The 24-70 is a great lens, and should match that D700 perfectly. But yea, poor house for sure! Post some photos when you can.
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Whoa Dawg. Nice. I have the 17-55/2.8 and the 70-200/2.8 That's my next step and it's a big one. My wife figured out what this stuff cost. I'd have to take her to Tortola twice.
worst thing about hobbies.... no matter what they are, they can cost you a fortune. hopefully this one is an investment, which will net me some money back.
Hassy 500 C/m (retired) Omega 45D 4x5 view camera (retired), Mamiya 220 TLR (retired), Speed Graphic 4x5 (retired), Minox-B (retired) Cannon 1dS Mk11 (slipped off shoulder in airport - lost!!), Nikon 40Dx - current. No longer shoot for a profession. PRICELESS Still have the hardware - just for looks nowadays. I really don't miss doing photography as a business Jedi
I use a Canon Powershot G10. Nothing spectacular. It gets the job done very well though. I love having the convenience of slipping it into my pocket. Built like an absolute tank. For a point-and-shoot, it does pretty well with 14.7MP. Chris
My dad had a black Kodak Brownie box camera back in the '50s. My first camera was a Kodak X15 that used the original 126 format Instamatic cartridge, a brilliant design for its day. I eventually wanted something more "sophisticated" and wound up with a GAF camera in the 110 Pocket Instamatic format that boasted an "electronic shutter" that set exposures automatically. Think of it as an aperture-priority camera with a fixed f/8 lens and you can see the problem. The resulting shutter speeds set (with ISO 100 film) were so slow that it was virtually impossible to hold the little camera without camera shake. See the example below. I think GAF knew this, which is why the camera had a tripod socket. On a 110-format camera?? Ridiculous. The last straw is when the photos I took at Operation Sail '76 -- of slow-moving sailing ships on the Hudson River -- all came back impossibly blurry. Next - my move into 35 mm. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I had been researching SLRs for some time, and eventually chose the Canon FTb over the Minolta SR-T201, both similar in capability, but there was a solidity about the Canon that I appreciated. A week after Op Sail, I went back to Manhattan, to the lower East side on a Sunday morning, and bought an FTb with the superb Canon 50/1.4 lens, at a little place called Foto-Electric Supply that sold everything from transistor radios to major appliances (and, which I understand, is still in business 33 years later!). I also bought a Vivitar 135mm lens and a 2x converter so that I could shoot longer shots. For the first year I had the camera I continued to shoot Kodacolor print film so that I could evaluate the camera's huge superiority over the GAF piece of crap. I had to learn the nuances of match-needle metering and of how to pick the right aperture and shutter speeds for the occasion. At the '76 USGP I took all the "action" shots at 1/1000 of a second because I didn't want blurry cars. That's when I learned that that shutter speed stopped all sense of movement, and made it look like fast-moving cars were standing still! I learned from that to use a slower shutter speed and pan with the action. See the example below; the print is a bit faded but a big improvement over its 1975 counterpart! The following year I switched to Ektachrome slide film both for economy and so that I could show my photos to groups. This went on for around 25 years. In 1980, I had bought a Vivitar 28mm lens for wide-angle use and a Vivitar 75-205mm zoom lens that came with its own 2x "matched multiplier" that gave better results than the generic 2x converter. The Vivitars gave very good results photographically but couldn't match the Canon lens for mechanical ruggedness. When the groups I belonged to started to shy away from allowing time for slide shows at their meetings, I eventually returned to print film, but started to order Picture CDs with my developed film so that I could put my images on the computer. I had been using a Spiratone flash unit for years (and still am!) but also bought a Soligor ringlight flash for closeup work. For an inexpensive ringlight the Soligor worked very well until I dropped and broke it; I should replace it but so far haven't. Next - finally to digital. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Considering how much money I was spending on processing print film, everyone kept asking me when I was going to switch to digital. After over 30 years I finally retired my Canon FTb in late 2006, replacing it with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I had also considering "superzoom" cameras like the Canon S3 IS, but was bothered by their tendency toward "digital noise" at ISO settings of 400 or higher, and the lack of a hot shoe for accessory flash. (Ironically, the later S5 and S10 did fix the latter deficiency!) I had also been considering the Canon 30d but decided that it was too pricey. I was originally planning to buy a Rebel XT but switched to the new XTi when prices for the older model failed to drop as quickly as expected. I appreciated the fact that the XTi was available in silver finish, since I had always hated all-black cameras. I bought Canon's 28-135mm autofocus zoom instead of the normal "kit" lens, and to this date it's still the only lens I have. Although of older design (1997), it's a marvelous lens, equivalent to 45-215mm in the 35mm format, so that it serves as both my normal and telephoto zoom, and has switchable image stabilization for when it's needed. I do intend to get a longer zoom to add to my bag, and to replace the venerable Spiratone flash with one of Canon's current flash units. A few months ago I also bought a cute little blue Canon SX200 IS pocket camera for times when I didn't want to lug the SLR around. Aside from fairly short battery life, and a time lag after pressing the shutter button, the little Canon has been a good adjunct to the Rebel. It's a bit bothersome that the Rebel uses the CF card while the SX200 uses the SD card. The photo below was taken by anticipating the action and pressing the shutter button a couple of seconds early; admittedly it was still a lucky shot. I doubt if I'll keep the XTi for 30 years like its predecessor; already it has been replaced by two further generations of Digital Rebels. But I'm still learning to use all its features. And it is a real pleasure not to have to worry about running out of film. Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Won't profit, but you surely won't lose that much if you take car of your stuff. Lens, particularly the good ones, will hold their values very well.
considering i bought it for 2k less than the current market retail value.... yep! but i meant the photos it will take will make me money, so it will pay for itself.
as long as i have made more money than i have in gear im ok with buying nice photography equipment. as of right now i have made triple what i have in gear but i have been lucky a few times and got some good paying commercial product photography jobs .
I now only buy (and sell) used lenses. I sold my 17-40L and bought a 20mm and 85mm, didn't like it, straight trade back for 17-40L.
Trading is always an option, but I've found that most used lenses aren't that much cheaper when it comes to good ones. So, I figure that I'd rather have a new $1600 lens than a used $1400 lens. $200 doesn't seem worth the potential problems.
I have since sold my 5DII to go back to a 40D after 5 months of loving ownership. Needless to say, I regret it every time I pick up the camera. I sold it because I am shooting less and less and figure I can get another when the price drops and my shooting pics up again. The times that I do shoot; however, I get tunnel vision from looking through the cropped viewfinder. That and my 24-105L just isn't as wide as I would like.. Alas, I'll have another when the time is right.
