Thursday, June 13, 2013

Kit For October

I have been thinking a lot about the next trip to Thailand which will be for 5 weeks starting in October. What camera gear should I take? Should I take the 4x5 yes or no? As you can see the heaviest gear is the 4x5 stuff, I am tempted to leave it behind, but some of my best work in the past has been with this tool, I want to continue to improve with large format and eventually move up to 8x10, a few failures here and there are part of the learning curve.

Here is my current kit thinking

3 Leica M6 bodies (or 2 M6s and my M4P)
21mm F 2.8
28mm F2
35mm F1.4
50mm F1.4
Small Leica Flash
150 rolls of Tri-x/HP5

Linhof 4x5
90mm Nikon
150mm Nikon
Pentax Spot meter
Broken down carbon fiber tripod
Reflector.
5 or 6 Grafmatic backs
300+ sheets of Tri-x 4x5
Film changing tent