Equipment list
Duncan uses top-of-the-range professional Nikon camera equipment. His Nikon D3X body is quite simply the best DSLR camera available. Boasting a massive 24.5Mp, it guarantees superb image quality and is the ultimate landscape and studio DSLR. His Nikon D3S is the ultimate sports pro camera, with a staggering shooting rate and an incredible ability to capture images in low-light conditions without the resultant “noise” prevalent in images captured by most other cameras under such circumstances – it can shoot in the dark! The pairing of these two flag-ship Nikon bodies provides Duncan with the ultimate tools to capture images, whatever the prevailing conditions.
To complement these, Duncan owns a number of Nikon professional lenses including 14-24mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII, 300mm f/2.8 VRII, 50mm f/1.4G, 85mm f/1.4G, 105mm f/2.8 VR micro and TC20E III 2x and TC1.4x II teleconverters. He also has two Nikon speedlights – SB900 and SB800 which he controls and fires remotely using PocketWizard radios. They are often used in conjunction with his Lastolite Ezybox and Octa softboxes. Cameras are supported by a Gitzo GT2542L tripod with Gitzo GH2780QR ballhead and Gitzo GM5561T and GM2540 monopods, both fitted with Manfrotto 234RC heads and 200USS anti-twist plates.
Finding the perfect camera bag is his ultimate photographic ambition but for now he switches between Kata 3N1 30 slingback, Kata CS-15, Kata CS-17, Billingham Hadley Pro and Billingham 555 bags favouring the Kata ones. (The Kata Insert Trolley is the most useful piece of kit he owns!)
Post processing is carried out using Photo Mechanic, Adobe Lightroom 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS5 allied with various plugins. IT equipment consists of a Dell Inspiron with 6Gb RAM and a 1 Gb graphics card running Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate, docked to a desk-top set up, with a colour-calibrated 27″ wide-screen monitor. Printing is performed using an Epson Stylus Pro 3880 large format A2+ professional printer, which delivers the highest possible print quality allied with archival longevity. Colour calibration of both monitor and printer is managed with Datacolour’s Spyder3Studio SR equipment. Peripherals include a Wacom graphics tablet along with USB3.0 external hard drives.
Q:- What’s the difference between artists and photographers?
A:- Two artists can have a conversation without discussing their paintbrushes!
A Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society, Duncan Grove FRPS lives and works in Wimbledon, SW London and is a passionate professional photographer who has keenly embraced the latest digital technology. 
