Photography Tech Thread

[Greme]

Canon Eos 7d
Canon 100-400mm L thingy
Tamron 17-50mm f2.8
Canon 1.4x extender II

Want moar 100mm macro
also underwater kit, but lol £2000

If anyone will buy me either of these, I'll post a nice comment on the forum ¬____¬

[zergl]

also underwater kit, but lol £2000

Haha, yeah. If I ever picked up diving, I'd probably just get a cheap-ish waterproof compact camera.

Also, in case someone has like 5k bux sitting around and has a need for some quality prime lenses:
http://www.zeiss.de/C1256A770030BCE0/We ... enDocument

[Voxen Tass]

This is what I have in my main bag - F-stop Tilopa - great mountaineer bag by the way.

Canon 5D Mk II
20D - for when I do stupid stuff like ride my bike with camera/lens in hand
17-55 f{lol} kit lens - great f'in lens once you figure out it's limits tbh
17-40 f4
24-70 f2.8 - the brick - great workhorse of a lens
70-200 f2.8 IS I
100mm f2.8 macro
50 f1.4

a slew of studio crud and flashes and all the other junk that sounds great to have at the moment heheh.
This hobby is one of the primary reasons Eve dieded to me. It was hoggin all the fun time and Eve stopped being fun.

[Joe Appleby]

Bags: a Tamrac backpack that fell into disuse after I got a thinktankphoto speeddaemon bag. Quality wise they are from another planet.

[keiiko netsova]

Nikon D3100 (was originally going to get a 550D, but airport price meant D3100 + 17-50 would be near the same price as 550D + kit lens)
Tamron 17-50 f2.8
Nikon 70-200 f2.8 (bought used, favourite lens)
Nikon 50mm f1.8 (looking forward to being able to AF it once I get some cash, but will be good learning to MF)

[Booley]

Just added some pocket wizards :3 So much better than the shitty remotes I was using before.

[Greme]

Give them to meeeeeeee

[Mimiru]

Nikon D3000
Sigma 70-300mm
Nikkor 18-55mm

[phoenix]

Olympus E-520 , with its 2 Kit lenses (14-42mm, 40-150mm) and 70-300mm Zuiko. ;D

[Hast]

also underwater kit, but lol £2000

Haha, yeah. If I ever picked up diving, I'd probably just get a cheap-ish waterproof compact camera.

Also, in case someone has like 5k bux sitting around and has a need for some quality prime lenses:
http://www.zeiss.de/C1256A770030BCE0/We ... enDocument

keep in mind you do not even get autofocus with Carl Zeiss lenses. :P

Although I would not say no to that kit.

[RazoR]

Sup faggots. I need an advice, quick.

Is Canon powershot A3000 IS shit or not?
Need it for occasional drunk photos and shooting quality work stuff to be placed on a site in 1280x960.
Have only 100~ bux for this atm.

Used a samsung before. never again.
Fuck (south) koreans.

[Joe Appleby]

At the price level, the.camera is hard to beat. But generally speaking Canon, NIKON and Sony are safe bets for point and shoots.

[Helen]

I use my camera on my HTC Desire HD because I can't be fucked to cart around a camera on the off chance of a decent photo opportunity.

[Krugerrand]

Canon 450d
Canon EF 50mm 1.8
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS
Macro extension tubes (will get a proper lens eventually)

Bag: Lowepro Fastpack 350 [rucksack fits everything + laptop in]

[RazoR]

I use my camera on my HTC Desire HD because I can't be fucked to cart around a camera on the off chance of a decent photo opportunity.

Fuck fancy phones.
I hauled Nokia 1201, iPod nano 2nd gen 8gb and Samsung something camera around. Lost the ipod, Samsung got stolen in india - double fuckit

Thanks for advice, gonna buy the shit out of that bitch and show drunk russian photos later~

[Sacha Sinclair]

Not much I have being an über amateur.

Canon EOS 1000D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS (stock)
Canon EF 28mm f2.8
Canon EF 50mm f1.8

Would like a proper zoomlens and macro but $$$

[explodyhead]

Canon EOS 550D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS Lens

[Jason Marshall]

Sony A850
Sony A700

Tamron 70-200mm F2.8
Zeiss 24-70mm F2.8
Sigma 50mm F2.8
Sigma 120mm-400mm F4.5-5.6 (fucking hate bears)
Sony 28mm F2.8

5 lower end alienbee strobes with stands, etc and pocket wizzard triggers.

600sq. ft. studio opening this fall =D

[Krugerrand]

Canon 450d
Canon EF 50mm 1.8
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
ATM trying to find a new bag I like and also deciding what lens to get next.

So any recommendations for Macro lenses? Seen some for omgwtf amounts of money, but any decent ones around the £300 mark? The other alternative I guess is extension tubes attached to the 50mm lens. How do they compare to a proper lens?

Also I'm basically self teaching myself all this shit slowly, but are there any good books out there? Got linked to a couple of sites but I struggle to sit and read stuff on a computer like that.

[Frools]

extension tubes will get you similar magnification to a proper macro
the difference is you will need multi-second exposures unless you have a VERY bright light source
you'll also lose AF and aperture control unless you buy expensive tubes, on canon (posibly nikon but dont know for sure) you can sploit to get a lens to stay at a different aperture with the aperture preview butan tho so not really a big deal there
basically extension tubes can be used for macro'ing stuff that doesnt move just fine but if you want to take macros of bugs and shit that moves you need a proper lens
a proper macro lens can also be used for taking non-macro pics, and has the advantage of proper AF

tubes are fun and so cheap that i'd recommend you start there anyway

sugar crystal on a bran flake, taken with tubes
http://www.frools.net/photography/macro/IMG_1220.jpg
peppercorn and salt crystals taken with tubes
http://www.frools.net/photography/macro/IMG_1234.jpg