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Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

03/14/2006 06:13:04 AM · #1

Well, it had to happen one day. After successfully bidding and winning on e-bay for a Metz 45 CL-4 I felt as though I had a flash that would do me for every occassion.

What I had forgotten was that I had left a "snip" shot for a Chinese Vivitar 283 and - would you believe it - I won the darn thing with a fairly low bid!

So there we are: three flashes (including the one on the camnera) and a very puzzled wife!

Sigh

woohoopepper

Nikon D70

03/14/2006 06:20:45 AM · #2

I had a bid in for a backdrop and in the meantime got in on the last seconds of a Nikon SB600 flash and won. I was hoping to be outbid on the backdrop, because a person can only buy so many things in one week, y'know (and I'm also purchasing the Lightsphere II for my new flash). Thankfully, I was outbid. Whew!

Riponlady

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

03/14/2006 06:58:28 AM · #3

Interesting title for this thread!

In the south of England "bugger" is a fairly strong swear word ( nowhere nearly as bad as f*** but stronger than "bloody") while here in the north it is very mild. Caused great fun when the children were small on a journey to visit their grandparents. John ( a northerner) said "silly bugger" about another driver and Matt and Leigh, sitting in the back and aged about 2and 3years old, thought this was a lovely word. They proceeded to chant "bugger,bugger,bugger" for the next hour to fits of laughter. However since we were living in the south of England at the time, we had to try and eliminate this word from their vocabulary before we met up with their grandparents!

Sorry completely off subject but just reminded me of a funny episode!
Back to ebay and flashes!
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Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

03/14/2006 07:02:35 AM · #4

Oops - that sounds like JUST the kind of thing I'd do!

I'd just go ahead and sell the ones you don't want to keep on ebay again yourself...

Message edited by author 2006-03-14 07:02:49.

Apple iPhone 5

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

03/14/2006 07:03:45 AM · #5

Originally posted by Riponlady:

In the south of England "bugger" is a fairly strong swear word ( nowhere nearly as bad as f*** but stronger than "bloody") while here in the north it is very mild.

Only because it sounds funnier in a northern accent; "you cheeky bugger.." Southern accents make it *sound* like a swear word!

dolphnz8

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

03/14/2006 07:07:07 AM · #6

Originally posted by Riponlady:

Sorry, off subject for a moment. When I was doing charity work in Guernsey, Channel Islands, I heard "awwww bollocks" quite a bit. What would be our translation? :O?

Riponlady

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

03/14/2006 07:09:02 AM · #7

Originally posted by dolphnz8:

Sorry, off subject for a moment. When I was doing charity work in Guernsey, Channel Islands, I heard "awwww bollocks" quite a bit. What would be our translation? :O?

Balls???

Message edited by author 2006-03-14 07:09:41.

03/14/2006 07:09:22 AM · #8

Originally posted by jhonan:

Originally posted by Riponlady:
In the south of England "bugger" is a fairly strong swear word ( nowhere nearly as bad as f*** but stronger than "bloody") while here in the north it is very mild.

Only because it sounds funnier in a northern accent; "you cheeky bugger.." Southern accents make it *sound* like a swear word!

As someone born within the sound of Bow Bells (hence a true cockney) I use the term bugger in the Yorkshire sense! Curiously, education and a mobile work life have robbed me of my cockney accent except when drunk!

But I do so love e-bay - chuckle

Carl (the cheeky cockney chappie)

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

03/14/2006 07:13:28 AM · #9

Originally posted by Riponlady:

Originally posted by dolphnz8:
Sorry, off subject for a moment. When I was doing charity work in Guernsey, Channel Islands, I heard "awwww bollocks" quite a bit. What would be our translation? :O?

Balls???

roflmao - and you said bugger was heavy - very funny!

try scrotum, maybe?

chuckling away here

MikeO

Fujifilm x100

03/14/2006 07:17:00 AM · #10

The alternative to bollocks is knackers!

Riponlady

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

03/14/2006 07:44:11 AM · #11

Strange - I find "balls" a lot less strong than "bollocks"!
:))
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sabphoto

Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

03/14/2006 08:30:06 AM · #12

Ok so you find a cheap camera that will fit that flash you didn't really want and you give it to your wife telling her you wanted her to join you in your fun...well maybe.

I sort of did the same thing once...while both of us married to other people, a friend and I were talking online. Her and her family were heading to South Carolina for a vacation and she was on ebay looking at swimsuits. Joking she sent me the link for a one piece she liked, well while looking at the suit I somehow hit the buy now button and since I never hit that before I tried to figure out where I was and how to get back, I thought I was successful.

Well before I knew it I got an email confirming my purchase...I had just purchased a swimsuit that would not have fit my wife. lol I quickly got a hold of the seller and changed the shipping address to my friends house with her name on it instead of mine. She said the invoice still had my name on it but she quickly got rid of that. lol I don't got to ebay much anymore.

eschelar

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

03/14/2006 08:43:36 AM · #13

Ok. I don't know about you, but I've also got a cheap off-camera slave flash. I find it immensely useful and worth every one of the 60 dollars I paid for it. It's simple to use and painless in operation (except a recent shot when I was taking a picture of a reflective surface near my face and accidentally triggered it at full power... LARGE areas of "sunspots" for around 3 minutes! Had to sit down!)

Anyhow, you never know when you will need another flash. I understand that the vivitar 283 has a slave flash function. If I were you, I'd grab a couple of alkaline AA's and keep it around.

It's super for doing things like illuminating backdrops and balancing shadows in portrait work.

I keep mine semi-permanently mounted to my cheap full-size tripod.

Eventually, I will get the Sigma 500DG Super, but that's probably the better part of a year away still. When that day comes, I'll still be hanging on to my Vivitar knock-off. (Tumax brand)

It's just a question of whether or not you can afford it...

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

03/14/2006 09:24:36 AM · #14

Originally posted by escelar:

It's just a question of whether or not you can afford it...

Well, it cost me Â£22.00 which is about $40.00 so I guess I can afford it!

I will keep it as it can be used as a slave and I have a slave trigger already. It may be that I use the Metz to deliver colour flash (filtered) and the Vivitar to delivery subject flash.

Or I may figure out how to take photos!

Any good flash photography guides that anyone can recommend? :-)

Carl

eschelar

Canon EOS-7D

03/14/2006 09:28:28 AM · #15

I've been shooting a TON of pictures with flash lately. I think just plain doing is a great way to learn.

What I've learned in the last 2 weeks with just 4 sessions (about 6-8 hours total) about flashes is tremendous. What I've got left to learn is still pretty durned huge, but I've got a pretty good idea how to interpret results from a test shot now, so I could narrow things down to get my lighting from a dual flash setup pretty much where I want it within 5 shots and around 10 minutes. That's not really amazing, but considering how little I knew before, that's definitely an improvement.

It's just a case of figuring out what you want, then making it happen.

All I did was look around for some shots, both good and bad, that I liked conceptually and I did what I could to replicate them and even see if I could make them better.

Message edited by author 2006-03-14 09:31:36.