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Wishlists heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
FOR WHAT DO YOU HUNGER, /p/?

pic related (18-200 VR Nikon... drool)
>> Anonymous
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EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

It just seems practical... also $1000+ USD.
>> Anonymous
Bwahaha, I own one, it rocks. :P
>> Anonymous
70-200mm F2.8 VR
Also 85mm f1.4
30mm f1.4
60mm F2.8 Micro
>> Anonymous
>>39245
Same here.

Just gotta keep on watching eBay.
>> Anonymous
I would like to have AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED _with_ VR. Unfortunately there isn't such lens...
>> Liska !YJ5Tn1NSrM
I will be completely honest here; I want another 28-80 nikkor lens with a macro setting on it. Because it's the Best most surprising lens i've ever had. I use it more than I would any other regular macro lens, because it goes both ways. Even better, it's the one that came with the camera. Took me 3 years to discover the little switch. I've never looked back since
>> des
a roast beef club and some seasoned fucking curlies
>> Jeremo@securetripcode
Guys, as a somewhat proud owner of the 18-200mm (i'll post pics when i get home from work) i'd have to say it's not what it's hyped up to be.

The 18-140mm rangeis nice and stepped down the 18-70 is nicely sharp... but the long range is terribly soft and unless you were seriously sort of money i'd recommend going the 17-55mm and 70-200 VR route...

which is what i'm doing... saving up for the 70-200 VR so i get better telephoto shots and then if i can afford it... the 17-55 oooh yeah.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>39312

The 70-200 is great. I've got it, works beautifully
>> Anonymous
17-55mm 2.8
70-200mm VR 2.8 (Currently trying to save up for this lens)

60mm great lens, lucky enough to pick one up with a hood and Nikon UV filter all for $100.
>> ac
Hasselblad H3-motherfucking-D.

Things for which I hunger that I might actually get someday? Epson Perfection 4990 scanner, any sort of medium format film camera (I may have actually bought one of these already, but I'd like a better one), a Canon lens with IS.
>> ac
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Oh, and ZOMFGNOCTILUX. Ideally with a Leica M7 and an M8 to mount this sum'bitch on.

The idea of f/1.0 photography makes me physically aroused. Seriously.
>> Anonymous
By the time you can afford the Noctilux you will be one kidney, one testicle and 1/2 a lung short. Then you'll have to sell your penis and anus and your other kidney with the spleen attached to afford the M8. By then you will be 1/2 dead. Unless your a rich wanker.

But once you have the lens and said camera, you wont want to use it and instead you will just put it on a shelf in a locked box and gaze at it lovingly as most Leica owners do. You will then join a forum full of Leica users and every single shot you upload people will ignore you and say it doesn't have enough Bokah crap or what ever it is they like.

Then you'll be encouraged to sell the rest of your functioning body parts to buy an M3 or an M2 and then an M6 and about 20 50mm crons. Of course you will die by then and if you have children, they will sell it all for $50 bucks down at the local pawn shop.

For the price of a Noctilux you can feed the whole of Africa for 10 years.
>> Anonymous
>>39404
Dude, STFU.
>> Anonymous
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Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F/1.8
>> des
>>39404
hilarious because it's all true
Though, the kids will probably be talked down to $20.
>> Anonymous
rofl, ill give you $2.50!
>> Anonymous
>>39378
Please don't bother. It's hard enough to focus with an f/1.4 lens.

If you really like the soft focus effect you'll get, get any old lens for your Leica, and then kick in the front element. While you're at it, take a pickaxe to the top to knock the rangefinder out of alignment. There, missed focus without having to buy a Noctilux.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
Ahahaha, comedy gold
>> ac
>>39555
It's not the narrow depth of field that I'm interested in, it's the ability to shoot at a reasonable shutter speed by candlelight.
>> Anonymous
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Super-Rotator makes me wet. And some nice Mamiya to mount it on too, please.

Also, Pentax LX in perfect condition.
>> ac
>>39568
Ooooh yeah. Sign me up for a 24mm TS-E for my Digital Rebel, too.

And while we're at it, a 4x5 view camera with full range of movements.
>> des
I could still got for a roast beef club, but if I were going to be serious, probably just the 135mm DC. Partly because it's the only game in town for a nikkor AF 135 and partly because DC is neat to have. Yeah, I'm easy to please.
>>39407
I'd go for one of these if they were fucking chipped.
>> thefamilyman
>>39567
small fstop still doesn't make your camera nigh vision, even at something like f/1.8 and in candle light the shutter still may only be less than 1/60th. And at the fstop, DOF becomes so narrow you can quite easily miss the subject, especially if your shooting with more than one subject in the frame.
My advice is to get a good quality speedlight and use bounce flash if indoors.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
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>>39579
Speedlight that. Seriously, the noctilux is an orgasm in lens form. It's rapidly becoming my life's ambition to attain one. :(

Until then, though, I love my little 50 1.8 to death. :)

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>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
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btw, funny story about the 18-200 VR.

