latest little toy, a tilt and shift adapter for M42 lenses to fit my M50, indoor tests are very promising, tilts, shifts and rotates £100 on ebay, alot cheaper than a dedicated tilt shift lens esp for a non pro smudger. seems nice and tight for tolerances with adjustment screws for either rotating the lens to the correct orientation as its for screw mounts so the lens can have be the correct way up as with all screw adapters, this also serves to correctly align the lens's top when you use the rotation if you want to go from up down shift or left right shift, there are also stops in degrees around that too the main shift slider has many clicks so you can very accurately do a multiple pano stitch etc i have put a small nick in the 0 center so i can see it better when for centering it. i'll post some images later when i get a chance image was taken with the pentacon 29mm ƒ2.8 as i was also posting this on the M42 fb group
well my latest purchase was the sigma ef-s 17-50mm ƒ2.8 EX OS but the real reason for adding the post was to update my lens collection, i stopped adding them to the equipment list on the forum avatar as it was turning a single line reply into a half page box. still lacking in an EF Canon lens, mostly price has been the reason mostly but also the focal has come up a bit better as i'm on crop, like the sigma 50-150mm ƒ2.8, at the time i was looking specifically for a 50mm to at least 150mm+ fast zoom for indoor zoo stuff, i was looking at the canon 70-200mm IS L II and III as a possible lens, i could afford the II and i don't think i could have justified the larger price tag of the III and that was second hand too, but the 50mm start of the sigma is what sold it,
My latest purchase is a Rollieflex 622 Standard made in aproximately 1922 with a 75mm f3.5 taking lens medium format camera. It needed the mirror, glass, lenses, all cleaned and the focusing system removed and cleaned and lubricated, I am tsting it out now with some out of date colour film to check for light leaks.the apeture and the shutter speeds all work fine but I will find out for sure when I get the film developed.
Over the weekend I noticed an Eos 40D body on a reasonably local Cash Converters shop web site, reduced to £44.99 in their January sale. I was interested because it seems to be a better camera than the 1000D I've been using lately, and also because it uses the same batteries as the Eos 300D and they are more than twice the capacity than the 1000D, which had a bad habit of running out of juice at the wrong time. So I took a lens and memory card along to the shop, had a quick play, and took it home. So far it seems to be a pretty nice camera, a LOT heavier than the previous Canons I've owned but I not as bad as my Nikon D7000 or my old Canon F1 with the big rotating viewfinder. I'll use it for my next lot of eBay listings etc. and see how it goes.
Sigma 105mm ƒ2.8 EX OS Macro lens, been looking at this second hand for some time esp after experiencing two othe EX series lenses and seeing some reviews, when i checked the UK new price i was surprised it was still available new and its low cost, just £300 it came today and its good and sharp as i hoped it would be the reason for this one as i already have some high resolving manual 2:1 macro lenses is to have a nice casual 100mm macro with OS. with its brighter ƒ2.8 and OS at 1:1it will be a nice "lazy" macro lens, those 2:1 manual lenses are excellent for resolution but they can be a pita at times when i pop my clogs the missus will be able to afford two horses when she sells off my lens collection lol ah crp, i gotta redo my lens list................
yeah, well i don't smoke or have kids so i have a bit of money saved up for toys "just get myself a small little camera i can take some pictures of some dickie birds, nothing too fancy..................3 years later...........
Ok not exactly camera gear but I use this a lot. Sometimes for photography but mostly for hiding from my wife.
most definatly photography gear birds cant count, if you and your wife enter the hide and your wife comes out any birds watching this will think no one is inside it well, that can go two ways, if she notices how much we spend on gear we may never come out!!
I usually get setup before sunrise. Since I am usually by myself I have to get there when they can't see me. This blind works great for a few hours or if you really don't need a wide angel of view. My next one will be this so I can bring some gear in and move around a bit
In a moment of madness, I have found and brought one of Canons worst film cameras, and the lens that it was sold with. I am curious to see how bad it is. Gary
Gary , you have me all excited, so what was it, I may have one on in my collection, like anything you work within it's limits
My latest purchase is not as exciting as a camera and lens but a bit more mundine. I have 6 of them now, with a large amount of gear it keeps it safe when stored
Well, you know how it is. A modern camera is fast to focus, accurate, comfortable in the hand, and unless you do something stupid, it is going to produce great results every time. But, things were not always like this. As technology advances, I am curious to experience older cameras, and what they were like. I brought myself an EOS 630, one of the first EOS auto focus cameras from Canon, and I don't mind it. It works fine with my EOS lens, and it is not super fast, but hey it works. And here is where this choice came in. I wanted to experience something a little "earlier", to see what the first auto focus cameras were like. Enter my latest purchase, a Canon T80. Complete with an "AC 35-70mm f:3.5-4.5" zoom lens with a strange bulge on the top side of the lens. Stop laughing. I understand that this was not Canon's most successful camera. It is sort of the end of the FD mount, but this is an AF lens, but with no aperture ring. I think that there were all of three lenses released for this camera. Oh, and it has a red ring as well, but this is no "L" lens. This camera can also accept manual focus FD lenses. I am more than happy to give the camera a fair crack of the whip. I don't want to just slag the thing off, it is not why I brought it. And I am interested to see what the newest and best from Canon in 1985 was like. Program and manual mode, I can live with that. The styling is defiantly from the 1980's, and there seems to be a lot of plastic used here. Let's give it a go. It comes to life when you install some batteries. Who knows. It may even work as it should. Gary
I had a T90 and 3 lenses come into Vinnies where I volunteer, these were the first of the modern shape of the canon cameras and the first with auto focus, the lenses were fitted with a auto focus motor which made the lens look a bit lumpy on one side and were a bit slow focusing and noisy but super cool to use.
My latest acquisitions have been all of my Canon-related gear. Four months ago, I bought a Rebel T3i body and image stabilized 18-35mm kit lens for what I felt was a very reasonable price, and have picked up a couple of other inexpensive lenses to go with it, including a Quantaray 55-200mm zoom, Quantaray 28-90 zoom (both made by Sigma), and a Yongnuo 50mm prime. I figured that was enough to get me started having some fun with the camera, even though the autofocus does not work on the 28-90. The eBay seller refunded me the purchase price, so I was only out the shipping cost, and since its entire focal range was covered by my two other zoom lenses, I decided to let that be an ultra low priority, but one evening, perusing eBay when bored (very dangerous), I found a macro version of the same lens and gave in to temptation. Not only that, a super cheap, low shutter count Rebel XSi camera body showed up and I fought off temptation for two days. So now, the 28-90 macro has found a new home as the default lens for the XSi. Yeah, none of this stuff is anywhere near professional grade, but that's okay. It's more than enough to get started, especially considering I've got some Pentax gear as well. Time to get out and get shooting.
