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[MTG]

If you thinks marines expensive try photography... I was loaded till then lol

 

[MichelleShocked]

Cut up chillies then picked my nose.....

I knew a family who grew all their own food - goats for meat, milk, cheese, yoghurt; chooks for meat, eggs and garden fertilizer and all their own fruit and vegetables. They had these growing tunnels to keep the insects out and they used to go inside to harvest their produce. One day i was having coffee with the parents when the 30 yr old son who was staying with them went down to the tunnels to pick some vegetables. I was sipping my coffee and observed him walk in, spend some time rummaging about in there, then come out, put his pickings down then head to the toilet block (which was near the goat shed). We were then treated to a blood curdling shriek and the sight of him racing across the lawn, into the kitchen, grab a tub of (home-made) yoghurt then bolt back to the toilet block. Dad went to see what was up and came back staggering with laughter. Son had picked some birds-eye chillies then needed to go for a pee.....he forgot to wash his hands first though....

 

[roamin]

If you thinks marines expensive try photography... I was loaded till then lol

im into basic photography but i only have a 600d with a couple of different lenses, wide angle, nifty 50, 135mm plus standard lenses. it isnt cheap and im at the bottom end of photography lol

some bodies alone are many thousands as youd know. thats a whole marine setup just in a camera body lol

 

[MTG]

in the past few weeks i have bought some new gear, lee filter setup 500$+ (two filters and a holder)
new body 2K+

i have a 24-105L, 50 1.4. 90mm macro, speedlight flash

there's my tank aleady excluding corals :D and i need another 10K i recon to get what i want :D

 

[roamin]

yeah its a huge amount of coin! what lens do you prefer for shooting corals and fish in tanks?

 

[MTG]

yeah its a huge amount of coin! what lens do you prefer for shooting corals and fish in tanks?

Corals you can't go past the dedicated macro lens, fish 24-105, not that easy to focus a macro lens on a ff camera with moving targets =D can be done but I prefer to use the 24-105

 

[roamin]

Sounds fair to me. I would like a macro lens just because my missus or myself don't have one. We both have cameras.

 

[MTG]

It's my least used lens but it has a purpose =D

 

[MagicJ]

im into basic photography but i only have a 600d with a couple of different lenses, wide angle, nifty 50, 135mm plus standard lenses. it isnt cheap and im at the bottom end of photography lol

some bodies alone are many thousands as youd know. thats a whole marine setup just in a camera body lol

Nothing wrong with the 600D - I reckon it is an ideal camera for what I use it for. And my Tamron 90mm Macro lens is indispensable :) .

 

[MTG]

The 90 mm tamron is the nastiest lens in terms of build quality but it does what it needs to and that's to take a nice crisp macro!! =D

 

[roamin]

Nothing wrong with the 600D - I reckon it is an ideal camera for what I use it for. And my Tamron 90mm Macro lens is indispensable :) .

oh i realise there is nothing wrong with them, hence we have 2 of them, one for me and one for the missus. :)

but compared to say a 5d mk III there also not the best, still dont use ff and so on like a larger dslr, but for i use it for and the missus, there perfect.

The 90 mm tamron is the nastiest lens in terms of build quality but it does what it needs to and that's to take a nice crisp macro!! =D

mtg what macro lens do you recommend that wont cost an arm and a leg. money on the aquarium is more important than the camera lol

 

[MTG]

Tamron 90mm mate lol best bang for buck, it's under 450$

I love my full frame, insert drool

 

[roamin]

http://www.dwidigitalcameras.com.au/astore/Tamron-SP-AF90mm-F28-Di-Macro-11-Lenses.aspx?afid=3#

is that the lens your talking about fellas?

 

[MTG]

http://www.dwidigitalcameras.com.au/astore/Tamron-SP-AF90mm-F28-Di-Macro-11-Lenses.aspx?afid=3#

is that the lens your talking about fellas?

Thats the one

 

[roamin]

nice i will look into one of those in a couple of months, or a second hand cannon one.

for now i gotta stay focused on my tank itself before worrying about pics. im happy to now know which lens to get. $350 delivered is cheap.

dwi is where i got my camera and all the gear from so i trust them 100%

i guess we best get back on track of the topic. sorry for taking it over with camera talk :(

 

[Damo]

had a few to many carona's yesterday and tried to wash my car. Now being sober looking at my car i missed a little so washing again tomorrow without the beer lol

 

[MTG]

Haha I do that all the time, once when I was rinsing for a pre wash I forgot I had the Window down a bit. Not a good time

 

[TheJordans]

We've decided that the "gods" don't want us to be financially secure. ..

The most RECENT stupid things:

Me - thought it would be a good idea to jog from the LFS back to the car in case bub was playing up for daddy. Two strides in and Les's phone bounced from my pocket onto the concrete. $600 phone now dead.

Les- besides trusting me with his phone? Lol
Was a bit too heavy handed during a water change. Result? The full 20lt bucket slipped from his hand into the rental property's fiberglass bath and has left a crack :-(

Upside? His stupid thing will cost more money than mine :-P lol

 

[chrispc66]

Experimented with DIY LEDS for more than 18 months....you name it, I used it. EPILEDS, CREE, BRIDGELUX, red, green, cyan, true UV, fake UV, 6.5K, 10K, RB & B....replaced blown ones.....altered voltage.

Yes...it worked, a little I guess. Supplemented the LEDS with MH....wow!....finally removed the LEDS and replaced with T5, now MH & T5HO....double wow!!

Annoyed I lost the time and all that growth and real colour. Now pinks and pinks, blues are blues, reds are reds, and the zoas and morphs look like their old selves again......:)

Oh, almost forgot I kept the vertex blue LED unit for the moonlights.....

 

[vman]

the most stupid things i ever did was get an Ebay account and get addicted to an online game.