Mikecolon.com Equipment
2 Nikon D1x camera bodies
4 Nikon Rechargeable Battery Packs (EN-4)
- 2 in the cameras, 2 charging
2 Nikon speedlights
1 Quantum Turbo Pack w/cable
- Used for fast recycling of speedlights when needed
5 Nikon lenses
- 80-200mm F2.8 AF-S (becomes 120-300mm F2.8)
- Ceremony close-ups, individual & couple portraits
- 17-35mm F2.8 AF-S (becomes 25.5-52.5mm F2.8)
- Reception, dancing, cake cutting, scenics
- 28-70mm F2.8 AF-S (becomes 42-105mm F2.8)
- Grand entrance, 1st dance, toasts
- 50mm F1.4 AF (becomes 77mm F1.4)
- Detail shots, still-lifes
- 85mm F1.8 AF (becomes 127.5mm F1.8)
- Individual portraits and couple portraits, low light ceremony shots
Sekonic Light Meter
- Used for general ambient light readings when needed
15 256MB Sandisk Compact Flash Cards
- Holds approximately 2500 – 3000 images (with some shot at high resolution – family portraits, scenics)
Computer System
- Laptop
- Sony Vaio with internal CD-RW drive (for backing up images on location)
- Desktop
- Dual 2.4GHz Pentium IV, 1GB RAM, over 1 Tarabyte of HardDrive space, CD/DVD- RW, DVD
- Zio! Compact Flash Card Reader
- Software
- Windows XP (edit and catalog images)
- Nikon View 4 (rotate, rename & transfer images)
- Photoshop 7.0 (retouch, crop, density %26 color corrections)
- Thumbs Plus (final renaming of images)
- LeapFTP (uploading)
Camera Case
- Equipment fits in a very small, international carry-on sized Tamrac Case