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For Photographers

What's In Our Bags

Every camera, lens, and light the studio actually shoots, across Canon, Sony, Fujifilm GFX, and Profoto. No rented props, no wishlist, just the working kit behind the last decade of weddings.

The Working Kit

Owned, shot, and paid for

Everything on this page is gear we own and shoot, most of it weekly. Every portrait on this page was made with it. Where we have written a full review, it is linked.

Some links below are affiliate links to B&H, Amazon, and the Profoto store. If you buy through them the studio earns a small commission at no additional cost to you. That never decides what appears here, ownership does.

A woman in a red gown on desert dunes at dusk, her dress catching the wind against a stormy pink sky
The Canon System

The wedding-day kit. The R3 is the A-camera on every wedding, and the glass around it covers a full day without a prime swap slowing anything down.

Canon EOS R3

The A-camera for every wedding, and still my favorite body in 2026. Read our review

Canon EOS R5 Mark II

The backup body, also shot by our studio teams. 45MP when the job calls for it.

Canon EOS R6 Mark II

Our California studio body.

Canon RF 15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM

Wide storytelling, receptions, and architecture.

Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L USM

The zoom that genuinely replaced primes for a lot of our coverage.

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM

The workhorse standard zoom.

Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

Ceremonies and compression. It also shot the product photos in our R3 review.

Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM

The portrait prime. The whole love story is in the review. Read our review

Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

Rings, invitations, and the detail flat-lays.

A bride in a flowing pale pink gown that fills the desert valley floor beneath dark mountains, photographed by Michael Anthony
The Cinema Side

Wedding films run on Cinema EOS, so stills and film share glass, color, and batteries across one system.

Canon EOS R5 C

The hybrid body bridging the stills and cinema kits.

Canon EOS C80

Full-frame cinema body for wedding films.

Canon EOS C70

The gimbal and B-camera workhorse on film coverage.

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The Sony Kit

Yes, we shoot Sony too. The story of leaving and coming back is on the hub, but the system never left the building, and the GM glass is superb.

Sony a9 III

The fastest camera in the building. Global shutter, zero drama.

Sony a7R V

The high-resolution body for editorial and studio work.

Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 GM

Wide prime with the shallow look.

Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM

The documentary focal length.

Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM

Sony's answer to the f/1.2 rendering question.

Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM II

The portrait prime on the Sony side.

Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM

Compression and ceremony reach, prime rendering.

Sony f/2.8 GM Trinity: 16-35mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm

The holy trinity zooms, for when the day moves faster than prime swaps.

A woman in a white gown with ruffled details standing in a bright desert landscape under blue sky, photographed on Sony
The Fujifilm GFX Kit

Medium format for editorial portraits and the wall art our clients hang. When a file needs to become a forty-by-sixty, this is why.

Fujifilm GFX100 II

The 102MP medium format flagship.

Fujifilm GFX100S II

The second medium format body.

Fujifilm GF 20-35mm f/4 R WR

The wide zoom on medium format.

Fujifilm GF 45-100mm f/4 R LM OIS WR

The standard zoom for GFX portrait sessions.

Fujifilm GF Primes (the full set)

The GF prime lineup lives here too, from wide to the 110mm f/2 portrait classic.

Avant-garde studio portrait of a woman with sculpted red hair and a black feathered collar, photographed on Fujifilm GFX
The Profoto Lighting Kit

Light is the whole craft, and everything here rides the same OCF mount and the same AirX remote. This is the system behind the portraits on this page, and the off-camera flash guide coming to the hub.

Profoto B20

The 250Ws main light of the OCF kit, with the user-replaceable flash tube.

Profoto B30

The more powerful sibling, for overpowering sun and lighting rooms.

Profoto B20 Duo Kit

Two heads and a bag, the fastest way into the system.

Profoto B30 Duo Kit

The two-light kit we fly with for destination work.

Profoto A10

The round-head flash that lives on the reception body.

Profoto A2

The palm-sized monolight for travel and tight venues.

Profoto OCF Modifiers & Gels

Softboxes, grids, and gels for the OCF mount, the shaping half of the system.

Profoto Clic Creative Gels

Magnetic color for the A-series, the fastest gel swap on a dance floor.

A woman in a black dress lit by a Profoto flash visible on a stand behind her, flaring into the lens in a rustic room
A woman in black leather reclining in a leather chair against a rust-toned wall, sculpted with dramatic off-camera flash

Gear does not book weddings. The business behind it does.

Every camera on this page was paid for by the systems I teach at Elevate: booking better clients, pricing for profit, and building a studio that lasts.