Westy

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it says it has 40mb memory which isn't a lot...

Camera £60
Card and case £80

Turbosystems

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does make you laugh how the complex camera is cheaper than a plastic bag I mean case and a small plastic memory card

Westy

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lets hope Amazon delivery is quicker than your eBay purchase Tony

I may buy a bumbag to put it in... second thoghts, can I borrow yours

Camera accessories are a rip off!

Turbosystems

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my bum bag is now redundant it is for sale on ebay
the x wife emptied that as well
my camera will be here 2.50 to 3.50 pm according to dpp tracking

Westy

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bet ya can't wait.

Westy

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do you still hear from Matt Bell? The bumbag comment reminded me about him

Turbosystems

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it's taken that long I have lost interest
Matt got a new women in his life a few years ago so I guess he has to do as he is told
now
not seen or heard from him in years

Turbosystems

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my new toy has just arrived

Staffi

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OH FOOK, God help us.........

Turbosystems

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don't panic The sd card hasn't arrived yet
fookin cheap camera though ebay has it's uses

SteveB

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Well after about 2 weeks of twatting about I finally bought....,

Canon 450d
18-55mm canon lens
70-200mm canon lens
2 x 8gb sandisk extreme pro sd cards
Tripod
USB thingy to put sd card in


God help me now lol....

SteveB

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I think I'm possibly less technical with cameras than Tony....., lol

Turbosystems

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the problem with cameras is the amount of choice out there and the clever marketing of the models
wait till you start to look at lenses
you'll be impressed with your 450d

SteveB

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It's a bleeding minefield...... I was only looking at Canon, be even worse if I was looking at other makes as well lol.

Can't wait for next week now

Turbosystems

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the lenses you need are far more expensive than the camera lol
what lens did you order with your camera

SteveB

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I'll have a look tomorrow as order is on work pc

Dexy

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Tony i dont have the lens you mentioned, selling a heap of stuff just now to get my 5dmk2 ipads gone today, got the 2 lenses and a brand new sat nav all up for sale.

Oh and the 450D is a super camera, i had one before i got the 550D. I only upgraded for HD video, and i still never have used it

Tony, have you downloaded the "canon lenses" app on the iphone?

Christ you may not have an iphone it was stu i was mentioning ithings too

cbp

How come everyone here is into zoom lenses?
Prime lenses is where the real picture quality is....unless you want to carry all those heavy 2.8 zooms around..

My kit is:

Canon EOS 5D markII

Canon EF 50mm F/1.4 USM
Canon EF 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon EF 135mm F/2.0L USM

Nikon 60mm F/2.8 macro

Canon Speedlite 430 EX II flash

It can take some incredible pictures this gear....
and i have NEVER been limited by 3,9 pics pr second either... and I shoot alot of pictures at trackdays and so on

Primes are relatively cheap compared to the IQ you get... and very light

And for street photography and holidays.. I use my Fuji X100... probably my favourite camera of all times

cheeRS Christian

SteveB

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What language was that as I understood none of it lol....

Ginge

Tony do you have a monopod, if not investing in one is a good idea, much better than lugging a tripod around all day, and they come in carbon fibre .

Manfrotto is where it's at...

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-...onopod_1028538

Ginge

cbp

Swenglish

Turbosystems

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cbp you have a real camera we only have toys

cbp

Once you go full frame sensor... there is NO going back to crop sensor

Turbosystems

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flash bar steward
let the willy waving begin

Turbosystems

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139 quid for an extendible stick fook off

SteveB

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My tripod was under a tenner on amazon lol

Turbosystems

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and you get 3 legs for that
so £3.33 for the one leg version

foreigneRS

gorilla pods are great, although i say that only owning a little compact and a fuji bridge. don't know how good they are for slrs.

Fast Guy

Probably because it makes it easier to stand in a location and get your shot rather than have to stand in an exact location due to the limits of the lens. It's also easier to carry one lens than three.

cbp

The point is... get a good prime lens instead of all these zoom lenses, you said it yourself that you mainly use the 18-55 lens.... and i think that most of your pictures are shot around the 30-35mm mark. So instead of using a crappy 18-55 lens that needs much light to get a decent picture... Get a good 35mm F/2.0 lens (canon EF 35mm F/2) or the Canon 35mm F/1.4L USM if you can afford it. The picture quality on those lenses are just awesome... and in the case of the Canon 35mm F/2.0 it's cheap and very light.

Primes also forces you to think a little bit more when shooting.
The 17-55 F/2.8 lens is a good performer.... but it is a big chunk of glass and the weight on a 600d body is just a bit to much for my liking, it is also a fair bit more of money that easily can be used elsewhere. You really don't need every mm in the lenses you know

cbp

And that is the reason most people stay in the green auto mode

foreigneRS

cbp makes a good point, but has the advantage of a full frame sensor so can afford to crop images down if he can't get tight enough in the first place.

cbp

The 600d have enough resolution for cropping aswell

Turbosystems

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just won an efs 17-55mm IS usm f2.8
they fetch big money even second hand
the technical reviews I have read rate this lens very highly for the small frame cameras
cbp a 35mm ef lens wont give us small lens folk a focal length of 35mm

cbp

I know it won't, but it will give you slightly over 50 mm which is in my book the most useful focal length, there is a reason why the 50mm lens on a full frame is called "the nifty fifty".
I have had the big zooms back in the days of film but after carrying a lens all day weighing almost 1 kg and realising i mostly used the 50mm setting i bought a 50mm and it has been my most used lens ever since.....

But everyone is different and have different preferances... but store the info in the back of your head and see what focal length you use most of the time..

Turbosystems

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I'll definitely give some thought and mental notes to the focal length I tend to use the most next time I'm snapping away
presently the shots I have been taking have been varied

foreigneRS

congratulations! it's brilliant when you win stuff for free i won a trackday last week, doing it in september

Turbosystems

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i won it on ebay for £650

SteveB

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Canon EF 80-200mm F4.5-5.6 MKII Zoom Lens

Canon EF-S 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 Autofocus Zoom Lens‏


They must be good theres lots of letters and stuff in the titles....

Turbosystems

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ef 80 -200 or ef S
assume the other is the efs 18-55 f3.5-5.6 IS cheap kit lens good alround performer
the ef 80 -200 you have does not get any good reviews
being an ef fitted to your small optical sensor camera your focal length of 80mm will be more like 120mm

here's a link that explains it all
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/C...op-Factor.aspx that will give you a head ache lol