New Toy courtesy of St Nick I mean St Birddog
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:16 pmI'd like to give a big big thanks to shipping the SB-800 to me, which arrived at my building site at 2.15pm today. You're a real champ mate.
I was contemplating the order Monday night, and sent him an email with my details and said if he wants to get it already to ship and once the money transfer is confirmed he can put it on a courier. I tried to get the money to him that night and also tried by 4pm Tuesday but the bloody banks take ages to transfer money from one bank to another. In the end it was Tuesday 5pm that I transferred the money to his CBA account. At that time he notifies me that he's already shipped the item. After a phone call today to Couriers Please I asked them to redirect it to my place of work. By 1pm I was starting to get worried that they wouldn't deliver in time (I finish at 3.30pm) so I gave them a call. They said they'd call me back. A few minutes later I had a call on my mobile and I thought it was couriers please but it turned out to be Birddog (sorry if was a bit surprised to hear from you, don't even remember giving you my mobile number
). Anyway after I spoke to Birddog I waited for about 30minutes and was about to give the couriers a call, when they called me back to let me know they'll be there in 3 minutes. Who-hooo......so now I'm a proud owner of an SB-800. Let me tell you, this baby is sweet. It's almost as impressive as the camera itself
This was one of my first few shots with the SB-800. Shot in M, with WB to Flash, ISO to 400 (200 was very dull - could be just poor user), F8 and about 1/60th. Nothing too flash (excuse the pun), just a closeup of my mug on my desk using the kit 18-70mm lense.
<img src="http://members.iinet.net.au/~darryl_m/Cup.jpg">
These are the next few items on my list of things to get:
+ remote (either jaycar or nikon)
+ legs and head
+ tamron teleconvertor x1.4 or x1.8 or x2.0 (heard the x1.4 is the sharpest)
+ vr lense (most likely 70-200)
+ monopod
Then I can say my kit is complete for a while
Would like a few more primes.
I should take a photo of my current legs, you'd all cry. PS. I think Birddog is a pratical joker, I opened the box from couriers please and found a Pioneer DVD burner box. I was like "OH NO, he's sent me the wrong item!"
I was contemplating the order Monday night, and sent him an email with my details and said if he wants to get it already to ship and once the money transfer is confirmed he can put it on a courier. I tried to get the money to him that night and also tried by 4pm Tuesday but the bloody banks take ages to transfer money from one bank to another. In the end it was Tuesday 5pm that I transferred the money to his CBA account. At that time he notifies me that he's already shipped the item. After a phone call today to Couriers Please I asked them to redirect it to my place of work. By 1pm I was starting to get worried that they wouldn't deliver in time (I finish at 3.30pm) so I gave them a call. They said they'd call me back. A few minutes later I had a call on my mobile and I thought it was couriers please but it turned out to be Birddog (sorry if was a bit surprised to hear from you, don't even remember giving you my mobile number
). Anyway after I spoke to Birddog I waited for about 30minutes and was about to give the couriers a call, when they called me back to let me know they'll be there in 3 minutes. Who-hooo......so now I'm a proud owner of an SB-800. Let me tell you, this baby is sweet. It's almost as impressive as the camera itself
This was one of my first few shots with the SB-800. Shot in M, with WB to Flash, ISO to 400 (200 was very dull - could be just poor user), F8 and about 1/60th. Nothing too flash (excuse the pun), just a closeup of my mug on my desk using the kit 18-70mm lense.
<img src="http://members.iinet.net.au/~darryl_m/Cup.jpg">
These are the next few items on my list of things to get:
+ remote (either jaycar or nikon)
+ legs and head
+ tamron teleconvertor x1.4 or x1.8 or x2.0 (heard the x1.4 is the sharpest)
+ vr lense (most likely 70-200)
+ monopod
Then I can say my kit is complete for a while
Would like a few more primes.
I should take a photo of my current legs, you'd all cry. PS. I think Birddog is a pratical joker, I opened the box from couriers please and found a Pioneer DVD burner box. I was like "OH NO, he's sent me the wrong item!"
when he got it.