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I decided to add two longer stripboxes - am staying with the Glow EZ Lock brand. After looking up the price on Amazon (using camelcamelcamel.com), the price of $75 each wasn't too bad. Purchased directly thru Adorama though. The regular price is $90 each. The nice thing is they not only include a Bowen's Mount, they also include a grid. Sometimes either or both are additional charges depending upon the manufacturer.

The other day I purchased a Green Screen Photography class by Ben Shirk via Creative Live. While the class is simply okay, I really do like his sports team composts. He photographs each athlete individually then assembles them in one image. These stripboxes are longer than my current ones and will work as backlights/rim lights when I decide to give this a try.

Take a look at his sports team posters: https://shirkphotography.com/gallery/sports-teams-gallery/

Below is a link to the stripbox I ordered.

https://www.adorama.com/glsbez1648.html

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weebee

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Due to the Covid19 I've reduced my outdoors photography. Though, we are going to Niagara Falls in a couple of weeks. I have been playing around with my smokers and grills. And I have been wanting a flat top grill for sometime. So...

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22" Blackstone. They have great reviews and am anxious to try it out!
 
Dawg Pics

Dawg Pics

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weebee said:
Due to the Covid19 I've reduced my outdoors photography. Though, we are going to Niagara Falls in a couple of weeks. I have been playing around with my smokers and grills. And I have been wanting a flat top grill for sometime. So...

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22" Blackstone. They have great reviews and am anxious to try it out!
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That looks perfect for cooking burgers outside. No grease in the house. Please post how you like it.
 
Danno_RIP

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I am now transitioned one more lens from F mount to Z mount. I purchased the Nikkor 14-30 f4 S lens today. I do like it. I took a few shots with it in the midday sun and I do like the wide open 14 mm. and I do enjoy the weight loss, compact side and standard filters 82MM filters working on a Full Frame 14-30 lens.

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weebee

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Dawg Pics said:
That looks perfect for cooking burgers outside. No grease in the house. Please post how you like it.
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This is a very nice grill. Gets hot fast with the dual H-burners. And after you get it seasoned. It is pretty much non-stick. Oh, the burgers?

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Perfect amount of char and still juicy as heck!
 
PolishX

PolishX

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In the last day I ordered the follow finally. Yes the wallet is a bit light, but selling my old 150-600 Sigma and college grad money helped cover the 200-500
1.) Nikon 200-500 f 5.6
2.) Adobe Lightroom subscription
3.) Lume Cube mini panel
4.) Lume cube 2.0 (used $25.00)
5.) Lexar 128 GB memory card 1667X UHS II
6.) 1/4 x20 hot shoe adapter
7.) Photo Clam lens plate for 200-500 (arca swiss adapter shoe)
 
Danno_RIP

Danno_RIP

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PolishX said:
In the last day I ordered the follow finally. Yes the wallet is a bit light, but selling my old 150-600 Sigma and college grad money helped cover the 200-500
1.) Nikon 200-500 f 5.6
2.) Adobe Lightroom subscription
3.) Lume Cube mini panel
4.) Lume cube 2.0 (used $25.00)
5.) Lexar 128 GB memory card 1667X UHS II
6.) 1/4 x20 hot shoe adapter
7.) Photo Clam lens plate for 200-500 (arca swiss adapter shoe)
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Congratulations! That is a great list. I would only suggest one thing... and it may have just been me, but I would suggest something like blue loctite on the clam lens plate. I had a couple bad experiences where the foot came loose on me. It may just be me not tightening it enough, but it made me a bit paranoid to the point that I ended up replacing the foot with one that has the Arca Swiss milled in it.
 
PolishX

PolishX

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Thanks for the tip, I have tons of locktite and will do that. Just so happens that ab out an hour ago a local here in Alaska listed his WImberly head used for $300 and it looks like it hasn't been used at all, good thing I spent all my camera money for a while..
 
Fred Kingston_RIP

Fred Kingston_RIP

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Lume Cube 2.0 from Adorama thru Amazon... @Danno made me do it...

By the by... It sells for the MSRP all over, except many camera dealers (Adorama, B&H, etc) usually bundle something else with it, like a small tripod, etc...
 
Patrick M

Patrick M

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nikonpup said:
​next the government will ask you to pay off national debt. :)
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No joke! Here in the UK somebody has to pay back the £’billions the government spent supporting the country at this time. Tax rises surely.


Oops. Sorry, I didn’t mean to hijack the thread. Admin please delete if you want.

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