I walked into Precision today, and was looking at their lenses when one of the salespeople asked me, "Anything I can help you find?" so I said, grinning, "Yeah, do you guys have an 18-200 Nikon VR le--" and I got cut off by their laughter. We all chuckled, basically. They've already presold the next, oh, 25 they're set to get.

Moar noctilux action.
>> Anonymous
f/1.0 is pretty nice for when its useful, but i dont really like the bokeh that comes out of the noctilux.
>> Anonymous
I hunger for:

Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II
Canon 35mm f/1.4L
Canon 50mm f/1.2L
Canon 85mm f/1.2L II
Canon 135mm f/2.0L
Canon 200mm f/2.8L

And a 5D to put them all on.
>> Anonymous
>>39604
I don't think I can convey this feeling with text.
It's just this massive, unrestrained urge to grab your head and pound it on the pavement until you die. It's like just when you're close to coming - that's how bad I want to hurt you. I want to murder your unborn children. I want to rape your daughter. I want to eat your wife and spit on your grave.
>> Anonymous
>>39606
Why's that?
>> Anonymous
>>39607

Rofl, either he hates primes or he's a Nikon guy.
>> thefamilyman
>>39604
thats a lot of primes
>> Anonymous
You would be forever changing those fuckers around. Whats the point? What you need is a good zoom lens and a couple of primes. Out of that list I would keep the 16-35, even tho thats not wide enough and the 50 or 85 and maybe the 200, thats about it.
>> thefamilyman
>>39614
i have a few primes myself,
Nikkor 20mm f/2.8
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Nikkor 85mm f/1.8

what i like about them is that they are much smaller and lighter than a zoom of similar fstop. and i dont find them that restricting.
>> Anonymous
I have the 105mm macro lens and it weighs a fucking ton, by itself. Add the camera body and a flash and its near 2.5kgs of plastic, metal and glass. Got a 50mm f1.8D today and its so nice and light, so awesome!
>> fatalism get des
>>39614
I mostly use single fixed focal length lenses. When I go out I usually only take one other with me, you don't have to carry all your kit everywhere, just what you think you'll purposefully need that day. Just that or what you feel like carrying. If you "miss a shot", it doesn't matter, it probably wasn't your's to have. You think changing lenses is tough? Try it with a breechlock or screwmount body. Fukkin kids, get off my lawn, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>39614
Zooms cannot come close to matching the image quality or speed of primes. That's why I want mostly primes. My goal is to go into advertising photography when I graduate and having a bunch of lenses with me in the studio is no big deal. If I'm not in the studio, I'll be fine with the 16-35, 85, and 200.
>> Anonymous
>>39604
That would be fucking sweet.
>> ac
>>39614
The best zoom is a fast prime and a pair of feet.

My dream lens that I really wish someone would make for a Canon is an f/1.8 30mm (or thereabouts. Normal on a 1.6 crop) with IS.
>> bw !ef8V18P/FY
>>39245
I want an Alien Bees ringflash. I have enough damn lenses as it is, I need better lighting gear.
>> bridget !IRcQER6/v6
I hunger a DSLR with atleast a 80-200 lense, and a 50mm prime. But I can't afford it P(
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
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Lensbaby 3G.

DO WANT
>> Anonymous
>>39643
It doesn't have IS, but the sigma 30mm 1.4 is still pretty awesome.
>> ac
>>39669
Doesn't have IS, though. The extra stop vs. my 35mm f/2.0 isn't worth it on its own for me.
>> ac
>>39666
This is a silly toy and only useful for novelty photos.

And God help me, I want one just as badly as you do.
>> des
>>39670
IS on a normal lens? I think by the time I'd really want IS on a normal I wouldn't be able to see to focus the thing ;P
>> Anonymous
Good and valid comments.
>> AC
>>39686
Always want IS. I can see perfectly well, and autofocus works perfectly well, in light that wants 1/15th at f/2.0, but I can't reliably handhold that. And the young ladies I take pictures of have a hard time with the idea of "Let me take at least three shots of each pose before you move, because there might be camera shake"
>> Anonymous
>>39670
If you have a Sony/Pentax body it will :D
>> Anonymous
I wouldn't mind the Pentax K10D with an assortment of primes. Very nice camera.
>> film whore
a mamiya 7
>> Anonymous
Absolutely anything that will take Kmount lenses.

I have a bunch and no camera to use them with.
>> ac
>>39938
I'd like in on some of that action. Or a Mamiya 6. Basically, I wants me some medium format lovin'.
>> Anonymous
>>39312
Also have the 18-200mm. Not bad. Also want the 17-55mm and 70-200mm.