Galen Rowell's equipment

<p>Galen Rowell had an untimely death due to a light aircraft accident. I have several of his books and not only are they filled with memoral photos, but also very comprehensive discriptions on his techbiques with flash, especially fill flash. Thom Hogan was a student of Galens and described how he switched from Minolta to Nikon after joining one of Galen's safaris, not that there is anything wrong with Minolta. Even if I were 50 years older, I don't think I would enjoy Galen's habit of taking photos while hanging to a vertical mountain wall, but I like his photos while doing so. Here is a link describing what could be found in his camera bag, with a strong emphasis on Nikon.</p>

<p>http://www.mountainlight.com/rowell/gr_camera_bag.html</p>

<p>Speaking of Thom Hogan, if you visit his site, he has an interesting article on what he would choose if limited to one camera for the rest of his life.</p>

<p>The images are astoundingly saturated. Did he use Kodachrome or Velvia or perhaps some saturated negative film?</p>

<p>He used a lot of Velvia, polarizers, and his own graduated neutral density filters. As James said his books often go into a lot of detail on the equipment including film type that he used for a particular shot. </p>

<p>Absolutely one of my favorite photographers, alongside my dad:) I forgot that he used the F100. His book "Vision" is one of my favorite books, and one that I read while traveling through Indonesia back in '95.</p>

<p>He used Kodachrome for many years, then switched to Velvia.</p>

<p>I could have sworn he used a Nikkormat and an FM2? Or maybe he started with these? The man certainly had a great eye, and wonderful technique.</p>

Nope, he started with an Instamatic. Seriously.

<p>I worked on some of Galen's scans while I was at Corbis. They were wonderful images. I enjoyed his "Galen Rowell's Vision" book very much, though I no longer have it. I found a used copy of his Mountain Light book a few years back and it will remain in my library.</p>