Frederik Trovatten

Photography by Frederik Trovatten

My Street Photography Gear

For my Street Photography videos, I use:

My primary Camera:
The FujiFilm X-T3 I use this camera for all my photos and videos.

My three secondary cameras
The Fuji X100F & the small Ricoh GR II –
For film photography, I use the beautiful Rolleiflex 2.8F & The Canon AE-1.

I edit all my photos in Capture One with this gigantic present package.

The camera lenses I use:

My Camera Rig
I use Smallrig‘s cage for my rig. It’s super solid. This is key in do the videos I do. I also have this cage for my Atomos Ninja V.

Flash
I use the new speedlight V1 from Godox. It’s pretty lightweight and I can use on-camera and off-camera. Neat! Watch the V1 Flash in Action.

Microphones
Shotgun mic: Rode VideoMic Pro Plus.
Wireless Audio system: Røde Wireless Go.

The music I use in my videos
I find all my music on Musicbed.com
– Read Why I ditched Epidemic Sound for MusicBed.

Camera accessories
For my point of view-videos I use:
GoPro Hero 7 Black with this hot-shoe mount.

For rainy days
I made a complete list of my gear for taking pictures in the rain.

Camera bag
Everyday Peak Design bag 20L.

This is how I make my videos

The equipment I use in my studio

External Recorder
Atomos Ninja V

Light
The 120D Mark II from Aputure.

Storage: SD Cards & External Harddisk
SD Cards: Lexar Professional UHS-II/U3 Card (Up to 150MB/s read) .
I use Lacie Rugged External Harddisks.

About the other two cameras I use for street photography

Before I bought my X-T3, the majority of my street photography, like 80% of my photos, were shot with the Fujifilm X100F.

I wrote a short and share my favorite photos shot with the  X100f from Fuji. To this day, it’s still one of my favorite cameras.

Btw. If you are looking for a camera bag, check out my opinion of the Everyday Camera bag from Peak Design.

Ricoh GR II
My secondary camera is the Ricoh GR II. It’s really small, fits in my pocket and it’s a great starter camera. I also wrote a short review of the Ricoh GR II here. You can get the Ricoh GR II on Amazon.

Also, I’m using my iPhone for mobile photography, of course!

Photography books

In terms of books, I can highly recommend these photography books. I’ve also made a nice list of gift ideas for photographers.

And it’s important to underline, that cameras and gear will only take you so far.

If you want to become a great street photographer, it’s, of course, important to have a camera that is good enough. And when you have that, you need to study photography and more importantly, practice and put in the hours.

Here are my favorite cameras in each category of photography:

I don’t think there is any perfect camera. It depends on what you use it for. Press Photographers needs other gear than street photographers.

All my photos are shot on Fuji and edited in Capture One.

I’m Frederik Trovatten!
Peace!