The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

No big swap, just the kit lens, 'nifty-fifty' 50mm f/1.8 and 75-300mm f/4-5.6 zoom lens. Had it valued by wex at £60 trade in (yeh right oh). It'll stay in the cupboard until my daughter wants to use it!

Don't get me wrong, I do really like the Canon kit, you just have to find what suits you and what is comfortable (and preference!).

As for good glass.. ;) I'll be going the 'Holy trinity' f/2.8 Nikon line up first then a mixture of primes :)
 
Phal said:
A few rechargeables is nice since you can re-use but for a wedding you might be better off just buying a massive pack of batteries from Maplins or something to burn through.
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Alkalines, especially cheap ones, really struggle with high currents, so you'd find your cycle times suffering on the flash, and probably overall battery life. A few decent rechargeables would be a good investment, they're not that expensive!
 
The wedding 'tog I did second shooting for always used duracell, he ran short at one wedding so I lent him some of my rechargeables. He couldn't believe the difference and swapped straight away!
 
abbotsmike said:
Alkalines, especially cheap ones, really struggle with high currents, so you'd find your cycle times suffering on the flash, and probably overall battery life. A few decent rechargeables would be a good investment, they're not that expensive!
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For regular wedding shooters then yes, a good bunch of rechargeables is a good investment but for a one off like he's doing? Can either buy a bunch of good batteries you hardly ever use or make do with a bunch of cheap disposable batteries you can burn through quickly.
 
Phal said:
For regular wedding shooters then yes, a good bunch of rechargeables is a good investment but for a one off like he's doing? Can either buy a bunch of good batteries you hardly ever use or make do with a bunch of cheap disposable batteries you can burn through quickly.
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The performance improvement you get is well worth it even for a single wedding if you're going to use the flash a lot. For me anyhow, and yes I do now have a few sets of rechargeables that I don't use a lot :D
 
Rojin said:
The performance improvement you get is well worth it even for a single wedding if you're going to use the flash a lot. For me anyhow, and yes I do now have a few sets of rechargeables that I don't use a lot :D
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Not even sure he's bought the flash yet so it might be too early to say whether he uses it a lot hehe

I hardly use mine and I bought 8 Eneloops as well as having some other Energizer crap ones but I wouldn't want to assume that's enough for a one off even but I also wouldn't want to run out of power even if it was only 30 minutes before the event was over :)
 
Not particularly interesting but picked up the m3/4 Panasonic 45-150 cheapy zoom at the airport on the way out on a trip, kept meaning to get something with a bit more reach and can give it a decent try out.

Still want the 35-100 2.8 or the new Olympus 2.8 soon :)
 
Purchased one of these little beasts

20mm f/2.8

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Now i shouldn't have to lug around my 24-70
 
Won a 10-20mm Sigma Lens last week, extremely happy with the condition its in considering it was 2nd hand, although he did include the original receipt and the lens is only a couple of months old.

Hope the weather is better this weekend so I can get out and test it.

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