I know there has to be a lot of photographers on this bord so whats in your camera bag?
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Panasonic GH2 (hacked for video), Panasonic 20mm f/1.7, Zeiss ZF 35mm f/2, Zeiss ZF 50mm f/1.4 and wonderlust pinwide pinhole lens.
A cat.
[quote=“bitcrusher”]I know there has to be a lot of photographers on this bord so whats in your camera bag?
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Panasonic GH2 (hacked for video), Panasonic 20mm f/1.7, Zeiss ZF 35mm f/2, Zeiss ZF 50mm f/1.4 and wonderlust pinwide pinhole lens.[/quote]
That stuff is not in your bag, it’s next to it.
1 small bag for trash
1 bottle of baby powder
3 bags of wet wipes
a clean cloth
a pack of tissues
a bottle with formula powder
a bottle with premixed formula
ten clean diapers
a small container of baby food with spoon
a changing pad
one lip balm
a change of baby clothes
and
one Canon Vixia HFM300 camcorder
or
Canon 450D with flash
My camera bag is somewhere back in Australia and I assume there is a still a Minolta 35mm in it. Don’t have a camera bag in Taiwan, just a camera.
Depends on what I’m shooting. Today it was just my phone camera. Other days it might be a camera and one lens. Or some lighting gear. Or landscape filters.
When I went to Nepal a couple of months ago and had 2 assignments for NGO’s to shoot I took the following.
Cameras
Canon 5D Mark II with grip
Canon 5D
Canon 40D
Lenses
Canon 17-40mm f4L
Canon 24-70mm f2.8L
Canon 70-200mm f4L
Canon 50mm f1.8
Lighting
Canon 580EX II
Canon 550EX
Phottix Odin ETTL triggers
Phottix Strato II triggers
Phottix collapsible umbrella
Phottix external battery pack
Phottix bouce card and snoot
Standard gels
Tri-grip reflector
Accessories
Black Rapid RS-5 strap (x2)
Black Rapid RS-Sport strap
Dicapac WP-S10 waterproof housing
Canon TC80n3 timer remote
Triopo G268 carbon fiber tripod with Manfrotto 486RC2 ballhead
B+W 110 10stop ND filter
3 stop soft GND filter
Variable ND filter
Polarizing filter
Electronics
Macbook
500GB external hard drives (x2)
Sandisk USB card reader
iPod
Zoom H1 audio recorder
HTC Desire running Oxygen ROM
There was a lot of stuff I didn’t take on that particular trip that normally gets used, such as various softboxes, lighting stands, remotes etc.
Professional photographers are fuckin masochists. 
You must have a SERIOUSLY big fucking camera bag!
Aye, we are.
[quote=“jimipresley”][quote=“cfimages”]
You must have SERIOUSLY big fucking camera bag![/quote][/quote]
I had one large camera backpack, one camera shoulder bag, one tripod bag and mrs cfi had the computer in her bag. Plus I had another bag for clothes etc.
For press conferences:
Big a** camera, say Canon 30D and ONE set of lenses -chosen according to what I expect the situation to be.
Extra batteries and extra memory card
Small tripod, the kind that you can wrap around poles and stuff.
Cleaning stuff, in case of accidents
Waterproof bag
Zakua camera as backup -either my Canon or Sony, whichever is ready. Very important to have backup.
Notebook, digital recorder, pens, business cards, ID card, invitation.
All which is foregone if the photographer comes with me. Then she takes 2 cameras, 4 lenses, and a bag heavy as guilt. 
Is this a trick question? Like, “Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?” In my case, most of the time, the answer is “nothing”, as I only rarely carry a camera big enough to require a bag, so my bag usually sits in the corner.
My camera.
Depends on the situation. Shooting the balloon festival at night in Burma I had one 5DmkII with 85 f/1.2L, 35 f/1.4L, 135 f/2.0 L
Other times I’ll have a mixture of the following lenses.
zooms
16-35 f/2.8 L
24-70 f/2.8 L
70-200 f/2.8 L
primes
35 f/1.4L
85 f/1.2L
135 f/2.0 L
300 f/2.8 L
1.5x & 2.0x teleconverters
I have 5D & 5DmkII camera bodies
6 8gb memory cards
2 card readers
2x 500gb hard drives
macbook pro i7
gitzo tripod w/arcswiss ball head
various hand held reflectors up to 4’x6’
580ex & 580exII flash
4x pocket wizard lighting triggers
Lee ND gradient kit
some audio kit including radio mic
I have Profoto studio lighting system with loads of modifiers as well as portable 1200ws battery kit.
too many bags to list, probably 5 different back pack/shoulder bags, it’s a fetish.
home workstation is a dual monitor including color calibrated 24" lacie. dual processor pc with i7 chips and 16gb of memory. mirrored 2 terrabyte drives and many terrabytes of backup storage.
it’s a system
That’s no moon…it’s a WORK STATION!
Just for the sake of argument, how much does all that weight? Sweet mercy, thank God you’re all guys and wear no high heels. 
If aside from the camera, I’d have to take the computer, I’d be doomed.
[quote=“Shaktipalooza”]Depends on the situation. Shooting the balloon festival at night in Burma I had one 5DmkII with 85 f/1.2L, 35 f/1.4L, 135 f/2.0 L
Other times I’ll have a mixture of the following lenses.
zooms
16-35 f/2.8 L
24-70 f/2.8 L
70-200 f/2.8 L
primes
35 f/1.4L
85 f/1.2L
135 f/2.0 L
300 f/2.8 L
1.5x & 2.0x teleconverters
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That is quite the selection of L glass. The 300mm 2.8… thats a big chunk of glass. I am sure you are excited about the 5Dmk3 announcement.
I don’t know how you guys do it, economically or physically. Well, I do know: You spend a shitload of money and carry very heavy things. But still, I’m glad I’m not a professional photographer.
Yeah I really don’t see any enjoyment in carrying a lot of gear.
When I bought my first decent camera I wasn’t content with the kit lens, so I went out and bought another, longer zoom. Then I needed a bag. Then I bought a nice 24mm. So I had three lenses and a camera body. But Jesus what a pain in the arse it was to carry the bag and two lenses around everywhere, in addition to the camera. Increasingly, I found myself leaving the bag at home and just choosing one lens to take with me. One day I stuck the little 24mm on my camera and never took it off. I realized that if I ever bought a tripod or flashes or lots of filters or whatever, I wouldn’t ever carry them around with me. So WTF is the point?
A while ago I met a guy carrying a full-frame Nikon DSLR. What a brick! It didn’t matter that he had a tiny 50mm f1.4 attached, it was still punishingly heavy.
Well, one thing is photography for fun and another different story for work. I get the riot act read by the art department people everytime I use any of the “lesser” cameras -the semi or full zakua or not DSLR cameras- for our pictures. And I actually do not take anything particularly difficult, but rather what I call “school prom like” pics, mostly. And objects in exhibits. Groups of people. Conferences and exhibition events. Seems nothing out of the extraordinary but the camera lens rules in definition and color. Heck, even my coworkers Canon 600D image sometimes falters comares to the full Canon mamooth we sometimes use. So, yes, sometimes the load is necessary.
I totally get this. Especially in taiwan were everyone owns a DSLR