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10/10/2003 06:14:15 PM · #26 |
Lucky you living in North America! I have bought most of my stuff from B&H. The prices here in Sweden are SO high. One example: Yesterday I bought the Canon lens 24-70mm/2.8 L from Singapore (reliable, third time for me) and I paid $1235 to my door. In Sweden I must pay $2520 for the same lens! WHY??? It´s not fair!
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10/10/2003 06:50:05 PM · #27 |
FYI concerning Wide-angle:
Sigma recently announced that they will launch a 12-24mm F4.5-5.5 EX IF DG Aspherical lens at the end of october. The quality should be in the same league as the 15-30mm. Unlike the Nikkor DX and Oly 4/3" wideangles this lense can be used on both 1.6x crop factor digicams and full frame 35mm (digi)cams. It is rectalinear, not fisheye. Bit slow, but who has a really fast 12mm? Price will be around 950 euro including 19% sales tax (VAT).
//www.sigma-photo.com/Html/pages/12_24_ex.htm
//www.sigma-foto.de/weitwinkel/weit17.html
I'm going to try a 300D and 10D tomorrow, will see if they'll allow me to try a Sigma 15-30 and a Canon 70-200 F4 L on it. :) After that I'll attack the store owner about selling the 300D 100 euro above the official Canon price. I guess that's why he drives an 8 serie BMW. Wasn't going to order there anyway. :)
Mental note: Need new trousers, because sitting behind the desk lurking at dpc all day wears out the bottom area..... And need to take a haircut so that I can update my profile pic for one without a cap on.
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10/11/2003 04:57:52 AM · #28 |
I've only invested into 2 L-glass lenses but I am extremely happy with them. I bought 24-70 L f2.8 IS USM and 70-200 L f2.8 IS USM. The 24-70 practically lives on my 10D, because 70mm converts to approximately 105mm which makes it acceptable for head and shoulders, and anything shorter is good for the groups of people and events. It also works well in macro mode. 70-200 is fantastic for sports, events, photojournalism and head and shoulders with a superb bokeh (and I find it shrper than 24-70). I am training at the moment to be a professional social photographer, so I figured these two lenses will cover all my needs for now. After 6 months I haven't been in a stuation where I would have needed any another lens.
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12/21/2003 12:29:43 PM · #29 |
well I have a very big pelican so here it goes.
35mm CANON gear:
14mm "L"
15mm fisheye
16-35 "L"
24 tilt shift
24-70 "L"
65mm MPE? macro
70-200mm "L" "IS"
90mm tilt shift
100mm macro
180 "L" macro
300 2.8 "L"
500 4 "L" "IS"
1.4x
2x
extension tubes
Medium format:
Pentax 67II
45mm
70mm
100 macro
165 leaf shutter
300 f4
Mamiya 67II
50mm
65mm
105mm
180mm
Studio lights:
I love my dynalites! |
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12/21/2003 09:39:59 PM · #30 |
Canon 28-135 USM IS
Sigma 28-70 2.8
planing on getting the 1.8 50mm and the "bigma": sigma 50-500mm
I don't like the Canon lens too much, it's too plastic...
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12/21/2003 10:05:17 PM · #31 |
Canon 75-300mm IS
Canon 28-135mm IS
Sigma 105mm F2.8 Macro
Canon 550EX (flash)
next in the bag ...
Sigma 15-30mm
Canon 420EX flash (as a slave)
wireless flash transmittor thingie
come to think of it, here is a page of my gear ...
//www.photojacko.com/gear.htm
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