Tupperware Rings, Red Tinfoil & Rainbow Photography -- It's all here (13)

Sweet Barn Harm.

newatthis wrote in post #6717977
Nice shoot Mike!
Hey all! Just got back from the casino, not any richer, thats for sure.
On the bright side USPS update indicates my lens will be delivered today! WHEW!!!!!!! If I had a moon walking smiley it'd be right here.....

Thanks..

Harm wrote in post #6718042
a barn...

http://harm.smugmug.co​m/photos/414108473_k8N​JB-XL.jpg

I love old red barns, nice find!

poppie guy wrote in post #6716088
After shooting with you on Sunday and listening to the speed of the Mark IIn, and then seeing the shot you got of the heron taking off from the slough, I think you should consider hanging on to it!

I love 8.5fps

KevinAldrich wrote in post #6716207
My list pales in comparison...

+ Canon 40D
+ Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6

Harm wrote in post #6717165
um, that is a lot!!!

The big thing is that I didn't start with a 1D and L lenses all at once... slowly worked my way up there - selling off old gear and upgrading.

I got my 20D in August of 2006, and then the 1D in December 2007... and it looks like I will still have it in December of 2008

newatthis wrote in post #6717977
On the bright side USPS update indicates my lens will be delivered today! WHEW!!!!!!! If I had a moon walking smiley it'd be right here.....

I ordered a book last week. USPS tracking says I got it yesterday. That would be news to me.

Harm wrote in post #6718042
a barn...

Yes, yes it is.

Nice one, too.

timbernet wrote in post #6718316
The big thing is that I didn't start with a 1D and L lenses all at once... slowly worked my way up there - selling off old gear and upgrading.

I got my 20D in August of 2006, and then the 1D in December 2007... and it looks like I will still have it in December of 2008

you know, I used to think that...we started slow too but eventually gravity took ahold and we bought/sold/re-bought like crazy for a while. Then yesterday I read this quote "a poor man buys twice" and thought...initially when I was buying gear I was aghast at the costs and purchased the lowest I could and still have good photo quality (xt) but then found it's controls weren't acceptable for what I was shooting (3fps really hamper bif shots)...and I wonder how much money I would have saved if I'd have just bought what I wanted in the beginning? Because I ended up doing that anyway.

ibdb wrote in post #6718399
I ordered a book last week. USPS tracking says I got it yesterday. That would be news to me.

oh no! What do you do when that happens?

Permagrin wrote in post #6718419
you know, I used to think that...we started slow too but eventually gravity took ahold and we bought/sold/re-bought like crazy for a while. Then yesterday I read this quote "a poor man buys twice" and thought...initially when I was buying gear I was aghast at the costs and purchased the lowest I could and still have good photo quality (xt) but then found it's controls weren't acceptable for what I was shooting (3fps really hamper bif shots)...and I wonder how much money I would have saved if I'd have just bought what I wanted in the beginning? Because I ended up doing that anyway.

Back when I bought my 20D I couldn't afford a 1D... it wasn't that I was trying to save money, it was that I couldn't afford one... so - would I have rather not bought any SLR until I could afford the 1D? Or buy the 20D and have fun with it for a year until the 1D made financial sense?

Moooo everyone

Impressive lists of equipment folks... Mine isn't nearly that impressive... But I've got what I can afford... Not much...

I am not in the buying equipment mode these days due to lack of funds and not working consistently. But I did order a new violin case and to re-hair 2 older bows I have. I am lending out my violin these days, it's a 200 year old thing that sounds amazing. But I would trade it for the new 5DII .

The economics of photography is scary some times.

Would someone trade a child for a 5D?? Although they're too cute to do that, in a moment of them fighting.... I'd think about it... hehehehe

I've got what I can afford too. I was lucky enough to pick up a couple of paid jobs recently. Makes it easier to justify buying new gear . Needless to say, all the cash went to more gear. I'm relatively happy with my setup. For now...

timbernet wrote in post #6716052
I was talking to someone today about camera gear and how I started... which led me to make this list of what I have had and what I now have...

