Just curious- a few questions about people in this forum

dinneenp

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
3.what's your fav lens?
4. Where do you live?
Cheers,
pa

Squidgy Black

1. Nikon d3000
2. Purely as a hobby
3. Err i still only have the 18-55 kit lense, but i should be getting a 70-300 soon :pac:
4. Dublin

CabanSail

1. List is a bit too long. Mainly Nikon Bodies and lenses, with Sigma & SamYang thrown in.

2. Amateur with the occasional paid shoot.

3. The lens that suits the subject best. I like them all.

4. Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
A. Useful stuff, would be Canon 20D (18-55 kit lens and 50mm 1.8), Olympus E420 (14-42 kit lens and 40-150 3.5-4.5), Metz 48 AF1, Slik Pro 400DX tripod and then lots of novelty stuff like flash ring addons, macro filters, etc. that i don't appreciate enough to use often.


2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
A. Hobby, though would love to have the knowldege and gear to be a pro (not necessarily be a pro, but have the ability to create pro-looking shots)


3.what's your fav lens?
A. Quite fond of the 50mm 1.8 as i enjoy playing with it and its the most useful for poor light (a situation i tend to find myself in a lot) though the 40-150 is a close runner up due to it's ability to get me 'closer' to things and to spy on the people across the road :pac:


4. Where do you live?
A. Drogheda, Louth

.Longshanks.

1. Canon 40d, few flashes and 4 lenses. 30mm, 50mm and 85mm primes. I also have a 10-20mm
2. Hobby
3. Very close toss up between the 30mm ƒ1.4 and 85mm ƒ1.8
4. Ireland

Heebie

This is a bit of a strange set of questions.
Someone asking if exactly what equipment I own, and where I keep it?

Can you feel like revising the list to be a bit less.. dangerous? =O

dinneenp wrote: »

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
3.what's your fav lens?
4. Where do you live?
Cheers,
pa

magicbastarder

Heebie wrote: »

Someone asking if exactly what equipment I own, and where I keep it?

maybe he's asking in a roundabout way what gender you are.
so the latter answer would probably be 'in my pants'.

PCPhoto

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
lots ... 6 Canon DSLR bodies, 1 hasselblad body, couple of compacts (g10, g11 - see adverts) ...range of lenses from 16mm-600mm

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Its my only job - so that makes me a pro ...but I dont consider myself to be a pro...to me a pro knows everything about his equipment - most of my work is mainly about being in the right place at the right time...and pressing the button.

I work 7 days a week at the moment - I took last sat off ...my first day off in October - my next day off will be close to christmas ...maybe 2-3 days (if I'm lucky I'll be working every day till then)

3.what's your fav lens?
Don't have a favourite - but I use my 70-200mm mainly.... I've gotten important shots with the 600mm.... im looking forward to some of Canon's new range of lenses 8-15mm fisheye etc.

4. Where do you live?
mainly in my car driving to and from jobs ... then at the Four Courts - but also in a rented house (Dublin) ...in my girlfriends place (Meath) and my parents home in Cork.

Heebie

Sorry, but I'm a little paranoid, especially with the economy tanking.
It's the type of thing that a burglar would ask a potential mark in a pub.
You can call me paranoid if you wish... I just think better safe than sorry.
I have no trouble with general answers (which are what people have given so far.)

magicbastarder wrote: »

maybe he's asking in a roundabout way what gender you are.
so the latter answer would probably be 'in my pants'.

Paulw

1: Lots. All Canon gear. Canon 1D MkIII as main body.
2: I do some paid work, but it's not my occupation.
3: Favourite lens, Canon 16-35mm. Love it, but don't get to use it enough.
4: Dublin (north side)

Heebie

1. What camera & equipment do you have?

I shoot on Pentax dSLR's, but also have a 35mm Canon that's ancient, and a TLR, and a point & shoot 35mm, and a point & shoot digital, and a brownie hawkeye.
I have an array of lenses, including primes, zooms, fisheye, and some specialty lenses to do shift, tilt, macro, tripods, flashes etc..

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?

