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Alan Stock

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Take a flash. Try not to fall over with your gear on and LOTS of batteries as the cold will quickly deplete them. Oh, and always keep your gear in a plastic bag within a bag. Stops snow/water getting in.

Ta, what kind of flash do you recommend? One on a wire or a fixed one?

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PopeSmokesDope

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Depends what you're going to be doing.. if it's the odd shot here and there, don't worry... if you want to make you're mates look good then you really want an off camera flash and get up nice and close when they go off the kickers hit the rails etc. You can make do without, but you'll end up with great skies and dark riders and well exposed snow, or great looking riders, blown out skies and no definition in the snow.

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Alan Stock

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Cheers, yeah I'll have to look into this... I can't remember if the GF2 has an external flash connector though, if I recall that's one of the things that they cut out, I wish I hadn't had my GF1 stolen :(

If anyone here has a Panasonic GF1, G1 or similar I'm selling 2 of the official Panasonic rechargable batteries for them, £20 each. PM me if interested. Model number is DMW-BLB13E. Unfortunately the GF2 doesn't take them so I don't need them any more. They've only been used on one trip.

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Liamness

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Sorry to hear about that dude. The GF2 does have a hotshoe, however there's a good chance that Panasonic will release a 'spiritual successor' to the GF1 soon, and I'd be tempted to wait for that. It is likely to regain all the features that were removed from the GF2 and 3, plus it should have the G3's excellent sensor. I expect it will be priced at a premium though, at least initially, because they're seemingly trying to spin it off into a new high end GX line.

Would snap your batteries up if I didn't already have three myself. Three is probably about right.

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NecroMorrius

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I'm just having a whinge that there isn't much of a choice in that area. I like lots of things about the 24-105 and I still think I'd choose it in a straight choice between that and the 24-70 due to range, weight, money, IS (in that order) but it doesn't mean I've got to be particularly impressed with it. It's fine...I just think there ought to be a something more than one of those two, even if it cost more.

There's a new 24-105 coming soon isn't there? Or was that just a rumour. I'd love something like a 24-105 f2.8 IS. A man can dream.

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There's a new 24-105 coming soon isn't there? Or was that just a rumour. I'd love something like a 24-105 f2.8 IS. A man can dream.

I think a new 24-70 with IS sellotaped on has been people's expected lens in that category ever since the 24-105 came out. But if I'm right about my 5D+7D merging theory then 24mm isn't very wide so it's probably more likely to be an L version of the 15-85 (or similar).

Dunno.

Whinge.

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sonicwave

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...I'm shortly going to be heading to the French Alps to work a snow season. I'll be taking my compact SLR, Panasonic GF-2. It's probably not going to be fast enough to capture tricks and stuff, but at least I can get some views. What kit should I take to make the most of the season? I currently have a clunky tripod, 3 lenses (20mm, 18-45mm, 45-200mm) and that's about it. Also when taking my camera up the mountains, how best to protect it both from the weather and the inevitable falls?!
I'd recommend a filter of some sort also - my polarizer did wonders to the sky last winter:

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Also, some thin gloves are nice (I use a pair of running gloves, which even have a small opening on the index finger tip, to be usable with capacitive touch-screens). You're probably going to be using standard skiing gloves most of the time, which aren't really practical with a camera - and no gloves at all gets cold quick.

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Alan Stock

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Thanks for the tips, I will look into polarisers and gloves. The GF-2 is touchscreen so the fingerless might well be a good idea!

Liamness, cheers but I already have the GF-2, I got it as a replacement on insurance for the GF-1. Unfortunately the GF-1 was already discontinued by that point as I decided I preffered the manual dials and hotshoe because I knew I would be going on this snow trip.

