What I am Using

A flagship in the truest sense, the Sony a1 is the one camera designed to do it all. Built without compromise, this full-frame mirrorless offers high-resolution for stills shooting, impressive 8K video recording, speed and sensitivity, and connectivity for the most demanding professional workflows.

The Exmor R CMOS sensor is the star of the show. Featuring a back-illuminated design, it offers a mixture of incredible resolution with high clarity, low noise, and a wide 15-stop dynamic range. The sensor’s structure promotes impressive image quality and a copper wiring layer dramatically improves data transmission speed for creating 14-bit, high-resolution 61MP stills with a native sensitivity range from ISO 100-32000, which can be further expanded to ISO 50-102400.

The Sony 200-600 is a versatile telephoto lens with a flexible zoom range. It’s perfectly suited for nature, wildlife, and sports applications.

Its long reach pairs with a modest maximum aperture range to render to a relatively good optical quality. The fast focus speed makes it an ideal lens for capturing moving subjects in action.

The Sony 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM lens is a great choice for sports, wildlife and action photography. With its extra reach and outstanding resolution and sharpness, this lens will help you get the shot you want in any situation.

With a relatively compact size, this lens is easy to use when you are on the move. Its responsive autofocus system ensures that your shots are in focus every time. The Optical SteadyShot image stabilization system helps to prevent blur caused by camera shake or vibrations that can occur during shooting.

The Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM is a bright, fast telephoto zoom lens designed for professional photographers. With exceptional optics and intuitive handling, it’s an ideal lens for any variety of applications from portraits to sports and wildlife—or even just casual shots of friends and family.

With a constant maximum aperture of f/2.8, the Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM produces sharp images with beautiful bokeh and contrast throughout the entire range of focus distances. The optical image stabilization system helps keep your photos steady when shooting at night or under low light conditions, so you can get more details in your photos without worrying about blurry photos or blurred motion blur in videos.

As part of the Art line within Sigma’s Global Vision series, this lens is designed to achieve truly notable optical performance and is ideally suited for creative and artistic applications. It features a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture that is well-suited for working in available light conditions and provides greater control over depth of field when using shallow depth of field techniques.

The Sony FE 85mm f/1.8 Lens is an ideal portrait-length prime. It’s a short telephoto lens that offers bright f/1.8 design, making it perfect for portraiture and event photography. The compact form factor makes it easy to carry around with you wherever you go, so you can capture those moments that matter most—and quickly!

The Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM Lens is a wide-angle prime with a sleek form factor, speed, and advanced optical design. It’s versatile in both street shooting and landscape photography thanks to its focal length of 35mm, which makes it an essential addition to any photographer’s bag.

The lens is fast and provides all the benefits of a fast maximum aperture, including low-light shooting capabilities that are great for controlling depth of field.

The Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 GM Lens is a wide-angle prime lens that delivers bright, sharp results for both landscape and astrophotography applications. It’s also a versatile, lightweight lens that works well for street photography, as well with all kinds of other shooting situations.

This lens features a bright design and fast maximum aperture of f/1.4, which lets you capture fast-moving subjects in low light without any blurriness or ghosting. It’s also well-suited to landscape, astrophotography, and street shooting applications because of its wide angle focal length of 24mm, which makes it easy to frame your subject without having to tilt or scale your camera up or down.

The Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 GM Lens has a lightweight profile that makes it easy to carry around with you all day long without weighing you down too much or causing fatigue on long photo shoots.

The Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 is a compact and weather-resistant option for wide-angle photographers. It’s a flexible wide zoom that has a constant f/4 maximum aperture, allowing it to deliver sharp, detailed images even in low light situations. The Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 is great for landscapes and cityscapes—both of which can be viewed through its broad field of view.

The Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Lens is a macro lens that delivers beautiful, perfectly balanced sharpness and bokeh. Its 1:1 magnification ratio makes it great for close-up work, and its advanced AF system ensures that your shots are always in focus.

Dedicated to extreme close-up imaging, the Sony E-mount Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro from Venus Optics is a specialized macro lens for photographing subjects at magnifications greater than life-size. Operating within a 2.5:1 to 5:1 range, this lens has a minimum focus distance of just 6.8″ at the 5:1 magnification along with a comfortable 1.6″ working distance.

A unique short telephoto with distinct classic appeal, the black Sony E-mount Velvet 85mm f/1.8 from Lensbaby produces a mid-20th century-inspired image quality that is well-suited to portraiture. Characterized by a smooth, glowing aesthetic, this lens’s softness can be controlled by stopping down in order to produce a range of effects from soft and dreamy to sharper and crunchier at smaller apertures.

The Gitzo GT2545T Series 2 Traveler Carbon Fiber Tripod is a compact support system that can hold up to 26 lb worth of gear and get down to 8.7″ for macro or low-angle shooting. It also features a compact design, so you can easily take it anywhere.

The BH-40 Ball Head with Full-Size Lever-Release Clamp from Really Right Stuff is a 17.1 oz mid-sized ball head that will support camera-lens combinations weighing up to 18 lb. Crafted from aluminum and stainless steel, the BH-40 has all of the features you’d expect from a professional-level head. An over-sized, ergonomic locking T-knob allows 45-degree tilting in all directions and a 90-degree drop-notch facilitates quick and accurate switching from the horizontal landscape position to vertical portrait orientation.

he EVO II drone provides hi-end specifications and abilities well beyond videography and photography. The 7100mAh battery lets it fly for up to 40 minutes at a time, the motors can fly in Ludicrous Speed mode at up to 44.8 mph, and you can transmit HD footage back to the controller’s 3.3″ OLED screen from up to 5.6 miles away. While flying and tracking, 12-sensor omnidirectional obstacle avoidance is coupled with a dual-core processor, as well as AI machine learning to let the EVO II navigate itself safely around the environment while still getting the shot.

The FJ400 runs on a powerful, removable 14.8V, 4400mAh lithium-ion polymer battery that will give you 480 full and thousands of low-power flashes on a 2.5-hour charge. The battery has LED status indicators to keep you appraised of remaining power. A 20W LED modeling light is employed for minimal power drain.

FJ80 II S Touchscreen 80Ws Speedlight with Sony Camera Mount from Westcott features a full-color 2.8″ LCD touchscreen and a rechargeable battery that will give you 500+ full-power flashes. The FJ80 II also offers an incredible 9-stop power range in 0.1-stop and 1-stop increments, recycles in 0.05 to 1.5 seconds, and is capable of a blazingly fast 20 fps. It also supports High-Speed Sync up to 1/8000 second as well as front and rear curtain sync.