Equipment for ordinary news photographers

A SLR camera with three lenses and focal length coverage 16-200. As for the specific model parameters, I won't go into details. Of course, the more expensive the better. It doesn't matter what kind of camera you choose. If money is not a problem, who doesn't want to buy a professional model? The key is to be solid in technology. I have a colleague in NB who used Minolta 300 10 years ago, added a Russian 500mm folding head, and still shot A, but now almost all photographers are using professional cameras, so it is difficult for ordinary cameras to gain a competitive advantage in the news scene. It's really annoying if you can only press the shutter three times.

There are some details that many people, including photographers, don't necessarily care about:

Wake up every morning and make sure that at least one camera battery is fully charged.

Even if your flash uses rechargeable batteries, put 4 or 8 No.5 alkaline batteries in your camera bag.

Flash batteries should be in groups of four and put in a special battery box.

If you have more than one memory card, put them in a special box or folder, not in the small bag outside the camera bag.

During the interview, the spare memory card is put in the pocket on the chest of the coat or in the pocket. Don't put it in the butt pocket of jeans, it may wear out your camera bag.

There are card readers and drive CDs in the camera bag, and WIN98 has been installed in many county Internet cafes.

If you have space, you should put two or three more plastic bags that can wrap your camera, a pack of paper towels, a small bright flashlight and a compass in your camera bag.

You can also put a towel if you like. When there is poisonous gas, not every fire brigade provides reporters with gas masks. You can use them to soak.

Put some Snickers in the camera bag. It has a long shelf life. Don't eat it when you are in town. You can buy things that can supplement your physical strength everywhere in the city.

In winter, you should have a non-slip glove with rubber particles on the Shuang Yi.

Match a high-quality earphone to your mobile phone. When interviewing, put your mobile phone on your waist and place it in vibration.

On the way to the interview, check the memory card and battery again.

Before getting off the bus, the exposure mode, white balance setting, sensitivity and focus mode should have been set, and the camera has also installed a flash (you can turn off the power if you don't use it, but you will definitely miss the picture when you want to use it).

In case of emergency, please remove all lens covers, including the lens back cover, before getting off the bus.

Don't fill in any memory card, leave a space of twenty or thirty megabytes.

Get into the habit of shooting people from the viewfinder.

When interviewing, don't try to look at the screen behind the camera unless you have no confidence in your exposure.

A small digital camera, you will find that it is better than a big one in many cases. Buy a suitable wallet.

Go to the outdoor store and buy a two-piece raincoat. You can run quickly when it rains.

Ginny has a special camera rain cover, which is quite good.

Create a separate folder for each event and topic, and indicate the file name you can understand.

All photos you don't want to delete should be kept in the original document and copied for publication.

Burn a backup CD and burn two copies of the same content.

In addition to the CD, set up a suitable mobile hard disk and make another backup of the original picture in the computer.

Never cut photos from the memory card.

About camera bags and others

One-shoulder camera bag can hold all the equipment you need, but it slides down easily. When many people are crowded together to take pictures, it will become your biggest obstacle and burden. If you really like it, please put your camera handle on the top of the bag. This is the fastest position that the camera can pull out. Don't worry about the lens holder. I haven't heard of mounts, so I won't eat them.

Nowadays, the popular equipment is shoulder bag+camera belt, the camera is hung on the shoulder or neck, the flash and the second lens are placed at the waist, and spare batteries, flash battery boxes and other odds and ends are put in the pocket. If you don't want to spend a lot of money on this kind of belt (Le Shebao's is not cheap), it's not bad to get a suitable waist bag and long head pocket.

Foreign camera bags (actually made by China people) are very expensive, and they look like foreign plates on their backs. The workmanship and materials are really excellent, but now the domestic products such as Kennifu and Japanese China are also good. Some professional models are dustproof, waterproof, durable and not worse than foreign goods in function.

The camera bag should be the one with a rain cover, the outer pocket is large enough (the camera charger can be put down), and the internal partition is thick and firm, so that the buckle can be quickly unfastened with one hand. Buckles like Buckingham and Jeep are not recommended (besides, they are too expensive).

I don't like photography vests, especially those printed with "China Photographers Association" and "EOS". In fact, what bothers me is that I often forget which pocket to put the memory card or flash memory in, and it is extremely troublesome to change the card in a hurry.