John Harrington-WHAT WE USE - Canon Kit

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Here's a video segment on the Canon Kit that we use. A transcription of the video is available after the jump.

Transcript:
Hi, I’m John Harrington and we’re going to break out and break down the wide variety of equipment we use to deliver images to our clients. Next we are going to show you one of the equipment kits we use when we are traveling on assignment. Each kit is different and has a very specific purpose. So lets take a look.

First things first, its obvious that every shoot requires a camera.  Back in the day we used to use Hasselblad for a lot of the assignments that we do. But with digital the way it is right now, we haven’t shot a roll of film in three years.  This is our Canon kit, we’ll take a look at the Canon kit first and Nikon kit second.

In our Canon kit, we definitely keep of our software right in case we need to do a reinstall when we’re on the road. We have a 1 DS Mark 3, 1 DS Mark 2, 17-40mm, 24-105mm which we use a lot when we’re going out and just need an all purpose lens.  We have 85mm, 135mm/F2, and 35mm/F1.4. This is an 85mm/1.8 and a 50mm/1.4. 

One of the things we like to do is stack lenses together with a stacking cap.  By stacking it up, it just allows us to store them easier in the bag and they’re not bouncing around as much. The reason we have an 85mm/1.8 and an 85mm/1.2 is the 85mm/1.8 is the lens we have to use when we’re using the blimp, which we’ll talk about in a little bit. We also have a 70-200mm. 

We have three strobes 580-EX, another 580-EX; we have the new 580-EX2.  We have a jackrabbit cord so we can plug it into an external battery pack for the flashes.  We have an off camera cord so we can take the strobe off axis.  And we have a 24-70mm/F2.8. We also obviously carry some business cards in case we need to.  This is just an extra pouch if we need to put some extra accessories in.  So that’s the Canon kit.
And I want to tell you one thing about the equipment that we’re using here in the ThinkTank.  We don’t always need to keep it in the ThinkTank case, instead what we might do is transfer to some of these smaller Domke bags that we have. 

So let me show you, which lenses go where, and how we work with the Domkes and the smaller bags.  All of our fast glass that would be all of our prime lenses are going to go in one bag.  The 135mm F2, our 50mm/1.4, and our 85mm/1.8, and our 35mm/1.4 all go in the bag.  We then take the camera and we may mount that camera with another fast glass like the 85mm/1.8. 

That’s when we’re working in a really low light situation, a lot of time we’re doing this with concert performances, rock’n’roll, other things where we need to be down at F2 and F1.8. 

These other bags are our more travel light standard bags.  In that bag is going to go the 17-40mm, the 24-105mm, and over here is going to be the 24-70mm.  We’ll drop one of the strobes into this one, a backup strobe into here.  We’ll also take an extra battery and drop that in, our extra travel cords, our off camera cord and our jackrabbit.  We’ll take the other body and mount one of the lenses on there.  And we’re ready to go. 

One of the other points I want to make about these flashes is a lot of times we will put a CTO or a green gel in front of that so we can use the strobe and match the strobe to the color temperature of the environment we’re in, whether it’s in a tungsten color temperature or a fluorescent environment. 

Using these different gels allows us to match the strobe to the room color temperature.  So that’s how we work when we are not using the ThinkTanks airport security equipment, and instead we want to travel light.  We’ll take and get rid of this.  So this is how we travel light and this is how we shoulder the equipment. 

Our strobes and zoom and extra battery go on one shoulder.  The other zooms, the other strobe closes up goes on the other shoulder.  We don’t always take the fast glass with us.  So now that we got the bags on, on go the cameras, one on either side.  And we’re ready to go.  This, believe it or not, is traveling light.

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Below the video is a link to each of the segments, Let me know what you think!

Introduction of The What We Use Video Series
Individual Segments:
Softbox & Light Modifier Kit  |||  Lighting Stands Case  |||  Primary Hensel Vela Lighting Kit  |||  Rololights Continuous Source Lighting  |||  Rololights Lighting Stands Kit  |||  Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III Kit  |||  Nikon D3 Kit  |||  Jacobsen Sound Blimp Kit  |||  California Sunbounce Lighting Reflector  |||  Gels & Gelly Rolls  |||  Lowel DP Hotlight Kit  |||  Lowel Omni & Tota Hotlight Kit  |||  Macbook Pro Laptop Kit  |||  Hensel Porty Bi-Tube Kit  |||  Hensel Porty Kit  |||  Hensel Porty Ringlight Kit  |||  Hensel Tria 1500 Kit  |||  Hensel Tria 3000 Kit  |||  Hensel Vela Add-On Kit  |||  Cord Kit  |||  Kenyon Gyro Kit  |||  Reviewing Kit  |||  Photo Equipment Carts  |||  Photo Equipment Cases  |||  Computers & Monitors - Travel Kit  |||  Fog Machine  |||  Hasselblad Kit  |||  White Lightning Lighting Kit  |||  Video Kit  |||  Audio Entertainment Kit  |||  Audio Sound Kit  |||  Sandbags  |||  Stands

I find it interesting you have no lens or body covers on. Is there a reason?

GREAT videos! Thank you. But I'm wondering the same thing as the previous comment: Do you keep the lens and body caps off the cameras? If so, are you dealing with lots of dust issues?

I was curious about the lack of caps as well. Is this standard practice?

I find this whole series really helpful and interesting. Nice work. I'm also curious about the lack of lens caps and was wondering if you end up cleaning the camera sensors a great deal?

Great series. I'm also curious about the missing caps, but am even more curious about the stacking caps. What are these and where can I get them? This is an idea that should have existed years ago.

I'm curious about the lack of rear lens covers as well. Please do tell!

Where do you get the lens stacking caps at?

The stacking caps can just be 2 OEM caps glued together back to back.

"The stacking caps can just be 2 OEM caps glued together back to back." Or they can be gaff taped to each other, just wrap it around the perimeter a few times. Works great.

No Caps = faster lens switch in the field. That's the only reason I can think of to leave those beauties uncovered.

Why the big fuss about the lack of lens cover, you can use a synthetic cloth to clean the lense which won't leave any smears.

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I kind of enjoyed the video but the the subject is not well described in the blog. I would suggest you to have more specific data to present.

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I usually keep my personal camera cap and also the back cap for my lenses on always, regardless of whether I am out shooting work, the reason why ? Because you said, dust on sensor isn't good, reasons I actually keep my personal back cap on? my lenses is 'cos in case dust gets to there, it will most likely get into my sensor section. Without a doubt do not really want that, my lenses possess a filter on the front, therefore i do not worry about changing a filter instead of needing to change the whole camera as well as lens 'cos it got screwed.

That's really impressive video segment just what I was looking for. After watching that nice video tutorial I can say that is really interesting one and provided excellent info about Canon Kit. Thanks a lot!

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