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Photographers: let's hear about your set ups!

Something else to add to the old arsenal. I just bought a Polaroid 100 magazine for my Hasselblad. I'm terribly excited. I haven't been using the Hassy much recently because I'm not so good with delayed gratification and rarely snap all 12 shots at once, plus everyone knows how much I adore polaroid film (although it'll be fuji fp100c in this one - which is nice and cheap (relatively speaking) and easy to come by, unlike polaroid film).

Yeah, so I'd dead excited :)
 
I have one of these.

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I also still have my Canon, but I'm not using it much.

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I wish I had enough money for one of those elaborate setups.
 
I have an EOS 400d and I user a Sigma 17-70mm F2.8 DC Macro, the Eos kit lens was a bit nasty so I replaced it. I'm not into using loadsa lenses, although a 50mm prime might be handy for portraits.

However I miss film, so am saving up for a Contax G2 rangefinder at the moment.

Then next year I intend to upgrade the EOS for a full frame DSLR

I'm a returning photographer, last time I made pictures it was on film and I tended to make big colour abstract stuff

Photographic Heroes: Duanne Michaels, Man Ray, William Eggleston
 
Finally after a couple of years of um-ing and ah-ing I've got myself a dSLR setup:

Nikon D90 +18-105 kit
Nikon 70-300mm VR, although this may be sold as I've just got a good deal on a S.H. Nikon 70-200mm VR
Awaiting delivery of a Nikon TC-17E II teleconverter

Carried in a Lowepro flipside 400

Planning on getting a D400 when they come out, and when I win the lottery a nikon 200-400mm f4...
 
Don't mind Herbsman, he is mostly harmless. He is running a theme on 'REAL photographers' at the moment. He only wants to gently wind people up for a laugh.
 
thelittlechef said:
Light is all well and good - but you do need a bit of a setup to record the light - otherwise you are just looking and not photographing!

Basically - no. Real photographers do have a setup!
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He might be talking about system cameras opposed to individual simple camera with just one lens, a single shutter speed and fixed aperture and obviously a little light :D
 
I have a FujiFilm Finepix S2 dslr (it is a DX chip 3x2)
It outputs 12mp images or 6mp images, jpg tiff or raw.
Usually I use 6mp jpeg images to save space.

and

Nikon 20mm f2.8 AF
Nikon 50mm f1.8 AF
Nikon 85mm f1.8 AFD

Sigma 28-70mm f2.8 DF
Nikon 80-400mm f4.5-f5.6 VR

Kenco 1.8 times extender
Kenco Extension tubes.

Manfrotto Tripod (a big and heavy one)

I also have a Cokin P filter system, polarisers, nd grads and the suchlike.

I shoot jpeg and view images in finepix viewer, if I want to edit I use Ulead Photoimpact.

My usual outputs are to web, to 6x4 prints at boots, or 15x10 prints also at boots.
I don't print at home at all.
 
*Draws curtains*

Serious zoomage! Do you find you often go all the way to 400, or is it only the odd occasion? And what's the shake like at that range, is it tripod only even in good light, or can you still manage with just your hands?
 
gamma globulins said:
*Draws curtains*

Serious zoomage! Do you find you often go all the way to 400, or is it only the odd occasion? And what's the shake like at that range, is it tripod only even in good light, or can you still manage with just your hands?
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I bought it because I like wildlife and when shooting that it often goes out to 400 and I have even tried the 1.8 kenco extender (not the right word) on it.

I use it hand held in good light and also on a tripod. The VR is a help when handheld because I just find there is not enough light in Britain to get my shutter speed up to where it needs to be even in the middle of the day.

The nominal rule is that for a 30mm lens you should not go below 1/30 sec and therefore for a 400mm lens you should shoot 1/400 sec .. but with a max aperture of f5.6 I often find I am going up to ISO800 to try to get some speed.

I think the sharpest images I shot with it were on a tripod with the VR off.

It does have a mixed reputation, some don't find they get sharp images, indeed mine seems to soften above 300mm zoom. The Canon 100-400mm has a better reputation than this one. And the Nikon 70-200 AFS f2.8 with a 2x extender has also a good reputation.

Also it is not a very fast focussing lens, (it is AF (screw drive) rather than AFS) when you focus the whole front of the lens moves and that is a lot of metal and glass. My Camera does not have a very powerful focussing motor and so it is sometimes slow to focus and you can miss opportunities.

I know people who have moved up to D200 cameras who say that the more powerful focussing motor makes this 80-400 lens come alive. It is my aim when I have some spare cash to get something like a D200 myself for that very reason.
 
thelittlechef said:
Light is all well and good - but you do need a bit of a setup to record the light - otherwise you are just looking and not photographing!

Basically - no. Real photographers do have a setup!
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OK I failed that one. What I meant was, their setup isn't important. Only the light is important. They use whatever setup they feel is appropriate for recording it.
 
Main camera -
D300
Nikon 1.8 50mm
Nikon 3.5-5.6 18-200 mm VR
Nikon 35-70 2.8 - Love this lens, old school metal and glass, feels like you could hammer nails with it
SB 800 Flash
Rings, polarisers and UV filters

Also got a little IXIS film compact which is barely ever used.

About to spend far too much money on a Tokina 11-16 2.8 when I should be buying a decent tripod... Ah well
 
I went for the Tokina, put a deposit down, no fucking idea when it's getting to the shop, they're like rocking house shit apparently. It looks absolutely gorgeous though... Can't wait
 
Canon 5d Mark II 24 - 105 L series, 100 - 400 L series f3.5 and 4 with x 2 extender 580 ex flash and remote trigger/wireless set up.
 
my main camera..me moby SE800i...got filched the other day... so now i have to use the D80 I bought but have spent a couple of years dithering_doing fkkall with with.

It's soooooo boring.:mad::mad::mad:
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
My main camera is still my Pentax Optio W60. :)

I'm holding out for the G11, then I can join the ranks of the semi-big-boys.:)
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That's the waterproof one intit?

My fave camera is my Pentax Option 750z.

Also got a Nikon D80 with 18-55 mm kit lens. I bought a new 50 mm f1.8D lens for it today - it was £119, but I told the bloke in the shop that Calumet had it for £103 so he sold it to me for £105. :)
 
D700
Nikon 50mm F1.4G
Sigma 70-200 2.8
Nikon 28 - 105
SB900 + some additional radio triggers for extra flash units
+ a tripod, and a bunch of filters and reflectors etc

still saving for the nikon 14-24 2.8 and the 24-70 2.8... being a poor student now means it's gonna take a long time *sigh*
 
Canon EOS 40D
17-55 IS F2.8 lens
70-200 F4L lens
580 EX2 flash
St-E2 Infra red transmitter

Then for 35mm
Contax G2 & Carl Zeiss Planar F2 35mm lens
 
2 x EOS 5D (Mk I + Mk II)
17-40 F4L
24-105 F4L IS
70-200 F2.8L IS
50 F1.4

This year willl prob chop the Mk I for a Mk II, the 24-105 for a 24-70 2.8L and add a 24mm 1.4L. Basically all geared towards low light event photography.
 
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