Kit...

Fajitas!

Just wondering...what kit do people have - bodies, lenses, filters et al?

I know a few people here with some interesting pieces too, like the photo-sniper

Go on...lay it all out

RichyX

All I have right now is a Konica Minolta G600 compact digi and a cheap tripod!

Plan on picking up a Pentax K100D in a few weeks with the kit 18-55mm lens and a Tamron 70-300mm Di LD.

311

I'm quite ashamed at the amount of stuff I've bought ,last 18 months.
350D ,battery grip.
Canon 50e (not used lately)
430EX
Sigma 10-20
Sigma 18-50
Sigma 30
Canon 24-85
Canon 70-200 .......
Soligor Extension tube set
Cokin P filter set
Polarizers
Manfrotto tripod ,141RC Head ,322RC2 Head ,car window mount,monopod
Lowepro slingshot 200 ,lowepro Nova 5 AW ,Ortlieb ultimate bike bag.
Canon cable release
Canon selphy mobile printer.
Canon ip5200 printer
Memory cards etc.

Rojo

Not enough.

Owen

Canon 350d
Canon 18-55 & Hood
Canon 90-300 & Hood (I think, but it could be a 70-200 too, oops!)
Sigma 10-20 & Hood & Polariser
Battery Grip
2 Batteries
420 Ex Flash
Tripod
4 Gig Card
Massive 4 Megapixel 30inch monitor to edit photos on.

elven

Woah! If you're going to do it, do it right, eh?

On the other hand, I've got in total:

Old 35mm EOS 630
350D
50mm f1.8
18-55 kit lens (on loan from Brian!)
Sigma 28-80 which doesn't work on the 350D
Canon 70-200mm
Jessops set of 3 extension tubes
El cheapo sunpak flash unit
Hama tripod
Baby tripod (still in scotland, boo)
Slingshot 100

A particularly modest set of kit, I confess... kinda how I like it...

Shiny

Hmmm, *Scratches Head*

30D + Grip
2 gig card
Sigma 70-200 f2.8
Sigma 18-50 f2.8
Lowepro Computrecker
4 Canon Batteries
Polarizers

Manfrotto tripod (With a head):)
Crappy no name Tripod
Mini Tripod

(Might sell minolta stuff soon)
Minolta 404SI
35-85mm
70-300mm
1.7x Teleconverter
0.5x Wide angle attchment


Still Need (want...)
Alien Bee Studio set
Sigma 10-22mm
580ex
remote release (expensive one)
Epson R1800
etc.....(list never ends):)

Peteee

Canon 300D
2 Batteries
18-55 Kit Lens
2GB CF Card
256 CF Card
El cheapo kodak tripod

Also have a Fuji S5500. Hopefully I'll but a 50mm if I come into some money

Roen

Some student just stole my medium format rig from my car boot!

B0rG

ahh... why not

30D + battery grip + second battery
shutter release button - very handy
Cheap video tripod
50 1.4
17-40 L
24-70 L
70-200 4L

580EX

rymus

30D + grip (with a superbly comfortable neoprene strap)
20D + grip

Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS
Canon 50 f1.8
Canon 75-300 Mark III
Canon 18-55 kit lens (dunno why this is still in my bag)
Sigma 30 f1.4
Sigma 24-70 f2.8
Sigma 10-20
Sigma 150mm macro
Canon 580ex & stofen omnibounce

PD70X for on the road backup of cards
About 15gb in CF cards; Mostly use 2 recently acquired 4gb Sandisk Extreme III's.

Manfrotto neotec tripod with a 322RC2 ball head on it
Various Cokin filters and rings to attach to all lenses.
Various cables & gadgets like remote release etc...

All nealy housed in & around a computrekker plus I got recently.

Other than that, got a set of elinchrom d-lite 4 lights recently that I've been playing around with. Just softboxes for now, going to pick up some umbrellas and reflectors in NY next week.

