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
- Sony FX3 camera
Full frame sensor with unlimited recording time and amazing low light abilities - 3 x Sony FX30 cameras
Crop sensors for extra reach in events, unlimited recording time and matching image to the FX3 - Various prime and zoom lenses from 16mm to 600mm FF equivalent
- Wireless timecode sync
- Tripods
- Gimbal
- Slider
- Teleprompter / autocue
- Plenty of batteries and external power solutions
- ND, bloom and polarising filters
Audio
- Deity wireless lav mics + Sennheiser MKH 50 mic for interviews
- range of omni and cardioid condensors for studio and live music recording
- Zoom F8N compact 8 channel recorder with timecode
- RME recording interface and 16 channels of preamps
- cables, stands, coupling clips, etc
Lighting
- 2 x bicolour LED panel lights
- 2 x 200W bicolour LED single point lights with reflectors and diffusion
- C-stands, etc
Other production kit
- Blackmagic ATEM HD8 ISO vision mixer
Switch between 8 cameras / laptop feeds for live streams, recordings and webinars - Atomos Ninja V for Prores recording and larger screen monitoring
- wireless video transmitter
- wireless comms headsets
- various HDMI / SDI cabling with converters
- Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB
with Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve Studio, Reaper, Adobe Photoshop, Hedge / Offshoot, etc - various capture cards to get video signal into a computer
Transport
- Large ULEZ-compliant 4x4 car
- Crates, peli cases, camera bags, trolley