My Gear

 Landscape Photography Equipment

Fujifilm GFX 100S - I absolutely love this camera. This is a digital medium format camera, meaning it has a very large 4:3 ratio 102 MP sensor. This gives the camera wonderful dynamic range as well as capturing immense detail. Also, with it being a Fujifilm camera, the colour rendition is just sublime. The usability of the camera is excellent, with customisable buttons and satisfying dials that click beautifully. This is pretty much the perfect camera for landscape photography.

Fujifilm 35-70mm f4.5 - 5.6 lens - Supposedly, this is a ‘kit lens’ - but you wouldn’t know it from the image quality. It is sublime. Yes, the build quality is not as premium as other GFX lenses, and yes there is no aperture ring (which I love about GF lenses), but for the price this gives an excellent and sharp coverage. I primarily use this lens for woodland scenes (when I’m not picking out canopy details with my longer lenses) and for small scenes, such as geology abstracts. What makes this lens so useful for small scenes is its magification ratio of x0.28 - essentially this enables me to get very close to my subjects in a comfortable manner (I don’t see any need for a Macro lens, this works perfectly). The wide angle and good magnification ration means making small scenes in geology a joy. I actually think this might be my favourite GF lens, and I’ve used pretty much all of them.

Fujifilm 100-200mm f5.6 lens - Sharp and it covers my favourite focal range for landscape photography. I like to simplify scenes and make the image about one thing only, big vistas are ace, but are only a small part of what I do. I also really like this lens for more abstract scenes, where I am able to select what I really love about the landscape, rather than going for an entire scene. When I look through my portfolio, a large proportion of my favourite images was taken at the mid-range telephoto end making this 100-200mm my workhorse lens.

Fujifilm 500mm f5.6 lens - This lens is razor sharp and finally offers a true telephoto option to the GFX system. It is strangely lightweight for its size, due to the use of high-grade plastic more than metals in its production, which is something I’m assuming all photographers would be pleased with. It has an insanely narrow depth of field so focus stacking is essential when using the lens. Finally being able to isolate vignettes of larger scenes without having to crop out all of those pixels from the very expensive sensory in the GFX 100S is a godsend.

Rucksack and Filters

Shimoda Action X30 V2 (Black) - This bag is perfect for what I do. I don’t want anything larger than 30L as I just really don’t like big bags. This is as small as bag as I can realistically have with the size of my camera gear. I paired this bag with Shimoda’s Large Mirrorless Core unit, which is a snug, but perfect, fit for my Fujifilm GFX 100S, 500mm, 100-200mm and 35-70mm lenses. The roll top is perfect for storing extra bits, some food, a waterproof jacket and my Kase filter sets. I mainly selected the Action X30 V2 because of the roll top, but also because of the straps that run laterally across the back of the pack; I have a large, heavy tripod and like to fasten this to the centre of the pack, rather than down one side as the lop-sided weighting just annoys me when on a walk. And as you can see, I like to use my gear and don’t care if it gets dirty!

Kase Wolverine Circular Filters - I actually have two sets of these, the 77mm set and the 95mm set. The 77mm set fit nicely to the front of my 35-70mm and 100-200mm lenses, however, my 500mm lens has an enormous 95mm filter thread so I needed a new set of filters to cover it. In each set I have a CPL (Circular Polariser) which is my most used filter, useful for enacting colour in wet woodlands, taking the shine off rocks and sand or darkening skies in certain situations. I also have a 3-stop, 6-stop and 10-stop ND filter in each set, used mainly for creating long exposures of moving subjects (e.g. water and clouds) as well as for increasing shutter speed when making ICM images.

Post Processing

Apple MacBook Air M3 with 24GB Unified RAM - This is perfect for editing my photos. The screen is vibrant, enabling my to check my photos for anything untoward. It handles my large RAW files the GFX 100S kicks out with ease. The M3 Chip and 24GB Unified RAM which just eats through Lightroom and Photoshop edits, even demanding changes like focus stacking 10 RAW files from my 102MP GFX 100S!

Apple Studio Display 27” with Nanotextured Display - This screen pairs seamlessly with my MacBook Air. When editing images I always sit at my desk and use the display. It’s good to have a laptop and screen combo so I can still upload and play with images on the go, as well as being able to edit my website etc. However, when fine-tuning images the Studio Display is unmatched. The colour is superb and the Nanotextured Glass reduces glare (my office is southeast facing so gets a fair amount of direct sunlight). Also the screen is so aesthetically pleasing in its design, with boxy square edges. I love it.

Datacolor SpyderX Pro - I use this to calibrate my screen to maximise colour accuracy when editing and printing.

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop - Editing and cataloguing of my images. I have the TK9 Panel insert from Tony Kuiper to easily mask images and make more controlled edits.