Graceland

I need a new tripod for my camera

I have 2 already, but they are cheapy ones and there is far too much play in the neck and headstock and once the camera is mounted this play is amplified by the weight of the long lens thus making it difficult to make it stay steady and thus rendering pictures slightly blurred.

Can anyone reccomend a good tripod that isn't going to cost the earth - Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying for the right bit of kit, but don't want to spend hundreds

Ade

Any Manfrotto will do the trick Start at about £100 I think....

If you've got a Calumet near you pop in any have a play about with what they've got on show.

Graceland

Cheers Ade - I'll pop into a Jessopps and have a nosey as I think they stock them too

Lee_R21Turbo

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More home porn Gracie!?

Graceland

Aye - You know it Lee - I've made a fortune

Graceland

Now Sorted - Just bought a Manfrotto 718B-2424 tripod/head for £69.99 delivered

just rung a friend who has the same model and I have used that one before with good results

Taz

Manfrotto doing a roaring trade this year, I am getting a 681B monopod from Santa.

Ade

That's cheap!

Top kit. All put together with obvious nuts & bolts etc no if anything needs tightening or replacing you can rather than just having to bit the whole thing

Graceland

Excellent - Its about time I had something sturdy to support my expensive kit

Taz

Truss....lol

Graceland

Thats holding the garage wall up

Red16

Im another one for the Manfrotto club

In October i bought myself a Manfrotto 190XB tripod and 804RC2 3-way head for £115 inc delivery from ebay, its a great bit of kit.

Graceland

Awesome - Looks like I have made a good decision

GARETH T

ah im intrested in a new one aswell,,, top stuff

hopefully getting a d300 soon aswell

Graceland

Gareth - go with a Canon - lens' are cheaper, more selection and easier to use IMHO

GARETH T

i got a good few lens for a nikon already,, so i think ill be sticking
i wouldnt of minded either,, but im sort of a nikon guy now LOL
have you seen the d3x yet?

zedtechs

Hi peeps,

I recently purchased a Sony a200 as a first step into SLR photography,

However I was wondering what people used to carry there camera's around in, I was looking at a backpack but just wondered what others used. Don't want to spend much more than £50.

cheers

GARETH T

i got a crumpler, but also having a lowepro backback off the girlfriend

Graceland

Gareth - I'm a Canon boy so know nothing about the new Nikon

Zedtechs - I bought a Lowepro outdoor trekker (I think thats the model) bag off Ebay for my camera gear - cost me £40 delivered, but brand new the RRP is something like £120 - look for the bargains

GARETH T

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lowepro-SlingS...3A1|240%3A1318

what im having off the girlfriend

and my camera bag

Graceland

Oooooooo I love these "show us your kit" threads - I'll get all mine in one piece and take a pic :P

Graceland

Here is my kit

This is the spec:

Canon EOS400d Body
Battery Grip + extra batteries
Canon 100-400IS EF USM L series telephoto lens + UV Filter
Canon 55-200 EF USM Lens + UV Filter + Polarizing Filter
Canon 18-55 EFS Lens + UV Filter
Wired remote shutter release
Wireless remote shutter release
Hauge professional camcorder/camera window/body mount
Hauge mini-bullet window/body mount
3x 4gb CF cards (Sandisc Extreme IV)
Sony SR32E Camcorder with 30Gb HDD + Extra batteries
Various lens shrouds
Laptop with 17" High-Def display for viewing pictures on location + card reader
Various cleaning products and other nice little bits

All housed in my Lowepro bag (Except Laptop, but there is room)



















The Hauge video camera mount in my old E39:

GARETH T

very nice mate!
have you any prime lenses?
i bought a 30mm f1.4 a few months back,, its bloody great :-D

Graceland

I want to get a couple of primes this year - Looking at a 22mm and posibly a 12mm with fisheye

GARETH T

30mm is like a standard 50mm on full frame, thats why i went for it
noticed you havent got a polarizing filter aswell,, well worth investing

Graceland

I have a polarizing filter for my 55-200 lens, want to get one for my 100-400 lens too in the very near future

zedtechs

I'm a complete newbie all I have is the camera and lens kit..........so I don't know what half the stuff you have in that backpack is, but I can tell you that I really want it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graceland

Get learning - there are loads of us on here who are into our SLR's and love to use them (admitadly, I havn't had much time lately)

neal666

you had to do it didnt you! (picture of your 100-400)

not that i am jelous or anything but im going to jump of a bridge now coz i have`nt got one!

noticed you have not got a external flash? far far better with a speedlight.

GARETH T

time is always my downside!

i would say,, dont bother buying any lens at the mo,, for most of the stuff i play with the standard lens is fine! i would advise getting a circular polarizing filter for the front of it though! this polarizes the light, so you can get very nice blue skys and cuts down on reflected light!

GARETH T

my sb-600 is here for christmas

Graceland

Funny you should mention the speedlight - got one on my ebay watch list ending soon

neal666

make sure its one of the new generation that can communicate with your camera