The choice of my equipment is always based on a compromise between
quality, reliability, weight, size, and of course, price.
For mountain photography, the weight and size often limits the type
of equipment I can carry, especially when I go several days
bivouacking in full autonomy
The best compromise I have settled for so far is based on
SLR equipment. The latest Canon professional body, the 1Ds Mark III,
offers with its 21 Mpix, tremendous photographic quality for a reasonable
weight and size. It also allows me to work in panoramic format
by using the digital stitching technique of up to 7 vertical shots, which
provides final images that can be greatly enlarged.
So here is my more or less complete list of equipment, which currently
follows me around:
- A pair of eyes of make "Mother and Father Bitton" :-)
- Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III body (21 Mpix full frame SLR)
- Canon 17-40mm L lens
- Canon 24-105mm IS lens
- Canon 28-135mm IS lens
- Canon 100-400mm IS L lens
- Gitzo Mountaineer GT1530 carbon fibre tripod with Acratech GV2 ball head
- Velbon CF435 carbon fibre tripod
- Nodal Ninja 5 panoramic head
- Several GBytes of CF SanDisk cards
- 40GB Jobo Mini hard drive
- 80GB Hyperdrive hard drive
- Polarising filter B&W Slim MRC (multicoated)
- Set of neutral density graduate filters from Lee (0.6ND and 0.9ND grad hard and soft)
- Tamrac Expedition 8 camera bag
- Canon PROGRAF iPF6100 large format inkjet professional printer
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