Roen

20D unt grip
18-55mm ef-s
100mm ѓ2.8 macro
135mm ѓ2.0 L
70-200mm ѓ2.8 L IS
300mm ѓ4.0 L IS
580ex speedlite
Feisol CT-3301N Tripod
Feisol CM-1471 Monopod


plus a host of CF cards, batteries and HDD backup stuff.
Saving for a 500mm ѓ4.0 L IS and another body, either the 5D's replacement or the 1D MK IIN's replacement.

punchdrunk

nikon D1X
17-35 f2.8
sb 28dx flash

canon ixus 750

olympus om1n
21mm,35-70mm,50mm,150mm,70-200mm lenses
power winder,fl-20 flash

Valentia

5D & 10D + EOS 5 film and Bronica ETRSi 6x4.5 and 75mm lens
Sigma 70-200 2.8
Sigma 12-24
Sigma 70-300 APO
Sigma 2x Converter
Canon 28-105 (old)
Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro
Canon 24-105L
Canon 100-400L
Canon 50 1.8
550EX Flashgun
Manfrotto 055 ProB
322RC2 Head
Manfrotto monopod
Old Manfrotto monster that weighs a ton
4 x 911 batteries
9Gb in CF cards
Polarisers etc

And some Bowens lights and umbrellas.

My next purchase, and last big one, will probably be the 16-35 2.8 and I'll sell the 12-24.

The 10D and some lenses (the 28-105 and the 70-300 will be passed on to my son soon, but he doesn't know yet.

elven

Valentia wrote:

The 10D and some lenses (the 24-105 and the 70-300 will be passed on to my son soon, but he doesn't know yet.

Will he be getting a choice?

"Yes, son, you will hunt for the greatest puffin shot ever... I will haunt you after I'm dead for the rest of your life until you do..." :rolleyes:

Valentia

elven wrote:

Will he be getting a choice?

"Yes, son, you will hunt for the greatest puffin shot ever... I will haunt you after I'm dead for the rest of your life until you do..." :rolleyes:

(I keep forgetting to close brackets. Anyone else got that problem. Where can I get help?

mikeanywhere

My turn, nothing as glam as some of you lot bit its a start anyhow..............

20D & battery grip
3 x batteries
Canon 580 flash & thingy diffuser
memory cards (6GB, 2B, 1GB & 128MB that I got as as freebie)
Canon Lenses: 70-200 L IS, 100-400 L IS, nifty fifty & kit lens)
Sigma Lenses (18-200, 150mm Macro, 10-20)

Slik Pro 500DX tripod with nice spongy legs

New torch for the head rather than mini mag in the gob

blower thingy to

I'll modify as I remember

rymus

jaysus Valentia, any chance you'd adopt me? I wouldnt mind a 24-105

CrowdedHouse

Main stuff:

Nikon F4s
Nikon D70s
Nikon N80(faulty pop up flash but a steal at 40 quid)
Nikkor AFs 18-200 VR
Nikkor AFs 18-70 DX -got as part of D70s Kit
Nikkor AF 70-210 f4-5.6
Nikkor AF 50 f1.8
Nikkor AF 28-85 f3.5-4.5
Nikkor AF G 28-200 f3.5-5.6 - great for the money,most used lens before 18-200
Nikkor AF 300 f4
Nikon SB 800 Speedlight
Nikon Coolscan V

Would like/might get Nikkor 12-24

Valentia

rymus wrote:

jaysus Valentia, any chance you'd adopt me? I wouldnt mind a 24-105

He's not getting the L one. I'm not totally gaga Just checked it's a 28-105.

kuroino

Body: Canon EOS 400D, also 300D, but broken, waiting for repair, will be used as a backup... Also sometimes some Canon Digital Ixus, not sure about the model

Lenses: Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4.5 DC, Canon EF 75-300 f4-5.6, Canon EF 50 f1.8, Canon EF-S 18-55 f3.5-4.5 (two of these, one of which only works as manual focus lense).

Flash: Sigma DG ST 500

Support: some cheap and compact tripod (don't remember the manufacturer). Also quite a large monopod, again of not expensive kind.

Little things: lens pen, few UV filters for different lenses, basic devices to cut paper and cardboard for passe-partout, Canon i865 printer, couple of camera bags.

Fajitas!

Heh, first off, a newly aqcuired Mamyia 645, with an 80mm and 110mm lens... someone left their boot open eh, Roen? Along with a whole kit of filters.

A Hasselblad 500 Cw with 50mm wide angle lens.

Canon 1000Fn
Canon 300D
Canon 5D

Canon mount lenses:
10-20mm, 18-55mm, 30mm, 35-105mm, 50mm, 105mm, 70-300mm (Will add a 70-200 soon...)

Tripod, monopod, memory cards, filters, other bits and bobs.

