEISS Milvus 50 ҆1.4
ZEISS Makro-Planar 50 ҆2.0
ZEISS Makro-Planar 100 ҆2.0 (ҧɛ屄/牛逼)
(Every lens has a B+W MC 010 filter, metal screw-on caps and a cheap Chinese metal hood.)
LIGHTING & SUPPORT
MANFROTTO 055XProB, MANFROTTO 468 Hydrostatic Ball Head, RRS B2-Pro II clamp
MANFROTTO 055MF4 (magnesium), MANFROTTO 496 Compact Ballhead, MARKINS QR-48S clamp
GITZO Mono Reporter, MANFROTTO 234 Tilthead, Arca Swiss clamp
SIRUI T-025X, 10S ball head
PROFOTO x4 Compact 600s, x3 Compact 300s
WHITE LIGHTNING Cyber Sync Trigger & Receiver
GOSSEN UltraPro flash meter
PROFOTO x2 Fitted cases for 2- Compact 600s each
PROFOTO x4 Standard Reflectors
CALUMET x4 Profoto Ring
CALUMET x4 Universal Ring Adapters
CALUMET x2 13.5' air-cushioned light stands
CALUMET x2 13.5' air-cushioned light stands w/roller casters
CALUMET x2 6.5' boom arms
CALUMET Nova 32 (24x32x16) Softbox
CALUMET Illuma Medium (30x40x14) Softbox
CALUMET Nova S36 Strip (9x36x16) Softbox
CALUMET Nova S56 Strip (14x56x22) Softbox
PHOTOFLEX 5ft Octodome Softbox
PHOTO FLEX x2 3ft Octodome Softbox
LIGHTFORM x2 48x48 frames, reflective & translucent white
LIGHTFORM x2 48x96 frames, reflective gold, silver, white, translucent white, opaque black
BOGAN 2x AutoPoles w/extensions
BOGAN 10x SuperClamps
METZ 26
METZ 64
3- 32GB, 9- 8GB and 3- 4GB Lexar IV CF cards
4- 64GB, 12- 32GB Lexar 1000X SD cards
SADDLEBACK LEATHER medium messenger bag
SADDLEBACK LEATHER large messenger bag
DOMKE PRO F2 (little bit bigger)
DOMKE messenger bag (unsecure flap)
THINK TANK Urban Disguise 30 (horrible for distributing weight & maintaining shape)
"SYSTEM BAG" (canvas, same size as Domke Pro, different slots)
LOWEPRO Pro35 16x9x10 Camera Bag (PCE091151), now pistol range bag
ADORAMA 53x14x7 Rolling, soft lightstand bag (LTCSLW)
BRISTOL 25x16x6 Aluminum shipping case, full with 20 bare SATA hard drives
FLUKE C550 Rugged Canvas Tool Bag, full of Bogen SuperClamps, hardware clamps
APPLE 128K Macintosh Carry Bag, full of light cords
NIKON FE2 w/motor winder, 28mm Nikkor
KODAK Retina Reflex IV w/ 50mm Schneider
KODAK Ektagraphic Carousel Projector w/3 lenses, 12 trays, stack loader
WORKSTATION
MACBOOKPRO 15" Retina (mid 2015) i7, 16GB RAM, 1Tb SSD Internal HD, 2Gb AMD
APPLE 30” Cinema Display
APPLE 23” Cinema Display
WD 2TB wireless hard drive with SD card reader
APPLE USB bus-powered SuperDrive DVD+/-RW
5x 4Tb external desktop drives
2x 2TB external desktop drives
OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock
Generic USB 3 dual e-SATA dock & card reader, portable USB3 card reader
XRITE X1 calibrator
NET
Airport 3TB Time Capsule with USB 2TB and 4Tb drives (Time Machine network backups)
3x Airport Express (one for optical audio out to Audio Research preamp (etc.); other extender and printer hub)
Airport Extreme (as media server) with 3x 2TB drives and 2x 1TB drives.
