On the Road
Macintosh 15" Titanium 1 GHz PowerPC G4 Laptop, 512 MB SD RAM
This is the main work laptop that has been everywhere and still goes everywhere. Has been dropped a few times too and is still going strong. Is plugged into a 22" CRT monitor in the office and used as a dual display set up. More Ram is not really necessary as it is rarely used for image editing and doesn't have large applications running simultaneously.
Running OSX 10.3.9 - not upgraded to to Tiger 10.4 as hasn't been the need or time recently. Software upgrades often create problems and if something is working well why mess with it. New equipment will make the change inevitable one day anyways.
Macintosh 17" Titanium 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 Laptop, 512 MB SD RAM
The second laptop brought on shoots as a clients display machine. It is kept free and empty and used only for transferring shoot images too on shoots where the client and art directors want to see and select images the same day. The 17" screen is ideal for selections and viewing images. The extra size makes it awkward as a day to day laptop, but when you can bring it on shoots doubles as a portable DVD player whilst waiting out bad weather or at airports.
QTek Wizard 9100 Cell phone
This smart phone allows wifi or gprs internet access to pick up emails whilst traveling, and check weather forecast website. It also allow to work without getting a laptop out whilst traveling. Used as an alarm clock and to make and keep track of shoot lists it has become indispensable gadget. It has a small camera for instantly shooting image ideas, locations and potential models and emailing them from the camera, and occasionally it is used for making phone calls.
Epson P-2000 Multimediastorage Viewer
Media card reader, 3.8inch LCD screen and 40GB hard drive as outlined in the Camera Bag equipment pages...
Car 12V power adapter
Everything needs batteries that need charging and we always have a cigar lighter adapter with us when away from the office.
International Power Plug Adapters
In the Office
Linux server with 2 TerraBytes SATA hard drives with RAID 5
Running Fedora core, this big black tower has no screen or keyboard and is hidden under the desk where it sits quietly and acts as both a Network Attached Storage Server (NAS) and as a web server to give clients access to their work directly via the internet as explained in the digital work flow pages. The server uses RAID 5 which essentially means the hard drives have a back up in case one fails. It is used to store all image files now and the external hard drives are used as extra back up or for shipping large shoots to clients. External drives seem to have a high failure rate with us so backing up the external drive requires a second or mirror drive and software to handle the back ups. Using the NAS server means RAID 5 handles most failure situations automatically and everyone on the network has access to the images at a fast network connection.
Apple Macintosh G4 Power PC
Compaq Presario Windows XP PC
Used mainly to check colors and websites on a PC platform. Occasionally used as the interface to upload images to the Office server
Sony 19 TFT Flat Screen Displays
NEC Multisync 22" CRT Monitors
La Cie 250 GB USB2.0 hard external hardrives x 5
Nikon Super Coolscan 4000
Collecting dust from the days of slides. With the stacker adapter this made some great scans.
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Equipment