10 Mar

Favorite Set-up?

Posted by wktd under enart.hubeidaxue.com

  • Someone asked on another post that we have people post up a picture of their camera with their favorite set-up...this can include flash, wizards and of course, lens!

    Here is my favorite. 1D Mark III with 70-200 f2.8L IS, 580EX II and straight bracket with a Pocketwizard transmitter.

    http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6286/1dmkiiishotfb2.jpg


    Mike


  • Should this be in the equipment forum?

    ah well...

    My current favorite setup is:

    M8
    12mm Heliar
    35mm Summarit
    50mm Noctilux
    75mm Summarit

    Just got the M8 and I'm still adjusting to the whole digital rangefinder... I'm getting to like it more and more each time I make time to shoot.

    http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL262/1501137/2865639/305600505.jpg

    For flash, believe it or not I found the Canon 550EX with battery pack to be most effective.


  • *mouth drops*

    thts very very nice!

    Ditto. thats glass pwns my 18-55mm:-P:blushing:.


  • cute little cameras, here's my favorite setup, for the time being....

    http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/epatsellis/nikon%20300/810P.jpg

    sinar 8x10P/350 Symmar-S MC/Sinar Shutter.

    erie


  • *Drools*

    On my wishlist.. but its going to be a while..

    Could you happen to take a photo of your M8 next to your Canon dSLR?

    How about 4 canon primes and a 1D next to a 4 rangefinder primes next to an M6? It was to demonstrate one reason why I moved away from the SLR system... The difference in size and weight is night and day.

    http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL262/1501137/15679162/294650379.jpg


  • Yeh... the A2 does produce pleasing DOF. Looks great!

    << Waves back at Gumby.


  • << Waves back at Gumby.

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  • lovely setup Syndac. cheap and simple

    well not too cheap :)

    how is the D50 ive narrowed it down to that and D40, with the D50 i can get a Sigma 18-55 F2.8 though!

    Thanks. :mrgreen:

    I love my D50 although I plan on getting a D300 soon. I'd never recommend the D40 to anyone, in my opinion the lack of focus motor in the D40 is a huge mistake by Nikon. That's why I started off with the D50.


  • Why the petal hoods on the long lenses (I thought they were only needed on wide angle lenses)?


  • on yeh.. try street photography with that.. ;-)


  • I know I can't compete with those already posted, but here's my current setup:

    http://www.task9.com/camera.jpg


  • Naw, that's what the RB is for. Or my 8x10 field camera, set on hyperfocal distance with a 210 lens, looks like an oversized speed graphic.


    erie


  • I know I can't compete with those already posted, but here's my current setup:



    We have the same tripod! But I ripped off the head on mine and replaced it with what you see in my A2 shot (above, top). :D


  • OMG!!! I want that 400 SOOOOOOOOOOO BADDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!


  • Who is competing?

    Thats a very nice setup you have there.... Syndac

    Now there's a photographer who values the importance of support and steadying the camera.... nice and compact to carry with yah all the time.


  • Guilty...My better half is getting annoyed with the equiptment clutter in the library( my unofficial office). I am mainly a wildlife photographer and as such have mainly longish lenses. The other white is a 100-400L and in the case is a 70-200 f/2.8L. But I do have a hankering now for a nice macro lens which means I will prolly get the 100 and go off the deepend again in that direction :lol:
    But damn that 400 is sharp.


    I think wildlife photographers should get a grant to compansate for the fact that we need such expensive lenses!
    If going macro consider the sigam 150mm and 180mm - longer working distance than the canon 100mm and the sigma 180mm is a lot cheaper than the canon 180 and is just as good with quality of photo (though it does mean getting sigma teleconverters)


  • little bump ;)


  • *mouth drops*

    thts very very nice!


  • How about 4 canon primes and a 1D next to a 4 rangefinder primes next to an M6? It was to demonstrate one reason why I moved away from the SLR system... The difference in size and weight is night and day.

    http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL262/1501137/15679162/294650379.jpg

    I don't know whether to vomit or have an orgasm.


