Gear
Behind the photographs
A small kit, a growing collection of perspectives. My Canon EOS R100 goes from everyday details to far-off Hill Country scenes with a change of lens.
Modern kit
- Canon EOS R100
- The camera at the heart of the bag.
- RF 28mm f/2.8 STM
- A compact everyday lens for places, walks, and details.
- RF-S 18–45mm
- A flexible zoom for finding the frame as I go.
- RF 75–300mm f/4–5.6
- More reach for distant subjects and small pieces of the landscape.
Vintage lenses
Manual focus, all of it. Working lenses, not novelties, each mounted on the R100 through an adapter.
- Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 S.S.C.
- Warm, characterful glass with a fast f/1.4 for low light and soft backgrounds.
- Canon FD 50mm f/1.8
- A lighter, simpler 50mm with the same hands-on, old-school character.
- Canon FD 35–70mm f/3.5–4.5
- A walkaround zoom, wide to short-portrait, with a macro setting for close-up detail.
- Olympus OM Zuiko Auto-Zoom 75–150mm f/4
- The newest addition: a constant-aperture telephoto zoom from the 1970s for portraits and far-off Hill Country scenes.
Also along for the ride: a NEEWER variable ND filter and a tripod. The Canon FD lenses mount through an FD-to-RF adapter; the Zuiko through an OM-to-RF adapter.