p.1 #1 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
Your at home.
You love photography.
People ask you all the time to do jobs for them.
You make ends meet.
You are happy.
You never turn down a job and you really don't have a specific field of choice, you just love photography.
Lets say you were ambivalent about gear. You did not read the forums, visits the rumor sites or hang out at the camera shop. Fun was not the gear. Fun was the shooting. You really just wanted your tools for the job. Your hammer, your nails. You did not covet special coatings, special stabilization, special builds, special anything. You just saw a lens as a lens and a camera as a camera.
What modern day camera or cameras, lens or lenses and why? How simple could you go?
I personally love gear. But I was asked this question and I was a bit stumped.
Obviously you would be limited in certain areas but you could be a well rounded photog who could hit the basics of any field and your work would be just fine.
p.1 #2 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
I would probably be very happy with a D700 and any 24-70 for stills. But I also like video so in that case For video a D600 or if I was splurging a D800 and any 24-70. No filters. Nice tripod. A few extra batteries.
p.1 #4 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
Well, if you take the techy BS out of the equation, and just want to shoot for "the love of photography"....i'd prob have a d3 and 28-300 lol...but i'm too much of a gear whore to settle for that lol
p.1 #8 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
NathanHamler wrote:
Well, if you take the techy BS out of the equation, and just want to shoot for "the love of photography"....i'd prob have a d3 and 28-300 lol...but i'm too much of a gear whore to settle for that lol
p.1 #11 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
My uncle's D800 + 24-70 is just an amazing work horse but I can't imagine carrying $5000 around. Maybe just a D700 with the 28-70(beast) will do if my shoulders or hands to get too tired lol.
p.1 #14 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
Easy: d700+sigma 35/1.4, Nikon 85/1.8g, and a 24-120. Throw in an A tripod , 2 lightstands, Einstein, sb700, 60 inch convertible umbrella, 50" Apollo, reflector and three remotes and I have the gear for pretty much anything.
If we aren't limited to modern gear, probably an X100s, and Rz67, 110/2.8 and 250/4.5 APO plus all those lights and some portra, acros, and tri-x.
p.1 #15 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
many variables that for my chosen gear and chosen work are covered and when not borrow/rent. it's you and your vision of how you shoot. I will say I only shoot zooms for their versatility. of my lenses only 2 are prime. a tele and a macro.
I am covered in house from 14mm to 500mm
p.1 #16 · Honest discussion:What gear do you really need for any job?
I've got to where the gear I use just isn't that critical for about 80% of what I shoot. I've mostly been shooting a Leica IIIc made in 1942 with three 1940s vintage lenses for the past three months. For paid weddings I've done well with just a D300, D5100, Nikons 17-55mm f2.8 & 70-200mm f2.8 VR, and a bunch of radio triggered flash. Outside of weddings, I could make any camera gear from any era work just fine most of the time. Generally speaking, gear is the least important thing in photography. We obsess over it to the point I think it impairs us.
