The Ultimate Equipment Poll


The Ultimate Equipment Poll  

279 members have voted

  1. 1. What type of equipment is your primary camera?

    • Digital SLR
      199
    • Film SLR
      3
    • Digital P&S
      67
    • Film P&S
      1
    • Other
      9
  2. 2. Who is the manufacturer for your primary camera?

    • Canon
      134
    • Casio
      1
    • Epson
      0
    • Fuji
      8
    • Kodak
      4
    • Konica Minolta
      0
    • HP
      2
    • Nikon
      68
    • Olympus
      12
    • Panasonic
      9
    • Pentax
      5
    • Polaroid
      0
    • Ricoh
      0
    • Samsung
      5
    • Sanyo
      0
    • Sigma
      0
    • Sony
      26
    • Vivitar
      1
    • Other
      4
  3. 3. Where do you usually buy your equipment or accessories?

    • Brick & Mortar Stores
      104
    • Online or Mail Order
      175


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  • 1 month later...
  • 2 weeks later...

Update on my equipment.

Canon EOS 400D

Canon EOS 40D

Canon A-1

Holga 135BC

Canon EF 50mm F/1.8

Canon FD 50mm F/1.8

Canon EF 17-40mm F/4L USM

Canon EF 70-200mm F/4L USM

Lowepro Computrekker AW

4x4GB Kingston Elite Pro 133x CFs

Mix of film, Fuji Velvia 50, Ilford HP5+, Ilford Delta 3200

and Hoya Pro1 UV filters on the 70-200 and the 17-40

Edited by Pandya
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  • 2 months later...
  • 2 weeks later...
haha that was so well done.

And what's up w/ the M9? Is the price on amazon.com of like $8k accurate? WHY!?

Sounds pretty accurate. It's Leica. They can come up with a price and charge what they want, because they don't need your money, you want their producits. It puts them in an advantageous position when it comes to setting prices.

Leicas are manufactured to extremely high standards, which does for one dictate their prices. The tolerances of what Leica deem acceptable are far tighter, resulting in more waste. As a result, their products are top notch. Specifically why you'd want an M9 though, is because M series rangefinders are extremely discrete and subtle, and have been described as the ultimate for street and candid photography. That, and insanely good and legendary glass like the f/0.95 Noctilux. You are right though, in your implication that they have a degree of fashion/designer cache, the Lecia name dictates a higher price, simply because.

  • 5 months later...

Just ordered a new Panasonic LX3 to replace my old digital camera ready for a trip.

Also ordered:

Gordy Camera Strap - 58inch sling With split-ring lug mount connector & integral bumper and neck pad (dark brown leather and green wrapping to all)

JJC ALC-3 lens cap (no fiddling with lens caps)

16gb Bytestor class 6 SHDC card (cheap and not let me down in the past 5 years)

Addtional Panosonic battery (Just in case)

and

DMW-CLX3 Black Original Leather Case (in the end this was my guilty pleasure)

Only bit of existing kit to keep will be my Manfrotto 785B tripod which replaced a broken tripod a year or so ago.

Don't think there is anything else I need.

  • 1 month later...
  • 1 year later...

dSLR:

Canon EOS 60D - Main body

Canon EOS 20D - Backup body

Canon SpeedLite 430EX II flash

Canon 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 USM lenses (Getting 24-105 f/4L and 70-200 f/4L soon)

Compact:

Canon SD790 IS - Main

Canon SD300 - Backup

Honestly I've stopped caring about performance P&S cameras after my SD790 IS. My dSLR is so much better; if I care about image quality I bring that along, if I don't the SD790 IS is a fine camera. No HD video but I can't recall the last time where I needed to shoot in HD out of the blue. The 60D is a brilliant HD camera though.

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...

dSLR: Canon EOS 500D

Store of choice: Brick and Mortar, I did order the camera from Amazon with its lens but have mostly bought other parts from stores, using the "Reserve and Collect" option online.

Canon 550D

Canon S5 IS

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

Canon EF 50mm F/1.8

Canon EF 100mm F/2.8 Macro

2x Vivtar Tel Converter

Extension tubes

Lowepro 202 AW

1x16GB Class 10

1x8GB Class 10

2x4 GB Class6

UV & Polarizing filters

Next on my list: 430EX II Flash & Canon EF-S 10-22mm f3.5 - 4.5 UW lens.

Nikon D40 (Currently looking for upgrade thinking D7000)

Nikon 50mm F1.8

Nikon 18-55mm F3.5-5.6

Samyang 8mm Fisheye (Nikon mount)

Nikon SB-400 External Flash

Velbon CX Mini Tripod with 3 Way Head

Been also using recently:

Polaroid Specra 1

Polaroid 600 One

Nothing special but thats my current equipment.

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