Simon
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Ian, what photos do you take, can we see some?
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vibrio
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his are too good to share 
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Adam
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You've convinced me on the sigma lense, best I've found it so far is £540, not something to ebay for really
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Ian
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http://www.batmotorsport.co.uk/photos/batmoaintree.jpg
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam
You've convinced me on the sigma lense, best I've found it so far is £540, not something to ebay for really
I'd not buy a lens/camera from ebay.
got my BP511 battery from http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZextras4nz
got my sandisc ultra CF cards from
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZbuzzlghtyrby
got my manfrotto quickrelease head from
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Aspen-of-Hereford-Limited
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3325&item=3880232738&tc=photo
should be able to get a tripod from there too
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Ian
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eBay is just the venue, there are dodgy people all over the place, and good ones to. My lenses have all been fine and they're all through eBay. I like the fact that you can buy a lens, use it and relist it and get the same money. Free use of the lens for however long you want it.
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Adam
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So getting lenses from an ebay shop is pretty safe then Ian?
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vibrio
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safe yes but warrenty issues can be a serious pain. plus they will work out more expensive if you get stung for VAT and import tax.
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Adam
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
safe yes but warrenty issues can be a serious pain. plus they will work out more expensive if you get stung for VAT and import tax.
seen someone in the uk selling a user 70-200 sigma lens £300ish,
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vibrio
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buy new and you get a 3 year warrenty now 
although that would leave you 250 for a prime lens 
[Edited on 09-03-2005 by vibrio]
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Adam
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Was looking at filters last naight and really want an ND400 filter, looks the dogs!
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Adam
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Since the ND 400 lets in about 1/500th of the normal range of light, it finds another interesting uses in regular color shooting mode.
It makes moving objects speed up by 500 times. Any image you would normally shoot at 1/500 sec will now need 1 sec to expose. And if that object moves, it becomes a blur, a ghost of its former self. Longer exposures can almost entirely erase anything that moves.
See the people on the escalator? I did. Where did the steps go?
Stacking the ND 400 with other ND filters increases the time, proportionally. A common, low-cost ND8 on top of the ND 400 now makes the example above require 8 seconds. Close the f-stop down and you might need dozens, scores or hundreds of seconds to capture an image.
Shoot a stream and it becomes a pastoral blur of water. Shoot traffic and it becomes a streak of reflected highlights with no cars visible. Shoot a rush hour crowd and it becomes an image of ghosts vaporously whisking over the background.
Dozens of happy shoppers traverse the busy plaza. I saw them with my own eyes. But only one lonely reader sits under the umbrella in the shot. Wait a minute, I think I see someone else...
Stack two and the exposure factor goes up to 250,000 times normal. A 1/125th sec exposure now becomes 2,000 seconds, and that's over half an hour. Clouds become blurred, animal cages show only dozing creatures, theme parks become sunlit wastelands and shadows take on an airbrushed quality.
There is a lot to play with inside this single filter.
[Edited on 10-03-2005 by Adam]
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vibrio
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ND400??
ND 3,6,9 are the ones I know.
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Adam
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about 2/3 way down the page
http://www.digitalsecrets.net/Sony/AdvancedKnow2.html
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Ian
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You can make escalator steps blur by just going to a low ISO and whacking the aperture right up. Don't need no fancy filter
Make sure you are well supported of course!
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