The "New Gear/Willy Waving" thread

Raymond Lin · 16 Oct 2018 at 20:11

First dip into Godox.

Logsi · 16 Oct 2018 at 22:03

Interested in what you think of those. Need to replace my Yongnuo soon!

Raymond Lin · 16 Oct 2018 at 22:16

Logsi said:
Interested in what you think of those. Need to replace my Yongnuo soon!

I am a guest at my mate's wedding, so can put it to the test without any pressure but I will shoot it like I normally would. I am interested to see if it cut the mustard as well from focusing without IR to flash recharge, burst rate and how long that battery last etc.

GSXRMovistar · 16 Oct 2018 at 23:23

Raymond Lin said:
First dip into Godox.

Nice, I'm expecting an XPro and a TT350 to be delivered tomorrow (small setup for travelling) but if the system works well I'll be considering a AD200.

Raymond Lin · 16 Oct 2018 at 23:26

GSXRMovistar said:
Nice, I'm expecting an XPro and a TT350 to be delivered tomorrow (small setup for travelling) but if the system works well I'll be considering a AD200.

I would've got the TT350 too but need it for weddings so the extra flexibility of power helps.

I am thinking about a AD200 too !

Greebo · 17 Oct 2018 at 00:25

Ad200 rock. I did a photo shoot at the weekend using one (borrowed) and was very, very impressed by it. Worked flawlessly with the godox controller

tatts · 17 Oct 2018 at 00:57

Clov!s said:
What lens you ordered?

One I don't need but I have to try

Got another backpack and more sd cards today

tatts · 17 Oct 2018 at 13:05

Surprised how these are similar in size and weight. My only initial negative would be the lack of focal lock on the 100-400. Hopefully do some tests against the sigma 150-600 this week.

Raymond Lin · 17 Oct 2018 at 13:41

I am tempted to get a 100-400 for landscapes....anything 100mm and under I have it covered.

And · 17 Oct 2018 at 15:52

I use the Canon version (II) quite a bit for a that.

Raymond Lin said:
I am tempted to get a 100-400 for landscapes....anything 100mm and under I have it covered.

Greebo · 17 Oct 2018 at 20:10

Raymond Lin said:
I am tempted to get a 100-400 for landscapes....anything 100mm and under I have it covered.

It’s a great walk around lens and razor sharp and light

GSXRMovistar · 17 Oct 2018 at 20:18

Busy week and a case of out with the old and in with the new, old Canon gear now gone and replaced with the following Sony setup:-

Sony A7III
Sony 85mm 1.8
Tamron 28-75 2.4
Godox TT350
Godox XPro Kontroller
Stack of SD cards
and a new Lower 250 AW II Fastpack to carry it all in

Now that my wallet has finished taking a bashing I've got a couple of weeks away from work coming up so hoping to be able to put everything through it's paces.

footman · 17 Oct 2018 at 20:29

Greebo said:
It’s a great walk around lens and razor sharp and light

Super sharp even with the 1.4x tc on it and very portable.

tatts · 17 Oct 2018 at 22:11

footman said:
Super sharp even with the 1.4x tc on it and very portable.

Don’t say that. I’ve just got rid of the 1.4 tc as it was too soft for me on the 70-200

footman · 17 Oct 2018 at 22:22

tatts said:
Don’t say that. I’ve just got rid of the 1.4 tc as it was too soft for me on the 70-200

I can't speak for the 70-200 as I've never used it but I've not found any discernible image degradation on the 100-400.
The loss of 1 stop seems to be easily compensated by the A7R3 and AF is not obviously affected, at least not by the kind of photography I do.

Greebo · 17 Oct 2018 at 22:31

footman said:
I can't speak for the 70-200 as I've never used it but I've not found any discernible image degradation on the 100-400.
The loss of 1 stop seems to be easily compensated by the A7R3 and AF is not obviously affected, at least not by the kind of photography I do.

Yep same here. Always amazes me how fast it focuses and how spot on with BIF it is at f8

tatts · 18 Oct 2018 at 19:58

Probably the wrong time of year to be buying these but the price was too good to leave them and are on the wanted list.
6 & 10 stop firecrest plus 0.3 / 0.6 / 0.9 hard grad lee filters with lee field pouch

jonneymendoza · 18 Oct 2018 at 20:26

Raymond Lin said:
I am tempted to get a 100-400 for landscapes....anything 100mm and under I have it covered.

Do it

Phate · 18 Oct 2018 at 20:31

tatts said:
Probably the wrong time of year to be buying these but the price was too good to leave them and are on the wanted list.
6 & 10 stop firecrest plus 0.3 / 0.6 / 0.9 hard grad lee filters with lee field pouch

Awesome *thumbs up*

I really want a 4 or 6 stop. :cool:

tatts · 18 Oct 2018 at 22:13

Phate said:
Awesome *thumbs up*

I really want a 4 or 6 stop.

I really couldn't decide what I wanted and this guy had 6, 10 and 16 so I grabbed the 6 and 10