For my potatograpy scrundling, my toolkit! Legitimately my "everyday-carry", though I really should do more with it!
(Hard to grab time when I'm at work, especially during the rushes, 'cause I'll get shouted at! Aaaand with the whole increasing-disability thing, I'm really struggling to do stuff outside of work in general!)
Not pictured is the assorted support crap of shutter remote & extension cable(s), additional batteries and SD cards, a tremendously flimsy Amazon Basics tripod (I know, I know) that just lives in the car at this point...
The Camera
Canon 2000D: It's an APS-C DSLR, EF-S mount. It's got the megapixels, it's got a crop-factor of 1.6 compared to full-frame, it's got the auto-focus, and the ISOs, and it's got a nice range of shutter speeds so I can pick one that's almost -- but not quite -- what I wanted, it's got burst-mode (150 frames in jpeg, but I use raw so I only get an 11-round burst, and that's usually fine.), it's got bulb mode so I can do those sweet long exposure deals...
The sticker on the side is Aspen Eyes' "All Cats Are Beautiful" sticker. It doesn't fit that great, but it goes there all the same.
This camera replaces the Olympus E450 that I got started with, only because that real handy-sized camera developed a major shutter problem and I couldn't get it fixed.
It's larger than the Olympus, but it does have a larger sensor and the benefit of over a decade's worth of improvement in processing power and whatnot, so I don't begrudge it too much!
Course, that meant I had to replace all my lenses, so I tried to get equivalents as near as I could! Though, for better or worse, I decided on getting all EF-mount lenses even though I then have to deal with the crop-factor, because I can put EF lenses on the bigger cameras if I ever wanted to drop the Serious Money involved in doing that (lol, lmao), but not do the same with EF-S lenses.
The Lenses
- Canon 40mm f/2.8 (EF mount)
Got this for its compactness, but... honestly don't tend to use it. Not really sure why, though! - Canon 50mm f/2.5 macro (EF mount)
I really like this for the odd somewhat close-up stuff I do. I'm not generally looking for extreme close-ups on bugs n stuff, so it does well enough for me. I've also used it a bit here and there for car & bike photos. - Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 (EF mount)
Nice bit of telephoto lens. What I generally use for critter & bird photos, as well as that middle-distance landscape stuff I do from time to time. - Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 (EF mount)
A nice wide-angle lens that I've mostly used for truck photos, because I don't have to step back a long-ass way to fit everything in; and I can also get a real sense of things looming larger than they really are.
It's almost become my go-to lens for the sort of industrial or vehicle-related stuff I tend to shoot, largely because I tend to be fairly restricted on room.
Not pictured is the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (EF-S) kit lens, which I evicted from my very crowded bag because I don't tend to use it. (At least the 40mm is compact enough that it's not in the way, even if I don't use it all that much either.)
Additionally...
I used to use some Hoya circular polarising filters (...not to be confused with circular polarised filters) but they're somewhat of a pain in the ass on the lenses where the end of the lens rotates for focussing; I'm kinda clumsy, so it becomes a horrible juggling match of focussing... adjusting the filter which knocks the focus slightly, re-adjust the focus which turns the polarising filter out of alignment, re-adjust the filter which knocks the focus, re-adjust the focus, ...
They're good filters, though, and really help bring out details; I should stop being a fussy little bitch and start using them again.