[Racer X 69]

Hahaha, betcha wouldn't!
A 345 for me I like the F40, but it's a tad intimidating... must be a real beast.

A Dino, or a 250 GTO for me.

[Cerebum]

I won a steinheil munchen cassaron 50mm for £20 I also came very close to replacing my dal 55-300 with a plm, but then I gave my head a wobble. Next thing I am sweating on is a Schneider kreuzach 135mm! Very Interesting

[IgorZ]

I bought a rotating adapter for Mamiya rb67 which I am slowly building up... Now I just need to get a lens, a back, and a viewfinder, and I can actually start shooting

[kadajawi]

Ah the fabled meteor... a camera with very good specs, ground-breaking in some cases (e.g. h.265 encoding), but Samsung bowed out before its true potential could be realized.

It intrigues me... especially after they stopped producing it... must be the aura of mystery
Picture is nice

I was also quite interested in that camera... too bad Samsung didn't stick to it. Had they released a Mk II, and perhaps a Mk III, and also offered enough lenses for it (or better yet, make it compatible with an existing system), I think they could have established themselves in the market. But after years of me too products few cared about they released a great one that got many excited, and then they stopped making cameras as people were waiting to see if it is ok to invest into the new system.

An LG G5 android phone from ebay... should arrive in a week.

I liked mine a lot, until someone stole it. I replaced it with the V20.

As usual with LG, the hardware is great, but the software is a bit of a let down. Hopefully their new software team can actually fix things, and will actually update older phones too.

I currently have a Sony Xperia XZ2... great hardware, it feels extremely comfortable in my hands (it's pretty fat, but curves extremely well into the hand rather than being a very flat thing with slightly curved sides, which makes the phone uncomfortable to hold). The camera hardware is pretty good too, but the image processing is terrible. There's a way to eek out pretty much unprocessed images, and at ISO 40 they are really good. Noise free, sharp (with actual detail). The lens is fantastic for a phone, IMHO. But if you don't do that, if you let the phone process the images, you're getting an oil painting with some extremely strong sharpening (so much that you can see the halos zoomed out) and with local contrast raised (an effect I like, but I like to have control over too). They pop nicely when zoomed out, and are pleasant to look at (plus with HDR on the dynamic range is pretty good, while still looking quite natural... they look a bit like DSLR photos instead of HDR photos). But I'd like to have control over the sharpening, over the denoising, etc. Ideally raw photos...

Also I bought a cheap variable ND filter, mostly for video. It does lose some sharpness, which is a bummer. Not sure if I should return it and get something better.

Plus I bought a Tenba Cooper 13 camera bag. It fits 5 lenses (12-32 pancake, 35-100 (smaller than a 50 1.8), and for Pentax a DA 50 1.8, 18-55 and Tokina 80-200), has space for my Panasonic GX80 and Pentax K-5, can fit my MBP 13", some additional gear, is comfortable to carry, looks really nice (and not like a camera bag), well made, ... The velcro can be pretty quiet if you pull it down first. And there's quite a few nice details. They have smaller and bigger versions too. Highly recommended (initially I wanted the Peak Design Everyday Messenger 13, but in the end I think the Tenba is a better choice for me).

[UncleVanya]

I've never felt let down by the software on my older LG G3 but my wife hated her G2.

[WPRESTO]

I have accumulated at least twelve camera bags (as well as numerous lens cases with shoulder straps), not nearly enough to carry all of my equipment at the same time. Trouble is, neither B&H nor Adorama is selling porters.

[JimJohnson]

I have accumulated at least twelve camera bags (as well as numerous lens cases with shoulder straps), not nearly enough to carry all of my equipment at the same time. Trouble is, neither B&H nor Adorama is selling porters.

Porters (the human carrying kind) haven't been sold in the U.S. since 1865 - and longer than that in Massachusetts. These days I drink my porters and use a hand cart for carrying.

[Marcus Rowland]

The 24mm f2.8 Sigma lens I bought a few days ago arrived today and seem pretty good, a nice moderate wide angle for APS-C.

I've got to run a few errands but hopefully I'll take it out for some test shots later today, see if there's enough advantage over my 18-55 to make it worth keeping.