Holga CFM, Lomo-Coloursplash, Lomo-fisheye, Lomo-Octomat, Lomo-Supersampler.

Computrekker Plus AW, Canon shoulder bag, Tamba shoulder bag, some Lowepro shoulder bag.

17in laptop with 2 gigs ram & 2 x 1.6 processors.

Studio, and some new portable lighting rigs that the college got (Just for me )

gandalf

Jaysus lads can you please put your addresses up as well, I may want to "loan" some of your gear

Canon 350D
Canon 50 1.8 with Hama Polorizer
Canon 28-80 (Old) with AV Filter
2GB CF Card
No-Name Tripod
The Pod beanbag Tripod
(2 Spare Canon equiv batteries on the way from 7-dayshop)
Computrakker AW

Other camera's
Canon EOS 500N
Fuji S3500

Wants
Fisheye Lens
Decent Telephoto Lens

Calina

Aargghh I feel all useless now.

Film kit:
Olympus OM10 with a Makinon 30-105mm and a Vivitar 80-200mm. Can't remember the apertures on them. With them there's a skylight filter on the Makinon and a polariser on the Vivitar. I have a 50mm fixed Zuiko which was the kit lens for the camera. Great lens. Handful of Cokina filters as well.

Olympus AM100 point and shoot which, despite no zoom is a great, great camera.

Digital kit:

Sony DSCP200 (silver)

Canon 350D
18-55mm kit lens
Sigma 70-300mm APO DG
Sigma 50-500 APO

Circular polariser for the kit and medium zoom. The diametre on the 500mm zoom is 84mm I think and it's a dark lens. I'll know come the summer if I'll really, really need a polariser on it.

Flash gun which fits both the SLRs much to my astonishment.

three batteries for the Canon 350D. 3 CF cards plus one which got lost at some stage, without photos on it, thank God.

What do I want:

10-20mm wide angle like Paudie has.
Water proof casing for both the medium zoom and the wide angle which probably means two waterproof casings
fisheye would be nice
probably a 400mm zoom with a bigger aperture. The winter is killing me with the 500mm zoom, can do almost nada with it.
another spare battery and two or three more CF cards, 1 or 2 gig max.
A 30D body, or, if a 40D comes into existence with a sensor cleanor I'll consider it.
a decent tripod.
a bigger camera bag that will take the 500mm zoom. I already have two customers for my current bag should I want to dispose of it.
Might consider a converter but am concerned about loss of sharpness with the 500mm zoom which is already not quite as sharp as the smaller zoom.

Incidentally I specialise in watersports, not celeb-baiting, in case you're wondering about all that zooming.

RichyX

There seems to be some serious gear listed here.
Just how many people on this board are pro's?

Borderfox

Lots lof nice gear floating around...

350d with battery grip
20d

70-200 f2.8
18-50 f2.8
85mm f1.8
50mm f1.8
1.4x TC
430ex

Extra batteries, filters bits and bobs
2 printers, 2 laptops

Fajitas!

RichyX wrote:

There seems to be some serious gear listed here.
Just how many people on this board are pro's?

In transit between Art Student and Pro...

Borderfox

in between at the mo, the company I work for will probably close down.

Borderfox

Calina wrote:

probably a 400mm zoom with a bigger aperture. The winter is killing me with the 500mm zoom, can do almost nada with it.
.

Would you trade the 50-500 in for a 70-200 f2.8 and get a 2x and a 1.4x?

deRanged

There seems to be more Canon than Nikon around. I'm only a beginner but I'll jump in anyway.

Film: Eos 300v with 28-90 & 75-300

Digital: Eos 400D with 18-55 kit lens.
Nikon Coolpix 7600.

Manfrotto tripod.
Assorted memory cards and batteries.

Wishlist: remote control (damn my shaky hands), wide angle lens.

GristlyEnd

BEFORE I ventured into town this morning my kit comprised of the following;

Nikon D50
Nikkor 50mm f1.8
Sigma 70-200mm HSM EX f2.8
Sigma 105mm EX f2.8 Marco
Tokina 12-24mm AT-X Pro f4
Manfrotto 055PROB and 222 head
Lowepro Nature Trekker AW & Slingshot 200 AW
Various filters including Cokin P holder and ND8 grad

After I came home from town I'm now the proud owner of:

Nikon D200 & MB-D200 (along with everything above)

Calina

Borderfox wrote:

Would you trade the 50-500 in for a 70-200 f2.8 and get a 2x and a 1.4x?

