some tools I found in my room

[Frank Fremerey]

Tonight we were talking about resources we use or waste and my eye fell on some of the things, a small fraction of things, I use or not use for taking photos.

Lets start with a big and a small camera:

[Frank Fremerey]

Something ABSOLUTE and something obsolete:

[Frank Fremerey]

Some supporting acts and some collateral damage (of 40 or 50 HDD/SDD):

[Frank Fremerey]

Enlightenment and Drawing:

[Frank Fremerey]

What once was film and pars pro toto for everything Acra compatible:

[HCS]

That's actually a very nice series Frank!

Nice to see there are more people who have amassed stuff and not use it all.

[Frank Fremerey]

This is sctually a small fraction of the things I use regularly.
To begin with neither the cam I used to take this set nor the
lens or the lamps are in the frame

Tripods Background system all the batteries
computers and assessoires cables and transport boxes the whole
Sinar sytem diverse adapters decoration small set of portrait
make up a shovel I use in the field as s make shift toilet.

Not even my most important tool: pen and paperclipboards my
compass snd the flashlights mobile presrntation equipment
reflectors diffusors 23 kinds of glue tape plus white plastoform
for posutioning.

New equipment amasses with every project.

[HCS]

This is sctually a small fraction of the things I use regularly.
To begin with neither the cam I used to take this set nor the
lens or the lamps are in the frame

Tripods Background system all the batteries
computers and assessoires cables and transport boxes the whole
Sinar sytem diverse adapters decoration small set of portrait
make up a shovel I use in the field as s make shift toilet.

Not even my most important tool: pen and paperclipboards my
compass snd the flashlights mobile presrntation equipment
reflectors diffusors 23 kinds of glue tape plus white plastoform
for posutioning.

New equipment amasses with every project.

Ehhh ... wow!

I don't have so much stuff, i'm just a hobbyist. Still have quite some stuff not used anymore. And frankly, also some stuff never even used.

[Frank Fremerey]

Frankly I think I am, one of the guys with small amounts of equipmenmt here...

[David Paterson]

Interesting to see what someone else has in their camera cupboard. After I bought my first "proper" digital camera (D2x) I began a ruthless clear-out of everything that remained of my once comprehensive kit of film-based cameras, plus lighting, tripods, darkroom equipment and so on. Within less than a year it was all completely gone. Soon I plan to do the same with my much smaller digital kit, reducing cameras from 3 to 2, and lenses from 10 to perhaps only 3. Simplify, simplify.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Some day I'll shoot my collection of crashed hard disks - been stacking them for a year now and there must be at least twenty in the stack. Earlier I just threw them away, or opened up to make photos of the disk platter(s) and read-out head.

[Gary]

Frankly I think I am, one of the guys with small amounts of equipmenmt here...

More than me, I think. I don't have any studio equipment. But I do have 'complete' systems in three different formats, FF, APS-C and MFT.

[David Paterson]

Some day I'll shoot my collection of crashed hard disks - been stacking them for a year now and there must be at least twenty in the stack. Earlier I just threw them away, or opened up to make photos of the disk platter(s) and read-out head.

Since 1992, when I bought my first Mac, I've only had one hard disk fail, and one CF card (Kingston 1gb - remember 1gb cards?). I'm touching wood as I write this and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.   

[Bjørn Rørslett]

It is a predictable fact of life that hard disks fail unpredictably, but always at the worst possible time. Thus, build your data storage routines to be able to handle a sudden loss of data in a manner such that you avoid a permanent loss of data.

[Frank Fremerey]

Dave. I remember my first CF was a Sandisk Ultra 512MB for 115 Euro. Now the smallest card is 2GB
and a 90MB/s Samsung SD is 55 Euro at Amazon.

Bjørn. These guys look great and shiny inside. My backup routine is such that data loss is rather improbable.

Worst case is loss of a day's work  but only if I am multifailing in my routine.


correct. I once had a rented Casion Q10 at IFA in Berlin. The card was much Smaller. 20 MB or something