Gear in Our Bag
A sampling of the gear we use
As a photographer and videographer it’s tough not to get caught up in gear you want in your bag. Sure, gear doesn’t really define your work or your art. But it tough to ignore what someone used to shot that silky smooth slo-mo or what lights were used to freeze that action shot at 1/2000. We get that gear isn’t everything, but walking around NAB this year for the first time and I was in gear heaven. We use a lot of gear and while some of it may not be drool-worthy, it does the job and I don’t feel like we use it to it’s full potential sometimes. Last week I posted an instagram photo with a small sampling of our gear. I thought I’d take a minute to go through the photo, tell you what it is and why we use it.
- Rode-Mic: Standard issue shotgun mic for those many talking head videos we do.
- Rode video mic: Great on-camera-mic to get the ambient audio for b-roll and on-the-fly interviews
- Atomos Shogun: Recoding 4k to pro-res is a pretty nice little feature to have. We shoot 75% of our stuff to this external recorder.
- Digital Juice MiniBurst 256: We have 2 of these things. Fantastic little battery powered light that can be put anywhere.
- Manfrotto monopod: Perfect for fast and light shooting. A couple of bungees and you can also strap this to most anything for a solid lockdown shot.
- CameTV cage: We picked this up for our A7s, added protection and tons of mounting options has made this a must for our camera.
- Sony A7s: This is our workhorse. Probably time to upgrade the thing, but it still gets the jog done well with the Atomos Shogun.
- Old school Minolta primes: Old lenses, but with the metabones adapter, they still produce a sharp image.
- GoPro: We have a few of these as well. Great image, bombproof camera. They go everywhere with us.
- Barndoors: Not sure of the brand, but these are nice to have when shooting in different lighting situations.
- iPhone 6s: Nails those BTS shots, plays music, has maps, solitaire, pics of the fam, etc…
That’s it, well not all of it, just what’s in the photo. I hope you enjoyed a look into our bag!
-Dion
