GrinderBloke Posted April 15, 2008 Posted April 15, 2008 Worst thing isnt a lens or camera but must be the Lens Case 600AW that I got for my big lens. Cant get on with it at all. Just ordered one of these - will take everything including my kitchen sink, and has space for clothes in the daypack that comes with it That is a serious pack... How much kit do you generally carry?
ImpInaBox Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Worst thing isnt a lens or camera but must be the Lens Case 600AW that I got for my big lens. Cant get on with it at all. Like those dreaded (n)ever ready cases you used to get with SLRs of old? Haven't seen one for years - fortunately
ImpInaBox Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Here's another seriously crap, tho thankfully inexpensive, piece of kit - a PCM/CIA CF card reader for my laptop. Talk about slow! It's less hassle to carry a USB2 card reader and fiddle with the leads. Why do laptops come with every kind of card reader EXCEPT CompactFlash?
sazabi2001 Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 I bought an old Tokina ATX-60-120/2.8 lens, it is the worst lens I ever have...
ImpInaBox Posted May 28, 2008 Posted May 28, 2008 Did anyone else buy a Lubitel II TLR or was I the only one? I think I've still got it in the loft somewhere. At about £6 in the late 70s it seemed like a steal no matter how bad it was - and it was bad... Coated lens(es)? Nope! Lightproof? Only at night. Anti-reflective insides? Nope - kinda 'silk finish' black and the light that got in bounced all over! Both lenses in focus at the same time? Nope! It was made out of bits of baked bean tins - they probably got enough steel for a dozen of these beasts from one Zenit. I did like the flip up focus magnifier in the view finder tho - but I never used it enough to get the hang of the viewfinder image being upside back and inside out. Seem to remember the viewfinder box (or whatever they call those things on TLRs) flipped up with such force that it nearly took my nose end off a few times too.
jezzyjj Posted May 29, 2008 Posted May 29, 2008 Here's another seriously crap, tho thankfully inexpensive, piece of kit - a PCM/CIA CF card reader for my laptop. Talk about slow! It's less hassle to carry a USB2 card reader and fiddle with the leads. Why do laptops come with every kind of card reader EXCEPT CompactFlash? Size. Though, you can get a CF card reader which goes into your PCMIA slot! e.g. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=23392&doy=29m5&criteria=pcmcia%20card%20reader On a similar note as computers are now camera gear, I nominate my shiny new 8 Core Mac Pro as an overpriced P.of S.! It's had OSX reinstalled twice, once I had to get the Apple store to do it as it refused to install off disc. Finder [which is truely awful anyway] costantly crashes, and refused to recognise my hard drives were no longer mirrored, even though Path Finder and MacExplorer had no problem. My 'Mighty' Mouse's scrollball is now playing up after just a couple of months [there's a good reason balls were removed from the bottom of mice as they clogged up ] and the mouse cursor keeps jumping all over the place at random. The Apple store reckons it's my mouse pad. Funny as no other mice have ever had a problem wth same pad or surface. One of my hard drives is invisible over network, I cannot add new folders as I don't have permission, again! This is after a reinstall to fix this sort of problem. Not only that the OS is effing awful with dual monitors, really effing awful. I only ever used Macs with single screens until recently. I've never had this sort of issues with a ready built PC. In fact they worked straight out of the Box, unlike the sodding Mac. Interestingly, the technology columnist for the guardian [Charles Artheur]commented a couple of weeks ago that every single Mac in his household had had problems and he's a keen Mac user. From the Guardian "Now, mea errata. In previous columns here, I've complained about the instability of OS X 10.5, aka "Leopard". Turns out I was wrong. The machine I'd installed it on had a known memory board fault. Once that was fixed, the problems vanished. ("D'ya think it was tin whiskers?" asked a colleague. Well, it might have been, but how would we know?) That though raises the question of how many other people who've had problems with Leopard actually had problems with Apple's hardware. I realised that every Apple my family has owned has had some problem - two failed logic boards, one broken Firewire port, one cosmetic crack; and a work colleague just told me of his wife's bust MacBook. Yes, a logic board again."
Eric_Collins Posted May 29, 2008 Posted May 29, 2008 my camera bag made by KING that i got from the oxfam , 5 years old and now struggling to fit things in.
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