The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

J1nxy · 5 Oct 2012 at 23:06

Picked this up on the way home

dannyjo22 · 5 Oct 2012 at 23:09

J1nxy said:
Picked this up on the way home

Image noise is awful you must have use the D600 to take the picture

Nope not jealous at all

Very nice

Skynet-T800 · 6 Oct 2012 at 11:40

Just picked up the 105mm vr micro lens and my god it's good, the bokeh is incredibly smooth, going to use it mainly for portraits with the odd macro usage. Picked it up for £500 which is great!

jorzeh · 6 Oct 2012 at 11:47

Just ordered myself a Nikon 50mm F1.8G with filters, Was going to buy a F1.4G but after reading reviews etc, I see the 1.8G is better :/ I should post all my new stuff i've got a SB910 here plus a Canon Pixma pro 9000 mrk2 lol.

SeraphX · 6 Oct 2012 at 12:14

Finally got the body i really should have bought in the first place!
and a 496rc2 'head

James J · 6 Oct 2012 at 13:12

jorzeh said:
Just ordered myself a Nikon 50mm F1.8G with filters, Was going to buy a F1.4G but after reading reviews etc, I see the 1.8G is better :/ I should post all my new stuff i've got a SB910 here plus a Canon Pixma pro 9000 mrk2 lol.

It is. Recently bought the 1.8G myself as the 1.4G doesn't have an aspherical element and its sharpness is now where near as good upto around F4-5.6, so using it wide open at 1.8G would give a worse result on the 1.4G than the 1.8G. Was nice saving myself like £140 when I realised that

ElDude · 6 Oct 2012 at 15:48

My black rapid RS5 arrived today, as did Lucille. http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Archtop/B-B-King-Lucille.aspx

Yay!

jonneymendoza · 6 Oct 2012 at 22:19

Not from this planet by jonneymendoza, on Flickr

An Exception · 6 Oct 2012 at 22:33

Surely that body deserves better?

ElDude · 6 Oct 2012 at 22:35

What, like a cup and saucer?

jonneymendoza · 6 Oct 2012 at 22:40

2Thumbs · 7 Oct 2012 at 00:10

Raymond Lin said:
50/1.2, but I saw online its cheaper for the Far East anyway but I just want to pay them a visit.

I think you might like it. It renders some beautiful images straight off the card, somehow both saturated and natural looking colours.

If you do get to play with one, I'd like to know your thoughts in comparison to the 85L.

jonneymendoza · 7 Oct 2012 at 00:26

awsome

Stuff · 7 Oct 2012 at 11:39

An Exception said:
Surely that body deserves better?

I thought that. £2.5k body, £70 lens... Go figure!

ElDude · 7 Oct 2012 at 14:20

Nothing wrong with that lens.

jonneymendoza · 7 Oct 2012 at 18:40

Exactly.

Logsi · 7 Oct 2012 at 18:59

ElDude said:
Nothing wrong with that lens.

It's awful.

An Exception · 7 Oct 2012 at 19:00

ElDude said:
Nothing wrong with that lens.

Not for the money. Having owned it myself, it's hardly a prime I would choose to use though.

James J · 7 Oct 2012 at 19:10

Logsi said:
It's awful.

Its sharp but has crap bokeh. Also owned and used it myself

ElDude · 7 Oct 2012 at 19:12

Well snobbery aside, I used it for nigh on 6 years and never had a single issue with it. The ONLY reason I no longer use it is that I have the Sigma 50mm 1.4. People that say it's awful are talking out of their rear quite frankly. You only have to look at the images that it produces to see that. Yes it's cheap build wise, but it costs £90. When I got the nifty fifty it cost £70ish. It's a fantastic lens. If I was to be picky I'd say the only thing that marked it down was that it hunted in low light, but I don't consider that a negative on a cheap lens, just something to work around. If I spent £400-£1200 on a 50mm that hunted in low light then yes I'd be unhappy.

Still, this is the first lens I recommend to anyone that's asking about a first lens purchase. Along with the 85 1.8, it's ace