 Welcome to Episode 8 from the balcony. Hopefully all are doing well. Staying safe, being healthy. Let's get into today's video. My name is David Patton. When I started photography, I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer. But with a family to feed and bills to pay, I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photojournalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later, it was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion. Come along on my journey to become the best black in my photography I can be. Whether it be film or digital, I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures. In hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is Bright in the Edge. Today I thought I'd show you my gear. Specifically my cameras and lenses. I think it's kind of a modest collection. It's nothing impressive. But instead of just showing you my gear, I thought instead I would show you images that I've made with this gear. I think that'd be more useful. Kind of see how I'm using each piece of equipment. So with that said, let's get into it. The choice of camera gear and lenses is a very personal thing. Everybody has different needs, different objectives. So anything that I would use doesn't necessarily mean you would want to use the same thing. I thought it'd be nice to show you how I'm using my gear. Some of it's pretty old, some of it's not too old. There's still some pieces of gear that I'd like to have in my collection. And I'm not collecting gear. Everything has to have earnest place. There's a few focal lengths in each format that I would still like to have. And I'd like to expand into the large format. Pick up a body and possibly a lens or two. Ultimately I'd like to have something in each format 35mm, 120mm and 4x5mm. Four different types of subjects. So I'm getting into today's video right here. Once again, thanks for joining me here on the balcony. And until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.