I'd have to look at what it gave me. Thing is I have a couple of super super shots out of that 500mm zoom...so I'm reluctant to let it go. I just want sun, basically. Light. It'd be great.

I don't know if I am right or wrong but i always got the impression that converters tend to cost you in terms of sharpness...am I right or wrong? I know someone told me I could put a converter on the 500mm to bring it up to 1000 (okay more because of the crop factor on the 350D)...and I'm not sure it'd be worth that extra reach. I would have considered putting a convertor on a 400mm.

Doesn't matter for a while yet as a new laptop is slightly further up the shopping list than any of the kit above...

thanks for the idea though, I'll squirrel at way for further contemplation.

Fajitas!

DarrenG wrote:

After I came home from town I'm now the proud owner of:

Nikon D200 & MB-D200 (along with everything above)

Congrats!!!

311

I'm on my first slr at the moment and this coming may I'll have it 2 years.
I was thinking of upgrading sometime ,but what is it like getting a camera higher up the ranks ?
Is it a different world or just a little handier?

punchdrunk

i'm not a pro exactly i'm the manager of a camera shop,and i do the odd bit of work in my spare time,altough not much recently
it's terrible all the nice kit i sell to others on a daily basis! :mad:

Fajitas!

At least you can always 'test new stock out'...

punchdrunk

true! the odd lense has "had a holiday" for a day or two!
for quality control reasons of course...

Fajitas!

I hear there's some problems with a lot of L lenses lately. I have a Canon 5D, and I'd hate to see other Canon photographers being put out.

I'll tell you what, I'll go out of my way to test each lens that comes into your store for 2 days, for FREE. How's that for a deal...?

punchdrunk

no probs mate! although three of the lads bought 30D's in the last couple of weeks,so there's already a bit of a queue!

Fajitas!

Ah, but that's why I mentioned the 5D - Test out ALL of the lens...and all that

311

punchdrunk wrote:

no probs mate! although three of the lads bought 30D's in the last couple of weeks,so there's already a bit of a queue!

Is that because of a permanent price drop ??
I got quoted over the phone this week ,999 for a new 30D from a shop in Dublin. That was a price for stock that is due in and not present stock.

punchdrunk

Fajitas! wrote:

Ah, but that's why I mentioned the 5D - Test out ALL of the lens...and all that

you fancy full frame types! i'm not jealous...

brian,we got a good deal on the last few 30D's pemberton had before they stopped doing canon,prices should now be the same across the board for the whole of the EU,as we've still got some in stock i haven't checked the latest cost price on them,not many folk buying DSLR's this side of crimbo!

paudie

Wetsuits,
Flippers,
Flipper socks,
SPL waterhousing with 10-22 port (which also appears to fit my Sigma at small zoom )

Not a bad piece of kit, save me from the cold. Oh and Calina, you get a standard housing for your body, then you can get different ports for the different zooms you want to use. i.e. different front covers, but these will usually cost a few hundred each

I had a feeling I was almost pro for a while, but since NME Ireland is finished up I'm making more money giving maths grinds than I am at photography







oh yeah
20D
70-200 F4L
10-22mm F3.5-4.?
18-50 Sigma F2.8

I have a canon 1.4x as well, but like Calina said the drop in sharpness is shockin' even using it with an L, or maybe it's because I use it with an L that makes it more apparent, not really sure. All I know is that I need a 600mm L :P

ladgie353

EOS 10d
EOS 30

Canon EF 20-35 3.5-4.5
Canon EF 28-105 3.5-4.5
Canon EF 100-300 4.5-5.6
Sigma 70-300 4-5.6 APO
Canon EF 50 1.8
Industar 61L

leinsterman

Fajitas! wrote:

A Hasselblad 500 Cw with 50mm wide angle lens.

Hmnnnn ... I seem to remember you saying that beastie belongs to the college ... in which case ...

I also have -

Hasselblad 500 Cw with 50mm wide angle lens

...and ...

