
Next, I have long-term borrowed two lenses from my friend Hitchen (of Liz and Hitchen – seen on various adventures). True enough, it fits inside a cupcake tin.

The Girl doesn’t like it, since she thinks it looks silly-small on the D500. It works just fine, though with the higher end one above, I just don’t use it too much. I’ve also got another cheaper zoom that I bought originally – the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6. It’s what 99.9% of shots in reviews are taken with. This is without question my workhorse that’s on my camera virtually all day long. For the most part I shoot between 18-100mm. Long range telephoto I use again, at races, but that’s it. Plus, I could use a GoPro for most of those shots to achieve that anyway. Things like the super-wide fisheye shot I’d use once every 1-2 years. Plus, having so many Canon lenses I realized I rarely used them all. Sure, I shoot races and stuff at other distances, but for the most part my subjects (watches) don’t move. This is because my core shooting range is at a distance of 1-10ft. I’ve purposefully kept the quantity of lenses I’ve bought relatively small. From a camera standpoint I’ve mostly re-learned everything in the Nikon way, though I think I’m still faster in some setting areas on Canon. Still, it gets the job done, I just wish it was more dependable like the GoPro mobile. The Nikon app to transfer photos is horrible, though that shouldn’t surprise me. Overall the camera works quite well for me. Plus, lenses tend to be a far bigger differentiator anyway. I just don’t need the speed or other aspects for an even higher end camera. This is in their Prosumer range, though not their top dog. the Tour de France), or other event and quickly transfer photos from DSLR to phone. But I wanted the ability to go to a tradeshow, race (i.e. From an image quality standpoint, I’m thrilled with either. Despite having almost a dozen Canon lenses, and numerous Canon DSLR bodies (and 15 years of experience with Canon), I jumped because Canon simply isn’t keeping up with technological advancements when it comes to connectivity. This past spring I made a huge leap – from Canon to Nikon. Even for the suckiest of products out there, I aim to make the photography aspect shine through. I think that having well shot photos for reviews makes a huge difference in how consumers see a product. Watch shots might not be the most exciting photos, but they are pretty. DSLR Camera Gear:įirst up is all the stuff that makes the pretty review photos. Oh – and everything here I’ve bought myself. I make almost no distinction between the two when it comes to my photography gear. I use all this gear for both work (the blog) as well as personal use. I obviously have reviews of some of these things, but this is just an explainer of what I use and the reasons I select a specific product. It’s not a review of these products in a technical sense. iPhone ones are labeled as such, or have a date (as they are sync’d from Dropbox usually).įinally – this is all about the ‘why’ behind what I use. Ones that start with GO are from a GoPro, ones that start with VIRB are from a Garmin VIRB, ones with DSC are my Nikon D500 DX, and ones with IMG are from my Canon 7D. As a general rule on the site you can hover over a picture and figure out which camera they’re taken with by the name. Note, that while 99.99% of review photos are with my DSLR cameras, the weekly ‘5 Random Things’ posts are about 50-75% taken on my phone, an iPhone 6. I’ll start off with my higher end photography/video gear, and then talk action cams and drones. Obviously, I test out numerous action cams in the course of creating reviews, but those cams don’t necessarily make the list as a trusted companion for non-testing days. This post attempts to cover all the gear I use day to day.

Like anything else in life, I have certain cameras that I use for specific purposes. That’s thousands of photos and videos, across a wide range of cameras. On average, I take about 100GB of photos and video each week in the course of putting together this site (I shot 150GB in just the last 48 hours alone). Consider it a Thanksgiving break from sports tech! While on the flight back last night I figured I’d take a moment to dive through it. One of the most common questions I see in blog posts that’s not specifically which GPS watch to get, is what cameras I use for various posts.

#Garmin backup camera bluetooth update
I’ve been updating it every few hours all day today with new deals, and expect to continue to update it constantly throughout the next few days. Preemptive note! Don’t forget my massive 2016 Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals page here.
