The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

And · 14 Jan 2017 at 23:38

Ordered from Clifton Cameras, should receive them later this week. The guy I do fieldwork with uses the same bins, albiet the older model.

JRJ · 15 Jan 2017 at 22:03

These arrived yesterday

niko · 16 Jan 2017 at 07:20

JRJ said:
These arrived yesterday

look forward to some feedback/review on this

JRJ · 16 Jan 2017 at 08:26

niko said:
look forward to some feedback/review on this

Definitely try and sort this out, I'm away during the week at the moment so not had a chance to play properly with it.

Euro_Hunter · 17 Jan 2017 at 11:24

Pringle W said:
Having lighting problems to obtain the min 1/50th shutter speed Oddly enough i have no lamps in my house and the torches aren't bright enough. My folks will be dropping some off this afternoon so hopefully have things sorted by then!

Did you sort out your lighting issues?

footman · 17 Jan 2017 at 11:36

JRJ said:
These arrived yesterday

Excuse my ignorance, is that the M5?

JRJ · 17 Jan 2017 at 12:33

footman said:
Excuse my ignorance, is that the M5?

Yes M5 with 15-45 kit lens and 22mm

Derek W · 18 Jan 2017 at 08:14

Euro_Hunter said:
Did you sort out your lighting issues?

Yeah i got it working eventually. The first time i checked the 24 - 70 lens on my 5D it altered the micro-adjust to -2, I also tried it a second time and it altered it to + 3. So I'm not sure what conclusions i can draw from it :confused:

I'll maybe give it another go this week to see if it alters anything?? I do have a PDF of the output of results. Need to have a look through them to see exactly what has changed though.

Columbo · 18 Jan 2017 at 16:10

Less than £500 for both of these seemed like a bargain for the daughter so she got treated!

niko · 18 Jan 2017 at 17:41

Pringle W said:
Yeah i got it working eventually. The first time i checked the 24 - 70 lens on my 5D it altered the micro-adjust to -2, I also tried it a second time and it altered it to + 3. So I'm not sure what conclusions i can draw from it

I'll maybe give it another go this week to see if it alters anything?? I do have a PDF of the output of results. Need to have a look through them to see exactly what has changed though.

well i tend to take an ave of a few try's so from that id set to 0

Buddy · 18 Jan 2017 at 21:26

Macro lenses for 7d mark 2. I was considering the 100mm usm but is the IS version really worth it for twice the price? Especially if you're shooting at a fast shutter speed?

I plan to shoot insects mainly dragonflies over summer.

Buddy · 18 Jan 2017 at 21:29

Late Xmas present

Nice assume that's the contemporary. Got the same lens except without the teleconverter. At this time of the year with poor light will you not struggle at that length with the 1 or so stop aperture penalty from the TC?

Holst1981 · 18 Jan 2017 at 22:11

Buddy said:
Macro lenses for 7d mark 2. I was considering the 100mm usm but is the IS version really worth it for twice the price? Especially if you're shooting at a fast shutter speed?

I plan to shoot insects mainly dragonflies over summer.

IS is pretty worthless unless your subject is stationary.

Dragonfly and insect will move and IS won't help you.
You will need a fast shutter speed for anything that's alive.

I don't think it's worth spending the extra.

I sometimes use my Sigma 150 macro at weddings and IS would be handy there, but if I were doing it regularly I would buy a 70-200 2.8

Jase · 19 Jan 2017 at 23:21

Something to accompany my DSLR, it's so small it easily fits in my backpack with all my other gear. I wanted a drone when I was in Iceland last year but couldn't carry the Phantom and my Camera gear.

And · 20 Jan 2017 at 20:00

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-100-2p8-is-usm-c16

A 300mm f4 + TC + tubes or 100-400 + TC + tubes might be a better alternative for dragonflies in order to get the magnification without getting so close as to scare them away. That's not to say you can't get close to them with a macro lens though.

Buddy said:
Macro lenses for 7d mark 2. I was considering the 100mm usm but is the IS version really worth it for twice the price? Especially if you're shooting at a fast shutter speed?

I plan to shoot insects mainly dragonflies over summer.

Andy90 · 20 Jan 2017 at 20:13

And said:
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-100-2p8-is-usm-c16

A 300mm f4 + TC + tubes or 100-400 + TC + tubes might be a better alternative for dragonflies in order to get the magnification without getting so close as to scare them away. That's not to say you can't get close to them with a macro lens though.

Biggest mistake most people make taking photographs of Butterflies and Dragonflies, is to try to take them in the middle of the day. They've warmed up by then and are at their most active.

Best times of the day are first thing in the morning (when they're still warming up) or late evening when they're settling down for the night. You can literally get within a few inches of them at this time.

Buddy · 20 Jan 2017 at 22:46

And said:
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-100-2p8-is-usm-c16

A 300mm f4 + TC + tubes or 100-400 + TC + tubes might be a better alternative for dragonflies in order to get the magnification without getting so close as to scare them away. That's not to say you can't get close to them with a macro lens though.

Thanks. I had the flexibility when I had the 100-400 but the mark 1 image quality wasn't quite there. I found the 100mm about right.

I've never considered tubes and now that I've read up on them after you've mentioned it makes sense.

GW1970 · 22 Jan 2017 at 17:06

Nice assume that's the contemporary. Got the same lens except without the teleconverter. At this time of the year with poor light will you not struggle at that length with the 1 or so stop aperture penalty from the TC?

It's the sports version - I've still not really tested it out yet due to work being unusually manic for this time of year and when the weather has been good over a weekend I've been busy sorting out kidney stones :eek:

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a1ex2001 · 23 Jan 2017 at 14:49

Jase said:
Something to accompany my DSLR, it's so small it easily fits in my backpack with all my other gear. I wanted a drone when I was in Iceland last year but couldn't carry the Phantom and my Camera gear.

looks to be an awesome piece of kit! Looking forward to the results.

Raymond Lin · 6 Feb 2017 at 19:21

Got a manual and some CDs.