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

caseyjohnphotography wrote in post #7651038
Some uni people have like 4 days off a week.. that is not fair haha, term 1 is over and about 2 and a half left then its all over, argh can't wait!

Including weekends? I think you will find it pretty hard to find someone who has scored a timetable that has their lectures wrapped into one day. Certainly wouldnt be full time.

Im lucky having it 4 days a week and only 10 contact hours per week (for a full time course too haha).

Yeh very true, my friends sisters only go 2 times a week but meh, i don't really care

Spam i got a quote from DD on monday for a quote on the EF 400mm f/2.8 IS USM L they want 10,899$

Dollar is sitting at a nice 71c

What a night! Luckily my weekend starts now.

That was one good thing about TAFE, i wrapped all my subjects into a 3 day week. Was doing basically 7-9 hours per day, but left me time for work and a weekend. There would be nothing worse than having things strung out all week for a couple of hours here and there.

caseyjohnphotography wrote in post #7651102
Yeh very true, my friends sisters only go 2 times a week but meh, i don't really care

Spam i got a quote from DD on monday for a quote on the EF 400mm f/2.8 IS USM L they want 10,899$

Do you really need the 2.8?

I could easily go for the f/5.6, but from now on theres no point going half ass? when i know for a fact a few years on down the track i will end up getting the better version of whatever it will be. f/2.8 will be suitable for me as all my lenses (2) are f/2.8 and i normally shoot in low light conditions. So yeh i think I need it. I used a 400mm f/5.6 at the gold coast a few weeks back and to be honest the first thing i disliked was the build, feels like a little 75 300mm in your hands and is so lightweight and you can get your hand around it too easily. Not that is a big problem but was the first disadvantage that came to mind. The photos where sharp yes, but lack of IS at 400mm doesn't help in low light conditions also, neither does f/5.6

15" MacBookPro for sale in FS section, he wants 1200$USD which at the moment converts to 1667$AUD so i PM'd him

caseyjohnphotography wrote in post #7651148
I could easily go for the f/5.6, but from now on theres no point going half ass? when i know for a fact a few years on down the track i will end up getting the better version of whatever it will be. f/2.8 will be suitable for me as all my lenses (2) are f/2.8 and i normally shoot in low light conditions. So yeh i think I need it. I used a 400mm f/5.6 at the gold coast a few weeks back and to be honest the first thing i disliked was the build, feels like a little 75 300mm in your hands and is so lightweight and you can get your hand around it too easily. Not that is a big problem but was the first disadvantage that came to mind. The photos where sharp yes, but lack of IS at 400mm doesn't help in low light conditions also, neither does f/5.6

Yeh, fair enough. I'm all for doing things once and doing them properly. 11k's a lot of cash to part with though.

Especially for a 16/17 ye old, i know but it will be something i will most probably have until i die. Ahhh loving the weather at the moment, cold, windy, rainyy

Night guys...

caseyjohnphotography wrote in post #7651148
I could easily go for the f/5.6, but from now on theres no point going half ass? when i know for a fact a few years on down the track i will end up getting the better version of whatever it will be. f/2.8 will be suitable for me as all my lenses (2) are f/2.8 and i normally shoot in low light conditions. So yeh i think I need it. I used a 400mm f/5.6 at the gold coast a few weeks back and to be honest the first thing i disliked was the build, feels like a little 75 300mm in your hands and is so lightweight and you can get your hand around it too easily. Not that is a big problem but was the first disadvantage that came to mind. The photos where sharp yes, but lack of IS at 400mm doesn't help in low light conditions also, neither does f/5.6

11k= way way way too much for me.....
If I see a beat up 300 2.8 (IS) going for a decent price I might buy it, but even that is probably too much....

The 400 5.6 is very nice, just with a 1.4 at f8 despite being very very sharp it is a bit slow and no IS is really annoying with the shake of AF points.... I find the build good, better than 24-70 IMO.... Just light as it doesn't have much glass in it....

In terms of sound I had some open design big sennheisers which were good, but they broke (old), and were ginormous....

We also have some (big) open ear sennheisers at school as monitors which are good
For serious sound go for EV speakers, crown amps, dbx eq/compressor LC fx, midas or yamaha mixer.... don't ask about price or size though:p

S7000 wrote in post #7651134
There would be nothing worse than having things strung out all week for a couple of hours here and there.

Ive got a pretty decent timetable set up for everything. I work part time monday to friday at a state health reference lab just down the road from uni (full day monday then 5 hour half days tuesday through friday) followed by usually 2 hours of uni before or after my half days at work.

Get the weekends off and am finished by at worst, 5pm during the week.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #7650594
Ah excellent taste there Sir.

You'd probably also enjoy Matilda Bay Dogbolter as well.

Little Creatures Pale Ale is also good.

Little Creatures is great. I'm a big fan of the occasional James Squire Pilsner.
I'll have to try Matilda Bay, apparently the brewery is down the road from me.

Going to photo continental soon havn't been there in a while, just going to take a few hours to scope around..

caseyjohnphotography wrote in post #7655293
Going to photo continental soon havn't been there in a while, just going to take a few hours to scope around..

wave to my house when you drive by

haha, come in wakko?