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Pro-level camera equipment, all input appreciated!
Hypertime
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Wishlist times has officially come to my workplace and my division has a budget that it needs to burn through immediately. I'm focusing mainly on camera equipment, since I work on the marketing side of things.
Right now, I have a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens and hood, a 50mm f/1.4 lens and a 24mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens and hood. Plus a whole bunch of lens pens and cleaning cloths.
Can anyone recommend tripods, external flash units, bags, filters, et al. Personal experience with this equipment would be awesome, but if you just have some good links to good sites I would be in your debt.
Thanks in advance.
Right now, I have a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens and hood, a 50mm f/1.4 lens and a 24mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens and hood. Plus a whole bunch of lens pens and cleaning cloths.
Can anyone recommend tripods, external flash units, bags, filters, et al. Personal experience with this equipment would be awesome, but if you just have some good links to good sites I would be in your debt.
Thanks in advance.
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+ Vegas 8 Pro and you can make things like This
*WARNING*: Going to take forever to buffer.
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If you need any more help with off-camera flash, I highly recommend www.strobist.com.
I have a middle-of-the-line Bogen-Manfrotto tripod and head. I like the quality of their stuff. I'd look into getting a nice carbon fiber model, something sturdy that will support your 70-200, and a nice ball head, or geared head if you need more precision.
I use only Hoya filters. Top quality Japanese stuff. I keep UV filter on all my lenses, and also have a 52mm circular polarizer and a 72mm circular polarizer, and an assorment of NDs.
I have two camera bags. One is a Naneu Pro Alpha backpack. It's great when I take all my gear on a trip. it's very comfortable and configurable. The camera pocket is also hidden, which to me was a big plus. It doesn't look like a camera bag. I also have a Tamrac Express (I think) bag for when I'm just taking my camera out to shoot some photos and don't need a lot of accessories. I've also used a Lowepro bag that was very nice.
You might try reading the OP a little more carefully.
I have a Manfrotto 055MF4 which is their Magfiber tripod. I've been very pleased with it. It's compact, light and can assume a variety of positions without too much hassle. I put a 460MG Magnesium head on it, just a basic three-way adjustment.
You're gonna wanna go with a Canon external flash for the ETTL-II compatibility. I think the 580EX is the top of the line and it's very very nice to work with.
Don't buy a camera bag. Anything with a name like Lowepro on it immediately identifies your bag as a camera bag and as something people might want to steal. Other bag companies offer camera bags or things that could work well enough for you.
You in turn might try reading on the website I posted. It is entirely possibly to shoot a Nikon strobe on a Canon camera, especially using a wireless solution. There are even ways to make it work with a wired solution, or even on the hotshoe itself.
I agree that big logos (like the Canon Digital strap) are too flashy, but what would you recommend, to hold say, a camera body, 4-5 primes, a zoom, external flash, tripod, battery grip, extra batteries, laptop, chargers, a stack of filters and a tripod?
Camera shoulder bags have been the only thing that work for me, because they usually open in a way that doesn't spill your shit everywhere (or force you to place the whole thing on the ground), has a bunch of zippered pockets that you can stick various things in (filters, batteries, memory), reconfigurable pockets to hold your lenses, etc.
Tenba is pricey for camera bags, but well designed, and the logos are unobtrusive.
Why would you though? It's not going to have E-TTL II functionality and the OP doesn't need a wireless flash.
Studio shooting and shooting in the wild are entirely different things that have very different ideal setups, so I'll wait on the response before getting more specific.
E-TTL is nifty for a lot of situations, but depending on the needs, the 430EX is a solid flash and a lot more affordable. Not as powerful as the 580, but if you don't need that kind of power in a speedlite the alternative is still damn good.