I have often wondered why my bag is so heavy. Today I decided to totally empty it to see why it felt like my shoulder was about to fall off after walking for 10 minutes carrying it.
This was a simple set-up, with a single exposure. I was going to be all arsey and do a double exposure, using some of this gear to shoot the pic, then replacing it and shooting it again, then combining the two images.... Nah.
This was all shot using a Canon SX120IS. This is just a point and shoot camera, which is not a bad little PnS at that. I tend to use it in manual, with manual flash control etc. As you do. This pic was iso200, 1/200s, f/6.3. I used the flash on minimum just enough to set off an optical trigger. I had the optical trigger under an OLD Canon 299T flash. Now this is an awesome bit of kit. It was designed for the old T model Film Canon cameras I think. It is essentially useless to use modern day automatic gizmo wielding kids. The big upside of this flash is that it has a built in light meter, so it can actually meter it's own exposure for you, if you know how to set it up. So essentially it can run in "auto" mode, if you put the right settings (F.no and iso) in to it. Quite a clever thing for $30 on eBay... and at 30yrs old it aint too bad. It is not in my everyday bag as it is too big, and because it only has a few settings that I don't find any more convenient than my YN460II's, so they get space priority.
Esentially what you see in the pic, I carry most days. Sometimes I carry the YN460IIs in another bag, other times I jam them into the top of my LowePro Stealth Reporter 650 bag. If I add my mac-book pro, it all weighs a ton! This pics obviously does not include memory cards, spare batteries, lens filters, flash gels, camera straps etc, all of which ARE in the bag too :)
The 350D (Middle Row, Right) does not focus accurately any more. It may be a simple fix, but these days I don't have the time nor the mindset to play with unreliable toys. If I am doing a job for someone (paid or not) I cannot have gear that lets me down. I am going to have to get a new camera body to replace it soon.
I am falling in love (again) with prime lenses. This time I think I have keepers. My primes now are the 35mm f/2, 85mm f/1.8, 135mm f/2L and an old Asahi Pentax m42 mount 55mm f/1.8 lens (total manual control) These are all great creative lenses. The 35mm seems to be on my 60D most the time these days, seconded by the 85mm, then my 24-105mm zoom.
Anyways, 5 to midnight, time to hit the sack.
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