The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

Raymond Lin · 6 Jul 2012 at 13:07

You are losing 2 mins of light at the end of every day now.

2 weeks, that's half hour of light. (28 minutes)

If that is taken at 9:40 at ISO 12800, you are looking at 9:20 in 2 weeks' time for the same shot, that is if the weather is the same.

ElDude · 6 Jul 2012 at 13:07

You're bored aren't you?

Raymond Lin · 6 Jul 2012 at 13:13

ElDude said:
You're bored aren't you?

Lol, no...I knew that off my heart and it's what i do the day before the wedding day. When you shoot enough of weddings, certain things comes naturally.

An Exception · 6 Jul 2012 at 13:18

DampCat said:
How would that look printed on a canvas? i guess the texture would hide a lot of it.

I could never shoot that high, though. 3200 is my max

Well at 50% magnification the file is still pretty big and it hides the noise well, so if the print or canvas isn't really huge the noise shouldn't be an issue.

Below is a 50% crop.

For me though, these types of high iso files will only be printed in albums so the noise will be hidden by the size reduction.

An Exception · 6 Jul 2012 at 13:24

Raymond Lin said:
You are losing 2 mins of light at the end of every day now.

2 weeks, that's half hour of light. (28 minutes)

If that is taken at 9:40 at ISO 12800, you are looking at 9:20 in 2 weeks' time for the same shot, that is if the weather is the same.

Cheers Raymond, that's actually very useful for me to know.
The wedding is at the brides parents house/garden, so it's not like it has a traditional reception that has lights...

It's lucky that my other weddings start much earlier...

Raymond Lin · 6 Jul 2012 at 13:30

I mean 9:12, not 9:20.

21st of June and 21st December are the key dates when the days get shorter and longer.

You can get charts online or apps to tell you sun rise and sun set times but it's easy to work out.

Each day you gain/lose 4 min, 2 min either end.
Check weather. A bright sun set makes a big difference.
The summer/winter clock change means knocking an hour on/off from the day before.

Looks complicated but it's easy.

m0rte · 6 Jul 2012 at 14:42

Brand new Canon 60D & Sigma 105mm DG Macro OS HSM *splooge*
Arrived at my work desk today, still charging the battery but still not getting much work done!

ElDude · 6 Jul 2012 at 14:47

We've essentially got the same kit, just I have the canon version of that lens, as I mentioned further back

Harry bird watching by Niall Allen, on Flickr

I was bored this morning

ScarySquirrel · 6 Jul 2012 at 15:06

I have finally bought one, just in time for my wedding tomorrow. The only non-L lens that will actually get any use (I have the 50 1.8 but don't use it).

35L, 85 1.8, 135L - Should sort me out for some time

+ the 24-70L

James J · 6 Jul 2012 at 15:30

m0rte said:
Brand new Canon 60D & Sigma 105mm DG Macro OS HSM *splooge*
Arrived at my work desk today, still charging the battery but still not getting much work done!

Great lens. Look forward to seeing the results.

Columbo · 6 Jul 2012 at 15:54

Work and the weather are destroying any photography time I had planned of late so the best way I could think to give me a kick was to spend a few hundred sheets on some new glass.

Couldn't decide between the 2 of these so I bought them both

Auraomega · 6 Jul 2012 at 18:35

Been drooling over the 300 2.8s for a while, managed to bag this off the bay for a decent price, once I find a Sigma TC and some of that elusive sun I'll be using it for jets

-|ScottFree|- · 7 Jul 2012 at 02:00

Auraomega said:
Been drooling over the 300 2.8s for a while, managed to bag this off the bay for a decent price, once I find a Sigma TC and some of that elusive sun I'll be using it for jets

Awesome.. looks superb!! its a beast!!

GTRacer · 7 Jul 2012 at 09:06

So the film scanner I bought finally arrived (Plustek 7600i), rescanned a few negatives and I'm quite pleased with the jump up in quality. Because of the way I work it isn't even much slower than my V500:

V500:

7600i:

Rojin · 7 Jul 2012 at 10:24

Nice

I want to see more! I was thinking of getting one of these...

gary996 · 7 Jul 2012 at 11:18

Auraomega said:
Been drooling over the 300 2.8s for a while, managed to bag this off the bay for a decent price, once I find a Sigma TC and some of that elusive sun I'll be using it for jets

Please show us some shots inc wide open.

neil_g · 7 Jul 2012 at 11:41

Auraomega said:
Been drooling over the 300 2.8s for a while, managed to bag this off the bay for a decent price, once I find a Sigma TC and some of that elusive sun I'll be using it for jets

do you mean the 120-300? that has a zoom ring..

:confused:

jonneymendoza · 7 Jul 2012 at 12:12

Raymond Lin said:
Oh, lol DoF is what first pop into mind when someone mention F/ numbers, and not ISO.

2 stop is a bit much, more like one.

itsabout 10 stops better then my 400d lol

GTRacer · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:30

Rojin said:
Nice I want to see more! I was thinking of getting one of these...

Here are some more negscans, 1st is Superia 400, 2nd is Ektar 100, the last two are Ilford Pan F 50. It took 15 secs for a preview, 1:50 for a scan that had two passes (multi exposure or some IR scratch removal) - a single pass clocked in at under a minute, but my negs are really dirty. :lol:

The workflow went like this: Vuescan -> Photoshop CS6 -> Dust/Scratch cloning (not much of an issue with colour negs) -> Curves/Levels -> Resize -> Smart Sharpen, remove lens blur

http://i.imgur.com/wtspH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XpggG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vMqsi.jpg

Can't wait to see what Plustek's new 120 scanner will be like.

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9designs2 · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:36

I recently bought the new 8200i SE, didn't know about a new 120 scanner... sounds interesting.
Good scanners for the money.....