The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

Raymond Lin said:
Got this today as my working drive, to run in RAID 1.

It actually benches about 100mb/s read and write in RAID 1 (I didn't test it in RAID 0, not that it matters as it won't be used in that config). The Seagate USB 3.0 that it replaces benches 180mb/s !

So much for Thunderbolt ! I bet they put in a 5400rpm or something as I know the Seagate has a 7200rpm drive.
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Still not bad tbh :) faster than the USB 3 pen drive I have
 
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Came today!

Pretty pleased with some of the photos I've taken with it so far.

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I had the sigma 18-200mm f3.5-5.6, I totally agree, it sounded like a rusty chainsaw starting up but it was my work horse for a couple of years!

@Number25, My best friend still uses the tamron 70-300mm and swears by it, he did take some awesome shots at kew earlier this year, the macro function worked quite well. You will be happy with your purchase :)
 
Ok so yesterday I was as sick as a dog so I didn't go to work but I'm back now and my sigma 35mm is in my hands...... Omg the build quality feels emmence! I can't get over the weight. The focus ring is so smooth.

On another note the courier tried to deliver my redsnapper at 17:05 last night........ When my branch is closed!

Good things come to those who wait :)
 
Logsi said:
Ahhhh the Tamron 70-300. Everyones first telephoto! :p
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Not me! Mine was the dreaded Sigma 18-200 with the fake red ring :D

buzzlightweight said:
Ok so yesterday I was as sick as a dog so I didn't go to work but I'm back now and my sigma 35mm is in my hands...... Omg the build quality feels emmence! I can't get over the weight. The focus ring is so smooth.

On another note the courier tried to deliver my redsnapper at 17:05 last night........ When my branch is closed!

Good things come to those who wait :)
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One does not simply post about such a new lens and forget to post pics/samples!

Also, nice :D
 
2StepSteve said:
Ordered on Sunday and arrived today!

I hesitated about this lens purchase while waiting for it to come back in stock at Onestop. I wondered if I really needed it. But looking over the photozone review a few times fixed that, the corner to corner sharpness at all apertures is something that's extremely appealing in such a relatively light on the wallet lens. Sigma's 85mm offering caught my eye but at nearly three times the cost hrmm, I can live with the aperture blades not being circular! :p


Seems like I have a decent copy, very very sharp!

They say this lens absolutely shines on full frame and I think after the weekend I'll agree with that statement. :)
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I picked one up second hand shortly after getting my 5D mkii and couldn't be happier it really is a lovely lens and I've yet to be overly annoyed by the aperture mainly bacuase I don't think I've used it past f2.8!
 
a1ex2001 said:
I picked one up second hand shortly after getting my 5D mkii and couldn't be happier it really is a lovely lens and I've yet to be overly annoyed by the aperture mainly bacuase I don't think I've used it past f2.8!
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It is a lovely lens. I paid £260 for it and I'm happy with that, in fact I call it a bargain. It does suffer from CA but that's easily fixed. The corner to corner sharpness is just so damn good, it triumphs many other lenses at the sharpness game.
 
2StepSteve said:
It is a lovely lens. I paid £260 for it and I'm happy with that, in fact I call it a bargain. It does suffer from CA but that's easily fixed. The corner to corner sharpness is just so damn good, it triumphs many other lenses at the sharpness game.
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The CA's can be a pain wide open but even stopped down to f2 they are much improved. It's not so much the corner to corner sharpness that I love as the shallow DOF it really does make an exceelent portrait lens. I got mine to replace a 50mm f1.8 that I'd used for similar images on a crop and was blown away by the improvement of an 85mm f1.8 combined with a full frame sensor. Like you I was tempted by the sigma but it's just so much money for not a massive improvement.
 
Please for the love of god don't judge me about my free digitalrev goodies......... they were free after all :)

The first thing i noticed about the sigma is the lovely focus ring, its so large with great grip and very smooth.
The over all quality is 10 times that of previous lenses, i have to say i wont be able to get out with it until this weekend but just a few shots indoors has sent me in to a bokeh induced coma!

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I am so impressed with the snapper, the quality is great and the ball head is so silky smooth.

I was going to have a rant because i read the the tripod comes with a shorter central column but mine didnt....... that was until i looked in the awesome shoulder bag and found an internal with it and the tools in :)

**FYI** images shot with 35mm @ 1.4 bokehlicious

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The ball head looks small on that, that's the RSH12 isn't it? On my RS324 the head I swear looked bigger! The 7049 head is even bigger still even though it's lighter (yet stronger):

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Sadly I took parts off my RSH12 to fit onto the CF tripod head (mounting base) and binned the RSH12 so can't directly compare.
 
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