+ Canon 20D
+ Canon 50mm f/1.8
+ 18-55 Kit lens borrowed from Aussieskier
+ Sigma 70-300
+ Kenko Extension Tubes
+ Tokina 19-35
- 18-55 Kit lens, gave back to Aussieskier
- Sigma 70-300
+ Canon 70-200 f/2.8
- Tokina 19-35
+ Canon 85mm f/1.8
+ Tamron 17-50 f/2.8
+ Canon 400mm f/5.6
+ Sigma 50mm f/2.8 Macro
- Canon 85 f/1.8
- Canon 70-200 f/2.8
+ Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS
+ Canon 40D
+ Canon 10-22
+ Canon 85mm f/1.8
- Canon 40D
- Canon 20D
- Tamron 17-50 f/2.8
- Canon 50mm f/1.8
+ Canon 1DMarkIIn
+ Canon 24-70 f/2.8
- Canon 10-22
- Canon 400mm f/5.6
- Sigma 50mm f/2.8 Macro
+ Canon 100mm Macro
+ Canon 20D
+ Canon 50mm f/1.8
- Canon 20D
- Canon 50mm f/1.8
- Canon 100mm Macro
- Canon 85 f/1.8

Current:
Canon 1DMarkIIn
Canon 24-70 f/2.8
Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS

KevinAldrich wrote in post #6716207
My list pales in comparison...

+ Canon 40D
+ Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6

I couldn't even begin to list the amount of photography equipment I've acquired and gotten rid of over 40+ years of doing this. I've still got boxes sitting around of things I thought it would be cool to have and then found out wouldn't do the job I wanted.

mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #6718565
Would someone trade a child for a 5D?? Although they're too cute to do that, in a moment of them fighting.... I'd think about it... hehehehe

I'd trade non-essential body organs for some lenses. Maybe a piece of liver or a kidney. If only B&H had an organ trade-in program.

Scott...oh I wouldn't have waited....I was just thinking aloud at my own scenario. At the time that we bought the camera gear we could have afforded to do it right the first time.

Instead we bought 2 xt's w/18-55 lenses and the 75-300III.
Bad move...all it did was make us hungry for better.

We sold the 75-300 right away and bought the 70-200 F2.8 and the 28-105.

We didn't keep the 70-200 though because having not been long from the P&S crowd, it was incredibly heavy and always felt like it was going to snap off the front of the xt.

so we bought the 200 2.8
the 85 1.8
the 50 1.4
and the 24-105L

Then we sold the xt's bought 2 30D's.
and then it just went downhill. I never liked the colors from the 30D and went almost immediately into the M2N. But wasn't prepared for the weight and stopped using it. Finally sold it for the 5D/30D combo...which I was relatively happy with (at least the 5D part). But the 30D left me wanting the 2n's fps and I was never happy with how it tracked. We acquired a BUNCH of lenses during this time...and sold a bunch. Then I made one of my biggest mistakes (not by upgrading to the M3 but by selling the 5D to do it). The M3's initial (year long) problems nearly soured me on photography for good.

On another note though, it stopped that gear lust I had. No longer was newer better.

Right now I'm very content with what I've got. The ds2 has noise issues (the M3 is the best camera ever, so far, for dealing with noise and I got spoiled quickly by it) but other than that, it's a dream camera. The 40D works great and while it doesn't shoot as fast as the M3 and I do miss that, it is nice to have a smaller camera when I want one.

The list of things I would not have bought, had I known what I know now:

the xt's and the 30D's.
the tokina 80-400 and the tokina 400
the tamron 14mm
the m2n
the 50 1.4 (never used it...maybe a dozen times)
the 85 1.2 (loved the photo quality, hated the slowness...if this lens focused faster I'd still own it)
the 100-400 (but we all know I hate that lens)
the 70-300 dois (bought this because I didn't want to spend the money on the 100-400...it's nice but never quite fast enough for birding)
I would have put the M3 here IF it had not got fixed properly.

things I wish I had not got rid of:

the 24-105
the 17-40 (while I need the 2.8, the 17-40 has better IQ)
the 200 2.8 (stellar prime for a steal of a price)
and the 5D