The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

An Exception · 28 Jan 2015 at 18:01

CGrieves said:
I've found my EOS-M (and X-E2) work fine with long, heavy lenses- I just rest the lens on my forward hand. It's short, heavy lenses that feel more unnatural because the small body means you don't have the leverage with the rear hand.

Even in that respect, you are simply holding the lens rather the the camera. Unless the lens is very short, but then it's not going to be that heavy.

CGrieves · 28 Jan 2015 at 20:43

Three manual Pentax K mount lenses, found along with a mint LX while clearing out my dear departed Dad's stuff. Bought some Fuji X adaptors and the 35-70 is surprisingly good. Haven't really tried the 75-150 yet. Cheers Dad....

rG-tom · 29 Jan 2015 at 03:39

King4aDay said:
And there is why the EOS-M has never made much sense to me

My EOS-M is used 99% exclusively with the 22mm pancake lens on it, and the combo is excruciatingly good for the size/price and fits in a jacket pocket. It's one of my best purchases of the last 12 months to be honest!

EOS-M and 22mm pancake:

Kei · 29 Jan 2015 at 13:56

Nikon 50mm f1.2 AI-s. (The fastest F mount lens nikon makes along with the noct 58mm)

stument · 29 Jan 2015 at 18:55

Finally after waiting so long i have picked one up!

Genoma · 29 Jan 2015 at 23:29

My first L!!! (2nd hand from LCE but imacculate condition). Forgive the crappy phone shot.

Phal · 30 Jan 2015 at 01:11

Genoma said:
My first L!!! (2nd hand from LCE but imacculate condition). Forgive the crappy phone shot.

Was my first too

gratz hehe

a1ex2001 · 30 Jan 2015 at 01:33

rG-tom said:
My EOS-M is used 99% exclusively with the 22mm pancake lens on it, and the combo is excruciatingly good for the size/price and fits in a jacket pocket. It's one of my best purchases of the last 12 months to be honest!

EOS-M and 22mm pancake:

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Totally agree my m lives with the 22mm while the kit lens gathers dust it is a lovely little combo and like you say silly cheap at the price. I almost consider it a fixed lens camera I haven't even picked up an eos adapter yet!

rG-tom · 30 Jan 2015 at 06:36

The kit lens isnt actually all that bad! Far better than the ef-s 18-55, and the IS is great for video. I tend to take if I'm going somewhere for a long weekend and can't be fussed with my 5DmkIII

robj20 · 30 Jan 2015 at 07:40

Kyoshige said:
After my Canon adapter broke and wouldn't auto focus anymore I decided to go native and got the FE 16-35mm. A bit heavier than I was expecting but looking forward to trying it out!

Let me know what yout think, im debating this or the Samyang 14mm for my A7R.

Above&Beyond · 30 Jan 2015 at 09:16

robj20 said:
Let me know what yout think, im debating this or the Samyang 14mm for my A7R.

The Sony will be in a different league.

CGrieves · 30 Jan 2015 at 11:38

Above&Beyond said:
The Sony will be in a different league.

In price definitely!

Not used the FE, but the UWA Samyangs are establishing themselves as the de-facto bang/buck Astrophotography lenses. My 12mm f2 is the best £230 I've ever spent on camera gear.

robj20 · 30 Jan 2015 at 12:38

Yep the 14mm is £289, the Sony is a lot more. I wouldn't be using it at anything other than 16mm which is a fair bit narrower than 14mm as well. Shame its not a 14-24 or something.

Tweaker · 30 Jan 2015 at 13:21

New shutter button

Above&Beyond · 30 Jan 2015 at 13:23

CGrieves said:
In price definitely!

Not used the FE, but the UWA Samyangs are establishing themselves as the de-facto bang/buck Astrophotography lenses. My 12mm f2 is the best £230 I've ever spent on camera gear.

I've got the Samyang 14mm on a D800. It is a good little lens for the money, but a Zeiss zoom I'd expect to be optically superior and able to control flare etc better due to the superior coatings. If you need 14mm the Samyang is a lot of performance for little money.

topbanana · 30 Jan 2015 at 14:29

I picked up one of these last weekend, but I've yet to play with it properly as my gimbal mount hadn't arrived.

It's a Canon 500mm f4 IS prime (old model). I picked up a 1.4x teleconverter as well

http://www.mikejones-wildlife.com/imgs/pages/14396_18091468151725c88219c7.jpg

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D.P. · 30 Jan 2015 at 16:44

topbanana said:
I picked up one of these last weekend, but I've yet to play with it properly as my gimbal mount hadn't arrived.

It's a Canon 500mm f4 IS prime (old model). I picked up a 1.4x teleconverter as well

http://www.mikejones-wildlife.com/imgs/pages/14396_18091468151725c88219c7.jpg

Very jealous! :mad:

topbanana · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:03

D.P. said:
Very jealous!

PU7E · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:15

Something nice arrived in the post for me earlier:

My first new camera since I brought a 350d from Jessops in 2003

Can't wait to get home and have a play.

Dj_Jestar · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:25

800 or 810?