Your cool photos.

Post by **norbs** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:00 pm

I went to the Press Photograhers exhibition today, as mentioned by Pix earlier on. Wow, talk about some good photos. The stand out for me was a guy in Africa somewhere who had a hiyena on a leash. Fark!

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:50 pm

LOL I was gonna shoot some chess players the other day, but got told to piss off when I pointed the camera at them.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:13 pm

Le puppy dogo. Well thats not true. She 8 years old. Still a pup at heart though.

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:58 pm

just found out that the capa drift team used my pics of their cars from august on their site

http://capadrift.com.au/downloads_august05_mallala.htm

Post by **norbs** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:07 pm

A few from today.

Post by **norbs** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:12 pm

DarrenM wrote:30D, nice! What lenses?

I've seen people on dpreview claiming 20k+ shots on their 300D's, so I don't think Macca has to worry

Sorry Darren, no idea how I missed that question.

Well Im not sure what lenses as yet. Depends on whats around at the time. I am still tossing up on getting a 5D instead. Full frame sounds good to me.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:54 am

5D

You really have been bitten by the bug bad. As good as the 5D is, its a lot of money. I have a friend that has one, but she is professional photographer. Actually come to think of it, she only kind of has one. Her husband bought it for her for her birthday, however the way she puts it, its like the time Homer bought Marg a bowling ball with homer printed on it.

Still a damn fine bit of kit. At this point I would probably still go the 30D.

Vilante · Post by **Vilante** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:02 am

More great pics Mr.Norbs!!

Post by **norbs** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:08 am

fourthof5 wrote:5D You really have been bitten by the bug bad. As good as the 5D is, its a lot of money. I have a friend that has one, but she is professional photographer. Actually come to think of it, she only kind of has one. Her husband bought it for her for her birthday, however the way she puts it, its like the time Homer bought Marg a bowling ball with homer printed on it.

Still a damn fine bit of kit. At this point I would probably still go the 30D.

Its not a given yet Nige. The 30D is stil lthe favourite choice, just after seeing full frame cameras working, it is tempting. The crop factor of the 300D and 30D is a bit of a bummer I must say. But hey, who knows. 6 months ago I knew nothing about this caper.

Jamo · Post by **Jamo** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:35 am

You lot are like Jap Tourists hehe

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:54 am

norbs wrote:
fourthof5 wrote:5D You really have been bitten by the bug bad. As good as the 5D is, its a lot of money. I have a friend that has one, but she is professional photographer. Actually come to think of it, she only kind of has one. Her husband bought it for her for her birthday, however the way she puts it, its like the time Homer bought Marg a bowling ball with homer printed on it.

Still a damn fine bit of kit. At this point I would probably still go the 30D.
Its not a given yet Nige. The 30D is stil lthe favourite choice, just after seeing full frame cameras working, it is tempting. The crop factor of the 300D and 30D is a bit of a bummer I must say. But hey, who knows. 6 months ago I knew nothing about this caper.

Yer the full frame is a lure. Why not buy a 35m film SLR. They are cheep at the moment. Although, I must admit. Everytime I shoot with the SLR these days I forget to whined the film on

Post by **norbs** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:57 am

fourthof5 wrote:Why not buy a 35m film SLR. They are cheep at the moment. Although, I must admit. Everytime I shoot with the SLR these days I forget to whined the film on

And why not get a B&W TV. Oh, and an EH with a Viscount caravan.

Film costs money Nige.

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:00 am

You could buy a lot of film for the cost of a 5D. Then you could turn your caravan into a developing studio to save processing costs

Personally I'd rather put the extra cash into lenses rather than the body, but I don't know how much cash you have at hand.

Post by **norbs** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:32 pm

DarrenM wrote: Personally I'd rather put the extra cash into lenses rather than the body, but I don't know how much cash you have at hand.

Pretty much what I will probably do Darren. It would be an extra $2k for the 5D. As I said earlier, I was just floating the idea after seeing a 5D last weekend and then playing with 1 in a shop the other day.

I reckon the following will be on the shopping list.

Canon 30D body.
CANON EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Wide Angle Lens
CANON 70-300IS USM f4-5.6 Zoom lens.

And maybe a good macro lense as well. Will see. I am going to have to buy new filters, hoods, spare battery etc, and it soon adds up.

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:06 pm

norbs wrote:I reckon the following will be on the shopping list.

Canon 30D body.
CANON EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Wide Angle Lens
CANON 70-300IS USM f4-5.6 Zoom lens.

And maybe a good macro lense as well. Will see. I am going to have to buy new filters, hoods, spare battery etc, and it soon adds up.

So you're gonna buy a Porsche Boxter, then stick some spinnaz from K-Mart on it.

OK it's not that extreme, but the lens is where the majority of the image quality comes from so if you're getting serious, you might want to put a little more in in that department.

A 70-200 f4L would be much better than the 70-300 IMHO and it's only $100-200 more. I haven't missed the extra reach of the 75-300. I certainally haven't missed the slowness at full zoom.

From what I have seen the 17-85 isn't too impressive either. Huge barrel distortion and soft on the wide end, a small amount of CA. I certainally wouldn't swap my 17-40 for one. It has a little barrel distortion at the wide end, but other than that it's been perfect for me.

Hoods come with the lenses.

Post by **norbs** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:45 pm

Fair enough Darren. Looks like the 75-200mm is the go. A few forums have said the same thing. Added to that, the 75-300 has a few issues.

What about the 17-55 F/2.8 IS as a walk around lense?

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:57 pm

I just went looking at some samples posted at dpreview and it looks pretty damn good. f/2.8 + IS would kick ass too.

$1800

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:41 am

Just for norbs. Here is a colour image

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:53 pm

A few from today.

gav0 · Post by **gav0** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:09 pm

greta stuff 4o5

Blowtus · Post by **Blowtus** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:58 pm

Hamal · Post by **Hamal** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:33 am

fourthof5 wrote:A few from today.

Beautiful mate, simply beautiful *wipes tear from eye*.

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:36 pm

Have a little trouble with the ABC logo blowtus?

Blowtus · Post by **Blowtus** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:58 pm

bwahahah
it's gotta be in there somewhere

Post by **norbs** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:29 pm

My new pup.