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i shot most of these pictures with a canon d30 loaded with a 1gb ibm microdrive using a 50mm f1.4, a 17-35f2.8L , a 70-200f4L lens or a 100mmf2.8 macro. some were lit with a 550ex flash or using a small photoflex litedisc. i also sometimes use a 420ex flash and an st-e2 head on the camera to trigger off camera flashes.
most recently, i upgraded to a canon 1ds and i feel like i am on a different planet. almost no lag, almost perfect autofocus, very sturdy construction... and the quality of images beats a hasselblad. a new lense, a canon 24-70f2.8 completes the package. i had a hard time getting used to the regular focal again and this lense gives me back the 28-55 range i had with the 17-35 on the d30, just better at both ends !
i travel with a c1xs picturebook from sony to select and store the images every evening. it has been upgraded to 128mb of ram and the drive has been replaced with an ultraslim 30gb hard drive by toshiba. all this stuff fits nicely a little orion trekker by lowepro, recently upgraded to a s&f rover light for added room and comfort.
i use a g2228 gitzo tripod with an arca swiss b-1 ball head. the cameras are rigged with quick release plates from kirk photo.
the original images from the d30 are 2660x1440 jpegs and take between 1 and 2mb each. i rarely use raw format since the processing is much slower and complex. on the 1ds, images are 4064x2704 and occupy often 4mb. the greater level of compression often makes raw more interesting but then... images grow to 10mb!
at home I use a combo dvd/cd-rw burner I assembled from samsung and a firewire cradle. i print on an epson stylus photo 2100 printer. my desktop is a power mac g4 cube. silent and sweet. 1gb ram, 120gb 7200rpm internal hd with a few 60gb firewire drives for music or backups. os x, 10.2.6 exactly.