Hobbyist now, used to work professionally.

3.what's your fav lens?

70-200mm f2.8 Tamron zoom lens.

4. Where do you live?

Somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.

magicbastarder

anyway - 35mm OM kit, nikon DSLR, hasselblad and rolleiflex
hobbyist
90mm F2 macro OM zuiko

FoxT

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
I have a decent SLR with A 1.6x crop & 10-20, 17-70, 70-200, 70-300, and 50mm f/1.4 lenses. I also have a small waterproof P&S, flash, tripod , filters etc. I wont say if it is canon, nikon, sony etc - because that has no bearing on picture quality, whatsoever.


2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
'just' Hobby.

3.what's your fav lens?
depends on what I am shooting. For sports I use the 70-200 f/2.8. For almost everything else I use the 17-70. The 50 f/1.4is fantastic & delivers brilliant (for me at least) results in low-light situations. The 10-20 is grand, I am still figuring out how the get the most out of it.


4. Where do you live?
In a house. in PROC.But what does that have to do with anything?


- FoxT

Ghost Train

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
Few different cameras, pentax slr and dslr, plenty of digital and film compacts

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
hobby

3.what's your fav lens?
I guess I like using standard primes, 28mm,42mm,50mm

4. Where do you live?
south dublin

pixbyjohn

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
Nikon D700, 2 x D80, D70S, 2x Canon 350D
3 Flashguns, Tripods, Filters.
Nikon Lens 70-200 VRf2.8, 24-70f2.8, 17-55f2.8, 18-135, 50f1.8 & 105 VRf2.8 and a Sigma 10-20
Canon Lens 18-200 and 50f1.8
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Hobby
3.what's your fav lens? 24-70 f2.8

dinneenp

LOL if anyone thought questions were a bit dodgy. Instead of posting multiple threads I just lumped them all in together.
Gear & lenses-obvious questions, I think.
Where people live- just curious as wondering where most photos on the pic threads are from, I'm in GalwT, small population but wondering if many boards photographers are in Galway.

I suppose 1 more question would be if you're a pro photographer does it take away from your enjoyment of photography? As in you're taking pics for work, not pleasure and does it put you off from taking pics outside of work?

Heebie

When I was actually working in photography, most of my time was taken up with:

High-resolution scanning
digital photo restoration
large format printing
imaging digital source materials to film

I was a member of CIPNE (Commercial and Industrial Photographers of New England) back then.

dinneenp wrote: »

I suppose 1 more question would be if you're a pro photographer does it take away from your enjoyment of photography? As in you're taking pics for work, not pleasure and does it put you off from taking pics outside of work?

Thecageyone

D200, hobbyist, I'd normally say my 50mm prime, but atm Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 [hasn't been off the cam since I bought it]. Hoping to get a VR zoom to compliment it very soon, all I need really.

zerohamster

1. Canon 500D, Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 VC, Sigma 50mm f/1.4, Canon 80-200mm f/4.5-5.6,Nissin Di866 flash (canon), Olympus OM-10+50mm, Ricoh KR-10+50mm and a canon 1000N that was my dad's but Ive only gotten to use the Ricoh out of the film cameras.
A few working/semi working Nikon/Canon bodies and lenses to help diagnose/test Nikon and Canon bodies and lenses ,non-official battery grip for the 500D,Tripod,various filters I rarely use apart from UV filters on all main lenses.
2.Hobby but I need to get out and take more shots soon.
3. Sigma 50mm f/1.4 a lovely lens and great for low light and stunning DOF, the tamron is great though too so I usually go through stages of having one on the camera for a period of time before switching.
4. Co. Wicklow

Tallon

dinneenp wrote: »

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
3.what's your fav lens?
4. Where do you live?
Cheers,
pa

1. See below
2. Hobby (Obviously)
3. My 300mm
4. Celbridge

Promac

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
Canon 450D, Nifty fifty, Canon 18-135, Speedlite 430EX II.

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Hobby now. Used to be pro a million years ago.

3.what's your fav lens?
Generally the 50mm 1.8 but I just swapped the 18-55 for the 18-135 and that's been doing it for me.

