My Equipment

For Underwater Video: I rely totally on Gates Professional Underwater Products. In more than a decade of shooting underwater. I have used many different brands of housings. But still to this day Gates Housings, shines through as being the best in its class. These beautifully made and functional housing are so reliable you can count on them each dive to produce the quality imagery when you need it. Currently I am Canon XH A1 and Squid 250 HID lights.

50w HID Video lights. These lights are amazingly bright and durable. The quality of my footage has increased expdentially with this new lighting setup.

For Underwater Photography: I shoot with an Aquatica 1Ds Mark III housing with 9.25" Mega Dome and view finder and remote control as my main system and I have my backup A20 housing for myCanon 20D (+Sapre Body). I have three Ikelite DS-125 Strobes, 4 DS-125 Strobe spare batteries, 8" Dome port, Macro Port with relevant extension rings & gearing. I have 1x Hartenberger focus light and 1xFisheye focus lights, and TLC arm sets.

Above Water: I use a Sony HC3 1080i High Definition video camera, this camera also has a waterproof (17 ft.) marine pack for those environments that involve getting the camera wet.

My Editing Suite: Consists of a fully loaded Apple MacBook Pro 2.16 Ghz, 2 GB Ram, 100GB HD at 7200 rpm, Final Cut Pro Studio 5.0, Adobe CS3, Aperture 2.1, 5x G-Technology RAID Hard Drive 320GB, 3 x 500GB & 1x 1TB Drives. I also have 2x 160GB & 1x250GB Graid Minis, Intusio 9x12 Tablet.

Camera Gear is extensive.

1x Canon 1Ds Mark III

2x Canon 20D bodies

1x Canon 70-200mm f2.8 L USM IS Lens

1x Canon 16-35mm II f2.8 L USM lens

1x Canon MP-E 65mm 5:1 f2.8 Extreme Macro

1x Canon 100mm f2.8 1:1 Macro

1x Canon 50mm f1.8

1x Canon 10-22mm f3.5-4.5

1x Sigma 50-500mm f4-6.3

1x Kenko 12,20,36 Extension tubes

1x Kenko Pro 300 2x Teleplus

1x Canon 580EX II Flash

2x Canon 580EX

1x Canon MT-24 Macro Flash

1x Canon ST-E2 Transmitter

1x Canon Angle C viewer

2x Pocket Wizard Plus II transmitter

1x Pocket Wizard Multimax transmitter/ receiver

1x Canon TC-80N3 timer

1x Gitzo Carbon 6x Explorer Tripod G2257

1x Gitzo G1376M tripod Head

1x Kirk BH3 Tripod Head

1x Manfrotto 055CX3 Carbon Fiber Tripod

1x Kirk Macro Slide rail

2x Lexar 16GB UDMA Pro Compact Flash Cards

1x Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB Compact Flash Card

On the Horizon.............Mid to late 2009

- Canon 14mm super wide

- Canon 600mm f4

- Canon 24-70mm f2.8