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My Gear List

This is my entire gear list, both present, future and recommended.

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Cameras

Lenses

Current:

Canon mount:

  • Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Lens (AmazonB&H)

Nikon mount:

Sony Mount:

Rig

Lens Adapters:

Cage: Universal Cage (Amazon | B&H). Here’s my review of it:

Baseplates:

Follow Focus:

  • Current: Gondor, from CAME-TV (Don’t recommend it!)
  • Wish List: Arri MMF-2 or better.

Matte Box:

Rods: Generic, steel and aluminum, 15mm LWS

ND Filters

  • 4×5.65: Formatt Firecrest IRNDs (B&H, Amazon), Cavision graduated (I don’t recommend Cavision)
  • 4×4 and circular: Hoya, Haida, Lee, etc.

Battery Solutions

Batteries:

Adapters:

Chargers:

  • Sony chargers (crappy slow chargers!)
  • Canon chargers
  • Knock offs from Ebay – you need at least two chargers!

Support:

Tripod and Head

Fluid head: Cartoni FocusHD and SCG T8

Ball head: Arca Swiss Monoball P0 with panning system (B&H, Amazon) – a beauty but doesn’t play well with third-party plates.

Tripod: 

  • Benro A3570T aluminium legs with a 100mm to 3/8″ adapter/riser. (Discontinued model)
  • Flyfilms 100mm tripod for studio/teleprompter use – I do not recommend this, very flimsy for field use.
  • SCT 100mm tripod – not as good as their head.

Wish List: OConnor 1030D with a Sachtler Flowtech 100

Video Recorder

Atomos Shogun with Intel 530 240GB (B&H, Amazon) and Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD drives

External Monitor

  1. On-camera: Atomos Shogun
  2. 24″ Production: FSI DM240

Microphones

Shotgun: Sennheiser ME66/K6

Wishlist: MKH-series, but yet to decide.

Wired Lavaliers:

  • Audio Technica 3350 (Do not recommend these at all, poor EMI shielding!)
  • Rode SmartLav+ (Do not recommend these due to average audio quality, but fine for YouTube vlogging)
  • Wishlist: Sanken COS-11D

Cables: MX (Indian brand)

Zepellin and Pole: K-Tek + K-GPS Kit

Audio Recorder

Current: Tascam DR-60D (I)

Wish List: Sound Devices

USB Adapter: Shure X2U XLR to USB Adapter (I use this to directly record into computer)

Monitoring Headphones

Sennheiser HD380 Pro

Miscellaneous

Lightmeter: Sekonic L478D

Rechargeable AA Batteries and Charger: Eneloop Pro/XX

Cleaning Kit: Zeiss and Giottos Rocket Large

Bags:

  • Walk-around photography: Pisen (Nat Geo clone, but tough as hell)
  • Work: Thinktank Retrospective 30
  • Storage: Pinnacle (local manufacturer) hard case and custom foam
  • Backpack and for carry-on flying: Osprey Talon 44 with a locally-made custom camera enclosure for the full rig

Color Chart: DSC Labs OneShot Pocket

All kinds of lights, from LEDs to Tungsten/Halogen and DIY Fluorescent banks, photo stands, C-stands, rigging adapters and gear, and an iPad teleprompter.

Check out Wolfcrow Studio for our range of lights and modifiers.

Macbook Pros, Windows Workstation, a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and Adam A7X for monitoring.

Software

Editing: DaVinci Resolve Studio

Audio: DaVinci Resolve Studio and Apple Logic Pro X

Effects, Grading and Finishing: DaVinci Resolve Studio

Photos and Images: GIMP

Player: VLC and Quicktime, whatever works.

Online Video: Vimeo Pro and YouTube

Music: Logic Pro X

Computer

Workstation: 1950x Threadripper Build

  • Primary grading monitor: FSI DM240
  • 4K GUI Monitor: LG 32UD59 (Do not recommend)
  • 2nd GUI Monitor 1080p: Dell

Calibration: XRite i1Display Pro (B&H, Amazon)

Secondary Work drive: Areca 4-bay 5026 Thunderbolt (B&H, Amazon) with Seagate Barracuda 3TB drives, total 12 TB in RAID 10 (usable 6TB). I get about 1 GB/s at best, and on average about 400-500 MB/s.

Storage NAS: Synology DS1817+ (Amazon) with various 10TB Enterprise drives. No RAID or JBOD, just separate drives.

Wacom Intuos tablet (B&H, Amazon)

External disks I use (all USB 3.0):

  • Samsung T5/T7
  • Seagate 4TB
  • WD 1TB
  • HGST Touro 1TB – my favorite 7200 rpm drives for editing. The others are all 5400rpm.
  • Transcend 1TB

Midi Keyboard: Korg microKey 37 (Amazon, B&H)

Current mobile phone: iPhone 8 Plus.

4 replies on “My Gear List”

Thank you so much for all of your amazing guides. I absolutely love the fight night short film. Which would be the better camera for taking photos and videography, the Gh5 or Nikon Z6 with Atamos Ninja V? Thank you again for generous contributions to the videography/filmmakers community.

Hi Sareesh.
Thanks for all your articles and videos. They are often enlightening and always fun.
On the sound side, and speaking as someone who has been doing sound for more than 40 years (studio, live, film and artistic), I have some suggestions.
For mics it has to be DPA, lav and shotgun. The DPAs are neutral, robust and the off axis roll off is even. You can hide their lavs anywhere in a set or on a body and the sound will match the shotgun naturally with little post. I use pretty much nothing else, apart from Soundfield Ambisonic and a few Schoeps and Neumann. Oh yeah and DPA lavs are trundling around Mars as I type.
As a recorder, if budget allows, an Aaton Cantar. Expensive but robust, logical, well thought out and impeccable sound. If budget is tight a Zoom F8. Damned fine for the money and they will actually listen if you suggest a firmware change ( if you speak to the right person).
As for software, Fairlight is great and comes with Resolve. But I find myself using Reaper much more of the time. An amazing bit of code and I can mix in immersive, Ambi or Atmos or whatever. It is light on computer resources (more channels and plugins than anything else) and it sounds great. It’s cross platform and cool.
Keep up the good work and stay as sane as present viral circumstance allows.

Thank you for the DPA suggestion, Matt, I’ll check them out. Sadly, there’s no way to test microphones in India (dealers don’t have most models), which is why I’ve reserved my decision.

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