Recent content by ElGuiri

The box shot is superb

Use a flash

You need to borrow or rent an M8/9 James, the urge will be back.

I wasn't lusting after a Leica, I was just fed up with carrying my 7D & 24-70 and all the other stuff around. I also want to enjoying the shooting. Using a recent DSLR is like shooting a PC with a lens and a pentaprism. There was always another setting or hidden menu option that I wish I had...

....if Canon made an APSC, APSH or FF range finder for about a grand I'd have bought it in an instant.

As far as I am aware there have only ever been 4 digital RFs. The Epson RD1 and the Leicas. I was in the same dilemma. I really wanted to try an rf and you can't rent them in the UK and i didnt want to spend more than 1K. I'd read about the magenta issue an other problems with the M8 and...

You know that for 2k you can get a very nice M8 and a CV 35mm F1.4 to go on it. Leicas, they're not just for millionaires and street photographers you know.

Most Canons don't have any master functionality in the onboard flash. The 7D allows control of groups of flashes, relative power and whethe he onboard flash should function as a flash or just as a control for the external flashes.

Get a filter wrench they are very cheap, you can put an elastic band around the filter first for a little extra grip if necessary.

Fixation are excellent they also rent kit, repair it and calibrate it. Don't worry about buying from them they are good guys, they are really a pro place rather than a consumer place which is why you may not have heard of them.

Have the 85/1.8 on a 7D it's is amazing. Super sharp, super fast. Love it.

Just get the cheapest tubes with the electronic connectors, that you can find. AF is handy to get the lens close to focussed and you need aperture control. I got some that look identical to Kenko for about 15 on Fleabay. They have no optics and so a cheap set us likely as good as a £100 set.

You are forgetting the fact that in the US they also have import duty and sales taxes. The Voigtlander Nokton F1.1 is $999 in the US, it's also available for £1049 over here. At the end of the day, the man is right $ = £ more or less and not all of that is down to tax and import duty.

I tried the Diana converter on my 7D. I found that: the shots were so soft it looked like they'd been shot through a plastic bag; focus was more or less irrelevant; the focal length was really too long. You don't see the lovely lens defects because you are shooting through a really small bit of...

If you have friends with Canon lenses that might let you borrow them, then buy Canon. The same goes for Nikon.