Red Ring Tupperware Photography & Tinfoil Talk (15)

But you wanted bright.....

Lightstream wrote in post #8568793
But you wanted bright.....

Apparently the word 'overkill' has no meaning in the Orient.

Well if the chief looks this way, i have a 580 EXII ready to do a MIB on him....

Speaking of overkill, Canon is pricing the 15-85 at US$800 MSRP.

Even if it is fantastic at all apertures and all focal lengths, it is not worth that price. It would have to be L, weathersealed and constant f/4 (essentially the mirror image of my 24-105 in an EF-S lens) to command that price.

I was initially thinking about upgrading my 17-85 IS USM to that lens especially since my 17-85 isn't the most reliable piece of glass I've owned but the price is just nuts and I would reach for the 24-105 most of the time anyway.

Might even be worth keeping a spare 24-105 in the bag - I use mine that much.

Lightstream wrote in post #8568886
Speaking of overkill, Canon is pricing the 15-85 at US$800 MSRP.

Even if it is fantastic at all apertures and all focal lengths, it is not worth that price. It would have to be L, weathersealed and constant f/4 (essentially the mirror image of my 24-105 in an EF-S lens) to command that price.

I was initially thinking about upgrading my 17-85 IS USM to that lens especially since my 17-85 isn't the most reliable piece of glass I've owned but the price is just nuts and I would reach for the 24-105 most of the time anyway.

Might even be worth keeping a spare 24-105 in the bag - I use mine that much.

$800 ain't worth what it used to be.

OTOH, I hope the price of the 100/2.8 USM drops as demand moves to the 100L macro.

Normally I am the first person to ask for IS on everything I can get, except the macro, strangely. I think this is because I use the macro under controlled conditions - product shoots under lights and on a table.

I use the 'paper technique' of shooting insects: once you case the bugger with a two inch thick hardcover book, you can take your time to set up the shot any way you like. DOF tends not to be a huge issue either. Stabilization can be provided by other means.

Belmondo wrote in post #8568895
$800 ain't worth what it used to be.

Tru dat!

A few tanks of fuel, that is what you'd get for $800

Hey all, saw a bunch of awesome shots from last night!

DigitalDabbler wrote in post #8567777
Edit: Moooooooooo! (forgot the greeting)

Ditto, but I figured that now they're being made by hitachi, they might be better. WD, I heard both good and bad about (nothing like the darkstars, though), My other option would be fujitsu. I haven't managed to kill one yet. I did have a deathstar and it lived up to its name, I'm afraid. the 1GB fujitsu - five years it's senior - was still going strong when I de-commisioned the BSD firewall in favour of a dedicated netgear router. FWIW it was the root partition of a linux box with the desksplat serving as /var, /home and /usr. Had an older seagate as the swap drive. The fujitsu was re-formatted and had BSD installed. This was 6 years ago. I'm betting that If'n I arc up the box it'll boot first go.

For me, It's the straw.

C:\>

Try booting it up. Speaking of BSD, I had this old FreeBSD box that ran for 6 years without a single reboot.

Greg_C wrote in post #8567798
Just got off the phone to my dad. My grandmother (88 this weekend) was in a car accident today. Luckily she was unhurt (except for bruising) but it could have been very serious. She was stopped at the lights to turn and a large SUV with a bull bar slammed into her at 60km/hr, sending her into the oncoming traffic, clipping another car. Her car is a total write off, the force of impact broke her car seat and it ended up horizontal.

Just glad she's unhurt.

Ouch. Good thing she's okay though, that's all that really matters.

DigitalDabbler wrote in post #8567976
I had a very similar accident. I head-butted the passenger window and spent 4 hours under observation for concussion in casualty (OzSpeak for ER). I made some life-changing and possibly wrong decisions immediately thereafter. Keep a close eye on your grand-mum and ask her if she is sure about things, especially about any big decisions.

I had another piece of glass emerge from my forehead three days ago. The accident was in 1985 and I'm dead-scared that one such fragment will migrate into an eye socket. Glass is pretty much invisible to X-rays.

I hope that your gran's alright.

C:\>

Ack. What's it like having glass randomly come out of your body? I'd imagine it's painful, but then again your body is rejecting it slowly, so it might not be.

Belmondo wrote in post #8568611
My only consolation is we're not alone. One day you go to be feeling pretty good about things. In two years, you wake up and realize that a sizable net worth has miraculously been transformed into a negative number (and still sinkin).

Arnie has no bailout budget. He's proposing a statewide 'garage sale' to generate cash.

Who has cash?

Well what did Californians expect when they elected the Terminator? Of course he's gonna terminate the state budget!

Lightstream wrote in post #8568764
*sets 430EX to 1:1 power, manual mode, finger on the test firing button*

Chief, look this way.

:p

Ever done that to someone? I have with a 580, they weren't too happy.

Harm wrote in post #8569086
A few tanks of fuel, that is what you'd get for $800

Driving a hummer?

I had a Hummer H3 when I was in Az last year....better fuel economy than a Ford Explorer....fun to drive too

Harm wrote in post #8569239
I had a Hummer H3 when I was in Az last year....better fuel economy than a Ford Explorer....fun to drive too

We were out with a pal, Alex, and saw a hummer with its gas tank still open pulling out of a gas station... We were thinking of flagging him down, but Alex said "Ah, it's no big deal, he'll have to refuel at the next gas station anyway."

Argh at UPS. They aren't updating tracking on my D3. Sometimes they do bulk updates, so you won't see anything for a few days then all of a sudden the package will have magically teleported through 5 cities in a matter of 3 minutes. I just want to know that the delivery date is Friday, haha.

Mooooooooooooooorning.

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Belmondo wrote in post #8568611
Arnie has no bailout budget. He's proposing a statewide 'garage sale' to generate cash.

That was the plan for the last few years here in ILL. They sold off a bunch of stuff and still trying to pawn off an airport or two and the Tollway.

tonylong wrote in post #8568759
Heh! Yeah, and being a Walmart greeter just doesn't sound too fun!

I have a few friends that would gladly do that job. Unfortunatly for every greater there are hundreds of applicants.

Harm wrote in post #8569086
A few tanks of fuel, that is what you'd get for $800

Especially my wifes van and it's 35 gallon gas tank. Its nice because we have fantastic range but we have bumped into a cpouple of places that limit the amount of gas you purchase to some dollar amount.

Harm wrote in post #8569239
I had a Hummer H3 when I was in Az last year....better fuel economy than a Ford Explorer....fun to drive too

Thats not saying a whole lot.

Nice cactus. Where was that one taken?