Awesome moon shot Chris! I'm glad someone got a clear view - was misty here early in the evening when I went out for a look.

Methinks a flash needs to be next on my wishlist after seeing wuffy's off camera shots... Amazing how much of a difference it makes!

Waitewaewae photos from the weekend:

Anyone got any idea what this is?! Saw it when checking my 50mm 1.8f for dust. I've got no idea what it is, or how it go in there... But it's HUGE. it's not causing any problems, and its a cheap lense, but still. WTF is that!

it might be.... CANDY!!!! You should eat it.

wuffy wrote:Anyone got any idea what this is?! Saw it when checking my 50mm 1.8f for dust. I've got no idea what it is, or how it go in there... But it's HUGE. it's not causing any problems, and its a cheap lense, but still. WTF is that!

Looks like a deformed tiny fetus of some kind of amphibious creature.

Conners wrote:Methinks a flash needs to be next on my wishlist after seeing wuffy's off camera shots... Amazing how much of a difference it makes!

Do not get sucked into buying one of the cheap yongnuo flashes despite their great value for money.
Worst reliability ever!

free_rider21 wrote:

Conners wrote:Methinks a flash needs to be next on my wishlist after seeing wuffy's off camera shots... Amazing how much of a difference it makes!

Do not get sucked into buying one of the cheap yongnuo flashes despite their great value for money.
Worst reliability ever!

Been reliable as for me, done 3 shoots so far, been a dream to shoot with. Keep them well powered (good batteries) and they'll be perfectly reliable!

My latest shoot with them.... Learning positioning etc with them at the moment, so awesome! Epic stokage.

1st and 3rd shot look sick as.

Second one is pretty mint oi as well.

I had a trawl through thos eon bookface the other night wuffy, some really impressive stuff from that shoot. I need me one of those wide angle thingys too...

Fango wrote:Waitewaewae photos from the weekend:

really liking shots 3 and 4

wuffy wrote:

free_rider21 wrote:

Conners wrote:Methinks a flash needs to be next on my wishlist after seeing wuffy's off camera shots... Amazing how much of a difference it makes!

Do not get sucked into buying one of the cheap yongnuo flashes despite their great value for money.
Worst reliability ever!

Been reliable as for me, done 3 shoots so far, been a dream to shoot with. Keep them well powered (good batteries) and they'll be perfectly reliable!

Thats the worst thing about them.
They will work fine for a period and then all of a sudden they wont fire.
Mine bit the bullet after 3 months, just waiting for a capacitor that will hopefully fix the problem

Oh, yeah that's an easy fix. Not even a dollar at your local electronics store.

I had a question for all you experienced photographers. Currently, I am only utilising an old point and shoot with some free photo editing software and I do enjoy it as it is old enough to not have everything automatic, but am looking at what would be a logical upgrade as it P & S's do limit you and I'm sorta stuck. I thought a DSLR was a logical step but with Micro 4/3 camera's they offer me a degree of freedom with regards to size while still retaining interchangeable lenses etc.

My question is, I want to be able to have a portable camera that would go everywhere with me for portait, landscape and macro shots but I want to still be able to take photos on the fly and they will be action ( Downhill, skateboarding etc ) Is their a compromise between the size of a Micro 4/3's and the ability to shoot accurately and quickly that comes with the DSLR?

fox wrote:Is their a compromise between the size of a Micro 4/3's and the ability to shoot accurately and quickly that comes with the DSLR?

Very much so.

All the non SLR's (apart from sony a33,a55 , perhaps nex3?) use contrast detect autofocus.
This is a ton slower than phase detect used on SLR's
AFIK non of the non SLR's (apart from the sony a33,a55 ) can manage sustained high speed still shooting like an SLR can. Most SLR's can shoot at their max frame rate in jpg without limits now and can get 10-20+ frames of raw before slowing down.

Another key thing is flashes & control, not sure how the m43rds etc work that well at that with sports.

Problem with SLR is you will need a bunch of lenses to do what you want. Tho portrait and macro an be covered with 1 lens (50,60,90,100mm macro at f2.8) that can probably cover some sport too but macro arnt the fastest focusing lenses and may be too long for skateboarding etc.

I picked up a (used) tamron 90 for $330, a used canon xxxD (with IS kit lens) will be what $500-600, $800-900 for a sigma 70-200f2.8 and your very sorted!