The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

Raymond Lin said:
I've highlighted one of its short comings.

And it is hit and miss with ETTL, because of 18% grey metering, it won't fire that much a flash behind the subject, because of the whole black lit thing. It is actually very difficult. It is much easier to have the flash off camera going off a set value in manual and ETTL the front.
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So I set 2 580ExII's up on manual with 2 flex TT5 receivers, then on camera I have a MiniTT1 with another 580EXII on top on EETL.

Camera set to <1/20th - f.8ish - 800+ISO - 2nd Curtain sync - and every night shot will be perfect......

AC3 seems like a waste of money then really, is there anything that I can replace it with that will still fire the Flex's off 2nd curtain? And give me the ability to change the 2 manual flash powers without walking over to them?
 
I just got the Tokina 11 - 16mm 2.8 Is it any good? :p

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You bought a lens without knowing if it was any good or not?

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Damn, beaten by Bruce Lee. Not even mad.
 
mr tommo said:
So I set 2 580ExII's up on manual with 2 flex TT5 receivers, then on camera I have a MiniTT1 with another 580EXII on top on EETL.

Camera set to <1/20th - f.8ish - 800+ISO - 2nd Curtain sync - and every night shot will be perfect......

AC3 seems like a waste of money then really, is there anything that I can replace it with that will still fire the Flex's off 2nd curtain? And give me the ability to change the 2 manual flash powers without walking over to them?
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AC3 is useful in a studio, and lazy...
 
Columbo said:
Yes it's the best UWA lens available for crop without a doubt.
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Very debatable. It's a good lens and the f/2.8 aperture is nice but the Canon 10-22 goes wider, has more range, better focusing and just edges it on image quality.

EDIT: Unless we're talking about Nikon, then I don't have a clue lol :p
 
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Vertigo1 said:
Very debatable. It's a good lens and the f/2.8 aperture is nice but the Canon 10-22 goes wider, has more range, better focusing and just edges it on image quality.

EDIT: Unless we're talking about Nikon, then I don't have a clue lol :p
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Apparently the new 10-18mm is sharper and cheaper but with less range than the 10-22mm so that's also worth throwing into the mix :) Has similar variable aperture but also has IS which is definitely a plus.

Depends if you really want that F2.8 aperture I guess
 
Got this just before I went on holiday for 2 months.

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Canon EOS 70D
Canon EF-S 18-135mm STM (f/3.5-5.6)
Canon EF-S 10-22mm USM (f/3.5-4.5)
Cokin H250A ND Grad kit
Cokin H270A Full ND kit

Absolutely loving it. Just need to find a case now. Borrowed my dad's for the holiday.

Also, next lens looks like it'll be the EF-S 24mm pancake lens if the price is right.

(I've also got a 64GB SanDisk Ultra SD card. The two 32GB SanDisk Extremes that I ordered direct from Amazon turned out to be counterfeits...)
 
I need a new bag now actually, although a bit bigger than that :p

Not bag shopped in years.
 
Are you going hipster on us Rojin?
I do actually like the bag, doesn't scream photographer, you'd have to make sacrifices on what you take though. The all round zip is useful.
 
BruceLee said:
Are you going hipster on us Rojin?
I do actually like the bag, doesn't scream photographer, you'd have to make sacrifices on what you take though. The all round zip is useful.
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Nah, I would've bought an Ona :D

It easily fits the two bodies with 23mm and 56mm mounted with hoods ready to go. In the middle I can put a 50-230mm, or a couple of other lenses. If I want to take more lenses I can go with just one body. If I need to take it all I've got bigger bags :)
 
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