What’s in our camera bags?
When you hire a professional like us, you’re also hiring our camera equipment and what better way to let clients know that they’re getting the very best by showing off what we use when we photograph and film you wedding day.
Today, Carole and I are going to go over the gear we use so you can see what it takes to make great photos and videos.
Wedding Photography
Carole is a Sony chick and she loves Sony full-frame bodies, in fact she has two, the Sony a7iii and the Sony a7ii.
Sony a7iii - $2,198.00 USD
The Sony a7iii a true powerhouse of a camera body. With in camera body stabilization, a large full frame sensor for low light and the ability to do capture sharp images unlike many of the older Canon and Nikon camera bodies, Sony is truly ahead of the game in the photography industry. Carole uses the Sony a7iii as her main camera body.
Why does Carole choose Sony as her brand of choice?
Simple. We WANT to be different than the rest of the crowd.
Sony a7ii - $988.00 USD
Carole uses the Sony a7ii as a backup camera, it has the same full frame sensor as the model iii it’s just slower and only has one memory card slot instead of two. She will use this with a wide angle lens while using the a7iii with a zoom or vise versa at a wedding ceremony.
Camera Lenses
Of course with cameras you need great quality lenses that help take those sharp images. Carole has an arsenal of great lenses and we both prefer Sigma as the lens of choice.
Sigma 24-70 2.8 Art Lens $1,099.00 USD
Sigma 16mm 1.4 $399.00 USD
Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art Lens $949.00 USD
Sony 50mm 1.8 $289.00 USD
Sony 28-70mm 3.5 $389.00 USD
Why so many lenses? Because different scenarios call for different lenses, sometimes low light situations like a dark wedding reception calls for a lens that can soak up as much light as possible, other times a zoom is needed to crop the shot. but not matter what, she has just about every lens needed for every scenario.
Then she has a slue of batteries, memory cards, bags, tripods and lights too, but just a rough figure, she’s going to come with about $7,000 worth of gear to make the wonderful pictures she does.
Wedding Videography
Joshua is a Panasonic guy and he lives in both the Full frame and Micro Four Thirds world, that’s the size of the sensor his camera systems have, perfect for 4K video. Video is a bit different than photographs and having multiple cameras to handle the ceremony, reception and feature film is standard in the industry.
Panasonic S1 (2 of them) $2,800 USD each
This full frame camera is Joshua’s main go to camera for wedding films and photography. It’s sensor is larger than the other models in his bag and combined with Sigma prime lenses, dual memory card slots and ability to shoot in low light, makes the perfect camera system for filming.
GoPro Hero 7 Silver $200.00 USD
These are great little for walking down the aisle, unusual angles or even as wide shots on top of the camera systems that I have. I typically will toss one of these up and record even I don’t use the footage for the video, its way to have a backup and to capture video in small places.
Mevo Plus $399.00 USD
We use Mevo plus to help live stream wedding ceremonies as well as recording for a backup too. Mevo is a great way to broadcast the ceremony live in an unedited format.
DJI Mavic Air 2 $988.00 USD
This drone is a powerhouse within the wedding video community and of the 6 other DJI drones I’ve owned, this is by far one of the very best! It does 48 megapixel stills and 4K video too. It’s great for venues of all types and I use this just about every wedding I film.
Then we get into al the lenses we use in video, Sigma 16mm, Sigma 19mm, Lumix 25mm, Lumix 12-60mm, Leica 100-300mm, Lumix 9mm fisheye, 20mm pinhole lens, and a few others in the bag too.
I wont even mention the Manfrotto tripods, monopods, microphones, audio recorders, cases and everything else you need too, but lets just say it’s a lot.
In camera gear, I bring about $8,600 in gear, lenses, that’s another $3,000, then all the other gear, another $3,800 and change. In all, just for video, we bring about $15,000+ in gear to make your wedding video.
So, what does all this mean for us, the couple getting married?
With nearly $15,000 in video gear and $7,000 in photography gear, Carole and I are going to bring a powerhouse of professional gear to your wedding day.
Having professional gear is not cheap and it also doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing either, you have to know your gear and understand how to get the best out of it too.
