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Forum: General Talk
11-26-2011, 04:01 AM
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Day after mine arrived, I saw one with a BIN price of £37. Oh, well, so it goes. Something that arrived was a collapsible 49mm rubber hood to go on the end. £2.24 inc. postage. Very pleased indeed. Lens now looks fab mounted on my camera.
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Forum: General Talk
11-23-2011, 01:35 PM
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Oh yes, and a new lens, a Pentax F 35-70mm. Fifty quid off eBay. Possibly a little more than the going rate but the condition was immaculate and it came with a filter.
Hmm, don't know whether I like it. Styling doesn't match the K-r at all, and the build quality feels pretty poor. That rotating front element is seriously irritating too. It zooms in to 35mm rather than out to 70mm which is a bit odd. To its credit, autofocus is stupid fast.
I tried the >70mm macro mode. Second attached picture is the closest focus I could manage. I'd read that it did 1:2 (which would make it a pretty good macro lens) but I don't reckon it does. The DAL 18-55 achieves much higher magnification than this.
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Forum: General Talk
11-23-2011, 01:15 PM
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Just got me the "Strobist Ultimate Flash Kit" from cameratools.nl, the only European stockist of Lumopro products.
€350 inc. postage got me a Lumopro LP160, two Cactus 5 transceivers, lightstand, umbrella adapter, shoot-through brolly, twenty-or-so sheets of gels, gaffer tape and a bag of ball ties. Not too bad.
Manual flash is taking some getting used to. The LP160 is seriously BRIGHT. The transceivers seem to be pretty good and certainly a massive saving on Pocket Wizards.
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