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I've had three G1s, one purchase and two replacements. This is my first and I hope only G2. My current G1 will go back to Tamron tomorrow for a complete refitting, then I will sell it to a friend for cheap.
Fortkentdad
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There is a rotating collar with a screw hole for a foot, but no foot. I do not think the collar comes off - at least not easily. I have looked on eBay for a foot but never found one cheap enough. Maybe I should go back to the well and see what I can find. I could just screw on a tripod swiss arc plate directly - perhaps with a washer to give it a little gap. But I tend to use this lens hand held. i think it would be OK if I put the camera on the tripod with this lens - but maybe not - and I've never done that.
B&H has a RSS LCF-10 Foot for $135 CDN.
I am not sure if I'd also need the RSS replacement LCF-10P Plate Mount to use the RRS foot.
There are two other brands (Sunway at $60 and Kirk at $106) Have not really look into this very hard.
Any comments from 70-200 users - how often is the foot needed? Is this lens too heavy and long to mount the camera on the tripod?
Then it is similar to the foot on my VRii. I use my 70-200mm f/2.8 tripod mounted at church with high ISO and slow shutter speeds. I have a Think Tank holster to carry it in, but the lens won't fit with the foot attached. One day I accidentally left the foot at home so I screwed the tripod head plate directly into that socket. It worked but was very wobbly making me believe it might be easy to break the collar. I just bought a different Think Tank holster for my 300mm lens which will allow my 70-200mm to fit with the tripod foot attached--I will use that holster so it never happens again. It worked in a pinch but I don't ever want that to happen again.
My suggestion is to keep watch for a foot. They are expensive for such a small piece of hardware, but IMHO these lenses are too expensive to take any chances. Congrats on the lens. :encouragement:
Nero
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Got a new lens. Tamron 28-75mm, used. Not a great lens but apparently good, especially for the price. Since I have an APS-C camera it's not going to be good for wide shots but this will primarily be for portraits so it's fine.
Also, it's my first non-Nikon lens. Yay.
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Also, it's my first non-Nikon lens. Yay.
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Fortkentdad
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My dearly beloved gave me her belated Father's Day present.
A "Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20" - a bellows style camera, which I learned was only made between 1940 and 1948. Mine was Made in Canada - in Toronto according to the box. It did come with the original manual - which is a real interesting read. Actually used it to find out how to open and close it. Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20 | Camerapedia | Fandom powered by Wikia
It is the latest addition to my small vintage camera collection. I collect them as curios, I have no idea if it works and probably will never find out, the 620 rolls of film may be hard to come by.
A "Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20" - a bellows style camera, which I learned was only made between 1940 and 1948. Mine was Made in Canada - in Toronto according to the box. It did come with the original manual - which is a real interesting read. Actually used it to find out how to open and close it. Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20 | Camerapedia | Fandom powered by Wikia
It is the latest addition to my small vintage camera collection. I collect them as curios, I have no idea if it works and probably will never find out, the 620 rolls of film may be hard to come by.
Fortkentdad
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You will love that 35mm lens - perfect fit for any APC camera. A must have lens.
My wife loves it on her D5100 and the other day I used it on the D500 with great results.
Enjoy
Fortkentdad
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Look what the post office had for me today.
Plugged it into my D500 - will put some images on it tonight and see if it is any better than a good SD card.
Had to look hard to get a faster one with an adaptor. I could have picked up the next generation XQD for $30 less and get an increased write spec of 440 vs the 350 this one boosts (read speed is the same at 400) but I paid more for the slower one to get the adaptor which I wanted as my only other option is to plug the camera direct to the PC or transfer by WiFi. I doubt I'd notice the difference between those two generations of the "G" Series XQD.
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Fortkentdad
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Update to my XQD purchase post
Tried it out - works fine. Really didn't notice the difference between a good SD card and this super fast card - but I didn't measure it. Only openned 484 RAW shots so maybe not a fair test and no stopwatch was used. But it works fine, and fast.
Now I have yet another gizmo plugged into my PC.
You can see the size of this new card, thicker and larger than an SD - and maybe more durable? I hope so, at $115 with tax and shipping for the card and reader it is a bit more costly than an SD by double the price if not more by capacity - SD's don't compare with speed. The reader is also twice the size of my SD card reader (that blue and black one reads SD and Micro-SD - it's a Kingston model). Both plugged to USB-3 ports.
Oh the memories - or rather memory devices.
Tried it out - works fine. Really didn't notice the difference between a good SD card and this super fast card - but I didn't measure it. Only openned 484 RAW shots so maybe not a fair test and no stopwatch was used. But it works fine, and fast.
Now I have yet another gizmo plugged into my PC.
You can see the size of this new card, thicker and larger than an SD - and maybe more durable? I hope so, at $115 with tax and shipping for the card and reader it is a bit more costly than an SD by double the price if not more by capacity - SD's don't compare with speed. The reader is also twice the size of my SD card reader (that blue and black one reads SD and Micro-SD - it's a Kingston model). Both plugged to USB-3 ports.
Oh the memories - or rather memory devices.
Fortkentdad
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The big question is who would be doing the shooting. . .
I believe I have finally found a carbon fiber tripod that meets all my expectations. My Benro just doesn't go tall enough for some of my needs. I've had a Gitzo 2 series tall/long aluminum tripod that I love and really wanted something comparable in carbon fiber. My 20 year old Bogen-Manfrotto tripod is great (and tall) except it weighs a ton--it's terrific for portraiture or stationary indoor photography, but it's far too heavy to carry. With it's Bogen-Manfrotto head, it weighs at least 10 pounds.
So I opted to go with a pre-owned Gitzo carbon fiber tripod that is also tall/long. I realize it isn't good to use a tripod fully extended, but there are times at church when I raise a tripod all the way up and stand on a chair. I have an Induro pan/tilt head to put on it. Here is a stock image of the one I got:
So I opted to go with a pre-owned Gitzo carbon fiber tripod that is also tall/long. I realize it isn't good to use a tripod fully extended, but there are times at church when I raise a tripod all the way up and stand on a chair. I have an Induro pan/tilt head to put on it. Here is a stock image of the one I got:
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