Current Gear
All of the below can be supplemented with more from rental houses and trusted colleagues, but it gives an idea of the kind of equipment I keep - plenty for a 4-camera live event or concert and accompanying promo footage.
Cameras and Accessories
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2 x Sony a7S iii cameras
Full frame sensors with unlimited recording time and amazing low light abilities - 2 x Sony FX30 cameras
Crop sensors for extra reach in events, unlimited recording time and matching image to the a7S iii - Various prime and zoom lenses from 12mm to 600mm for Sony and Canon mounts
- Fujifilm X70 and GFX 50s ii cameras for stills
- Tripods
- Motorised slider
- Gimbal
- Teleprompter / autocue
- Plenty of batteries and external power solutions
- ND and polarising filters
Lighting
- 2 x Amaran 200x bicolour lights with stands, reflectors and diffusion
- 4 x Aputure MC RGB mini lights
the 6 lights above all remotely controlled by one app - Falconeyes roll-up LED panel for compact set up
Audio
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3 x wireless lav mics + shotgun mic for interviews
- wide range of omni and cardioid condensors for studio and live music recording
- Zoom F8N compact 8 channel recorder
- Behringer X32 recorder with 16+16 input channels
- cables, stands, coupling clips, etc
Other production kit
- Atomos Ninja V for Prores recording and larger screen monitoring
with AtomX Cast for 4 channel vision mixing into a computer - various SDI cables with HDMI converters
- LiveU Solo for reliable streaming and bonding of wifi / ethernet / 4G connections
- Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB
with Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve Studio, Cockos Reaper, Adobe Photoshop, Hedge, etc - various HDMI input cards to get video signal into a computer
Transport
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Large ULEZ-compliant 4x4 car
- Crates, peli cases, camera bags, trolley