Antelope Canyon - May 19, 2000.Film: Kodak Ektachrome Elite 100 slide film. 
Dixie National Forest - Oct. 1, 2003.Film: Kodak Ektachrome E100 GX slide film. |
On this page you'll learn what kind of 35mm camera equipment I currently use. The camera is just a tool the photographer uses to create photographic images. It's like paint brushes are the tools an artist uses to paint beautiful paintings. It's the eye looking through the viewfinder that sees and takes a good picture. A good or expensive camera just makes it easier to accomplish that end result. Many, many years ago in a Sunday newspaper magazine section, winning pictures of a photo contest were published. While most of the pictures shown were taken with expensive brand name cameras, it was a Kodak Instamatic camera that was used to take the grand prize photo. It's the content and composition of elements in the picture that makes it a good photograph, not what kind of camera that was used. When people look at photos, whether they're hanging on a wall, published in a magazine or stored in a photo album, it's the impact that the image makes that draws and holds their attention. For many years I used Pentax cameras (mostly LX camera bodies) and Pentax lenses. Their lenses were razor sharp and all the photos shown on this web site taken prior to May 2000, were taken with Pentax equipment. In the early spring of 2000 I decided it was time to start upgrading my equipment to auto focus to make taking pictures a little easier for my aging eyes. I switched over to Nikon cameras and lenses. I use filters very sparingly. I've always used UV (ultraviolet) filters on my lenses for protection from nature's elements, but lately I have switched to using 81A warming filters. I like the slightly warmer color that I now see in my transparencies. Occassionally I will use a polarizer filter. I recently purchased a Hoya "Moose" warming circular polarizer which I like real well. Following is a list of equipment I currently use to take my landscape, nature and wildlife photographs. Cameras: Lenses: Filters: Accessories: Tripods: Camera Bags: |
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Last Updated or Revised on August 28, 2007
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