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The Canon EF 50/1.8 II is not fun to manual focus. However, in the grand scheme of things, it is ridiculously cheap so if you are trying to keep the price low it's a hard lens to pass on.
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Yeah, I guess I could always resell it for what looks like a surprisingly high amount. Still though, are the 1.4 or 35 F2 far superior lenses?
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The 1.4 gets a lot of flack, but the copy I've used has been lightyears better than my nifty fifty. The 35mm f/2 is nice, but you have the same type of focusing as the nifty fifty--it's not the USM that the 50mm 1.4 and 28mm 1.8 have. Personally, I'd spring for the slightly more expensive 28 1.8 because it becomes a nice fast standard lens on a crop, plus it has the more modern focusing.
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terriyaki posted:The Canon EF 50/1.8 II is not fun to manual focus. However, in the grand scheme of things, it is ridiculously cheap so if you are trying to keep the price low it's a hard lens to pass on. Mine would literally fall apart in my hands a couple times when I manually focused it. It was just that cheap and flimsy. But that was almost 10 years ago; did they improve it since then?
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Having recently converted to Nikon, I have to say that the focusing rings on the 50 1.8 and 35 2 are vastly superior to their Canon counterparts - the lenses themselves still feel just as cheap, but manual focusing is so much easier.
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I actually feel like my Nikon 1.8 is roughly on par with the canon 1.4 it replaced, if not a little better thanks the front element being safely tucked into the lens barrel.
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Hello you lovely people. I'm looking for some thoughts and advice on purchasing a wide angle zoom. I use a Canon 60D (yes I know) and have a budget of £400-£500 ($650 - $800 US) and don't mind buying used. I'm upgrading from the 18-55 kit I have had for years. I'll be going Landscaping with it primarily, and want it in time for Guy Fawkes Night  Having poked around the internet but not had a real opportunity to handle anything, I've narrowed a list down to 4: Canon 10-22 3.4/4.5 Tamron 10-24 F/3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical [IF] <-  Tokina 12-24mm f/4 II AT-X 124 DX f4 Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Currently I'm hovering between the Tokina 12-24 or the Tamron 10-24. None of them have bad reviews, but I can't find any direct comparisons that give one an edge.
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I like the Tokina 11-16 for the aperture, the Canon 10-22 for sharpness.
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Why not the sigma 8-16?
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rawrr posted:Why not the sigma 8-16? aka "The greatest ultra wide for a crop body ever."
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Cutie Pie Swag~
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rawrr posted:Why not the sigma 8-16? I don't know! That's why I asked really. I had a feeling I would be recommended a lens I didn't list though. Thank you both and 1st AD for the advice. Dalax fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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Oct 8, 2012 22:13
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So I have like $40 in eBay bucks, what's the most useful photo thing I could buy for around that price?
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whereismyshoe posted:So I have like $40 in eBay bucks, what's the most useful photo thing I could buy for around that price? Pentax ME (non-super) plus a 50/1.7
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whereismyshoe posted:So I have like $40 in eBay bucks, what's the most useful photo thing I could buy for around that price? Alternately a cheap Yashica Lynx or Konica Auto S2 rangefinder if you prefer that. Or see if you can scare up an Olympus XA, no-fucks-given take-everywhere cameras own.
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Dalax posted:I don't know! That's why I asked really. I had a feeling I would be recommended a lens I didn't list though. Thank you both and 1st AD for the advice. lensrentals.com has a good summary of the various ultra wides: http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/canon/lenses/wide-angle/sigma-8-16mm-f4.5-5.6-dc-hsm-for-canon posted:Comparing the ultra-wide, crop sensor camera lenses is an extremely difficult task, so I’ll put the summary first: they all deliver excellent image quality and you can’t go wrong with any of them. To my “just taking pictures” assessment they are all excellent. There are some differences though, so I’ll try to point those out so you have a better chance at choosing the one that’s best for you.
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whereismyshoe posted:So I have like $40 in eBay bucks, what's the most useful photo thing I could buy for around that price?
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whereismyshoe posted:So I have like $40 in eBay bucks, what's the most useful photo thing I could buy for around that price? If you shoot film, a dark bag. They're handy to have around if your camera weirds out and you need to unload a half-shot roll, too. Film. Get something exotic, like weird old expired Russian film from the early 1980's. A little reflector, like 12-inch, is a fun toy. Shiny new lens caps for all your lenses. Spare batteries (boring but very useful). One of those gimmicky "wide angle" screw-on lens-things, so you can evaluate just how terrible they are and report back to us. An old flash (or two or three) and the slave units to remote trigger them. Optical slave triggers are like $2 each, and somebody's off-brand old flash will set you back less than $10. Shipping is likely to be the major expense here. Don't mount old flashes (1980s) on new cameras (newer than 2000). This is fun, everybody loves to tell other people how to spend their money!
