The "Whoo! I just got new gear!" thread

[Mary Anne]

Thanks Mary Anne

The grip and extra battery adds a fair amount of weight to the camera, but hopefully, the increase will result in a significant increase to battery life.

I thought it would.. And I hope it does..
I have the HLD- 9 Grip for the MK11 and have not tried it out yet what I don't need is more weight.

The E-M1 seems to like batteries like I like chocolate (a lot )

Ohhh Yes. My first outing with my first E-M1 I took my two new fully charged batteries to Sea World for the day they ran out of charge early in the afternoon.
I was shocked, as my Canon at the time battery used to last around 1000 shots. Remembering over 5½ years ago I think the Olympus Batteries maybe 350 shots ?

[Bensch]

Yeah, it sure does, Andy. The E-M1 MkII has a much higher capacity battery. Haven't had a day yet when one doesn't last all day (I always carry a spare ... ). Depends on shooting style too. The battery will last about 2.5 hours regardless of one shot or two thousand. All Mirrorless cameras are similar in their battery hunger. One learns to use the power switch ...

Thanks John

It is a little strange, the capacity is around the same as the ones in my E-M10 MkII, but the E-M1 seems to chew through batteries quicker than the E-M10 does.

I have a total of 4 batteries for the E-M1, so will be interested to see if I can get through a full day with them.

For sure, the power switch is quite often employed

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I thought it would.. And I hope it does..
I have the HLD- 9 Grip for the MK11 and have not tried it out yet what I don't need is more weight.



Ohhh Yes. My first outing with my first E-M1 I took my two new fully charged batteries to Sea World for the day they ran out of charge early in the afternoon.
I was shocked, as my Canon at the time battery used to last around 1000 shots. Remembering over 5½ years ago I think the Olympus Batteries maybe 350 shots ?

Thanks Mary Anne

The grip and extra battery add around 250g to the total weight, with the non-lens weight of around 740g.

Might not sound a great deal, but it's quickly heading back into DSLR weight again, my D7200 (with grip and extra battery) only weighs 1052g without a lens.....

Heading to the zoo on Tuesday (weather permitting), so will be interesting to see how many batteries I go through...

[John King]

Andy, one reason for the E-M1 MkI using more power than the E-M10 MkII is that is has a far bigger memory buffer, and a faster CPU throughput.

[Bensch]

Andy, one reason for the E-M1 MkI using more power than the E-M10 MkII is that is has a far bigger memory buffer, and a faster CPU throughput.

Thanks John, good to know, that explains it

[Bensch]

Two new acquisitions in the last few days

Tamron AF 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 SP Di II LD Aspherical (IF) lens for my Nikon
Ugee M708 10" graphics tablet to replace my aging Wacom

Quite happy with both

[ameerat42]

Who got new gear, you ask? - Well, I did, just today.

It's a 480 GB Crucial SSD, destined to replace a like-sized HDD from a 12-yo lappy.
So I 1st slipped it into the Volans external dock (USB3) and Bing-0!. - Yes, nothing!
- A quick call to the store later I found that "internal drives are "supposed to be initialised and formatted".
Hmm...! - OK, that's unlike the SSD I bought 2 years ago, which worked straight OOTB.

Nevertheless, an init and format later and it flies - 275+ MB/sec from the lappy
Along the way I learned 1 good trick: DO NOT set "allow compression". It slows down the write speed
to only about 10% of what I quoted

Anyway, I'm with it, and I hope I'll still be after I install it as the main drive in the old lappy.

[MattNQ]

Was very naughty this week. Picked up a second hand Tamron 15-30 (1st version) for a very good price.
Been a bit lost landscape-wise since I half killed my Sigma 17-35 by dropping the camera.
Now to find a reasonably priced filter mounting kit.....

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[Mary Anne]

Was very naughty this week. Picked up a second hand Tamron 15-30 (1st version) for a very good price.
Been a bit lost landscape-wise since I half killed my Sigma 17-35 by dropping the camera.
Now to find a reasonably priced filter mounting kit.....

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Good on you Matt it's great to treat yourself now and again I don't think you are being naughty .
You can't take it with you, so you may as well enjoy it while you can

[MattNQ]

Good on you Matt it's great to treat yourself now and again I don't think you are being naughty .
You can't take it with you, so you may as well enjoy it while you can

You are right Mary Anne. I'm never going to be lying on my death bed thinking... "I think I bought too much camera gear" :lol

[Bensch]

New gear day, my favouritest of all days

Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm f/4-6.3 ASPH Lens for my M4/3
Wacom Intuos Small Bluetooth graphics tablet
6 x 32GB SDs

[Jorge Arguello]

Bensch, it is glad to hear you are happy with the new gadgets, I hope you play with them soon.

[MattNQ]

Picked up a 1Tb SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD drive a few weeks ago for photo backup while travelling. Tiny, but IP55 water and dust resistant, shock resistant. And very fast.
Love it.

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[Mary Anne]

Gee Matt I am envious, and a great way to go, looked at those SSD's ones when they first came out and I needed a lotto win to buy one
So good to see the price has dropped so much and Thanks for That Off to read about Type-C to Type-A adapters

Lets see my Birthday is gone, so has Mothers day and our Anniversary guess I will have to drop some hints to

[MattNQ]

Gee Matt I am envious, and a great way to go, looked at those SSD's ones when they first came out and I needed a lotto win to buy one
So good to see the price has dropped so much and Thanks for That Off to read about Type-C to Type-A adapters

Lets see my Birthday is gone, so has Mothers day and our Anniversary guess I will have to drop some hints to

Hope Santa comes good then
Keep an eye out for JB HiFi & Officeworks sales I generally find them the cheapest for hard drives lately.

[Mary Anne]

Hope Santa comes good then
Keep an eye out for JB HiFi & Officeworks sales I generally find them the cheapest for hard drives lately.

Yes will.. Thanks Matt and Officeworks and JB HIFI are $50 cheaper than Harvey Norman.

[peterb666]

I got some old camera gear. What sort of memory card fits these

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Nikon F, Nikon F2, Nikkormat FT2, Nikon FE, Durst Automatica (credited as the first commercially available automatic camera), Konica Autorefex T, Olympus OM30, Wirgin Edixa Reflex, Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B.

All the Nikons work including the metering. The Olympus works but has a filthy viewfinder. The Durst works but the old selenium meter reads about 2-stops slow which is normal for a 60 year old selenium meter, the Edixa sort of works and like most old Zeiss reflex cameras, the Zeiss is stuffed but makes a good paperweight.

[MattNQ]

I got some old camera gear. What sort of memory card fits these

A long floppy one? I found a couple of them recently, but they won't fit my card reader....


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[peterb666]

A long floppy one? I found a couple of them recently, but they won't fit my card reader....

My shots are always overexposed because I take too long to insert them in the card reader. My most recent lens wasn't shown in that photo so here it is...

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Zoom-Nikkor 28-45mm f/4.5, the world's first wide angle zoom. I had one in 1977 and it was nicked. This one cost a fraction of the one I purchased in 1977. The lens is very usable on a dSLR and while relatively heavy, still quite compact. It's funny that when I hand one of the old school Nikon manual focus lenses to someone, they marvel at how wonderful the zoom and focus rings feel. Beautifully dampened and smooth as butter.

[Cage]

Nice Peter.

I have a Pentax M 50mm f1.7 left over from my Pentax days that I can't seem to part with. At least you can use your lens.

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A long floppy one? I found a couple of them recently, but they won't fit my card reader....


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[Bensch]

The Olympus 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 that I purchased last month on eBay finally arrived today.

Looks in very good condition (was second hand), hopefully, its performance is just as good