I per­son­ally recom­mend or use the fol­low­ing pho­to­graphic equip­ment. I’ll add more details to the lenses sec­tion soon.

Cam­eras

• Nikon D3s
  – Best low light cam­era, very good ergo­nom­ics and handling
• Nikon D700
  – Expect­ing an update soon, this would be my ideal cam­era for every­day ser­i­ous photography
• Nikon D7000
  – The best DX cam­era Nikon has made, but still a little expensive
• Nikon D200
  * — my cur­rent DSLR, hop­ing to replace with a full frame model when it needs retiring
• Nikon F90 * — very sturdy AF film SLR, but not as nice as the F100 or F6.
• Nikon FE * — nice com­pact manual film SLR, com­pat­ible with lots of lenses. Very bright viewfinder

Lenses

Some of these are lenses I own and use (marked with *), oth­ers are ones I have used in the past and would like to have.

• Nikon Zoom-Nikkor 12-24mm F/4G*
• Nikon 60mm F/2.8G AF-S Micro-Nikkor*
• Nikkor 50mm AF F/1.8D *
• Micro-Nikkor 105mm F/2.8D
• Nikkor 80-200mm F/2.8D *
• Nikkor 28mm F/2.8 AI-s *
• Nikkor 85mm F/2 AI *

Flash­guns

• Nikon SB-800 — extremely ver­sat­ile flash for Nikon users. I really like the built in optical trig­ger and iTTL remote control!
• Nikon SB-900* — much big­ger than the SB-800 but also easier to use and longer zoom range. My cur­rent ‘go-to’ flash
• Nikon SB-700 — this would be the ideal first flash for a Nikon DSLR user
• Nikon SB-400 — very simple, but usable espe­cially on an exten­sion cord (SC-29) or Pock­etW­iz­ard TTL
• Nikon SB-26 * — older model from 1990s, but has optical trig­ger and is very well built (easier to put on light stands than the newer mod­els with a dif­fer­ent lock­ing system)
• Sun­pak Auto 30 DX* — 1980s flash guns which can be acquired second hand. Very easy to manu­ally set and cheap to replace

Accessor­ies

• Giotto’s tri­pods * — great value sturdy equipment
• Man­frotto super clamp * — very use­ful for attach­ing cameras/lights to doors/tables etc.
• Man­frotto nano stand * — nice com­pact flash stand. Not too sturdy
• West­cott Col­lapsible Umbrella * — very com­pact umbrella
• Lowepro bags * — gen­er­ally very afford­able and good quality
• Sandisk memory cards * — these have never failed me
• Lexar memory cards * — I only have 1 so far, but it is a good value card