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Paul MaudDib posted:Pentax ME (non-super) plus a 50/1.7 Already have a Spotmatic and 50/1.4  HPL posted:Spare batteries. This might actually be the winner, strangely. Super boring but i've been wanting another battery for my 5DII for a while and this might be my chance. Or I might just get some weird off-brand TLR for the sake of having a TLR because they look cool.
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whereismyshoe posted:Already have a Spotmatic and 50/1.4 Sounds like you still need a proper camera.
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Mr. Despair posted:Sounds like you still need a proper camera. There's no room next to my Hasselblad for an ME Super. E: somewhat related, I ended up buying like 15 rolls of Acros in 120. whereismyshoe fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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whereismyshoe posted:There's no room next to my Hasselblad for an ME Super. Well at least we can agree that Acros owns.
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Mr. Despair posted:Well at least we can agree that Acros owns. Reciprocity? What's that?
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I'm looking to get a 64GB SD card, are there any that are recomended or should be avoided? I don't want to go off of Newegg reviews because Newegg users are stupid.
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Lexar professional 64gig 400x seemed like a good combo of performance per dollar when I was searching for something to put in the d800. Rob galbraith's charts were pretty favorable. It's been great so far.
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Oct 10, 2012 16:33
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Yeah, Lexar and Sandisk are probably the two best bets.
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Not sure where else to ask about this here, but I bought this whole setup for $15 from a thrift store yesterday. Going to pick up some film and run a few rolls through it. Everything seems to work fine from playing around with it unloaded. It looks like somebody bought it and used it once or twice then packed it all away. The little cleaning kit was unopened.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIdcUxdgo0
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FISHMANPET posted:I'm looking to get a 64GB SD card, are there any that are recomended or should be avoided? I don't want to go off of Newegg reviews because Newegg users are stupid. I've used a Sandisk 45MB/s model for the last 9 months with no issues, pretty satisfied.
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Funnily enough I had the same scene run through my head when I saw the name of the camera in the store.
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Just got my "like new" Tamron 17-50 for around 320.00 from Amazon. If anyone is thinking about upgrading their kit lens, this thing is awesome. Very impressed. The constant 2.8 aperture is so much nicer. Good bit heavier though.
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Almost every refurb Canon lens is in stock, including the extender 2X III: http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductListingViewAll_10051_10051_-1_22751?WT.mc_id=C126149
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My boss has asked me to buy a new camera for our department to document events and site visits. The pictures will be used for things like brochures and annual reports. Our company has a photography department but they aren't always available when we go on site visits to grantees. I have a budget of $750. I'm thinking I need something that is above a simple point and shoot but not quite a DSLR.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:My boss has asked me to buy a new camera for our department to document events and site visits. The pictures will be used for things like brochures and annual reports. Our company has a photography department but they aren't always available when we go on site visits to grantees. I have a budget of $750. Canon S100 is said to be quite good
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:My boss has asked me to buy a new camera for our department to document events and site visits. The pictures will be used for things like brochures and annual reports. Our company has a photography department but they aren't always available when we go on site visits to grantees. I have a budget of $750. Sony RX100. If budget is not an issue it'll blow the rest away. If size isn't an issue (e.g. doesn't have to fit in a pocket) then any entry-level mirrorless (NEX, m4/3rds) will do the job.
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Thanks all. I've added them to my recommendation list. I'll be lobbying hard for that RX100 that looks like a nice camera.
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I'll cross-post this question from the Canon since it's not necessarily brand-dependent: As I look to replace my crop lenses (EF-S 10-22 in particular) can anyone give me some advice on the 16-35 f2.8L II vs. the 17-40 f4.0L? The 17-40 is half the price and seems like a killer deal for L-glass. The 10-22 was f/3.5-4.5 so I'm not used to fast, wide glass anyway. I'm trying to envision a situation where I would want that extra stop of light for shots that wide and I'm coming up blank. I should add that the 17-40's 77mm filter size is appealing to me since I've already invested in nice B+W filters at that size for my other lenses. The 16-35's 82mm filter size isn't a deal-breaker, but it's an annoyance.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I'll cross-post this question from the Canon since it's not necessarily brand-dependent: I've used my friend's 5Dmk2 with the 17-40 and it blew me away, it's crazy sharp, he makes 30inch prints with it and they look great. Besides if you already have good filters at that thread size then I'd say it's a no brainer, using step down rings on a lens that wide would give you some awful vignetting.
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Krelas posted:I've used my friend's 5Dmk2 with the 17-40 and it blew me away, it's crazy sharp, he makes 30inch prints with it and they look great. Besides if you already have good filters at that thread size then I'd say it's a no brainer, using step down rings on a lens that wide would give you some awful vignetting. 17-40 is the best deal in L lenses by a large margin. To me the extra stop isn't worth double the price and the big weight difference. Sure, it vignettes, which I like anyways and is a one click fix in lightroom if you don't.
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