Bodies:
Canon EOS 20D & 500 (old film Rebel)

P&S Cameras:
Canon Powershot S400, SonyEricsson K800i Cybershot (I get these freebies since my employer owns half of the company that makes 'em )

Lenses:
Canon - 50mm F1.8, 75-300 F4-5.6 USM, 100-400 F4.5-5.6L
Sigma - 28-70 F2.8-4, 18-125 F3.5-5.6, 24-70 F2.8 EX, 12-24 F4.5-5.6 EX
Tamron - 80-210 F4.5-5.6

Convertors:
Teleconvertor - Canon 1.6x
Externsion Tubes - Kenko (for which I was hoping Elven would give me a crash course in using some day)
BG-E2 Grip

Batteries:
2*511, 3*NB1LH

Filters:
Sigma 82mm UV, Hoya 82mm, 77mm & 62mm circular Polarisers, Hoya 62mm ND2, Hoya 77mm warming, Hoya 77mm UV, Hoya 52mm UV, Sakar 55mm UV, Tiffen 62mm UV, Kenko 52mm 1A Skylight, B&W f-pro 58mm skylight, Cokin 52mm Circular polariser, Cokin P series kit including - ND2&8 Grad (P121L&F), Grad Blue P123, Star 4 P057, Star 16 P055, P197 sunset

Lighting:
Flash - Canon Speedlight 420EX
Portaflash studio lighting system (big white/golod/silver/black fold away discs)
Polaris Light meter

Memory Cards:
2*2GB Kingston Elite Pro (of which Fajitas is currently in possesion of 1), 1*2GB Sandisk Extreme III, 1*2GB Danelectric, 2*256MB Sandisk, 2*1GB Sony M2 Memorystick micro, iRiver H340 40GB

Printers & Neg Scanners:
Canon Pixma i8500
Canon Canoscan 9950F

Software:
Adobe Photoshop CS2, Lightbox
Picasa
Arcsoft photostudio
Canon photorecord, DPP, EOS Viewer & lots of other stuff
Scansoft omni page
Sandisk CF recovery utility
Macromedia Dreamweaver & Flash

Computers -
1 Home build media server with 3.0 P4, ASUS P4P800, GeForce 6600GT, Creative Audigy II platinum, Zalman flower, Win TV PVR350, Antec Sonata case, 2GB Corsair 2*matched pairs DIMMs (RAM), 1TB disk space ...
2 HP Lap tops

Online accounts & forums -
Boards.ie, BT FTP site, Flickr, Fred Miranda

Home Developing kit and chemicals ...

A very very good security system ... so don't go getting any ideas ...

I plan to have soon -

Canon EOS 5d
Canon 16-35 F2.8L
Canon 85mm F1.8
Canon BG-E4 Battery grip

...& later in the year 70-200 F2.8L IS, 2X Teleconvertor

... oh and looking at the list above ... more money than sense


... and yes before you ask I am a serial early adopter geek type ...

leinsterman

Oh and ... nearly forgot ... cable releases for the 20d and 500

Support:
Manfrotto monopod
Manfrotto 190 PROB Tripod
Manfrotto 3 axis head can't remember number
Velbon Slix Tripod
Hama baby clamp tripod thingy (utterly useless when using anything weighing more than 2g)
Beanbag
Tricks walking stick monopod

leinsterman

Jaysus H C!!!


... I must be insane ...

leinsterman

oh and bags:

Lowepro ComputerTrekker
Lowepro Rover II AW
Lowepro TLZ AW

DrummerBoy

Well I've only just bought my first DSLR. Picked up a 30D a very short time ago. I haven't even bought a lense for it yet! Thankfully a friend of mine has lent me one so I can at least use the thing.
Not sure which lense to actually go for but time and using the camera will help me make that choice.

A

leinsterman

DrummerBoy wrote:

Well I've only just bought my first DSLR. Picked up a 30D a very short time ago. I haven't even bought a lense for it yet! Thankfully a friend of mine has lent me one so I can at least use the thing.
Not sure which lense to actually go for but time and using the camera will help me make that choice.

A

well for less than €100 the 50mm F1.8 is very nice ...

I can also recommend the Sigma 18-125mm if you are on a tight budget ...

311

leinsterman wrote:

Computers -
1 Home build media server with 3.0 P4, ASUS P4P800, GeForce 6600GT, Creative Audigy II platinum, Zalman flower, Win TV PVR350, Antec Sonata case, 2GB Corsair 2*matched pairs DIMMs (RAM), 1TB disk space ...
2 HP Lap tops

Leisnterman ,have you heard anything about those external media drives ??
The ones that act as external hard drive ,but come with a remote control so you can view the stuff directly on the tv .