4. Where do you live?
Dublin for now - moving to New Zealand soon.

chevron

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
Fujica stx n1 (80's manual Film camera)

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Part time hobby

3.what's your fav lens?
Only lens i have is the stock 50mm

4. Where do you live?
Dublin.

duffarama

dinneenp wrote: »

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
3.what's your fav lens?
4. Where do you live?
Cheers,
pa

1. Too much equipment! Olympus OM4Ti, 35 SP, 35 DC, Stylus Epic. OM lenses 50mm f1.8, 35mm f2.8, 35mm f2. Also a Contax G2 + 45mm F2 and an Olympus E620 Dslr with 25mm pancake and 12-60mm.

2. Just a hobby

3. Probably the OM 35mm f2.0, loved that lens since I got it for free with the OM4Ti. If I had to keep only one camera and lens that would be the combo.

Ballyman

Thecageyone wrote: »

Hoping to get a VR zoom to compliment it very soon, all I need really.

Thats what you think!!

There will always be something else you will want/need/not need but buy anyway!

Nforce

1) What camera & equipment do you have?

Nikon D300,D80 and an old coolpix 5700. Lens: Nikon 50mm f1.8,17-70mm,70-300vr,80-200 f2.8,Sigma 28-70mm f2.8,Tokina 80-400mm, Kiron 105mm f2.8 macro. Accessories include SB600 flash,filters,remote wireless shutter release etc.

2) Are you pro photographer or just hobby?

Hobbyist only.

3) what's your fav lens?

Depends on the subject.They've all got their uses. Only one that hasn't been used is the Tokina which was bought during a fit of GAS...planning on selling it to fund another lens purchase.

4) Where do you live?

Midlands

Captain Flaps

Tallon wrote: »

Pic

Ah, the good old Unicare 200. Bane of my existence trying to shift them, we had over 3k expired rolls in the shed at one stage, we were literally dumping 5 free rolls in with every customer order in the months before it expired.

gandalf

1. Canon 350D & 40D bodies, 30mm f1.4, 50mm f1.8, 10-20mm & 70-300mm lenses & Speedlite 430 flash.
2. Its a hobby, my creative outlet. Although recently have not had much of a chance to practice it as I have a 4 month old son.
3. Its the Sigma 30mm f1.4 lens with the Sigma 10-20mm a close 2nd.
4. Dublin.

AnimalRights

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
Canon 5D II - 50 1.4 / 85 1.8 / 100 2.8 Macro / 135L 2.0 / 24-70L 2.8 / 70-200IS f2.8 and f.4
100-400L IS / 430EX II flashgun and various other bits n bobs

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Hobby with the odd paid nixer.

3.what's your fav lens?
Toss up between the 50 1.4 and the 135L 2.0

4. Where do you live?
Dublin.

5. Have you got breasts?
No. (man breasts?)

Ricky91t

1. Canon 1D MKII, Canon 50mm f/1.8, Sigma 20-40 f/2.8, Sigma 70-200 f/2.8, Sigma 100-300 f/4, Sigma 1.4ex TC, Canon 430EX Flashgun
2. I'm kind of in between, It's definetly not my career and never will be, But I'm in the process of paying off my equipment with photo jobs, So not too bad.
3. Probably the 70-200 f/2.8, A nice sturdy sharp lens, I got it used and since then it's never done anything wrong.
4. Kerry, Most weekends, Cork every week and some weekends.

humberklog

Loads of different cameras. Preference for point and shoots such as Olympus Trip, Coors beer can camera, minox.

Pro in that it's my job selling my photos. I don't do gigs, courts, weddings etc. Just sell what I like doing for pleasure.

dinneenp wrote: »

I suppose 1 more question would be if you're a pro photographer does it take away from your enjoyment of photography? As in you're taking pics for work, not pleasure and does it put you off from taking pics outside of work?

50mm (speed or brand doesn't bother me.


