The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

[niko]

Raymond out of interest what's the shot count on your 5mk11 now, has it got spectacular ?

 

[Raymond Lin]

Erm, I've not used it since I got 2 mk3 so it only comes out now and again for cleaning really, it was around 50/60k? I think when I really used it in anger.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Am I mad??? Have a portrait shoot coming up...is there are cheaper but as good quality alternative?

 

[darreny]

You're a perfectionist ray, I know someone that does children's portraits and didn't even know what camera they used except to say they think it's a canon one

 

[PU7E]

I've had the profoto B1's out s few times now the kit is really solid and made to last. I do prefer the Softgrid boxes they make over the standard softboxes though.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Am I mad??? Have a portrait shoot coming up...is there are cheaper but as good quality alternative?

na thats fine. go for it.

 

[Raymond Lin]

You're a perfectionist ray, I know someone that does children's portraits and didn't even know what camera they used except to say they think it's a canon one

This way I can't blame the gear

 

[Raymond Lin]

Done, couldn't remember my stupid password so called them up to order by phone and cheekily asked for any discount and managed to get about £27 off.

 

[Vertigo]

I'd buy now, the pound is predicted to continue to get hammered in the short to medium term. I am in the same boat, I want a 5D3 and 24-70. My dithering last week will have costed me £200 across both as the pound fell.

Looks like I'm already too late. It's up to near £1700 at the main retailers (cheaper at some others but not anywhere I trust not to be a grey import). Even the main importers have raised their prices.

 

[Raymond Lin]

£1700 for a mk3? Holy crap, that's expensive...good for me selling though!

 

[jonneymendoza]

£1700 for a mk3? Holy crap, that's expensive...good for me selling though!

Brand new.?

 

[Raymond Lin]

Brand new.?

of course not but you know everything is relative.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Jesus I sold mine for only 1200... Someone got a bargain. Ffs in my defence it's been on sale for 1400 and no one bit for a month..

 

[Vertigo]

£1700 for a mk3? Holy crap, that's expensive...good for me selling though!

Think there's some confusion here. I'm talking about a 24-70 II lens

 

[Raymond Lin]

Ah!

 

[jonneymendoza]

Ah!

You saw a 2nd hand 5d3 for 1700?

 

[Raymond Lin]

You saw a 2nd hand 5d3 for 1700?

He means brand new.

When you asked me, i thought you mean is mine brand new, which i replied of course not.

By relative i mean it will pull the used prices up too by a little bit and £1200 is good.

 

[ajf]

I got this a while ago and it's been performing fantastically, Lexar Professional Workflow 6TB SSD over thunderbolt, each drive is removable and has a little case, I also have off shot an SD/CF/MicroSD/USB3 bays in a separate enclosure. my work flow for it is I keep a month of photos on each drive and then remove it if I need to edit on the road and put it back into the slot when done, catalog is synced via iCloud and is persistent across my 4 Macs.

That's an interesting idea.
A few questions:
Do the card readers copy to the SSDs automatically with the computer? If so how does it select the SSD to use?
How do the drives show up on the computer? Is one big volume or a drive for each SSD?
Do you back this up in any way or just rely on iCloud?

I've been looking at a NAS for all my photos and work with Lightroom, but as I don't really share between machines much, this might be a better, and faster, option.
A little pricey from what I can see though!

 

[Raymond Lin]

Arrived! Not built it yet though.

 

[Vertigo]

Let us know how you get on? Have you done studio portrait stuff before?