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

[Tatts]

New Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM 10-20mm

Me too, just picked it up from the post office. Heading into the city for lunch
Also bought a 77mm Hoya ND 400 filter on Monday for this lens.

[binuv]

Nikon D3100 + Nikor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR AF-S DX + Nikor 55-300mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED VR AF-S DX as a kit.
Love it.

[davearnold]

Recently purchased sigma 150-500, but because it keeps raining, and I can not get out to use it ( why is it only fine on work days?) ..... I went out and bought a panasonic luminex Ft2 ...waterproof to 10m.... with current QLD weather.. might need that

[mrsgrumblebum]

Delivered yesterday was my Canon 100mm lS macro can't wait to give it a burl. Oh it's from . Other half said I could have a little play to make sure all is well, Then I have to wrap it up... sheesh the cheek.

Also a Hoya HD filter.

[dulvariprestige]

Picked up a sigma 1.4 TC to go with my 100-300f4, I've only taken a couple of shots with it in the carpark, but IQ and focus speed seems pretty good.

Crop


100-300 with TC crop by dulvariprestige, on Flickr


100-300 with TC01 by dulvariprestige, on Flickr

[Arclight69]

Purchased cokin filters recently only to find out I can get the same effect through using Photoshop

[etherial]

WooHoo, just got my Wacom tablet! Now do I set it up now, or do the 'right' thing and wait till xmas day??

[Schmenz]

ordered 2x lightroom and 2x elements yesterday!

arrived today! whoooo hooo! (well the elements are on backorder but i mainly wanted lightroom.. just got elements before my student ID runs out on the 31st Dec)

My dad will be impressed that Santa still exists after all these years as a non believer!

[benlock]

I finally bought my first dslr!
canon 550D, picking it up tomorrow.
I got the camera with twin lens kit, hopefully should be enough to get me going.

Cheers,
Ben

[Xebadir]

Looking forward to having a real play. Few new toys to speak of arrived.
Nikon SB900
Sandisk 16Gb card
Reflector
MH-C9000 charger and 4 Powerex and 4 Imedions.

Should give me something to play with while the money gets saved for bigger and better things

[fabian628]

The beast arrived today ^^^^^

Roll of film in the fridge ready to go
120 fill - 10 shots - no chimping

oh and as a bonus, there was a roll of exposed film left in the film back, I think it will go through the C-41 machine at work tomorrow

Nice. What size negs does that do?
I like 120 film, only 10 shots, that means i get to develop the roll quicker, rather than going through 24 or 36 exposures with 35mm film

[fabian628]

Met up with Stu (para) for lunch today at a little seaside town halfway between where we both live.

After coming to an arrangement, this lens ended up in my car for the ride home instead of his.

300 f/2.8. IS

(dodgy iphone pic. lens with 2 x extender attached).



Spent a while micro adjusting it and both the 1.4 and 2 x converters then poked it up in the tree before i run out of light and found a couple of birdies



Very happy considering that's about a worst case senario. 2500 ISO, 2x extender with a 50% crop.

Look forward to trying it out in anger.

very nice. Is that the 2x II tc? How do you find the AF speed with the 2x on? I have the 1.4 which is quite good, but i have heard the 2x is significantly slower.

[fabian628]

not gear per se, but christmas comes early

[Bromeo]

Oh so I bought myself a 5dmk2 and am now trying to figure out how to pay for it (credit cards are awesome).

[Captured frame]

Wacom Intuos 4 tablet,cant wait till I have mastered it, don`t think I`ll ever use a mouse again.

[tcdev]

Scored a Nikkor 35mm F/1.8G for Xmas! Promptly discovered I'm hopeless with it.

Bought the wife a D5000 twin lens kit - quite an upgrade from her P&S. Expect good things from her - she's got a better eye for photography than I do.

[skunky]

I enjoyed a couple of drinks last night and somehow gathered up the courage to buy a new Nikon D7000, 17-55 f2.8 and SB-900 flash. Oh dear, lets hope I can still manage to cobble up enough change to eat over the next month

[sonofcoco]

Just ordered a NextoDI Extreme 2700 500gb back-up drive online here in Korea. The 3M safeguard cover has arrived first, so I'm resigned to sitting here looking at that until the drive itself turns up.

Will be adding a few more things in the run-up to leaving Korea too I think. Need to take advantage of the cheap online prices!

[Boo53]

I enjoyed a couple of drinks last night and somehow gathered up the courage to buy a new Nikon D7000, 17-55 f2.8 and SB-900 flash. Oh dear, lets hope I can still manage to cobble up enough change to eat over the next month

Gees, if you only have to go without a decent feed for a month to pay for that you must eat at 5star restaurants a lot

[dulvariprestige]

I enjoyed a couple of drinks last night and somehow gathered up the courage to buy a new Nikon D7000, 17-55 f2.8 and SB-900 flash. Oh dear, lets hope I can still manage to cobble up enough change to eat over the next month

You could always offer prints for food lol

And at least you can blame the alcohol, I seem to do the same thing sober haha