Equipment
The cameras,
the lenses, the redundancies.
Equipment doesn’t make a good photographer. Bad equipment can ruin a good one. Here’s what we bring to every wedding, and why.
Photography bodies
Sony α7 IV (×6)
33-megapixel full-frame, dual-card. Standard team body. Two per Lead per wedding day.
Sony α1 (×2)
50-megapixel, 30fps. Reserved for large group portraits and high-resolution work. Used by Andre when he is on-camera.
Fujifilm X100VI (×3)
Backup + B-roll + behind-the-scenes. The camera we hand to the second photographer for documentary frames.
Lenses (Sony FE mount)
24mm f/1.4 GM
Tight ceremony spaces, environmental portraits, the venue shot at golden hour.
35mm f/1.4 GM
The team's most-used lens. Couple portraits, reception details, hands.
50mm f/1.2 GM
Editorial portraits. Cinematic compression at f/1.4.
85mm f/1.4 GM
Bride+groom isolation. Long-lens ceremony coverage from the side aisle.
70-200mm f/2.8 GM II
Speeches, distance ceremony, when we cannot be close.
24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
Backup walkaround. Solo coverage of small ceremonies and civil days.
Video
Sony FX3 (×2)
Cinema-line for wedding films. Slog3 recording, full-frame, 4K.
DJI Ronin RS3 Pro (×2)
Gimbals for cinematic motion. One per cinematographer.
Røde Wireless Pro lavaliers (×4)
Speeches, vows, officiant audio. Backup recording on every wedding.
DJI Mavic 3 Pro + DJI Air 3
Drone coverage where venue rules and local regulations allow.
Lighting
Profoto B10 Plus (×3)
Battery-powered strobes for ceremony fall-back, reception ambient, and on-location flash portraits.
Aputure 600d (×2)
Continuous LED for video and stylised mixed-light frames.
On-camera Godox V1
Off-camera flash via wireless trigger when ceiling-bounce is the right move.
Reflectors, scrims, neutral cards
Always in the case. Often used. Rarely talked about.
Storage & redundancy
Dual-card recording, every body, always
CFExpress + SD simultaneous write. No single point of failure on the day.
Pelican hard cases
Two cases per wedding day, transported separately.
Off-site backup within 24 hours
Every card is copied to two physical drives plus cloud archive before the next morning.