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Equipment

From the beginning of my photography adventure to now I collected and bought a lot of equipment.

If you’re a beginning photographer don’t worry – you can do good photos without a lot of these items (that’s what I did in my first days too). But they’re helpful if you own them and make your life as a photographer more confortable…;-)

Camera bodies

  • Nikon D800 (36 MP)
  • Nikon D3 (12 Mp)
  • Nikon D700 (12 MP)
  • Nikon D7000 (16 MP)

Lenses

  • Nikon 14-24mm 2.8
  • Nikon 24-70mm 2.8
  • Nikon 70-200mm 2.8
  • Nikon TC-20E II
  • Nikon 35mm 2.0
  • Nikon 50mm 1.4G
  • Nikon 85mm 1.4G
  • LensBaby Composer

Flashes

  • Nikon SB-800 (5x)
  • Nikon SB-900 (2x)
  • Nikon SU-800
  • Nikon SD-8A Battery-Packs (3x)
  • Elinchrom Quadra with 2 A-Heads
  • Elinchrom Ranger RX Speed AS with one A- & S-Head
  • Elinchrom D-Lite 4
  • Elinchrom D-Lite 2

Light formers & Flash Accessory

Wireless Trigger

  • Pocketwizard MiniTT1 for Nikon
  • Pocketwizard FlexTT5 for Nikon (3x)
  • Pocketwizard AC3 Zonecontroller
  • Pocketwizard Plus II (2x)
  • Pocketwizard MultiMax (2x)
  • Pocketwizard ST-4 for Elinchrom Ranger RX

Memorycards

  • CF Lexar Professional 300x (16GB)
  • CF Lexar Professional 400x (16GB)
  • CF SanDisk Extreme III und IV (4 & 8 GB)
  • SDHC Lexar Professional 133x (16GB)
  • SDHC SanDisk Extreme 30 MB/s (16GB)

Batteries

  • for SB-800 and SB-900: Eneloop 2000 mAh (the best you can use!)

Accessory (Pods for cameras)

  • Tripod Manfrotto 055B
  • Ball head Manfrotto
  • Monopod Manfrotto with pistol grip

Accessory (Stands for flashes)

  • C-Stand Manfrotto 2033 (2x)
  • Compact stands for nikon system flashes (3x), Manfrotto 5001B
  • Manfrotto Boom-Stand

Accessory (Bags & Backpacks)

  • ThinkTankPhoto Airport Security V2
  • ThinkTankPhoto Airport International V2
  • ThinkTankPhoto LensChanger 3
  • Tamrac Expedition 8
  • Tamrac Pro 12
  • LowePro Belt Pack
  • LowePro LensCases
  • Pelicase 1510 (1x)

Accessory (Computer)

  • iMac 27″ i5, 8GB RAM (early 2010)
  • MacBook Pro 13″ (late 2010)
  • UMTS/HSDPA-Stick from T-Mobile
  • Lexar USB Cardreader (2x)
  • Spyder 3 monitor calibration tool

Accessory (Other)

  • Walkie talkies (4x)
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