Photography & Video gear thread.

[mike leahy]

[quote="NewStuff" post=11158]So,

 The Liveview and Focus peaking should be a huge step up from the EOS with a Split Prism.[/quote]

 wtf ?? :unsure:  :unsure:  :unsure:

[Danny Sutton]

i think you will be hugely upset if you got one of these new at full price, had a play with a nex 7 today, it was shit.

[Ali Wiseman]

Indeed, Sony can go jump if I'm paying £1K!

I paid £130, lol. Even if I hate it, I can pass it on and make on it.

Do bear in mind that I do not shoot AF at all, so the LiveView and Focuspeaking alone are a huge boost from the EOS.

Mike - I don't use "Modern" lenses that focus when You push a button. I use older ones You have to set and focus yourself. Using these on my old camera was always a bit of a ballache, the new one *should* be a lot easier to use. Focus peaking highlights the parts in focus... look at the yellow highlights in this video to give you an idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqHwXvebZ5s

[mike leahy]

thank you ali that makes more sense  :silly:  :blink:  :silly:  :blink:  :silly:  :blink:

[mick murphy]

don,t kid yourself you mean your just a simplicity caver if you don,t get it, ask a female ha,ha,

[mick murphy]

if you have a fluid head then that cheap chinese version of thialand girl was more than 5 doller ha ha full of it tonight

[mick murphy]

Hi Tim
          Just arrived from tom top china "ON CAMERA CN-LUX1000 (£15) volage7.2-12v
power 6w ,colour temperature  5400k/3200k, 3 filters,adapter box for panasonic battery and a battery box for 6 AA, shit hot have a 180 wide angle sweep 80 feet on 1000 lux will try it out on crtt trip.

[mike leahy]

[quote="madmicks" post=11188]if you have a fluid head then that cheap chinese version of thialand girl was more than 5 doller ha ha full of it tonight[/quote]

you been drinking cider again mick  :sick:  :sick:  :sick:  :sick:

[Ali Wiseman]

[quote="mike leahy" post=11191][quote="madmicks" post=11188]if you have a fluid head then that cheap chinese version of thialand girl was more than 5 doller ha ha full of it tonight[/quote]

you been drinking cider again mick  :sick:  :sick:  :sick:  :sick:[/quote]

I know what he's talking about, an On-Camera (Sits where the flash normally would) light source, probably a Video Light. Looks like it's intended for closer work, but sort-of bright at 6W. The 5400K/3200K bit is the colour temperature of the LED's (Measured in Kelvin, or "K"). Around the 2500-3000K mark, the light is something like you would use in your front room, a "warm white", more of a yellowy tint to it. 5000-600K is a "cool white", more like You would see in a shop or an operating theatre. I prefer something nearer 6000K, but that's just me.

[Tim Watts]

Hi mick,

Nice let me know how it goes. The one i used for filming the CRTT was this one:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3800-Lumen-CREE-XML-3x-T6-LED-Flashlight-Torch-18650-fast-ship-5-mode-Battery-/300725600975?pt=UK_SportsLeisure_Camping_LightsLanternsTorches&hash=item4604a482cf

i use it 'off camera' to try to reduce light bounce back from dust and moisture in the air.

Good luck with the CRTT - sorry i won't be back in time to help! (Home late Wednesday night).

[Ali Wiseman]

I now have the NEX and adaptors.

So far, I love it. Very easy to nail the focus even in low light. Focus peaking is awesome. High ISO performance is, coming from a 400D, astonishing. Weight is far lighter... Hell, a 50mm Pentacon with the NEX adaptor is bigger than the damn camera! It looks totally stupid with the Tair 300/4.5 on the end, and I haven't been silly enough to try out the Pentacon 300/4 yet.

I'll give it a good run tomorrow when I have daylight. Initial impressions are bloody good so far though, and I'm looking forward to a trip out next week.

[Ali Wiseman]

New additions to my Manual Lenses bag (That isn't really big enough now!)

Hoya 24/2.8 and Hanimex 28/2 in M42. Totally immaculate. I doubt I'll take the Hoya underground, it's beautiful, and a shame to ruin it.

I also have a Zeiss T* 45/2.8 in Contax/Yashica on the way too. For a Mind-Boggling - FREE! (Yes, that's a £200+ lens, and no, it's not going underground!)

I also got my PK adaptor today. I love the Pentax-M SMC 50/1.7. Gorgeous for Portraits. The Ricoh XR Rikenons are pretty decent too.

[Danny Sutton]

on a serious note, how much of your gear do you actually think you'll ever use?

i at the moment have 3 DSLR's, one of them i havent even picked up for 18 months, actually i have 4, so thats 2 i havent touched for 18+ months.

i have at least 15 lenses and i use 3 of them, i use my 18-70mm for underground stuff and general snaps, i've a 10-24 i just dick about with and a 50mm i use for portrates, oh, i do have a 28mm f2.8 i use sometimes, just not very offten.. i've various flash guns i dont use, 6 or 7 tripods, i use 2 of them, one for underground and i've a decent one for outside stuff and boxes of other stuff that just sits there taking up room..

[mike leahy]

boys and toys bla de bla de fuckin bla. get a life boys

[Ali Wiseman]

I use most of it. Different lenses for different situations, each has better strengths. Almost all will produce, at a minimum, decent pictures. Some are razor sharp, some have a really nice OoF effect, some are just plain brilliant to use (The Tair-3 pHs comes to mind, all long lenses should focus that way). I still run nice film through my EOS 1 if I want something special, but I've gotten lazy with Digital, and my keep rate is way down (I had a better keep rate on a Zenit 12XP with a 400mm "wundertube"!), so I reserve it for special occasions/subjects.

That said, I really need to stop snagging 50mm's (Pentax-M, Zeiss Tessar, 2x Pentacon 1.8's, Ricoh 1.7 and 2.0, and I suppose you could count the Helios 44-2 at 58mm, and possibly the incoming Zeiss 45) just because it's usually very nice glass, and cheap. I could do with offloading a few at some point though, just keep the best.

I do have unused gear (Nikon F301 and a couple of lenses), and a couple of bridge cameras (Sony F-707, becuase that lens is bloody sharp, and a Panasonic TZ7 which the Missus sometimes uses).

I sold all of my AF lenses bar the Superwide 24/2.8, as it's sporting a nasty scratch and the AF is goosed (courtesy of Moel Fferna). It does work very nicely on the EOS1 and D60 despite the scratch, and is very sharp. I even sold that CF tripod, as it was just too big for underground (dropped into Fferna with it, never again).