Everything that goes in the water with me. No mystery, no sponsorship-driven swaps. Links below; affiliates flagged honestly.
Goes in the water every time. The crop sensor reach is what lets me get close to small fish without lugging a 300mm. Eye-detect works through a dome at 60ft.
Lives clipped to the boat or my wrist. Surface b-roll, slo-mo of swell over the bow, anything that doesn’t deserve the housing.
Throw on a chest mount, swim with the seals, reframe later. Half the reels you’ve seen on my page are stitched out of this.
The lens that opened up the kelp forest for me. Stays on the R7 90% of the time underwater. Light, sharp, and the IS works.
EF mount with an adapter. The f/2.8 helps when the light dies at 50ft. Heavy but bombproof; lived in my bag for years before the RF lens.
Honestly the unsung hero of my whole setup. Bought it after two friends flooded their cheaper rigs in one trip. Two years, three hundred dives, zero leaks.
Cuts perfectly. Warmer than the 7mm hooded suits I’ve owned thanks to the chest-zip seal. Worn it October through April for two seasons.
The single biggest upgrade I’ve ever made. Sixty-foot dives feel like thirty. Carbon kicks harder, recovers faster, doesn’t tire your legs at the end of a four-hour day.
For the on-deck interviews and topside clips. Two transmitters means I can mic up a captain and a guest at the same time and not chase audio in post.
Pelican 1535, two bodies, three lenses, batteries warm in the cabin. Coffee in a steel cup. The 5 mm hood doesn’t go on until we cut the engine.
Snorkel out, regulator in, housing balanced neutral. Aquatica dome, INON Z-330 strobes on half power. The first frame is always for the light meter.
Strobes wide for fill, ambient at ISO 800, f/8, 1/200. Sony 16-35 GM for wides, 90 mm macro on the second rig for the small things in the kelp.
Light is gone by here on a cloudy day. Two strobes only, no ambient. Mares Quad bottom timer reads 18°C. Forty minutes total, then the long way back up.