What Photography Related Item Have You Bought or Sold This Week?

[BasilFawlty]

I sold an R8 a couple of weeks ago. Then bought an R7. Liking the R7 much more than the R8. Selling a Canon 90D on ebay right now.

I’m still waiting for the R7 Mark II. If ever

 

[Grumps]

Nothing wrong with EF. I have a mix of RF and EF. My EF 135 f2 is one I’ll never part with.

I parted with my EF 135 f2 (damn good lens with a l-o-n-g production history). Me? I won't part with my EF 85 f/1.2 II.

Isn't rather funny how people have their favourites that they'll not part with?

 

[BasilFawlty]

I parted with my EF 135 f2 (damn good lens with a l-o-n-g production history). Me? I won't part with my EF 85 f/1.2 II.

Isn't rather funny how people have their favourites that they'll not part with?

I suspect if I had and EF 85 1.2 I’d be hanging on to that too!

 

[Grumps]

New toy

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I can see why estate agents like such a lens.

I've just got to see whether I can make 'proper' use of it.

Nearly a couple of months in...

I'm still not fully acclimatised to it. But I will say it is one heck of a piece of glass. (Providing you can get past the worry that a protective filter cannot be put across the front element).

 

[Photofarmer]

Bought but not seen or used just paid for. My local family owned camera store ive bought ALL my gear from, rang and said they have a barely used EL-1 Speedlite flash. Version 1
Rang me as soon as it came in.

 

[THXGEEK]

I picked up Canon's RF45mm f/1.2.

I've really been liking the 40-45mm range lately (FOV similar to the human eye?) and it makes for a nice 'walkabout' lens on the R5II. Toss it in the bag (Gently!) and go!

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[Grumps]

I picked up Canon's RF45mm f/1.2.

I've really been liking the 40-45mm range lately (FOV similar to the human eye?) and it makes for a nice 'walkabout' lens on the R5II. Toss it in the bag (Gently!) and go!

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35mm lenses were a mainstay of press photographers. (are they still?). From memory they worked with hyperfocal distances. (which depends on the circle of confusion and the dimensions of the image produced).

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Last weekend, my daughter asked me to take some pix at her husband's 40th birthday do. It was in the private bar at a trendy brew pub, so I reckoned it would probably be a bit gloomy, and flash would be required. As it happens, I have an old (≈20 years) Canon 430EX, which - with fresh batteries - seems to work on the R5ii, but would it be reliable? I decided to spend a few dollars and picked up one of these: https://www.photo.co.nz/online-stor...odox-it30pro-c-ttl-mini-flash-for-canon-black

Not very many dollars. Andy at Photo&Video charged it for me as I drove into town, I collected it, stuck it on the camera, and managed to get enough people smiling to keep family happy. My settings were complete guesswork. It might have helped if I'd noticed the "wide" diffuser setting on the side. One drawback: because it's so tight to to the top of the camera, I was getting a shadow from the 24-105 I was using. I see Godox sell "risers" for mounting, so I might pick up one of those, or maybe I should just use a lens that doesn't stick out as much..

The Godox is tiny - a real throw in the bag just in case sort of item - and IMHO great value, especially as I use flash almost never!

One neat thing: I used LRC's adaptive profile in processing, and it seemed to get rid of red eye without being asked...

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[THXGEEK]

Flashes are a puzzle to me. I have one for every camera but have yet to sit down and figure out how to use them (well).

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Flashes are a puzzle to me. I have one for every camera but have yet to sit down and figure out how to use them (well).

I go back far enough to have learned flash photography with a Nikkormat and a Mecablitz flash head on a bracket, power supplied by a lead acid battery hung over your shoulder. Used to have do news/event type coverage from time to time, and really didn't enjoy it much. I much prefer available light photography, but sometimes you have little choice. At least modern tech makes it trivially simple to get usable images.

 

[Only RF]

Last weekend, my daughter asked me to take some pix at her husband's 40th birthday do. It was in the private bar at a trendy brew pub, so I reckoned it would probably be a bit gloomy, and flash would be required. As it happens, I have an old (≈20 years) Canon 430EX, which - with fresh batteries - seems to work on the R5ii, but would it be reliable? I decided to spend a few dollars and picked up one of these: https://www.photo.co.nz/online-stor...odox-it30pro-c-ttl-mini-flash-for-canon-black

Not very many dollars. Andy at Photo&Video charged it for me as I drove into town, I collected it, stuck it on the camera, and managed to get enough people smiling to keep family happy. My settings were complete guesswork. It might have helped if I'd noticed the "wide" diffuser setting on the side. One drawback: because it's so tight to to the top of the camera, I was getting a shadow from the 24-105 I was using. I see Godox sell "risers" for mounting, so I might pick up one of those, or maybe I should just use a lens that doesn't stick out as much..

The Godox is tiny - a real throw in the bag just in case sort of item - and IMHO great value, especially as I use flash almost never!

One neat thing: I used LRC's adaptive profile in processing, and it seemed to get rid of red eye without being asked...

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Thanks for inspiring me. Today I put a Canon 600EX-RT on my R6III. It worked. I bet I have put batteries into that flash for about 7-8 years.

 

[Archibald]

A week ago I bought some front-surface mirrors. They will come in handy for shooting underneath things - for instance, getting a worm's eye view of a spring flower. The reflective surface is on the front, and that prevents a ghost image when using a regular glass mirror. My front-surface mirrors are acrylic and are not very good optically when shooting at a distance, but when the lens is close to the surface, it seems to be OK.

Here is a pic of the mirror. It is 8" in diameter.

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And here is an example shot. There aren't any spring flowers around, so I shot this mushroom. The mirror was on the ground tipped towards the subject, so it was more of a side shot.

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