The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

Raymond Lin · 25 Jul 2013 at 23:32

^^^ You don't use it for business you would not understand.

I have four 5Ds in my possession at one point !

An Exception · 25 Jul 2013 at 23:42

King Damager said:
Hm, looking at your signature, I can understand the 3 D800's, but why the 2 85's, and both a 24-70 and 24-85?

kd

24-85 for the VR. In city weddings I can use it as my wide angle, but also importantly I can hand hold slow shutter speeds and let movement blur.
The 85 1.8 is just as good optically as the 1.4 (i.e. very good), but it's light weight and frankly a bargain. It makes a cheap backup, but more importantly the lightweight makes it a pleasure to use. Also my younger brothers etc. can borrow/learn with them.

V F · 25 Jul 2013 at 23:45

Raymond Lin said:
I have four 5Ds in my possession at one point !

Do you have your sights on the 12k lens at all?

Raymond Lin · 26 Jul 2013 at 00:26

V F said:
Do you have your sights on the 12k lens at all?

Which one would that be? The 200-400 with the built in extender adaptor?

Nope, i don't see that range, so it would be a waste of money for me to buy that.

Plus it will no doubt bring my insurance premium through the roof !

King Damager · 26 Jul 2013 at 01:10

An Exception said:
24-85 for the VR. In city weddings I can use it as my wide angle, but also importantly I can hand hold slow shutter speeds and let movement blur.
The 85 1.8 is just as good optically as the 1.4 (i.e. very good), but it's light weight and frankly a bargain. It makes a cheap backup, but more importantly the lightweight makes it a pleasure to use. Also my younger brothers etc. can borrow/learn with them.

Ah, this makes much more sense

I figured there would be a logical reason, just didn't know what.

Raymond Lin said:
Which one would that be? The 200-400 with the built in extender adaptor?

Nope, i don't see that range, so it would be a waste of money for me to buy that.

Plus it will no doubt bring my insurance premium through the roof !

I'm sure the 200-560 (as I like to call it) is lovely, but for the cost I don't see why any non pro who shoots in the range would have one, never mind someone who doesn't shoot in that range (pro or not). To be honest, I imagine the most expensive lens you have on a wish list now a days is either the 50 1.2 (although we've discussed that one before) or maybe a 200 1.8

kd

Raymond Lin · 26 Jul 2013 at 01:20

50/1.2 is on my list of things to get

Though i am torn getting the lens first or a Taylor Guitar lol

200/1.8 ? it would be an ornament ! I rarely use the 135L now....

p.s. I also still have a 85/1.8

If I were to copy his sig, it would be kind of silly

5D3 | 5D3 | 5D2 | 24mm 1.4L | 35mm 1.4L | 85mm 1.2L | 24-70mm 2.8L | 16-35mm 2.8L | 100mm 2.8 Macro L | 135mm 2.0L | 85mm 1.8 | 50mm 1.4 | 45mm 2.8 TSE | Sigma 70-200 2.8 APO Macro |

AE - where is your 14-24 2.8?

An Exception · 26 Jul 2013 at 08:25

Raymond Lin said:
AE - where is your 14-24 2.8?

Sold it when I got the 24 1.4. I realised the vast majority of the time I was racking my lens to 14mm when I should have just taken a few steps back and used 24mm.

sHo0sH · 26 Jul 2013 at 10:08

First I bought a 24-105, then I though sod it, sell your 100m Macro, and 5Dc and get a new camera at the same time.

Thanks digitalrev for a ridiculously fast delivery, I absolutely love this thing.

Took it out last night and the low light performance is incredible, love the built in wifi - this is straight out of camera from the canon app (bar a resize on imgur)

{SAS}TB · 26 Jul 2013 at 10:27

Genoma said:
grr stop it you two - 2x 10-22mm - I want to see photos with them!

Not had chance to give it a proper test yet, but heres one i just took out in the back garden

Sigma 10 - 20mm TEst by Jon°, on Flickr

and full size

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_parry/9370192802/

9designs2 · 26 Jul 2013 at 11:22

sHo0sH said:
First I bought a 24-105, then I though sod it, sell your 100m Macro, and 5Dc and get a new camera at the same time.

Thanks digitalrev for a ridiculously fast delivery, I absolutely love this thing.

Took it out last night and the low light performance is incredible, love the built in wifi - this is straight out of camera from the canon app (bar a

5Dc to 6D tell me more, as I have a 5Dc and wonder how they compare, thus avoid the expensive mk3

Colourjam · 26 Jul 2013 at 11:24

Please delete

An Exception · 26 Jul 2013 at 11:35

Raymond Lin said:
I thought about doing it since, just need a remote.

I got one of these puppies...

dannyjo22 · 26 Jul 2013 at 11:37

£120's worth of garbage.

Wanted a new tripod head with panning. Got sent a broken head, I could fix it but shouldn't have too. Also Ray I know you have one of these, the panning on mine is quite tight, does yours back off to be quite free to pan?

Raymond Lin · 26 Jul 2013 at 12:25

An Exception said:
I got one of these puppies...

£200 !?! (before getting stung by customs)

The Canon cable release that can do time lapse costs £80.

dannyjo22 said:
£120's worth of garbage.

Wanted a new tripod head with panning. Got sent a broken head, I could fix it but shouldn't have too. Also Ray I know you have one of these, the panning on mine is quite tight, does yours back off to be quite free to pan?

Oh dear :/

I think mine does pan freely, I will check and ge tback to you but i have it on a monopod which the ball joint on the feet of the leg itself spins freely too so I never had to pan with the head.

dannyjo22 · 26 Jul 2013 at 13:03

Thanks Ray, appreciate that. Mine wouldn't pan freely at all, if I wanted a nice smooth pan it would take a fair bit of force that would probably unsettle a tripod.

Damn amazon returns, you can no longer take them to any post office, want a pain.

ChrisD. · 26 Jul 2013 at 13:05

So some new bits were waiting for me when I got home.

An Exception · 26 Jul 2013 at 13:22

Raymond Lin said:
£200 !?! (before getting stung by customs)

The Canon cable release that can do time lapse costs £80.

If all I wanted to do was time lapse then I wouldn't need a release at all. I could get by with the D800's built in intervalometer .

However the D800 itself or a cable release does not allow me to:

View live view on ipad or mac (without the actual camera's liveview active draining the battery).
Remotely transfer raws from camera to mac/ipad
Focus stacking
To remotely change just about every camera setting
Remotely start or stop video etc etc..

Raymond Lin · 26 Jul 2013 at 13:35

MilanoChris said:
So some new bits were waiting for me when I got home.

Which Synology is that? 412+?

An Exception said:
If all I wanted to do was time lapse then I wouldn't need a release at all. I could get by with the D800's built in intervalometer .

However the D800 itself or a cable release does not allow me to:

View live view on ipad or mac (without the actual camera's liveview active draining the battery).
Remotely transfer raws from camera to mac/ipad
Focus stacking
To remotely change just about every camera setting
Remotely start or stop video etc etc..

That sounds like fun, and like the wifi feature built into the 6D.

Janesy B · 26 Jul 2013 at 13:37

I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a 70D and testing out EOS remote.

ChrisD. · 26 Jul 2013 at 13:46

Raymond Lin said:
Which Synology is that? 412+?

413.