IN JACK’S BAG
01 Canon EOS R5
WEB: www.canon.co.uk
THE EOS R5 is everything I want in my dream camera for landscapes. It’s incredible for wildlife photography, too, enabling me to quickly switch between shooting seascapes on the coast to kingfishers along riverbanks. I also use the Canon IMAGEPROGRAF PRO-300 A3 printer and PRO-2100 large-format printer, and the images printed from my R5 are simply out of this world, taking me back to the moment I clicked the shutter button.
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Canon RF 24-105mm F4L IS USM
WEB: www.canon.co.uk
THIS IS my do-it-all lens, an absolute game-changer for me. It covers 80% of the focal ranges I use most of the time, and as well as being small and lightweight, its optical performance is top level. It’s not as sharp as my RF 15-35mm (which is just unreal) but I’ve never not been happy with a print from this lens, and I’ve made 2m-long panoramas with images taken on this lens before and been impressed.
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Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8L IS USM
WEB: www.canon.co.uk
THE Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8L is an absolute beast in my lens collection and the one I always go to when shooting down at the coast in winter and wanting crazy front-to-back detail. Plus don’t even get me started on the sunstars this lens produces at f/22. It blows my mind how crisp and sharp the images taken with this lens are – and with little to no flare, too.
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Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6l IS II USM
WEB: www.canon.co.uk
THIS MAY come as a surprise, but this focal length, along with the Canon RF 100-500mm, is one of my favourites for landscapes and I never leave home without one of my telephoto lenses. For compressing long distant subjects on a cold, misty morning, or quickly being able to photograph a barn owl or red kite in the countryside, it’s incredibly versatile.
05 Arca Swiss D4 geared head
WEB: www.arca-shop.de/en
THIS is a piece of gear that I don’t think I could live without. Once you go from a ball to a geared head, there’s no going back – as geared heads have three dials to enable you to twist them to really fine-tune your camera’s position for more accurate compositions. I’ve found myself slowing down, thinking through a composition a lot more, and wanting to move the head just a few millimetres at a time, to remove branches or distracting elements in the corners of my frame.
06 Kase Revolution magnetic filters
WEB: www.kasefilters.com
I STARTED out using ND graduated filters, but found them to be expensive and cumbersome. These magnetic Kase filters have been a gamechanger. They’re easy to use and I keep the polarizer fitted most of the time and used with caution. I also use a variety of ND filters for longer exposures to help me slow down water or create motion in leaves and clouds.