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NecroMorrius

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Amazon Canon Lens deals:

Customers can choose from the following lenses:

£30 off the following lenses with Special Promo Code MFBW4OR3

- Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM With Lens Case LP1222 & Lens Hood ET-83BII

- Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM Fixed Focal Length Lens

- Canon EF 70-200mm F/4.0 L IS USM Lens

- Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens

- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens

- Canon EF 17-40 mm f/4.0 L USM Lens

- Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens

- Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens

£50 off the following lenses with Special Promo Code 3FEF8C3Q

- Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Lens

- Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM Lens

- Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

- Canon EF 70-300 f/4-5.6L IS USM Lens

- Canon TS-E 17mm f/4.0 L Lens (Ultra wide 17mm focal length, ± 6.5° Tilt & ±12mm Shift)

- Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Lens ( Wide 24mm focal length, ± 8.5° Tilt & ±12mm Shift)

- Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5-6 L IS USM lens

- Canon EF 70-200mm F/2.8 L IS II USM Lens

- Canon EF 300mm f/4.0L IS USM Image Stabilising Lens

- Canon EF - Telephoto zoom lens - 70 mm - 300 mm - f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

- Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Lens

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Alexlotl

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Never seen mine do that. What Firmware version are you on? Might be worth hooking it up to the PC via USB and updating/restoring the firmware, that could jog it into life.

In all probability though, it's buggered - I'd send it back. My XZ-1 has given me no trouble, although my E-P3 has crashed once, while using art filters. Makes you miss the days when cameras were just a bunch of metal and springs, rather than a portable computer.

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It's on the latest firmware. It's weird, will sometimes stay fine until I hit play and then do it straight away. Other times do it from as soon as I turn it on. If I rub the screen and turn it on then it comes on straight away.

No idea what caused it but I was out on a very cold day. Although it was in a case and in a bag.

Annoyingly I bought it off Ebay and Olympus are saying it'll cost if I don't have proof of purchase :(

The guy I bought it off won it in the stpancreas.com competition so am hoping I can get proof of purchase through them.

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NecroMorrius

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Rented USM lens this weekend for a shoot. the 50mm 1.2 is just...lovely.

Yeah, it's gorgeous. I've heard a lot of complaints about it back focusing and being overpriced but I absolutely loved it. I love the 35mm 1.2 as well. Amazing lenses. The only way to really test a lens is to use it, no amount of pernickity internet grumbling will put you off a lens that you really click with.

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Clutching at straws, but have you tried it with a different SD card, or just using the internal memory?

Yeah it does it with the SD card in or out.

You could try resetting everything back to default (Reset Photo mode I think).

However from your description it seems to me that you need a repair.

It does that to the screen when you hit Menu too so can't find any way to reset it.

Luckily the guy I bought it off is being very helpful so he's trying to get proof of purchase from the competition holders.

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Yeah, it's gorgeous. I've heard a lot of complaints about it back focusing and being overpriced but I absolutely loved it. I love the 35mm 1.2 as well. Amazing lenses. The only way to really test a lens is to use it, no amount of pernickity internet grumbling will put you off a lens that you really click with.

doesnt it also cause crazy ghosting flares from light sources in the dark?

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Yeah, it's gorgeous. I've heard a lot of complaints about it back focusing and being overpriced but I absolutely loved it. I love the 35mm 1.2 as well. Amazing lenses. The only way to really test a lens is to use it, no amount of pernickity internet grumbling will put you off a lens that you really click with.

Have you used the Sigma f1.4 50mm?

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Liamness

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@ Soong

I have a powershot that did something similar. You could still take shots and load them to a computer and they would be fine, so I always assumed it would just the cable carrying data to the display deteriorating. Sometimes it would work when I whacked it. Indeed a few years after I had condemned it, I tried it again and it was fine, and has been fine since. Something is very very wrong for that to happen though, definitely try and get a refund.

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Cheeko

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I'm looking to get an off camera flash, I currently have the yongnuo N460 but find it to be unreliable and frustrating as it constantly needs to be turned off and left for a minute before it'll charge again.

The LumoPro LP160 is the flash recommended on strobist.com and seems like the ideal step up but I'm struggling to find places that stock it, is there an alternate european model number or something I'm missing?

Also, would anyone recommend any alternatives?

Thanks.

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sonicwave

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I have some photos which is ruined by red lighting in room, is there a image processing option to tone down the red. I use Gimp on PC.

I haven't used Gimp in ages, but I'd imagine that it has an option to adjust the white balance - making it cooler should help, although you can't necessarily fix it completely...
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