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Photo Equipment

I’ve received a number of questions from people asking about the equipment I use to photograph eSports events and tournaments. In the interest of answering everyone’s question without feeling like I’m repeating myself over and over again, I have decided the best solution to the question is to answer it with a blog post going over what I use and why I use it.

This is the gear I carry with me when photographing an event:

Think Tank Photo Airport Ultralight v2.0 – I got this photo backpack mainly for the reason that it is legal international carry-on for all planes. Additionally, the Think Tank brand is known in the photo community as a name with quality and well built bags and pouches. The Airport Ultralight is no exception. It allows me to carry all my gear in a single compact backpack.

FujiFilm FinePix S2 Pro – This camera is old (it came out in 2002), and it shows its age with less than stellar high ISO noise control, slow writing speeds and inability to accept CompactFlash cards more than 4GB. However, it does possess one great feature that all FujiFilm DSLR share: beautiful color rendition of skin tones. Many of the photos I take have little to no post-processing, some even come straight out of the camera.

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