NEMA Photography – Gear | What’s in our bag?

Here’s a list of gear that NEMA uses on-location!

Camera Gear:
3 – Canon EOS 5D Mark II Full-Frame Cameras (our main cameras, and secondary camera)
1 – Canon EOS 40D 1.6x Camera (secondary camera)
(why 4 cameras? You always need to have a backup; and a backup for the backup!)

Lights and Radios:
4 – Pocket Wizard Plus II’s (awesome wireless remotes!)
2 – Sets of Pocket Wizard FlexTT5′s and a MiniTT1
2 – Canon 580 EX II Flashes (our main lights!)
2 – Canon 540 EZ Flashes (used for light shaping w/ the PW’s)
1 – Canon 430 EX Flash (secondary, backup, light shaping)
1 – Alien Bees Ring Flash (ABR800) + 56″ moon unit + Vagabond II Battery Pack
A bunch of light modifiers: snoots, tails, reflectors, umbrellas, paper..

Lenses:
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM (ed’s fav!)
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM (all around workhorse, mar’s fav!)
Canon EF-S 10-22mm USM (ultra-wide scenic lenses)
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM (all around walkaround lense, great in low light)
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM (telephoto zoom – edmond’s fav!)

Misc:
Bunch of CF Cards (160GB+)
10+ Sets of MAHA Imedion Ultra Low Discharge NIMH Batteries (awesome set! charge, store, and use!)
A pair of Storm iM2500 Hard Cases (best all-weather protection, BUT they are heavy :-p )
On-Location 8′ x 8′ backgrounds, stands, monopods, Manfrotto 190CX3 + 501HDV heads

On our post-production side, we use an Apple iMac primarily, and a Dell XPS for backup. We plan to ditch the Dell in the near future, and completely switch to Apple.:-)

Apple 27″ iMac i7 processors (primary work horse)
Dell XPS Workstation – Quad-Core 2.93ghz, 8GB RAM, 3.5TB Local storage (mirrored) (secondary work horse)
Apple Powerbook G4 – old school, used for SDE’s, but it works like a champ
12+ external hard drives with at least 1TB of storage each
Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet

Have any questions? Leave us a comment! That’s our gear so far… and more to come!