Chris Burkard is a full-time adventure travel photographer who has traveled throughout the world to photograph surfing, climbing, and more. His work is gear intensive to say the least, and his experience means he has plenty of tips about gear, what to have, and how to pack. This is part one of a gear breakdown from Burkard from a number of years ago. While some of this gear is likely no longer in use, there’s still plenty of great info.
From Chris Burkard:
“Here’s a thorough gear review regarding all my camera equipment and essential accessories.
-Mountain Smith Daylight Lumbar pack
-Macbook Air
-iPhone
-Essential kit with cables, converters, chargers, AUX cable, USB wall charger, lightning pin adaptor
-ChargeCard by Nomad
-Bose Noise Cancelling headphones
-Ursa Major face wipes
-Northern Lights Optics sunglasses
-SPOT Global Phone and GPS locator
-Headlamps Lightweight Petzel
-Extra batteries for Sony camera.
-Memory Card wallet with Sony and or SanDisk 64GB or 128GB
-MicroFiber cleaning cloths made from a MicroFiber towel
-Carabiner Clip with chapstick, multi-tool, lens cleaning cloth
-Goal Zero Flip 20
-OlloClip with telephoto and wide angle
-Black Diamond Revelation
-Mizu glass coated water bottle
-Really Right Stuff tripod
-SPOT locator
-Goal Zero Venture 30
-WD hard drive and case
-Black Diamond Storm headlamp
-Ditty bag with infrared remote and cable release, emergency memory card, tripod tools, lens cloth, rubber bands, Peak Design locks for neck straps
-Filter Kit
-Graduated Neutral Density filter by LucrOit
-Neutral Density filter by Hoya
-Circular Polarizer by Hoya
-Main Camera Bag (Crumpler Camera Pouch)
-24-70mm f/4 Zeiss made for Sony -16-35mm f/4 Zeiss made for Sony
-Sony a7R II
-Arca-Swiss Universal Camera Plate
-Second Bag (Crumpler Pouch)
-Sony FE 70-200mm f/4.0
-Sony a7S *UPDATE* This camera is now replaced with the new Sony a7S II -Sony 28mm f/2 with fisheye adapter
-Third Bag (Kinesis bag)
-Zeiss Batis 25mm f/2 -Sony a6000
-Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm f/4 -Nikon AW1 with 10mm and 11-27mm
-Power adapter
-Extra cables
-Camera charger”
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