A Note on Equipment
Tim Laman uses a wide variety of equipment for his cinematography and photography work above and below water, including a RED Digital Cinema Helium 8K camera, Canon, Nikon, or Sony SLR and Mirrorless cameras for different applications, as well as GoPros and iPhones. Gitzo and Sachtler tripods and heads, dji drones, Nauticam underwater housings, Cognysis camera traps, and many other accessories. Different situations require different tools, and it is an equipment intensive business for sure. But as you have probably heard before, it’s not the camera that makes the image, it’s the photographer. So don’t obsess about equipment, and work with what you have to create good stories. The tools we have at our disposal today for visual storytelling are incredible, and the possibilities are endless.
Tim has been an affiliate of RED Digital Cinema since 2015. See his interview “Tim Laman Talks Stills and Motion Capture with RED” on their website.
Tim has been an ambassador for Gitzo tripods since 2017. When they approached him about this opportunity, he had already been a user of Gitzo tripods for over twenty years. They are simply the best….
Tim is a member of the SanDisk Extreme Team since 2015, and has been trusting his hard won images to SanDisk cards for many years.
All those cameras and lenses have to get carried around in the field. Tim has been partnering with ThinkTank and MindShift bags for over ten years and finds them to be excellent.
You will see these camera covers protecting Tim’s lenses, and helping to camouflage his remote cameras in numerous situations.
Tim does a lot of work from blinds (or hides if you prefer), and has found none better or more full-featured for photographers than those made by Tragopan. Check them out.
Tim has been a contributing photographer for Patagonia for over thirty years, and his images regularly appear on their websites and in their catalogs.
![Photo by @TimLaman. [PRINT GIVAWAY] A Goldie’s Bird-of-Paradise male fans and shakes his plumes at the peak of his courtship display. To photograph this bird, I had to journey to remote Fergusson Island off the Eastern tip of New Guinea, trek into the forest and find a display tree with the help of local guides, and then climb the tree with ropes and rig a blind in the canopy. That’s all before any images were made, of course. To make the photograph, I spent many days climbing into the canopy in the pre-dawn darkness, hauling up and setting up my camera, and waiting for the birds to come. But when everything comes together and a male Goldie’s is displaying in front of my lens in good light, it’s all worth it! This week, I’m giving away a 12-inch square print of this image. Simply go to the link in my IG profile @timlaman, and sign up to enter the drawing. Good luck and thanks for your interest in my work! #printgivaway #birdofparadise #PNG](https://www.timlaman.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)