What do I spend my first £100 of togging earnings on?
Bend The Light
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HI all,
In the next couple of weeks I will have earned my first £100 as a photographer. I know it's not much, but it's a great feeling anyway.
Money is tight in our household, so usually any money I make gets put into general funds, but I want to make an exception this time, and spend this £100 on ME and my photography.
So, question: what do I buy?
I have a canon 400d, kit lens, 75-300 standard zoom, several M42 manual lenses, 2 or 3 old flash guns (not fitted to camera), macro tubes, and reversing rings.I have 2 or 3 tripods from flimsy to solid tubular steel ones)
I am thinking:
50mm f1.8 (nifty fifty)
Yuongnuo flash (E-TTL)
BG-E3 grip
I haven't a particular favourite subject to shoot, although at some point I want the Tamron 90mm Macro lens, but I don't have funds for that yet!
Any other ideas? I might consider eBaying my 75-300 standard canon zoom for extra cash, as I don't really use it, nut then I wouldn't have a lens beyond 135mm (and that's a manual one).
Cheers
In the next couple of weeks I will have earned my first £100 as a photographer. I know it's not much, but it's a great feeling anyway.
Money is tight in our household, so usually any money I make gets put into general funds, but I want to make an exception this time, and spend this £100 on ME and my photography.
So, question: what do I buy?
I have a canon 400d, kit lens, 75-300 standard zoom, several M42 manual lenses, 2 or 3 old flash guns (not fitted to camera), macro tubes, and reversing rings.I have 2 or 3 tripods from flimsy to solid tubular steel ones)
I am thinking:
50mm f1.8 (nifty fifty)
Yuongnuo flash (E-TTL)
BG-E3 grip
I haven't a particular favourite subject to shoot, although at some point I want the Tamron 90mm Macro lens, but I don't have funds for that yet!
Any other ideas? I might consider eBaying my 75-300 standard canon zoom for extra cash, as I don't really use it, nut then I wouldn't have a lens beyond 135mm (and that's a manual one).
Cheers
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There's a good selection of gear in your list to choose from.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
I do not recommend the Yuongnuo flashes as they still have too high a failure rate.
The Canon EF 50mm, f1.8 is an OK lens but focus accuracy is sporadic and wide open it's not as useful. For the Canon 400D/XTi I suggest that manual focus using the camera's focus confirmation will help.
A battery/vertical grip is mostly a convenience item.
*Sigma makes different models for each manufacturer so you have to seek the Canon E-TTL II model appropriate for your camera.
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That looks interesting.
I think the 50mm would come in if I get to do more concert style photography...
A flash would be more useful for my macro - I could angle it on a bracket and diffuse it with a small softbox attachment.
I do have a flash at the moment, but not TTL - in fact it's no got a hotshoe and would probably blow the camera if I attached the cable. I use a light trigger for it with a dialled down pop-up flash. That works ok.
Some people suggest saving more money, ut to be honest, the way things are at the moment, every penny I might earn is gonna have to go into the household fund, not my camera bag! I am just planning to spend this first few quid on something for me, as I have earned it. My only selfish act, maybe.