[Boris_Akunin]

I stumbled upon a large german online retailer selling lens hoods ("Camgloss" branded, seem to be pretty good quality) for Canon lenses at 0,06€ a piece (and free shipping).
I had no expectation that they'd actually fulfil the order, so I filled my shopping cart to the brim. Mostly just for a laugh but I was hoping for a decent coupon code (as an apology for cancelling the order, this is fairly common in german online shops).
That retailer occasionally has good deals on lenses (I got my Sony FE 85/1.8 there for ~525€), I could use a good coupon if/when they sell the FE28/2 for a good price again (the price occasionally drops to ~330€).

Well... they didn't cancel the order.


101x EW-73C (for EF-S 10-18mm 1:4,5-5,6 IS STM)
50x ET-63 (for EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5,6 IS STM)
33x ES-62 (for EF-S 18-55mm 1:3,5-5,6 IS II & EF-S 18-55mm 1:3,5-5,6 III)
25x EW-60C (for EF 50mm 1:1,8 II)

[IgorZ]

I stumbled upon a large german online retailer selling lens hoods ("Camgloss" branded, seem to be pretty good quality) for Canon lenses at 0,06€ a piece (and free shipping).
I had no expectation that they'd actually fulfil the order, so I filled my shopping cart to the brim. Mostly just for a laugh but I was hoping for a decent coupon code (as an apology for cancelling the order, this is fairly common in german online shops).
That retailer occasionally has good deals on lenses (I got my Sony FE 85/1.8 there for ~525€), I could use a good coupon if/when they sell the FE28/2 for a good price again (the price occasionally drops to ~330€).

Well... they didn't cancel the order.

Attachment 409710
101x EW-73C (for EF-S 10-18mm 1:4,5-5,6 IS STM)
50x ET-63 (for EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5,6 IS STM)
33x ES-62 (for EF-S 18-55mm 1:3,5-5,6 IS II & EF-S 18-55mm 1:3,5-5,6 III)
25x EW-60C (for EF 50mm 1:1,8 II)

That's hilarious! That could be their way to get you to buy lenses to fit those hoods...

[mattb123]

Wow! Anything useful for Pentaxian lenses in that lot? Or are they all Canon-specific mounts?

[tscip22]

Rokinon 14mm 2.8 Manual Focus

Purchased from forum member. First shots right out of the K3, Jpeg.
Cannot wait to get more familiar with lens.

[Boris_Akunin]

That's hilarious! That could be their way to get you to buy lenses to fit those hoods...

Buying lenses for all these hoods would cost at least ~39800€ (at best current prices in Germany).
It seems they were clearing stock, these lens hoods are on sale (clearance sale?) just about everywhere but for 5-10€
I bought the hoods at otto.de (Otto GmbH & Co KG, one of the largest online/mail-order retailer in Germany), they are out of stock now for some reason but other online shops that belong to the same company still have them on sale

neckermann.de:


baur.de:


Now, I could sell them off on Ebay (undercutting all the sale prices by a decent margin, I could probably clear 400-500€ after expenses, assuming they all sell which seems rather unlikely) but it would be a lot of work and I would have to let them trickle out carefully so I don't catch an Abmahnung.

EDIT: At their current prices, the 209 lens hoods I got for 12.64€ would cost 1491.91€

Maybe Otto will make it worth my while if I cancel the order and let them have their stuff back...

Wow! Anything useful for Pentaxian lenses in that lot? Or are they all Canon-specific mounts?

Nope, just for kinds of lens hoods for Canon lenses (EW-73C, EW-60C, ES-62, ET-63).

[bdery]

As usual with LG, the hardware is great, but the software is a bit of a let down. Hopefully their new software team can actually fix things, and will actually update older phones too.

Simply use Nova Launcher and everything becomes near-perfect. I actually prefer the few tweaks they include over vanilla Android, but it's pretty close to begin with. Comparing my G5 to my wife's Pixel 2, the differences are subtle.

[Boris_Akunin]

Right, I just got off the phone with Otto customer service. They'll pick up the lens hoods on monday and I got a 50€ rebate code.
It's not exactly maximising profit but it's decent money for next to no effort and I did get a good laugh out of it...