Follow-up to One Never Quite Knows from Group IV

Someone asked what I shoot with, so for interest, the stuff I tend to take out:

• Nikon F80


• Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D


• Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6 AFS VR G


• Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

That’s pretty much the minimum kit. I keep UV filters on the front of all the lenses except the 50mm. I also carry with a 77mm polarizing filter (Also Nikon, buy it in the US where it’s half the price), and usually a Nikon A2 warm up. If I’m planning on doing any b/w I’ll bring with 77mm Yellow and Orange filters as well. I stick it all in a Lowepro Toploader 70 AW with a lens case on the side for the 18–35.

This lot is suprisingly compact – when I interrailed around scandinavia, I carried this as well as full camping equipment.

If I’m going heavier I’ll also bring my:

• El Cheapo Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G which has pretty shoddy pincushion distortion, but is okay as long as you don’t want to do architecture with it


• Gitzo G2228 tripod.

And use either an Orion AW or Specialist 80 – they only make the 85 now.

I like Fuji slide film, mostly Velvia 50, although I also shoot on Provia 100 and 400, and I’m having a play with Velvia 100 at the moment. B/W is mostly Ilford FP4 or HP5, although I shoot a little Tri-X and T-Max.

I’ve just bought a Nikon Coolpix 5200 which I prefer to the Canon Ixus cameras – I really wanted a “bring everywhere” ultra tiny, and that’s what I got.