  • I don't know whether to vomit or have an orgasm.
    Far be it from me to tell you, but if you're not sure, back away from the computer real slow, just in case....



    erie


  • My setup changes... and therefore, the setup that is my favorite is the one that let's me get the shot under the conditions that I am in at the time.

    That may be with the 30mm F/1.4 as easily as it could be with the 70-200 ES ID VR F/2.8, or a 105mm F/2.8 macro. It really... just depends on what I need THAT MOMENT more than a fav hardware combo.


  • Not considering medium or large format then, huh? My wife made fun of the 20x24 camera, even helped me set it up on the tripod, joking all the time, til she saw a 20x24 contact print, her jaw hit the floor.

    I have my choice of Pentax 645 or 67 as well. 645 is a wonderful "field" camera.

    Prior to my move to lighter, more compact equipment, the enjoyment is realized at the end when I see the fruits of my hard work in a final print. Simply... put.. it was hard work. I couldn't carry all of it all the time. I couldn't meet my wife afterwards at the mall and still be comfortable. It gets in the way in both transit as well as shooting. You experience the world in tunnel vision. I couldn't carry it with me during my wife and I's rare dressed up dinner affairs.

    With the rangefinder, the enjoyment is realized behind the camera, to the click of the shutter, to the processing, and to the final print. It becomes an extension of you rather than something you carry. This in fact is something that a medium or large cannot accomplish either. Yes.. better quality negative.. sure.. but soo many occasions to take photographs that would have otherwise been impossible with MF or LF (even an SLR).

    For one... I was able to photograph the birth of my son AND participate at the same time. I actually have a photo of my son a minute or two before he was declared "born" taken during the cesarian section with the umbilical cord still connecting mother and child as the doctor passed him to the nurse. Again.. an opportunity otherwise impossible to take with any other camera but a rangefinder (or similar). That one photo is considered (in my mind) as my masterpiece. It was taken "blindly" with my camera prefocus set, held with only one hand and with the camera taken over my head (I was focused on my wife's eyes at the time.. it was a delivery full of complications.. she was extremely tired). The photo is literally full of life in an extremely sharp photo.

    For those that follow the "snapshot" thread debacle... this is the one event that convinced me that a "snapshot" can and IS photography. For the same reasons that many journalists that snapshot events and news are also photographers.

    I'm not knocking SLRs nor larger formats.... simply tools with a different purpose. I still have zooms with my Canon.


    btw.. the only issue I had with the camera was when I had the nurse take a few photos of us. She (understandably) didn't understand the concept of prefocus and stepped too close for one of the shots... oh well...


  • Who is competing?



    You mean it's OK to embarrass ourselves? OK then, here's mine:

    I go from camera to camera to camera (ad infinitum) and have been all over the map. I think I like selecting, buying, and learning new and different camera systems as much as I like taking pictures. Am I a geek or what? Currently, I'm pretty cameraless (as I've been selling off for the D3/D300):


    http://tesselator.gpmod.com/Private_/DX080505-115958.jpg
    Konica Minolta A2 taken with some other little compact, and this one just doesn't seem to want to leave:

    http://tesselator.gpmod.com/Private_/My_F3s.jpg
    taken with the A2 (above).


  • Ah I'd love to post photos of my stuff. But alas I have none.


  • thort id bump this to see if we can get some more replies!


  • My current setup:


  • http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL262/1501137/15679162/294650379.jpg[/QUOTE]

    one reason why I moved away from the SLR system... The difference in size and weight is night and day.

    Indeed! Which is why I often still use all-in-one compact cams when I can get away with it. I'm not a mule!


  • loving the DOF in the F3 shot :D

    looks fannntasticc!


  • I got sore neck already just by looking at the setup, imagining it hanging around my neck. I think just stick with my d40 and the kitlens instead of dumbbelling :). I would love to have that sinar 8x10P/350 for it's antique look.

    Anyway why do you people like those heavy stuff?


  • I don't know whether to vomit or have an orgasm.