Dublin

squareballoon

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
5D mark1
70-200mmL 2.8 non IS
24-70mmL 2.8
50mm 1.4
100mmL 2.8 Macro
580ex11 flash
monopod

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Pro photographer. Well, it's all I do for money apart from some illustration work but I'm not and couldn't be the primary earner in the family on what I make from photography

3.what's your fav lens?
24-70 for indoors and 70-200 outdoors

4. Where do you live?
Dublin

serjical_strike

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
canon 50D with 17-55 kit lens and 50mm f1.8 lens
pentax k-1000 film camera with 50mm f2.0 lens
flashes, filters and other usual things!!

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
hobby as of now, in college studying photography so after that hoping to become a pro!!

3.what's your fav lens?
50mm f1.8 for my 50D, love it, rarely use anythin else!!

4. Where do you live?
cork city

5uspect

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
350D, 7D and Holga 120.
Sigma 10-20
EF 50 f/1.8
EF 24-70 f/2.8 L
EF 70-200 f/2.8 L
580EX II
Filters, extension tubes, cheap tripod and other bits and bobs.

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Just a hobby.

3.what's your fav lens?
The two Ls!

4. Where do you live?
London, just moved over.

Freddie59

Camera: Canon Eos 40D/Speedlite 430 EX/Canon 17-55 f/2.8 Lens/Tokina WA 12-24 lens/Manfrotto Tripod

Type: Purely hobbyist

Fav Lens: Canon 17-55 f/2.8 IS lens

From: Waterford.

kensutz

1. What camera & equipment do you have?

Lots of cameras and lenses and flashes etc

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?

Pro
3.what's your fav lens?

500mm

4. Where do you live?

Waterford

Sleepy

1. Digital:

• Canon 450D w/18-55 IS, 50 f1.8, Tamron 17-50 f2.8 and Canon 55-250 IS
• Sony Cybershot DSC-T7

Film:

• Olympus OM-2n w/ Zuiko 50 1.8, Vivitar 28 f2.8, Zuiko 135 f3.5 and T32 flash
• Canon 300v w/ 28-80 f3.5-5.6 Mark I
• Fed 3 w/ Industar 50 2.8
• Minolta X300 w/ Rokkor 50 1.7 and Clubman 80-200 f4.5
• Brownie no 2 model f

There's some old Advantix 35mm compacts and an underwater disposable here somewhere too as well as loads of release cables, remotes, extension tubes etc. for the Canon.

2. Total Amateur which makes the length of the list above look ridiculous!

3. The Zuiko 50 1.8

4. Dublin

sNarah

Gear:
* Sony A200 with standard kit lens
* Praktica MTL5
* Several Polaroids
* Mercury Univex
* Several other film bits and pieces

Lens:
Favourite lens is the 50mm on my Praktica

Hobbyist

Co Dublin/Meath border

ThOnda

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?
Canon 5D, 50/1.8, 24-70/2.8, 70-200/2.8, 500/8, flash, tripod. Hasselblad EL/M and Zeiss Planar 80/2.8. Fed 2, Flexaret, Lomo LK-A, Pentax Espio Mini, Pentax MZ-6 + 28-70/4.
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Hobby. Bloody expensive hobby.
3.what's your fav lens?
24-70/2.8L
4. Where do you live?
Dublin outskirts

Deliverance XXV

Camera Equipment:
- Canon 450D, Canon EOS300.
- Canon 50mm, 100mm, 18-55mm.
- Sigma 10-20mm, 55-200mm, 70-300mm.

I'm an amateur and I plan on staying that way.

My favourite lens is my Sigma 10-20mm.

