What's in your Camera bag?

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Aw, now I feel bad.
It's because I own one body, one lens and one flash along with one backup body with a lens and a flash.
For weddings we rent one more body, a lens and a flash Smiley
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WOW!  I wish I could work that light . . .

Short list:

2 D200s, one on a bracket with an SB-800 and FreeWire transmitter.

18-135 Sigma, this pretty much stays on the camera on the bracket.  This is the newer VR version of the 18-125 that Robert Watcher used to use.  I wore out my 18-125!

35f1.8 Nikon, 50f1.4 Nikon 85f1.8 Nikon, 28-105f2.8 Tamron, 80-200f2.8 Nikon, these are all used at different times on the second body.

100-300f4 Sigma, I have used this a lot of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.  I put it on a tripod and stay way in the back to shoot.

14f3.5 Sigma and 16f2.8 Sigma fisheye, these get little use but they are small so I carry them anyway.

Nikon SB-600 and Sigma iTTL compatible flashes as backup.

Bogan tripod and head.

Four 13ft light stands.

Three Quantum QFlashes, three Sunpak 544 flashes.

Assorted batteries and cables.

I am looking to pick up a D300s this season.  That may become a third camera.  I haven't decided if I will get rid of one of the D200s.
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Ed Farmer
Mount Laurel, New Jersey

www.edfarmerphotography.com
www.photoartsforum.com

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For the record . . . I am 48 (49 in May) and made my dad's mother a grandmother when she was 36 and had a 10 month old baby of her own.

This is where I should say I was talking about the other ed but I only think (as I did in your case) I am younger...

OK dig a grave, I'm the old guy.... [grin]

I usually pull everything I don't think I'm going to need and leave it in the car. Makes a lighter bag and I'm pretty good at guessing. Rarely have to go back for something.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West

Chattanooga Portrait Photographer BobEdens.com

Ed, my husband and I work FAST. At a shoot he has a long lens I have a short lens. That is our strengths and it's awesome not having to stop and change lens. We don't even carry a bag, we leave it in the car. I toss the reflector with the homemade strap criss crossed on my shoulder, my husband does the same with the tripod. Extra memory cards go in his shirt pocket, light meter around my neck. I keep an SB800 flash on my camera and move it off camera, hand held by my husband if we need it.
That's it unless we have to grab an umbrella, and then I am kind of out of sorts because one more thing to haul around means I have to set it down to shoot.

I will put it out there that I would LOVE more camera equipment, but photography is a business that pays my bills, only a small portion of what we make goes back into buying equipment, so I have to save up for big things like bodies and lenses.

I have a wedding next Saturday though where it's all indoors, we won't even have a chance to do formals outside. The building has no windows besides a couple near the entrance. So we are bringing studio lights for the formals and then set up as slaves for the reception just around the room. Should be fun managing all that.
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Understand . . . everything listed (except the tripod, stands and extra flashes) fit in one, wheeled, Tamrac bag.  Generally, that bag is all that goes to the brides house, the bag and one stand go in to the church and all of it only goes to the reception. 

I also keep a small empty bag in the trunk.  If we are at a park and I will be far from the car, I throw a few lenses in the bag and I am off.  Most of the day, I have the camera on the bracket in my hand and the other over my shoulder. 

I also work fast.  What helps me there is knowing exactly where everything in the bag is without looking.  I don't spend nearly as much time changing lenses as the list makes it look.  The bulk of the time the second camera has either the 80-200 or 50f1.4 on it.  In a small church or house, the 35 will replace the 50.  The others are there as backup and for special circumstances.  I don't like to leave backup gear in the car because it is often too far away.  Since everything pretty much fits in two bags it's not bad to get around with.
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Ed Farmer
Mount Laurel, New Jersey

www.edfarmerphotography.com
www.photoartsforum.com

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