Thread: So what you got!!!

Originally Posted by Phoenix

And yes, I have L glass fever now

L glass should be illegal. It only takes one shot to become addicted and once you've been there... you can just never go back to regular glass again.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

L glass should be illegal. It only takes one shot to become addicted and once you've been there... you can just never go back to regular glass again.

I agree, but primes will be faster and give you the same (or better) quality at a fraction of the price.

I'd say the best quality glass I have is a Canon f/1.8 50mm prime, that I paid $140 for. The L glass come close, but each at over 10x the price of the prime.

My kit includes:

20D body + BG-E2 battery grip
EFS 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
EF 24-70 f/2.8 L
EF 70-200 f/2.8 L
Kenko 1.4x & 2x teleconverters
EX 580 II flash + dome flash diffuser
TC-80N3 remote timer
Manfrotto 055BPro tripod + 322RC2 head
Lowepro Mini trekker carry bag and a Pelican 1610 hard case.

Filters:
UV filters all round
77mm circular polariser
3 x 77mm neutral density filters (0.6, 0.9 and graduated)

For everything else, there's photoshop

Upgrading to 40D is tempting, but I could only justify upgrading to the full framed 5D when it gets to a comfortable price range. I'll keep the 20D as a backup body, as they go for peanuts these days.

Originally Posted by Offender90

I agree, but primes will be faster and give you the same (or better) quality at a fraction of the price.

I'd say the best quality glass I have is a Canon f/1.8 50mm prime, that I paid $140 for. The L glass come close, but each at over 10x the price of the prime.

My kit includes:

20D body + BG-E2 battery grip
EFS 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
EF 24-70 f/2.8 L
EF 70-200 f/2.8 L
Kenko 1.4x & 2x teleconverters
EX 580 II flash + dome flash diffuser
TC-80N3 remote timer
Manfrotto 055BPro tripod + 322RC2 head
Lowepro Mini trekker carry bag and a Pelican 1610 hard case.

Filters:
UV filters all round
77mm circular polariser
3 x 77mm neutral density filters (0.6, 0.9 and graduated)

For everything else, there's photoshop

Upgrading to 40D is tempting, but I could only justify upgrading to the full framed 5D when it gets to a comfortable price range. I'll keep the 20D as a backup body, as they go for peanuts these days.

what make is your ND graduated filter? this is what i would like to buy BUT i have only found 1 on ebay and was nearly $100....i would like to get but each one of my lens are different filter size, so unsire which one to get it for.....ideally you would probably say get it for the one you do landscapes with the most but a sky can ruin any shot

pentax k10d + grip
da 18-55
sigma ex 50-500
returned sigma ex 24-70 2.8 (crap inside lens)
a couple of filters
ex 500 flash
Manfrotto trypod
Lowpro bag

I'd love to purchase a couple of fast lenses, but can not spend money on camera gear and the discovery at the same time

Originally Posted by dullbird

what make is your ND graduated filter? this is what i would like to buy BUT i have only found 1 on ebay and was nearly $100....i would like to get but each one of my lens are different filter size, so unsire which one to get it for.....ideally you would probably say get it for the one you do landscapes with the most but a sky can ruin any shot

Interested to see what situations people use grads in. I always thought they were just the most inadequate thing. Especially now when everything goes through Photoshop I'd think they're even less useful.

I had a look at one of those filter systems a few years back, Cokin, maybe. A filter holder that attaches to the front of the lens and square or rectangular filters that slide in to the holder. The filter holder also rotates. I thought it looked good to reduce the number of filters that you'd have to buy for different diameter lenses, but the filters were plastic and I just couldn't go with that.

Unfortunately I got spoiled working on film crews, where all the filters are glass and a fast lens is 0.8.

Simon

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Interested to see what situations people use grads in. I always thought they were just the most inadequate thing. Especially now when everything goes through Photoshop I'd think they're even less useful.

I had a look at one of those filter systems a few years back, Cokin, maybe. A filter holder that attaches to the front of the lens and square or rectangular filters that slide in to the holder. The filter holder also rotates. I thought it looked good to reduce the number of filters that you'd have to buy for different diameter lenses, but the filters were plastic and I just couldn't go with that.

Unfortunately I got spoiled working on film crews, where all the filters are glass and a fast lens is 0.8.

Simon

yes as far as i'm aware the only grad filters i have looked at are glass....just screw on ones like the UV etc

A good polarizer works ok as an ND filter by reducing light by 1-2 stops.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

A good polarizer works ok as an ND filter by reducing light by 1-2 stops.

yeh but we are talking about graduation filter which means you can expose the foreground with out blowing out the sky