Kilkenny.

pbt20

1. Canon EOS 1000d +EF-S18-55mm, +EF-S70-300, +50mm f1.8.
Canon AE1 35mm +50mm F1.8.
2. Hobby.
3. 50mm f1.8.
4. Galway.

Kbeg3

Nikon D300, Nikon 18-200, Nikon 16-35 f/4, Nikon 50 f/1.8, Sigma 10-20, Sigma 150-500

Just a hobby

Favourite lens is the Nikon 16-35 f/4 VR

Kilkenny

cnocbui

1) Olympus bodies - OM4-Ti, OM-4, XA2
Zuiko lenses: 21mm f2, 28mm f2, 35-80mm f2.8, 50mm f1.2, 80mm f4 auto macro, 90mm f2 macro, 180mm f2, 300mm f4.5, 1.4 x teleconverter, 50mm f1.4 loupe. Lens hoods for all except 80/4

flashes: T32 and T8 , T-power control, 2m flash extension cable

Macro accessories: 7, 14 and 25mm auto extension rings and a 65-116 telescopic auto extension tube and Zuiko 170mm close up lens for 80/4 macro



Kiron 28-200 f3.8/5.6 OM

Nikon: F600, Nikkor 35-70/3.8-4.5, Tamron 28-200/3.8-5.6

Canon: Canonflex, 55/1.2 135/2.8

Benbo 2 tripod

2) Amateur

3) 180mm f2

4) Midwest

hoganpoly

1. What camera & equipment do you have?
Canon 1d mk11,40d,17-35 2.8L, 70-200 2.8L,300 2.8L, Speedlight, monopod plus other bits and pieces
2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Hobby at first but getting a few paid jobs of late ,always learning and really enjoy the challenge of getting the "shot" when needed!!
3.what's your fav lens?
70-200/2.8L
4. Where do you live?
Lovely Laois but Londoner at heart!!

Borderfox

1. What camera & equiptment do you have? Lots





2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby? Pro
3.what's your fav lens? 85mm f1.2L
4. Where do you live? Meath

sineadw

5D, 350D, few rangefinders, few TLRs, few SLRs, various odds and ends and flashes and cameras and things. Most of what I'm shooting on these days is not mine Borrowed Hassie, large format camera in college (mmmmmm...).

Student. Want to teach.

50 1.4 (actually, borrowed 50 1.2. It's really really gorgeous). Or anything on medium format.

Dublin.

Mike Litoris

1. What camera & equiptmwnt do you have?

Fuji S5, Nikon D50, 18-70mm, 50mm, 30mm, 105mm x 2, 10-20mm, SB 600 and some filters

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?

Hobby

3.what's your fav lens?

Nikkor 105mm f2.5ais or Sigma 30mm F 1.4.

4. Where do you live?

Ballyfermot.

Kintarō Hattori

1 - Pentax K7, K100D Super, ME Super x 2, Nikon EM, Fed 5 and a Yashica 12

2 - Hobby

3 - Fave lens is the Pentax SMC P-FA 50mm

4 - I'm on the northside but soon to be very very northside!

honerbright

What camera & equiptment do you have?
Sony a200 + Minolta 50mm 1.7 Fixed Lens, Sony 18-70mm 3.5-5.6 Kit Lens, Minolta 70-210mm 4.5-5.6 Zoom Lens, .45x Wide Angle w/Macro lens attachment.

Canon EOS 5000 + 18-55mm kit lens.

Are you pro photographer or just hobby?
Hobby! Although I am going through a horrific slump right now .

What's your fav lens?
All of them, although love the 50mm for indoors (darn rain!!).

Where do you live?
Galway!

Sleepy

cnocbui wrote: »

1)Zuiko lenses: .... 35-80mm f2.8

Interesting... how does that compare to the OM primes in terms of image quality?

Sorry for the O/T

Heebie

What do you think of the K-7? I've got a K20D and a K10D, so the K-7 or the K-5 would be kind of a logical step-up for me at some point.

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

1 - Pentax K7, K100D Super, ME Super x 2, Nikon EM, Fed 5 and a Yashica 12

2 - Hobby

3 - Fave lens is the Pentax SMC P-FA 50mm

4 - I'm on the northside but soon to be very very northside!

DougL

I suppose I might as well add my two cents to this thread.

1. What camera & equipment do you have?

Canon 5Dmk2, 24-70L f/2.8, Sigma 70-200 f/2.8

2. Are you pro photographer or just hobby?

Hobby

3.what's your fav lens?

EF-S 17-55 f/2.8

(sweetest lens I've owned, but I had to sell it when I went full-frame)

4. Where do you live?

Enfield, Meath