X-RITE i1XTreme Pro Color Management & Calibration System
3x LaCie Littledisk 500GB bus-powered external Firewire 400/800 HDs
SATA RAW DRIVES (19): SEAGATE, WD & HITACHI, 1.0 x5, 1.5 x5, 2Tb x7, 4Tb x2 HDs
CANON Pixma Pro 100
HP Color Laser
Brother laser
XANTE Accel-A-Writer 3G 1200DPI 12x18 laser
EPSON 4990 scanner
FUJITSU ScanSnap S310M document scanner
(BTW, WD MyBook enclosures suck!)
RELEVANT SOFTWARE
Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign,
Adobe CDs Lightroom 5, CS6 Master Suite, DxO FilmPak, PTLens, Nik Film, Perfecty Clear, Cut Out, Final Cut Pro, CaptureOne Pro, FontAgent Pro, SilverFast, Toast, VueScan
PREVIOUS TOOLS/GONE
LEICA D-Lux 3 (hated not having a viewfinder, high ISO noise is horrible)
RICOH GX200 VF (added electronic viewfinder (but weird, and then the whole thing gets big)
RICOH GRII
FUJI X100 w/Fujinon 23mm ƒ2.0 (Fuji wanted WAY too much to repair nothing and I don't like 35mm focal lengths)
FUJIFILM XT2
FUJIFILM XT-20
ZEISS 12mm ƒ2.8
FUJI 16mm ƒ1.4
FUJI 18mm ƒ2
ZEISS 32mm ƒ1.8
FUJI 56mm ƒ1.2
FUJI 16-55 ƒ2.8
FUJI 50-140mm ƒ2.8
(Every lens has a B+W MC 010 filter)
CANON 1Ds, 1DsII, 1DsIII,
CANON 5D x3, 1- armored & gripped (yep, 3 5D's; nothing was better as a spare body)
CANON 5DII w/RRS L-bracket w/Eg-S
CANON 5DIII w/custom-made Precision Matte focus screen
CANON 5D and 5DIII Canon battery grips (why? to hold a battery? as a vertical grip, it's just not right, but I keep falling for them, maybe because I miss the 1D-series.)
CANON ZOOMS: 28-70mm 2.8L, 24-70mm 2.8L (both about the same, boring), 35-70 f3.5-4.5 II, 70-200 4.0L IS (stellar!), CANON 16-35 LII ƒ2.8 (almost usable at 2.8, really ƒ8-11), 16-35 ƒ4LIS, CANON 16-35 LIII ƒ2.8
CANON PRIMES: 24 1.4L, 28ƒ2.8IS, 35ƒ2IS, 35 1.4L, 35ƒ1.4LII, 2x 50 1.2L(UV), 2x 50 1.4, 85 1.8, 85 1.2L, CANON 200 LII ƒ2.8, 300 ƒ4.0L IS
CANON TE 1.4x
CANON TE 1.4x II
VOIGTLANDER 20 ƒ3.5 (too much vignette and not too sharp until ƒ11)
VOIGTLANDER 28 ƒ2.8 (I already had a pretty small, faster, much better 28 ƒ2ZE)
VOIGTLANDER 40 ƒ2.0 (very hard to sell. hard to grip for focus, needs 5.6-f8)
TAMRON SP DI VC 45 ƒ1.8 (I don't know, too many 50mm lenses? Nice lens, but no regrets)
TAMRON SP DI VC 85 ƒ1.8 (Milvus is sharper, has better transitions, softer when it should be. Very nice lens; hard to sell)
TAMRON Tap-in dock
ROKINON 14 ƒ2.8 (get the focus confirm version!)
SIGMA 35 1.4 Art (couldn't focus in dim light, sharp but no personality)
MINOLTA ROKKOR MC 58 ƒ1.2 (Buchanan parts conversion, done myself. I had it cleaned and the tech was pissed at his job and tossed a box of lenses; I had to sell it, even after re-repair)
ZEISS PRIMES/ZE: 50mm ƒ1.4 Distagon T*, Distagon T* 35mm f2 (twice!), 35mm f1.4 (I apparently don't like 35mm focal lengths), ZEISS Milvus 85 ƒ1.4 (lovely, but I have the 100 Zeiss and I wanted AF at this focal length).
