ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that to limit equipment budget, please trust that one can absolutely make fine images with almost any reasonably priced gear that you use with good photographic techniques. Every camera bag should include the necessities for keeping camera and lenses impeccably clean. Even a bit of lens dust can cause contrast-reducing flare in an image, so lenses should always be immaculately clean. Moreover, to ensure the highest quality images for instructional programs, and for other users of our images, we always insist on using only the best quality gear available. Barb's knee surgery virtually mandates these comfort-promoting accessories. No actual increase in depth-of-field is achieved, but realignment of the plane of focus permits an optimized utilization of the ordinarily available DOF and thus excellent focus over large segments of the image. Special purpose close-up flash units are available by both Nikon and Canon.
