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Pat Kay

Travel photographer and educator creating visual stories and teaching photography.

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Capture

Cameras9

  • Sony RX1R III

    $5,098.00cited in 7 videosmixed views on it

    “So, here is where the RX1R Mark III comes back and spends most of its time. Not as a sidekick to any of the other scenarios, but actually here as the main thing, the hero of this lightweight scenario. And I still love this camera.”
  • Sony a1

    $6,198.00cited in 7 videosspeaks highly of it

    “Um, of course, here I have the A1 M2, a new addition to the family and a replacement for the old A1 that I have.”
  • Sony RX100 VII

    $1,499.99cited in 6 videosspeaks highly of it

    “You know, you'll know that I use the RX100 a lot. This little pocket camera is an absolute beast.”
  • Sony A7C

    $1,599.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2026speaks highly of it

    “Last year, I mentioned that the a7CR, this little guy here, was an occasional thing, and I found that honestly, in the last year, I've found that I've been running this setup most of the time because I like having two bodies at once.”

Lenses9

  • Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II

    $2,449.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2026speaks highly of it

    “I will usually have the 24-70 on the A1, and then I will have the 70-200 on the a7CR, which is kind of a really funny and very odd combination because you have this like super small, super light full-frame body, and then this really heavy-ass lens in the end.”
  • Sony 2x Teleconverter

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “If I ever do need a little bit more extension on this, I actually have the 2x extender here.”
  • “And then I'll also take the 85 mm GM2 uh this is a f1.4 for and I will take this if I know that I'm doing specifically portraits for example.”
    View source at 7:27from October 2025
  • Sony G Master lenses

    speaks highly of it

    “For example, I use G Master lenses and much of the time they have the ability to go down to, you know, f2.8 like this one or f1.4 like this one or something faster than that.”
    View source at 8:59from December 2025

Camera equipment11

  • Peak Design Everyday Backpack

    $299.95cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

    “This is the Peak Design Everyday Backpack. It is a backpack I've had for many, many, many, many years, and I have an entire graveyard over there of backpacks, camera backpacks that I've tried to integrate into the workflow and and make part of my everyday kit.”
  • Peak Design Everyday Sling

    $159.95cited in 2 videos

    “This year's bag video covers the Sony A1 II and A7CR, the GM2 zoom trinity, the RX1R III and RX100 (and an honest correction about where the RX1R actually belongs), the Peak Design Everyday Backpack and Sling — and for the first time, the full travel support setup: the MacBook Pro I edit on, the iPhone, the Insta360 Snap, and how I store and back everything up on the road.”
  • Peak Design Capture Clip

    $74.95first cited August 2026

    “And it does mean that the way I usually carry these things is with the Peak Design like a leash or one of the new ropes and then I will have the telephoto on my my capture clip here on the Everyday Backpack.”
    View source at 3:54from August 2026
  • Peak Design Leash

    $44.95first cited August 2026

    “And it does mean that the way I usually carry these things is with the Peak Design like a leash or one of the new ropes and then I will have the telephoto on my my capture clip here on the Everyday Backpack.”
    View source at 3:54from August 2026

Sound

Microphones1

Editing and post

Editing software2

  • Adobe Lightroom

    cited in 4 videos

    “Everything is shown straight from my Lightroom catalog — the compositions that worked, and the ones that didn't.”
  • Final Cut Pro

    first cited August 2026

    “Just crunches anything in Lightroom all day, every day, and it's fantastic for processing, you know, video in Final Cut and all of my AI stuff that I've been doing in the business and you know, it's just an absolute workhorse of a machine.”
    View source at 6:03from August 2026

Productivity software1

  • Discord

    cited in 2 videos

    “And as a part of the mentorship, I've also created an exclusive private Discord community that I'm personally in and answering questions in every single day.”

Creator tools1

  • Musicbed

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited July 2026speaks highly of it

    “I've been using a service called Musicbed for years, and I truly think that they are the best music service for your videos out there. Any video in the last 4 years on the channel has been a Musicbed video, and I love it, because they exclusively represent thousands of the world's most relevant, emerging, and most importantly, real artists.”

Desk

Computers1

Monitors1

  • Apple Studio Display XDR

    $3,299.00first cited September 2026positive about it

    “…especially when it comes out of here and you preview it on, you know, something like that, like the Studio Display XDR.”
    View source at 6:32from September 2026

Storage3

  • PolarPro Slate 2

    $49.99speaks highly of it

    “This thing here is the Polar Pro Slate 2. This is where I keep all of my SD cards when I'm on the go. I love it because it is like a hard aluminum shell.”
    View source at 19:33from October 2025
  • 2TB external SSD for iPhone ProRes

    first cited August 2026

    “To add to that, I've got this little like 2 TB SSD thing that is used for filming in ProRes because I don't have enough storage on this phone.”
    View source at 8:14from August 2026
  • 8TB SSD in Thunderbolt enclosure

    $88.99first cited August 2026

    “Uh I've done a full video on this already, but for those who haven't seen it, each one of these is a 8-TB SSD in a dedicated Thunderbolt enclosure.”
    View source at 7:05from August 2026

Everything else

Other2

  • iPhone 17 Pro Max

    $1,154.38cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

    “One other addition in the space is that I've been shooting a lot on my phone recently and I use the iPhone 17 Pro Max currently, at least for now.”
  • Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses

    $379.00first cited August 2026mixed views on it

    “And then I've also been using the Ray-Ban Metas, although I've been using them less recently, but definitely at the start of the year I was using them a lot and they're good, but the image quality is nowhere close to as good as like say the Osmo Nano and it doesn't touch the iPhone in any way, but they are nice to have because the POV comes from your face rather than from your chest.”
    View source at 9:51from August 2026

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