What’s in Your Photography Toolbox?
In my previous post I mentioned the utility of gaffer tape and its important role in my photography toolbox, as I like to call it. That got me to thinking about what else I have in my toolkit that, while helpful with various aspects of my photography, is more convenient than indispensable.
What is in your photography toolbox?
For example, a DSLR is indispensable. Memory cards are indispensable. Light is kind of indispensable (though strictly speaking, speed lights are not).
The items I am referring to are things that I have picked up over time and added to my kit. Stuff like lens cleaning fluid, clamps, colour checking charts. Some of the things I use quite often. Some only occasionally. Some things I picked up and have yet to find a good use for them. They are all impulse purchases, in a way. Some are more immediately useful than others.
I do not think that I am unique in my collecting helpful articles. Maybe it’s a guy thing (though to look at the gizmos my wife has accumulated in the kitchen makes me believe not).
How about you, dear reader? What do you have in your photography toolbox? Is there anything that you could really use and intend to add to your kit? (I am always looking for suggestions of new cool stuff). Tell us about your photography toolbox in the comments below.
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My name is Doug Pruden. I am a photographer based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I have an eclectic taste in photography, but gravitate towards portrait and travel photography.
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Mine includes a couple of different rain gear in case I get caught in a storm to keep camera dry and allow me to shoot. A small umbrella that attaches to the camera via tripod screw and rotates to keep sun from reflecting on the camera. Of course, screw drivers, batteries, filters, two small tripods -about 8″ in length-great for placing on a wall! A penknife, notebook, pens. And my camera instruction manual – just in case I’ve forgotten “how to” something.
Good post, Doug. I seem to be acquiring a good collection of lighting clamps. I usually light with speedlights, so I’ve picked up a handful of different spring clamps, a couple Manfrotto Super-clamps (which, BTW are SUPER)…some others that I don’t really know anything about other then they helped me do some odd job. Along with those I have a vast array of zip ties and of course, the afore-mentioned gaffer’s tape. I’m always on the lookout for the next greatest little light support gizmo thingamagig
Lens cleaning kits, Sp-800 Speedlight, SP-50 Speedlight, SC17 Flash connector cord, extra batteries (AA for the SP-800, and an EnEL3e rechargeable battery for my Nikon D-80. Plus rain-gear, sunscreen, Off mosquito repellent, one of two Bogen Monopods. 70-210 f4.5 mm Nikkor tele-zoom, 60 mm Micro-Nikkor, 28mm f2.8 Nikkor and 20mm Nikkor Lenses. All of this depends on what I am doing and where I am going. Also additional memory cards.
I generally use one of two types of camera equipment bags. One is a bag that I strap to my hips. The other is a smaller back-pack that can carry a more limited assortment of lenses plus one camera body with a top compartment for other stuff. The back-pack is great for having my gear along on a bike-ride.
gaffer tape…. now that really takes me back; early days of reuters in the 90s and it was a must in every photographers bag!!
today is a very exciting day – i go to DHL to pick up my brand new domke bag that has arrived from the UK. annoyingly it took 2 days to get from london to dar es salaam and over a week to travel ‘in-country’ from dar to arusha!!! typical…