I used to shoot NIkon and then I turned to the dark side well light side if you look at the L lenses but hey I jumped ship to Canon, good move or bad hmmm not too sure really they are both great systems and but a turn of market economics was to blame a nice shiny 20D came up to replace my old D70 and I just couldn’t refuse. Took a while to get use to the change of ergonomics and I’m still nto sure I dont prefer Nikons layout; never really got to grips with the big wheel in the center rather than a small where where the thumb sits, also I think Canon missed a trick for a long while not putting the remote wireless flash control into their cameras but having got a 7D not to long ago I have to say that wireless E-TTL is the dogs bollocks (as in good, as opposed to just plain bollocks which is bad).
Am I glad I’m a Canon shooter ….. yeah however I think the second hand bits on eBay are more expensive than Nikon but in consolation there are a lot more to choose from.
Anyways here it is the camera gear I have in my bag and almost never leave home without:
Bodies:
- Canon 7D
- Canon 40D
Lenses:
- Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 DG
- Canon 70-200mm f/4 IS L
- Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8
- Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro
- Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
- Lens baby Mk I with macro kit
- 2x extender
Lighting
- Speedlite 580ex
- Speedlite 550ex
- Nissin Di866 Mk2
- Miranda manual flash
Triggers:
- Yongnuo RF-602 wireless trigger and receivers
Accessories:
- Cokin P system filters
- Sandisk memory cards
- Joby Gorillapod SLR Zoom
- Manfrotto head
- Carbon monopod
- Reflector
- 2 x softbox
- 3 x umbrella; shoot through & reflector
- 2 x light stands
- 1 x stand with boom arm
- etc etc etc ….
- ah and a netbook to put it all online when on the move.
All in all I need a bigger bag and a Sherpa to carry it or bigger boot (aka trunk for those in the US) on my car (auto) at the least.