ZEISS Olympic Sonnar 180 2.8 w/Fotodiox Pro EF adapter
ZUIKO 300 2.8 w/Fotodiox (mid) EF adapter (sharp at 4.5, no vignetting, sized/weighted like 135L--just for fun, had it for 4 days)
LEICA R4 (x2), R8, R9 (the entire R-system has no durability)
LEICA R-Lenses 19mm 2.8 Elmarit, 24mm 1.4 Summilux, 35mm 2.0 Summicron, 60mm 2.8 Macro-Planar, 90mm 2.0 Summicron, 135mm 2.8 Elmarit, 180mm 2.8 APO, 35-70mm 4.0 (3.5?) Vario-Sonnnar
LEICA M3, M6, M8 (really never loved rangefinders)
LEITZ M-Lenses 35mm 1.4 Summilux, 75mm 1.4 Summilux, 90mm 2.8 Elmarit, 135mm 2.8 Tele-Elmarit
NIKON F-series Bodies (5 total, 2-F3, 2- F2 black to the brass, FM)
NIKKOR AI Lenses 20mm, 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 55 macro, 85mm, 100mm, 135mm, 180mm, 300mm, 400mm, 500mm, 800mm
HASSELBLAD 500 C/M, EL with waist level and prism finders, multiple 120 and polaroid backs
HASSELBLAD SWC (curvilinearly corrected 38mm!)
HASSELBLAD/ZEISS Lenses 50mm 4.0 Distagon, 80mm 2.8 Planar T*, 120mm, 180mm, rail/bellows-style hood
MAMIYA 645 (1975) with waist level and pentaprism finder
MAMIYA SEKOR LENSES 45 2.8, 80 2.8, 210 4.0 (I don't like Mamiya lenses)
BRONICA ETRs (1978) with waist level and AE-2 prism finders, multiple 120 backs
BRONICA ZENZANON/ZEISS lenses: 50mm 2.8, 75 2.8, 150mm 3.5, rail/bellows-style hood
APPLE digital camera (1.3Mb, 480x640)
Olympus 10D 6MP digital camera with zoom lens
GITZO cable releases
GOSSEN Luna Pro SBCs (x2), copy attachment, dual spot attachment, flash attachment
SOLIGOR II 1°Spotmeter
CANON 580 flash, Gary Fong lightsphere (never used either)
VIVITAR 283 (x2) & 285 with Quantum Battery, snap-on bounce cards, various diffusers
VIVITAR 285
SINAR 4x5 F standards (x2), 4x5 P and 8x10 P standards (1 ea.), extension rails, bag bellows,
POLAROID 545 back, 24- 4x5 holders, 8- 8x10 holders
SCHNEIDER Lenses 75mm, 90mm, 120mm, 180mm (w/Copal shutters on boards)
PROFOTO Pro-2 2400 packs (x4), 6- Heads, Focusing Spot, Ringlight, 2- Stick Lights, 2- PROFOTO (2 ea.) 2x4 softboxes, 2- Umbrellas, 2- SuperBooms on caster stands
GITZO 326 Tele Studex w/Rationale 2B Head (went away with the 120 cameras)
GITZO Tele Studex w/MAJESTIC Gear Head (went away with the Sinars)
LEITZ Tilt-All tripod (went away for the Gitzos)
STAR-D tripod (went away for the Tilt-All)
TOYO 4x5 (went away for the Sinars)
CALUMET 4x5 (went away for the Toyo)
SPEEDGRAPHIC 4x5 (went away for the Calumet)
LIGHT IMPRESSIONS Slide sorting table w/rack
LEITZ/LEICA 2-1/4 slide projector
SEAL dry mount press
i used to be indecisive, now i'm not so sure
Macintoshs since 1984: 128K, multiple 512K, 2x 68020 upgrades (MonsterMac), internal and external 20Mb HDs (chuckle)
MacII, IIx, IIcx (all with double-stacked RAM and 100Mb HDs!!)
