New today...

How is that photoframe? Is it good? How big is it?

28-300 is an excellent FF lens at that price. But prepared to be disappointed if you shoot people in low light. For travel use, I would rate it as my favourite.

Keeping the ball rolling... After almost a year of thinking... I finally gave in and bought this today.

Not exactly photography related, but these puppies are going into my photo editing rig. RAID0 style.

Used to take like 5mins for windows to boot up and become usable... And LR or CS4 takes a minute or two to launch and become usable...

Now it takes less than 20 secs for windows. and LR/CS4 takes 5-10 secs to startup!! LR catalogs and previews load instantly, and no more dreaded loading when you go from grid to loupe view. selecting multiple pics n going into survey mode is super fast!! Even with 14mb NEFs!!!

Truly the best investment I've made in a long time. Better than my proc, ram and gc upgrade previously.

Game load times are sooo much shorter, and no more stuttering as the hdd spins up when entering new areas tht need new textures to be loaded.

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Added on December 23, 2010, 11:27 pmYup yup. Decided to go for these puppies instead of another lens or speedlight. Kinda like an early christmas gift to myself.

This post has been edited by adriancs: Dec 23 2010, 11:27 PM

A few days already and I haven't hated them yet... My PC... The bios screen takes a hell long time. Once it gets to the windows part its pretty fast like you said. As for LR... Well I dunno. Maybe I've a huge catalog? And ol stuff isnt on the ssd. Been thinking of splitting up my catalogs, but lazy to do it so far.

I'm using 4x wd black 2TBs in Raid5 for my permanent storage.

Where you get those curved things in th drybox? My lenses are rolling about in mine... Have to stand on their ends, but for long teles cant stand them up.

Oh, I don't litter my desktop. My desktop is pretty clean hehe I almost always use LR to import from the card, and file it away nicely into its own directory. Problem is my LR catalog now has like 40k pictures... I should be deleting rejects and archiving old shoots somewhere else... But I am not. Maybe starting 2011 I should start a new catalog every quarter, or half year.

For walkaround use, I'd rather have the zoom range than shallow DOF. 24-70 just does not give enough reach in many situations.

+1

Shallow DOF isn't and shouldn't be THE ONLY criteria when looking for a walkaround lens. In fact, I think this "bokeh" thing is being overdone. Its poor composition skills if you have to rely on shallow DOF to isolate your subject instead of including the background and foreground and making the picture work. Large apertures should be considered for low light work, not solely for their shallow DOF properties.

He already replied you in the previous thread la...

I stand by my blackrapid and optech straps. But mostly I don't use straps.

Last last... canon lens also use Nikon design lens cap. But 10 bux... really cheap man...

Real men go commando.

Only rich men are real men

But this forum is full of rich people... every few weeks must buy upgrades.

3 months is a long time! One lens a month nex time?