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Africa Imagery - Photographs of Africa, it's People and its Wildlife

Giraffe photographes with a Canon 1Ds MkII and a Canon 100 to 400 L Lens.

Photographic and Off Road Gear

At Africa Imagery we have been involved in professional wildlife, travel and cultural photography since 1985 - over 22 years! We know what works and what doesn't in the way of equipment and as a result now offer our services to anyone who needs photographic equipment advice. We sell products that we know and use and can therefore recommend with confidence.

In time we will e-commerce enable this part of the site but in the mean time please e-mail or call Africa Imagery so that we can custom equip you for your photographic safaris. Our safari company, Old Canvas Expeditions has sourced a range of outdoor and adventure gear which will make life in the bush just that little less arduous. If you want quality, style and are prepared to take no compromises in terms of durability, then we recommend this equipment to you. Designed and used by professionals.

Camera Gear

We use Nikon cameras (D3x and D300) and lenses (14mm to 400mm). Why? They're very good - superb lenses (remember bad lens equals bad image - buy the best you can) and the highest pixel count of any "35mm" digital cameras. This combination makes for really fine images.

Memory device

There's little point in shooting a bunch of really fine images only to have your memory cards fail you, either through slow write speeds or through memory failure resulting in corrupt files. Sandisk have never let us down and my new 8 gig SanDisk Extreme® IV Compact Flash® card really reads data with a speed!

Camera Bags and Cases

Life in the African bush is harsh for cameras and computer equipment. The dust can be incredible and dust and digital cameras just don't get on well together! We've solved the problem. Tamrac and LowePro bags and pelican cases.

Mobile computing

In the age of digital imaging a fast reliable computer is essential. We regularly deal with files in excess of 50Mb and find that the Mac Book Pro 15" with 2 X 250gig USB drives works very well in the field.

Computing Software

There is a huge difference between using film and going digital: With film your involvement generally finishes when you send the film to the lab (with some exceptions of course) but with digital you involvement only begins when you press the shutter release button. To get great images you need great software and with Adobe there's no shortage of that.

Vehicles

Getting around (particularly) Southern Africa is a mixture of traveling on some very good paved roads as well as serious 4 X 4 off road work. Distances are generally pretty far on good roads and then you need a really competent vehicle for the off road stuff. We've owned a number of vehicles and are using a Toyota Prado at the moment and are very happy with it.

Please note there are no royalty free pictures on this site. All images are © to Africa Imagery's contributing photographers unless otherwise stated. All rights reserved. No reproduction, including copying or saving of digital image files, or the alteration or manipulation of these files, is authorised unless accompanied by a written sales advice issued by Africa Imagery. All images carry a unique embedded digital identifying encryption which cannot be removed by tampering with the IPTC field. This will allow us to track and trace any unauthorized web use. Email us for information on commercial and personal use of images