POTN Aussie Club #5: Our focus rings rotate the other way too.

wakko wrote in post #7560238
I've added the Servaas group buy to my signature so if anyone wants anything, or wants to change anything, PM me or reply here... whatever... and I'll add it to that post.

Depending on how they work with radio mics I/we might be interested in a whole bunch (on one show we went through I think it was 600 9V batteries and 700 AAs)
Although we did recently stock up on energizer industrial (drawer full) so might want to chew through those first...

You really can't get more cheaper than this...

pendulum15 wrote in post #7560155
How do rechargeables work in radio mics, out of curiosity?

We used them at the last church I was at with great success. (Using 9V cells in Shure gear.)

justAL wrote in post #7560550
You really can't get more cheaper than this...

Yeah, that's pretty cheap. CF varies widely, of course, but it's sure cheap!

blackshadow wrote in post #7559842
Mic do you ever use off camera stuff for press conferences?

Once, I think

More trouble than it's worth. Media conferences almost always have TV there, so a fair bit of light is there. Time is also an issue.

justAL wrote in post #7560550
You really can't get more cheaper than this...

Well yeah, but that doesn't fold up uber small like the other one I found

miccullen wrote in post #7560567
We used them at the last church I was at with great success. (Using 9V cells in Shure gear.)

Yeah, that's pretty cheap. CF varies widely, of course, but it's sure cheap!

Cool, we have shure and sennheiser Mics.... Although we do currently have a drawer full of energizers, and will probably bulk buy anyways so will probably give the group buy a miss...

How is everyone today? I didn't end up getting a second body to borrow for the music festival tomorrow so my options are now limited with one 400D. I really wish I had 2 so I could have my 24mm on one and the 70-200mm on the other but I guess I'll just be doing a bit of switching unfortunately.

Anyone located in the west of Melbourne that won't be using a body tomorrow?

The Moose wrote in post #7560644
How is everyone today? I didn't end up getting a second body to borrow for the music festival tomorrow so my options are now limited with one 400D. I really wish I had 2 so I could have my 24mm on one and the 70-200mm on the other but I guess I'll just be doing a bit of switching unfortunately.

I'd be more interested in having a second for redundancy.

miccullen wrote in post #7560653
I'd be more interested in having a second for redundancy.

Yeah, definitely. 2 bodies is better than one in this case for various reasons and that's one of them.

miccullen wrote in post #7560576
Once, I think

More trouble than it's worth. Media conferences almost always have TV there, so a fair bit of light is there. Time is also an issue.

I thought that would be the case. I'm covering The Who presser on Monday and was wondering if there was any point in going off camera.

what are everyone's plans for tonight?

Picked up my Pelican 1614 this morning from Stu's house. It's huge(the case, although his house was large-ish). It's going to take me a while to get it configured how I want it...

I got shown around his giant storage area with a lot of expensive stuff. I drooled a fair bit.

Michael wrote in post #7560823
Picked up my Pelican 1614 this morning from Stu's house. It's huge(the case, although his house was large-ish). It's going to take me a while to get it configured how I want it...

I got shown around his giant storage area with a lot of expensive stuff. I drooled a fair bit.

Because your gear isn't expensive enough!

blackshadow wrote in post #7560660
I thought that would be the case. I'm covering The Who presser on Monday and was wondering if there was any point in going off camera.

Almost everyone witl be shooting with mkIIIs and D3s, I'd think, and using natural light if possible.

Michael wrote in post #7560823
Picked up my Pelican 1614 this morning from Stu's house. It's huge(the case, although his house was large-ish). It's going to take me a while to get it configured how I want it...

I still haven't got my 1510 configured for my lights yet - I was all set to do it and then PW released their new devices...

NicD wrote in post #7560822
what are everyone's plans for tonight?

Feeding the children (well the two that are here, third is off at a sleepover), then later feeding the wife and I (late lunch, still not particularly hungry).

Processing some photos from a commercial shoot I did today.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #7560893
Feeding the children (well the two that are here, third is off at a sleepover), then later feeding the wife and I (late lunch, still not particularly hungry).

Processing some photos from a commercial shoot I did today.

nice, who for?

expect some tax soon