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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

06/07/2004 06:11:14 PM · #1

Well just got back from the store with it... and a 17-40 mm lens and a 1.4x, now I need to get a bank loan.
It is not easy to wait for the battery to charge thats for sure.
Well I guess I am reading the manual while i wait...

Ecce_Signum

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/07/2004 06:23:47 PM · #2

lol, Its posts like this that really get to me!

Congrats on the purchase (turns green), can this really help you to produce better pics?? or are you a 8.5 fps junky?

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

06/07/2004 06:27:28 PM · #3

Thats an awful lot of coin for a hobby. Although I would probbaly have one too if I had the disposable income, right?

Message edited by author 2004-06-07 18:28:10.

digistoune

Canon EOS-20D

06/07/2004 06:27:37 PM · #4

Congrats! And jeez! I just ordered the dRebel and if a credit card could cry...

Took a look at your website - you've got some nice stuff there. Pray tell, what lenses do you have?

06/07/2004 06:32:28 PM · #5

well, the only shots i think it will help me improve with birds in flight, spot metering, and cheetahs running past me : )
the rest it probably wont matter much.

wewillexplore

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

06/07/2004 06:34:47 PM · #6

Originally posted by ellamay:

the only shots i think it will help me improve with birds in flight, spot metering, and cheetahs running past me : )

At least you've covered the basic, everyday shots. ;)

Message edited by author 2004-06-07 18:34:58.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

06/07/2004 06:42:05 PM · #7

lol mavrick- I do take lots of birds in flight, one of my favs. : )

Ecce_Signum

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/07/2004 06:54:26 PM · #8

Lovely set of Heron pics :) am looking forward to you improving on these!

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

06/07/2004 07:36:24 PM · #9

Originally posted by Beagleboy:

Thats an awful lot of coin for a hobby...

Indeed... but I know plenty of folks who take out loans to spend $22k on a Harley that they ride less than 2000 miles per year, or $10k+ on a personal watercraft that they use a dozen times a year, or $$$$ on jewelry that does nothing but look good, or...
I think $4500 for a machine like that is not out of line for a "main" hobby. I'm darn jealous! got too many remodeling projects going to drop that much this year.

jab119

06/07/2004 08:20:16 PM · #10

do what I do....sell some of your stuff you dont use anymore.... One mans trash is another mans treasure

I have gotten close to $400 from some things I have sold in the last few weeks.

James

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

06/07/2004 08:49:00 PM · #11

Originally posted by jab119:

do what I do....sell some of your stuff you dont use anymore.... One mans trash is another mans treasure

I have gotten close to $400 from some things I have sold in the last few weeks.

James

Actually that reminds me I have to put my '97 Ford up for sale. Any luck that beast will bring $3k, & I'm almost home... O wait, that cash is earmarked for the house too. Drat! LOL.

zeuszen

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

06/07/2004 09:05:18 PM · #12

Originally posted by kirbic:

...I have to put my '97 Ford up for sale. Any luck that beast will bring $3k, & I'm almost home... O wait, that cash is earmarked for the house too. Drat! LOL.

A few decades ago I traded my car for a horse. Shopping was quite a spectacle for a while.

A year or two later I moved from a house into a tipi, with the horse, of course. It was -28Âº Celsius the day I set up the tipi. I had to break up the ground with a crow bar.

By spring I could hit a mark from 100 feet away with a bow and arrow, on horse-back.

Thirty-thousand dollars later, I found myself horseless and without any means. That's when I took up meditation and writing.

Now, without the horse, I wouldn't have ended up with so much trouble. I wouldn't have this story to tell either.