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

[adilucca]

Hi Alan, I went & looked at the youtube of this. Looks great! A newb question though, I take it this does more than the TC-80N3?
Cheers,
J

Indeed it does. You can program it to automatically take up to 29 shots with exposures differing by as little as 1/3 stop (way over board for HRD but nice to have that flexibility). It also does time lapse but I am not interested in that yet. The beauty is that you program the control to the way you want and it takes over the camera (including mirror lockup). I use it to take 5 or 7 exposures for my HDR shots as the 7D only takes 3 shots automatically.


Cheers
Alan

[sonofcoco]

Forgot to add this last week, it's almost certainly the last thing in the big spend before leaving Korea. Needed a bit bigger camera bag...in hindsight, might've gone for the Streetwalker HardDrive if I knew how compact these backpacks were. Got this one:



The Streetwalker Pro. It's a cracker!

[AmyK]

Have a Canon 500D with 18-55mm on it's way, with two SD cards, two extra batteries, and a IR remote. Only catch is that it's my parents new SLR...oh well I'll get to play with it

For myself [with the parents credit card] I have a second battery, IR remote and a Dell Mini 10 laptop [in Pink ] on it's way

Definitely gave their credit card a work out in the past 24 hours!

[sonofcoco]

The spend here hasn't quite stopped yet...got one of these the other day:



It's a digital level that fits in the hotshoe of the camera. The middle green light lights up when it's level and it can be calibrated. Was originally looking at the normal bubble level, but these were quite cheap here so I went for this version instead.

[rellik666]

A lovely 1.7x Tele-convertor just arrived....

Looking forward to maybe getting the odd bird now....maybe....

[arj]

I've recently (earlier this month) snared my first DSLR ... hence joining the forum.

Got the Canon 550D with with EF-S 18-55 IS Lens, plus the 50mm F1.8 II.

Having a blast.

Any must-have protective/maintenance accessories recommended?

[mikew09]

Yesterday purchased a Vanguard 263 AT Pro tripod with SBT-100 ball head. So far I find it superb and at a steal of a price - $180 brand new. And no more shakey / shakey camera as was a constant issue with my old cheap as you can get no name tripod.

[mwphoto]

Nothing too expensive but I have aquired my first speedlite - a YN468 (mostly for fill for natural light portraits). I can definitely say that I won't be joining the strobist crew with multi light set ups anywhere soon, but I am having more fun with bounce lighting than I thought I would

Ordered a bunch of other stuff at the same time in December, full set of gels, speedlite softbox, shoot thru brolly, reflector dish, flash bracket, omni bounce type thingo, synch cord...they must off all got stuck on the slow boat from China coz I am getting a drip feed of one item every few days.

[geoffsta]

Just got myself the "Scott Kelby" "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book" "For digital Photographers"
I think I've got a lot of reading and practing to do.

[Blueywa]

I was looking at doing 'more' with the lighting - checked out studio kits, portable and none portable with the posibility off including backdrops etc etc.

All toooo much for my old cranium - ended up getting serious and now own two more Nikon Speedlights.

so far alls good

[BUGSnBIRDS]

My Scott Kelby Lightroom 3 book arrived [it's quite comprehensive] - now to order the software from somewhere at a reasonable price. Oh how I wish I was a student

[PH005]

Went and picked up my new siggy 120-400 DG OS today from Photo Contnental. They matched DWI price through CR KENNEDY. $810. Bargain. Look out Birds........of a feather.

[Kerro]

Bought a new Canon series III 2X Converter last week. Works great on the 400mm F2.8.

[Colinc1]

Just picked up a Canon 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS USM from Teds pre- stock take sale, now i only need the time to try it out

[Patagonia]

Just in time for my tomorrow´s flight to Costa Rica: Nikon 70-300 f4.5-5.6G IF EG VR (in the manual it says its a VRII...surprise for me), B+W CPL MC and a Hoya ND MC 4x

5 minutes impressions:
- Lens: Fast focusing and VR seems to work very well, heavy and looks durable but...makes a whole bunch of little "tick" sounds when arriving or leaving max/min magnifications, never happened to me before.
- B+W: comes with handy dedicated case and a rubber cup, looks vey good and it screws/unscrews very easy, rotating also easy. It does not have thread on the front so no cups or other filters can be attached (suppose the rubber cup can be used but it doesen´t seem to hold firm enough, will see)
- Hoya ND 4x (Pro1digital): Looks as the B+W but it does not fit as easy. Package is also the case, filter moves inside it. Thin and threaded on the front (I chose the Hoya so I could attach the CPL in front for waterfalls and such)

regards

[Boo53]

Alejandro

Sounds like a nice bit of gear there.

You off on holidays again or traveling for work?

[I @ M]

Nikkor AFD 85 mm F1.4

Do I have to ever change the aperture from F/1.4?

Meet Henrik, he happened to be sitting still when I threw the new glass onto the camera.

[Dylfish]

I got my new 5dmk2 I love the noise handling sooo much. My first shots with it are under panos at cottesloe beach

[Nicole71]

Got a Sigma 150-500mm for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Great fun but I'll be taking up weightlifting to train for carrying that baby around!

[mitgonk]

Canon 7d arrived yesterday! In time for rugby season!!
Also got a blackbird fly 35mm tlr! This got me more excited though!!