New Toy - That's a big piece of glass !

ScarySquirrel · 9 Dec 2009 at 16:25

My lord! I stupidly bid on one on auction, and was literally 20 seconds away from winning it, knowing full well I would be royally screwed for Christmas financially.

Luckily, I got outbid. My max was £430, and in the last 20 seconds it jumped to £505.

russ0r · 9 Dec 2009 at 16:54

Christ that is some nice bokeh on the original shot.

Looks lovely. Enjoy

Raymond Lin · 9 Dec 2009 at 17:01

£505 for a mint condition one would be a bargain !

Artest · 9 Dec 2009 at 17:24

Meh thought you bought the 5200mm

Schizophonic · 9 Dec 2009 at 17:31

how much did you end up paying just out of interest?

ScarySquirrel · 9 Dec 2009 at 17:48

Raymond Lin said:
£505 for a mint condition one would be a bargain !

It was used, and apparently had a scuff on the barrel.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 9 Dec 2009 at 18:12

Lovely piece of optics.

Raymond Lin · 9 Dec 2009 at 18:41

Schizophonic said:
how much did you end up paying just out of interest?

£719 + £10 for Postage

Not a bad price, it would've been £100 less 12 months ago though !

olv · 9 Dec 2009 at 23:31

Stuff used to be so cheap, if only we had known...

Raymond Lin · 9 Dec 2009 at 23:35

olv said:
Stuff used to be so cheap, if only we had known...

I would've stocked up on 70-200 2.8 IS at £999 !

Wang · 10 Dec 2009 at 11:04

My trigger finger is poised on hitting the purchase button on this lens. Raymond, give me a sample shot to make my mind up please

Raymond Lin · 10 Dec 2009 at 11:53

Wang said:
My trigger finger is poised on hitting the purchase button on this lens. Raymond, give me a sample shot to make my mind up please

You will have to wait until Saturday/Sunday sorry, at work in the week and when i get home it's dark.

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:31

I just opened mine

WOW! That is some serious glass at the front. It feels quite light as well, then again I have been using the 24-70L exclusively for the last few months!

A brilliant addition to my arsenal, it's VERY nice having a bit of extra reach. I would post some sample shots but I've not taken many, and they're all at ISO 3200 at the moment because it's so dark!!

famas · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:34

congrats on the new lens scary, did you get it from onestop? If so did you have to pay any taxes?
im considering getting a lens from them.

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:36

famas said:
congrats on the new lens scary, did you get it from onestop? If so did you have to pay any taxes?
im considering getting a lens from them.

Yes I got it from One Stop, it seemed to be the best price in the UK.

I'm really impressed with them actually, both my Kenko tubes and this lens arrived really quickly from Hong Kong, both of which I was able to track via Fedex every step of the way (it's kind of weird knowing my lens has been via Paris

).

It was shipped on 30th December and arrived today, so I'm fairly happy

I'll get some shots up soon!

Mark A · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:39

famas said:
congrats on the new lens scary, did you get it from onestop? If so did you have to pay any taxes?
im considering getting a lens from them.

My dad got a Sigma 150-500mm lens from them at Christmas and didn't get stung with taxes. But even if you do they give you a form to fill out and they pay you back.

Delivery only took 4 days.

Phate · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:49

Serious jelous'ness'ness over here

ScarySquirrel · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:53

Oh my, just been playing with it taking some test shots of my cats. The bokeh is bloody lovely!!! I love the focal length, not too short, not too long, just perfect. Can't wait to do some portrait shoots with it, shooting at ISO 100-200 using strobes

Phate said:
Serious jelous'ness'ness over here

Don't be too jealous, it went on my credit card!! OOOOPS!!

Phate · 4 Jan 2010 at 19:54

ScarySquirrel said:
Don't be too jealous, it went on my credit card!! OOOOPS!!

I cut mine up...bloody things!

Mind you regular work starts again on the 13th! So might have to apply for another

Onestops site is down which is annoying

olv · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:04

ScarySquirrel said:
Oh my, just been playing with it taking some test shots of my cats. The bokeh is bloody lovely!!! I love the focal length, not too short, not too long, just perfect. Can't wait to do some portrait shoots with it, shooting at ISO 100-200 using strobes

You might want to get an ND filter so that you can shoot wide open with your strobes. At f/2 and 1/250 you're likely to find yourself over exposing even at ISO100 in many situations and if you're adding strobes on top you might have issues. I'm not saying you'll need one but it would be a shame if you have to stop down.

Phate said:
Onestops site is down which is annoying

It's working fine here.