I don't know, bottom line is horses for courses – the case in hand will determine what equipment, if any, could be useful in my mind.

I use to cart a car load of equipment around with me but I soon realised that most of my time was spent setting up, maintaining and dismantling the equipment, leaving little time for in the field investigation itself.

Then, post investigation, all those hours of film, photographs and audio to go through (I confess that I still have hours of tapes to review from investigations I undertook years ago).

A couple of years ago I had an epithany – extreme investigations!

Now I arm myself with just a pen and a notebook (paper), along with an audio recording device and little else. Yes. I usually have a digital SLR and camcorder to hand as well, but these are for mainly location shots and to record certain things.

I've now started to get the enjoyment in investigation back.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

Errr I must confess that I ditched 'the team' a couple of years ago too. I did say it was 'extreme' investigation'…….

I've just got a smart phone myself in the last couple of weeks and although I've looked at some of the apps I'm not at the stage where I can see myself ever using them beyond messing around with them whist I sit in a traffic jam.

The ghost box things are tempting though. I was in the dismissive camp when they first came out, but I've watched from the sidelines and they have begun to pique my interest.

Kind Regards

Baruc.