    So what happens when I show you the rest? ;-)

    Like some of my other Canon stuff, the 24L, 135L, and the 85 went on the auction block to fund other stuff (kept the 50 f1.4).


    Indeed! Which is why I often still use all-in-one compact cams when I can get away with it. I'm not a mule!

    Yup.. The next time I break my back carrying photo equipment, I better be earning a paycheck.


  • My current setup:

    nvm :D


  • loving the DOF in the F3 shot :D

    looks fannntasticc!

    Golly, thanks! I figured since it was no longer a heavy-weight the pic of it at least ought to not suck. :wink:


  • ... again I see another white lens sneaking into the background, sneaky things ;)
    and what is in that holder in the bottom - another hiding lens

    A very nice setup - give me some months and I might have set-up that I am willing to show off :)

    Guilty...My better half is getting annoyed with the equiptment clutter in the library( my unofficial office). I am mainly a wildlife photographer and as such have mainly longish lenses. The other white is a 100-400L and in the case is a 70-200 f/2.8L. But I do have a hankering now for a nice macro lens which means I will prolly get the 100 and go off the deepend again in that direction :lol:
    But damn that 400 is sharp.
    http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u221/uplandgunner/Mallards039copy.jpg


  • Should this be in the equipment forum?

    ah well...

    My current favorite setup is:

    M8
    12mm Heliar
    35mm Summarit
    50mm Noctilux
    75mm Summarit

    Just got the M8 and I'm still adjusting to the whole digital rangefinder... I'm getting to like it more and more each time I make time to shoot.

    http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL262/1501137/2865639/305600505.jpg

    For flash, believe it or not I found the Canon 550EX with battery pack to be most effective.

    *Drools*

    On my wishlist.. but its going to be a while..

    Could you happen to take a photo of your M8 next to your Canon dSLR?


  • So what happens when I show you the rest? ;-)

    Like some of my other Canon stuff, the 24L, 135L, and the 85 went on the auction block to fund other stuff (kept the 50 f1.4).



    Yup.. The next time I break my back carrying photo equipment, I better be earning a paycheck.

    Not considering medium or large format then, huh? My wife made fun of the 20x24 camera, even helped me set it up on the tripod, joking all the time, til she saw a 20x24 contact print, her jaw hit the floor.


    erie


  • *mouth drops*

    Yeah, she is gorgeous!


  • Little girl in a doll shop much?


  • lovely setup Syndac. cheap and simple

    well not too cheap :)

    how is the D50 ive narrowed it down to that and D40, with the D50 i can get a Sigma 18-55 F2.8 though!


  • ... again I see another white lens sneaking into the background, sneaky things ;)
    and what is in that holder in the bottom - another hiding lens

    A very nice setup - give me some months and I might have set-up that I am willing to show off :)


  • I got sore neck already just by looking at the setup, imagining it hanging around my neck. I think just stick with my d40 and the kitlens instead of dumbbelling :). I would love to have that sinar 8x10P/350 for it's antique look.

    Anyway why do you people like those heavy stuff?

    I have to say the f2.8 70 - 200 IS is very heavy. But don't forget it is a very very nice piece of glass. And I have to say my f4 70 - 200 already gives me pretty good results in comparisson to kit lenses i've used.


  • My favorite set up is the one I can't afford:

    http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i319/RokcetScientist/CanonEOS-1DsMarkIIIwith85f12.jpg

    and a pretty assistant to lug the gear a.o.


  • I know I can't compete with those already posted, but here's my current setup:

    http://www.task9.com/camera.jpg

    Very nice kit!


  • thanks syndac you just booted my confidence in it :)

    used D50 body = £150
    sigma 18-50mm F2.8 = £100
    old sb flash = £50

    £300, DONE :D


  • i need to go wash my pants after looking at this thread!


  • Here's my favorite setup which I have actually shot handheld with decent shots but you get tired very fast!
    My setup
    Canon 40D, Canon EF 400 f/2.8 IS USM, Wimberly II gimbal head and 1.4 TC not shown.


    http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u221/uplandgunner/IMG_0479.jpg







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