SuperMac S900 & PowerComputing 601e clones
21in SuperMac monitors (x3), SuperMac Thunder/24 video cards (x3) and Daystar NuBus DSP graphic accelerators (x3)
Macintosh Quadra, G3, G4
Mac Portable (1986), Mac Powerbook Lombard and Wallstreet (1998-2001), Mac Powerbook (early 2003), MacBook (late 2008), 13" MacBook Pros (early 2010, mid 2012, early 2014)
MacPro PPC with Apple 20in Cinema Display
DEAD, don’t ever buy:
4x LaCie Rugged 2TB thunderbolt bus-powered drives
1- LaCie Rugged 4TB external USB3/TB2 bus-powered drive
Last desktop:
MACPRO Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz (Jan 2008 design) 16GB RAM | Apple 30in Cinema Display | Dual SuperDrives (neither working) | 4-port USB PCIe card, FW400/800 PCIe card, eSATA 6G PCIe card | 1.5Tb Internal HDs x2 | 2Tb Internal HDs x2 | NEWER TECH Voyager Q eSATA/FW800/400/USB Drive Bay x2
MACBOOKPRO 13 (mid 2012) i7 | 8GB RAM | 750GB HYBRID SSD | 256GB SSD | No optical drive
Apple LaserWriters (original, II), NewGen tabloid laser, Apple Imagewriters (I & II w/sheet feeder— a work of art)
Apple and Agfa scanners, 3G scanner with custom transparency bar (I forget who made it), Thunderscan scanning head (on ImageWriter printer)
HP 8750 color inkjet
AppleOne 1.3Mp digital camera
Olympus Cameda 6Mp digital camera (with PC-sync to my studio strobes!)
SyQuest 44Mb, 88Mb drives, Jaz 1Gb, 2Gb drives, Zip 100, 200 (tons of media, multiple drives of each format)
Dayna Drive, SCSI interface, PC 5-¼" floppy disk drive 360 & 720Kb, later 720Kb & 3-½" semi-rigid 1.4Mb
Applicable Software: Mac OS 1.2, MacWrite v1, MacDraw, MacPaint, Paint Cutter, Silicon Beach Digital Darkroom 1.0, Ready, Set, Go! 1.0, PageMaker beta v1, Freehand, Design Studio beta v1, Photoshop v1, Canvas v1, InDesign v1
(All software obviously updated constantly)
Red Ryder BBS on Hayes Ultra9600 Modems with V-tech adapters
Custom stolchastic screen PPDs for my imagesetter, logged up some firewood
Tektronics 480 12x18 Dye Sub proofer
X-Rite 341 transmission and 400 reflection densitometers
Varityper 4990 imagesetter
LogE 26" deep tank processor
Originally wired with 10BaseT thin-net in 1989, then 10Base2
Kroy color transfer system
Then there's the whole darkroom list that's mostly all sold off...
Agfa ReproGraphic 20x24 stat camera, PMT processor
Omega D5, turret with 50mm, 80mm and 150mm Schneiders
SAUNDERS easels, 4-bladed, 20x24, 16x20, 11x14
Thomas Duplex safelight, drum processing system
5x GRALAB timers
LEEDAL 16x20 archival film washer (vertical)
FOR SALE PM IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SOME QUALITY DARKROOM STUFF
roll film hanging dryer, leedal water temp control, 7' stainless sink and treated & polyurethaned wood 4x4/lag bolt stand, LOTS more
tons of stainless film canisters and 135 and 120 reels, stainless mixing beakers
7' Darkroom Aids stainless steel sink
THOMAS scoponet grain focuser
LEEDAL water temp control
CESCOLITE trays 8x10 to 20x24 (maybe 20 total)
KODAK hard rubber tanks, floating lids and 4x5 hangers
ZONE V conical roll film washer
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