Using Field gear
Catalog cameras, lenses, and field kit in Field Chronicle so equipment stays organized beside your wildlife journal.
Field Chronicle isn’t trying to be “another photo gallery”—it’s trying to be the operating system for your time in the field.
Gear is not just a list of cameras. It is a personal equipment inventory next to the journal: bodies, lenses, and field kit tied to the same outings as your notes and photographs. Item photographs resolve from product links at runtime; they are not a second photo library.
Categories
- Cameras
- Lenses
- Field kit
EOS R5
$3,899
100–500mm
$2,899
16–35mm
$1,299
10×42 binoculars
$449
Select an item to inspect it here.
Gear is a personal equipment inventory beside the journal — categories and an item grid, not a second photo library.
Catalog what you actually carry
Add bodies, lenses, and field accessories in categories you understand. Keep names short. The point is to remember what you own and what you tend to take, not to duplicate a retailer catalog.
Keep kit beside outings and photos
EXIF on Photos often names a camera or lens. Gear is the human-readable list when EXIF is missing, when two bodies look similar, or when you want to note a binocular or recorder that never writes metadata. Together they explain how a frame was made.
Why gear lives in the journal
Wildlife photography is half naturalist, half equipment. Splitting kit into a spreadsheet severs it from the days you used it. Keeping Gear in Field Chronicle means a shoot review can include both the bird and the glass—and, over time, compare lenses by outings, encounters, successful species, and favorite images, not only by files in an editor. If you do not photograph, you can hide Gear from the app in settings and ignore this section.
See the photographer guide and Photos.