Now Andre, I would say that you should stretch it out and get a 300 2.8 (even a non-VR version) for your kids sports Appears to be a superb piece of glass...
Now Andre, I would say that you should stretch it out and get a 300 2.8 (even a non-VR version) for your kids sports Appears to be a superb piece of glass...
You must have been reading my mind (or using a Jedi mind trick), I just got of KEH looking at the non-VR version of the AFS. Yea, only $3K instead of $5K. But if I buy that right now after buying a truck, my wife will do much worse than .
I did another stupid thing today, at lunch I stopped by the camrea store and checked out the 10-24DX. What a nice little lens and not nearly as big as I expected. Takes filters, and is it WIDE. I could have used that already this spring. But I did find something wrong with it!!! The zoom and focus ring are reversed (bad Nikon, bad ) So that is my "excuse" for holding off right now
monochrome wrote:
After selling off all of my Canon gear last Oct, I realized I had too much stuff. I'm pretty happy where I sit know with my Nikon gear, other than another body, there are no lenses that I feel I must get. With Canon I felt I needed the "L" primes, don't feel that way with Nikon, I love the zooms. Though I won't mind getting a PC-E and maybe a 200mm macro. But it's not killing me to do so.
With that line-up of gear, I'd be feeling happy too! Nice list in that sig.
A while back I was out at a group photoshoot replete with models, stylists, and hmua and 15,000 square feet to shoot in.
I brought every piece of shiny gear I could stuff into my rolling luggage. Profoto lighting and softboxes, gridded beauty dishes, softboxes, stands a D300 with a 17-55 , and a collection of primes. Well over $8k worth of gear.
I set up next to a younger female photographer who worked with an Olympus something or other, with a sync cable attached to a make shift flash shoe adapter hooked into a single fluorescent hotlight/strobe with what looked like a salad bowl converted into a beauty dish taped with packing tape to the strobe.
Ghetto doesn't even begin to describe the setup.
Boy did I eat crow when the shots came back. That young girl created some of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen with the some of the most challenging equipment to boot.
That made me think long and hard about how I shoot and what I realized that as much as the equipment matters to an extent, it's the vision of what you want to create that matters more.
That girl trounced me in the artistic and aesthetic department, and although I ended up with decent shots, all they amounted to were well exposed shots of terrible compositions.
Ever since that day, I've been working on shooting better with less. That and a bunch of other philosophical revelations have changed the way I shoot
I can now safely walk into BH and not worry about that next big purchase
In your case - if you have the love of a family - that automatically makes you the richest person on the planet (well at least one of them)
On a couple major websites, the best shots I've seen have often come from some version of the Rebel mixed with a kit lens and a 50mm 1.8. They're often photoshop geniuses, but not always, and it reminds me again and again that it's the photographer that matters most in the end.
luminosity wrote:
On a couple major websites, the best shots I've seen have often come from some version of the Rebel mixed with a kit lens and a 50mm 1.8. They're often photoshop geniuses, but not always, and it reminds me again and again that it's the photographer that matters most in the end.
My avitar pic comes from a D70s and a 50 f/1.8. That little lens is as sharp as either of my zooms.
Appears to be a superb piece of glass...
You must have been reading my mind (or using a Jedi mind trick), I just got of KEH looking at the non-VR version of the AFS. Yea, only $3K instead of $5K. 
But if I buy that right now after buying a truck, my wife will do much worse than 
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