Compensation for his manhood?

majiktripp

So there I was, The west coast of Ireland taking a battering , I thought "Brilliant!,get some action weather shots!" so after doning my waterproof's and boots, and alerting the other half to our (my) new plans for our saturday afternoon....we departed.
All was going well, thought I had some lovely shots in the bag and were heading home all upbeat even through the saturation and downpours.
That was until we stopped a a local beach on the way back just to check out the waves...
We pulled in beside a nice shiney 07 Volkwagon Passat with a rugged looking chap sitting in it.
I thouugh nothing of it and proceeded to step out and take out the 'ol trusty D40x and snap away with my 18-135 lens.
However my face and that of the lady with her point & shoot Casio Exilim beside me soon sank as Mr. Passat proceeded to goto the trunk of his car and produce what I can only desribe as a canon.
Now I don't mean Canon the brand I mean more like an anti-aircraft cannon....even though it was a Nikon.
Inadequate is probably the best adjective to describe how I felt. The camera looked like a Nikon D70 (or possible D50) with a monster (an I mean MONSTER) lens attached which put myself and this innocent lady beside me to shame.
Just thought I'd share my particular experience with you all, now I know it's no fault of Mr. Passat, but I couldn't help but want to gouge his eye's out for having better equipment... and a nicer car than me...Im sure that lady felt the same too...
Maybe it was the weather.

Kali

Oh dear, happens all the time.. I'm nearly embarassed bringing my Tamron 70-300 to races now as theres always amateurs walking around with 300mm f2.8's, still at least I'm not doing my back in lugging my kit around
Then again I've a few months to save up before the racing season kicks off again....

Fajitas!

It's okay.

Someday, someone's going to want to gouge your eyes out too...


Someday

Thirdfox

an off camera flash always makes your camera look bigger

btw - it's a cannon not Canon

Bigma ftw!

Sebzy

majiktripp we organized a line up can you please point out the offender.

quilmore

those are the nikon's manual focus lenses
these are the AF's ones (but not the few very latest ones)

bradnailer

Funny story, his shots may not have been as good as yours, It's not the size of the equipment it's how you use it;)

majiktripp

Sebzy wrote: »

majiktripp we organized a line up can you please point out the offender.

If I had to choose I'd say it was the lense on the top Right, though it looked like the one on the top left in real life....:p

Paddy@CIRL

Holy Bejesus !

Surely if you attached the upper most left one and lifted the camera without supporting the lense it would eat the cameras face clean off ?

rabbitinlights

Whats the bottom right one?

bradnailer

rabbitinlights wrote: »

Whats the bottom right one?

Extreme Fisheye i think. looks like it could capture 180 deg.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/fisheyes/6mmf28.htm

Captures 220-240 degrees,don't know how you would hide yourself in a shot

templeathea

bradnailer wrote: »

Extreme Fisheye i think. looks like it could capture 180 deg.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/fisheyes/6mmf28.htm

Captures 220-240 degrees,don't know how you would hide yourself in a shot

Good for skyshots maybe? Remote release?

ThOnda

Just don't care about equipment. It is not the important thing.
Having 50mm lens on, I feel better because I know that I know :-)

Sebzy

ThOnda wrote: »

Just don't care about equipment. It is not the important thing.
Having 50mm lens on, I feel better because I know that I know :-)

Yea wish I could say the same thing but when walking into shoot a gig/event where there's big money one the line all I can think about is do I have the right gear and will it preform.

years ago when I used to cover protests/marches I was so happy with My
dynax4/kit lens and a few roles of Fujichrome Sensia.

randylonghorn

majiktripp wrote: »

Just thought I'd share my particular experience with you all, now I know it's no fault of Mr. Passat, but I couldn't help but want to gouge his eye's out for having better equipment... and a nicer car than me...

Ah, but did he have a bigger dick than you?

Freud would probably say he was compensating for something ...

ThOnda

Maybe he really needs it. Like this one: