What Camera & Lenses do you use ??

Angry · Post by **Angry** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:38 am

I was sorting out my camera bag, as Ive got a new waterproof camera case for taking the camera in the boat.

I bought a Craftsman brand water proof case, its got a O ring seal & two snap locks, great case , the same as, but much cheaper than a Pelican case, got the largest size for less than $200.

I got to wondering what sort of Camera & Lenses everyone else uses ???

I have Sony Aphas, DSLRs, , 1 x A100 & 1 xA550 bodies

Also got a few film SLR bodies, Minolta's X3, 2 x X7.

Lenses are 35/80, 35/105, 75/100, 55/110, 200/400, 28/300, 28/200

Have a couple of Minolta G54 & G32 flashes for the film camers but no flash yet for the DSLR's.

Ibbsy · Post by **Ibbsy** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:40 am

We went through our gear the other day before going on leave and the collection is adding up especially when 3 out of 4 of use like photography as my 7 year old love it as well.

Cameras where EOS 300D, EOS 40D, EOS 5Dmark II and EOS1D mark IV plus some old EOS film cameras

Lens Canon 100mm macro, 70-200mm, 100-400mm, 24-105mm,85mm, 50mm,70-300mm few 18-55mm

Couple of Fuji point and shots and a canon water proof point and shoot
430 and 580 ex flash

Novocastrian · Post by **Novocastrian** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:09 pm

Wow Ibbsy few bucks worth there mate. Have you used your 5d or your 1d for many of you wildlife shots?

nomad · Post by **nomad** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:26 pm

Ibbsy wrote:We went through our gear the other day before going on leave and the collection is adding up especially when 3 out of 4 of use like photography as my 7 year old love it as well.

Cameras where EOS 300D, EOS 40D, EOS 5Dmark II and EOS1D mark IV plus some old EOS film cameras

Lens Canon 100mm macro, 70-200mm, 100-400mm, 24-105mm,85mm, 50mm,70-300mm few 18-55mm

Couple of Fuji point and shots and a canon water proof point and shoot
430 and 580 ex flash

Nice

I have had a Canon most of my life except for the Box Brownie my Granny gave me 45 years ago!
Now it's a Powershot 10 for a year or so and recently picked up a Canon EOS 60D with an 18-55 and 55-250mm IS Lens
I used to have full access to a 600 1.4 lens a while ago but it was a pain to lug about

I had a 75-300 is that i gave away a few years ago .... doh

Angry · Post by **Angry** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:51 pm

Access to a 600 1.4 ......lucky bugger, I know its heavy to lug around but mate waht a lense.

I went to Europe in 1990 to the Belgium Grand Prix , ended up staying with the Brabham F1 Mechanics & the F1 photographers.

Should have seen the gear they had !!!

In practice on the Friday, I was given a Canon with a 70/210 2.8 & was sat behind the armco at the origianl Busstop Chicane with instructions not to look up if I hear a crash coming !!

Got some great shots of cars a couple with all four wheels off the deack after hitting the chicane !!

Got boxes of pics to go through , but I'll find em one of these days !

Ibbsy · Post by **Ibbsy** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:57 pm

NovocastrianHave you used your 5d or your 1d for many of you wildlife shots?

was using the 40D the 5D is Nina,s for her work, just got the 1D about a month ago so using that now trying to learn what it can do happy so far.

tezza1 · Post by **tezza1** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:49 pm

Here is my list.

Camaras......Sony A700,A550,and A580

Lenses........ Minoltas 50mm 1.7, 35-105mm, 70-210mm f4,and the 300mm 2.8 HS

Tamron 17-50mm 2.8, 18-250mm,and the 90mm macro

Sony 18-55mm (kit lens) and my favourite 70-400g

Flashes I have a sony HVL-F58AM and a sigma140-DG ring flash for macro.

Other gear includes a kenko 1.4 teleconverter ,manfrotto carbon tri pod with ballhead,velbon mono pod,a pair of Leupold 8x40mm binos and a couple of carry bags.

I store my lenses,camaras and binos in a dry cabinet which keeps the gear at a set humidiy so to prevent fungus from ruining them.

Oh did I mention computer,printer and post processing software( adobe lightroom is my favourite), books etc.

So as you can see this is a dangerous hobby as it can turn you into a gear junkie.

Mind you I hate to think of all the fishing gear I have bought over the last 35 years or so.

Ibbsy · Post by **Ibbsy** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:07 pm

Tezza

what is the dry cabinet you use interested in getting one

tezza1 · Post by **tezza1** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:16 pm

The one I"ve got is called a Wonderful and is a 50 litre.I got mine from down south but you can get them at one of the local stores in the city.

jasonmcc · Post by **jasonmcc** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:18 pm

I store my lenses,camaras and binos in a dry cabinet which keeps the gear at a set humidiy so to prevent fungus from ruining them.

The most important statement regarding owning a non-waterproof camera in the territory or any other high humid environment.

I have a Nikon D5000 with a 18-55 and 55-200 lens. Last thing I bought was a graduated filter , really handy for taking landscape pictures when the sky is too bright.

Cheers

Jason

nomad · Post by **nomad** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:08 am

Yeah those F1 and Moto GP photographers have many $000’s worth of equipment hanging off them. I watched one bloke just drop a 600 lens on the ground once at the Eastern creek GP like it was a rubbish bag – I nearly cried. He said that they can cop much worse and still work
The one I had was for work and my excuse was that I needed to learn exactly how to use it.

Roadtrain · Post by **Roadtrain** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:10 pm

Mostly Canon DSLR's.

Canon 7D, Canon 50D, Canon 450D.

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, 70-200mm f2.8 L IS, Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM.

Lionel

Windy · Post by **Windy** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:30 pm

Jeepers - some pretty serious equipment here and some $$$ involved!!

I am still using my one and only Canon EOS 500D with the twin kit lenses - 18-55 and 55-200. Only just starting to get the feel of the functions now though and will be looking into a course when back home in Melbourne...something I should have done over 18 months ago when I bought the damn thing!!

Will be looking into a 5D Mk II or III soon I'm thinking...

Will be posting some recent Corroboree photos soon here too.

fishfanatic · Post by **fishfanatic** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:09 pm

Here's my "list" of cameras

Fuji FinePix 2000 with 15x optical zoom bought for the exorbitant cost of $280

from Malaysia some years ago.
Fuji Fine Pix J28 with an underwater casing for those times when wet weather is expected

The 2000 takes quite nice photos, I personally have never needed expensive cameras and find myself replacing cameras every two or three years. The last one died a salty death after being accidentally dropped overboard at Dinah while retrieving the boat.

But yes there are some pretty flash outfits out there with mega $$$...dont see too many photos from these cameras gracing the pages here

Ibbsy · Post by **Ibbsy** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:29 pm

Windy Will be looking into a 5D Mk II or III soon I'm thinking...

Windy Go the mark III sh#t's over the mark II have fixed the auto focus issue Nina got herself one recently magic camera and very fast AF.

North Australian Fishing

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