Gear

Welcome to my gear page. Currently I am using below stuffs mostly for landscape/seascape photography-

Nikon D800

My primary and only body right now. No plan to sell this soon as I liked it :-)

Nikon D800 (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)

Nikon D800 (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)


Nikkor 16-35mm f/4 G ED VR

I bought this piece last year(2014) December and i am loving it. 16mm with FX body gives me enough wide. Sometimes I don’t even need that wide to avoid some unnecessary objects in the frame. The minimum F number I used so far is probably F8. Great lens with the price compare to 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED.

Nikkor 16-35 f/4 G ED VR (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)

Nikkor 16-35 f/4 G ED VR (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)


Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 G ED VR II

Best lens so far! I mostly use this for portrait. I used to have 24-70 f/2.8 G ED and I felt that was neither good for landscape nor portrait on FX camera. To me 24mm was not as wide as I needed and 70mm was not as zoom as it requires for portrait. I had to sell it and decided to buy this ultimate piece.

Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 G ED VR II (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)

Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 G ED VR II (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)


Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 G IF ED VR

I bought this around 2011 and still own this. I took lot of macro shots with this and came out really nice and sharp. I don’t take much macro these days but I have a plan to shoot macro again soon.

Nikkor 105 f/2.8 G IF ED VR (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)

Nikkor 105 f/2.8 G IF ED VR (image courtesy: nikonusa.com)


Lee Filter Holding System – 100mm

Good build quality. Filter holder compartments are neither too tight nor too loose- Pefect! Only issue is vignetting while I attach the CPL  along with other filters. Also I have to take the filter holder off to adjust the CPL.

Lee square/circular Polarisers are expensive. Recently I’ve bought NISI 100MM System Square Filter Holder V3 with CPL Filter. This is suppose to come with Filter System(Holder + Adapter) with CPL and no vignetting. I will post some test shot once it arrives.

Lee Filter Holding System (image courtesy: leefilters.com)

I ordered all of my Lee system/filters from Media Vision Australia.

 


Singh-Ray Daryl Benson 0.9 Reverse Grad ND Filter

My most used filter for sunrise. It gives a great colour. My first shoot always start with this filter. Then depending on the light I choose other filters to use. It is an expensive filter.

 


Lee Big Stopper (10 Stop)

It’s a popular and great filter for long exposure. I mostly use this filter when the sun is up and already enough light. This filter is also popular for waterfall, smoky mist effect and moving clouds.


When I started photography back in 2010, I started with Nikon D90 and it’s kit lenses (18-forgot & 70-300mm). Later I sold those kit lenses and bought 50mm, f/1.8. I used that lens lot for portraits. I don’t own that anymore.

I also owned Tokina 11-16, f/2.8 (DX) for wide angle experiments and owned that for long. It was a great combination with D90, perfect match!