What would you buy?

[Zeeke]

What would you buy if you had $5000 to play with and only owned a kit d70 with no other extras?

Curious to what others would buy

Tim

[redline]

trade-in for a d2x plus cash adjustment

[birddog114]

What would you buy if you had $5000 to play with and only owned a kit d70 with no other extras?

Curious to what others would buy

Tim

Tim,
Me? take a trip to New Caledonia and do the shooting + enjoying with the camera for a week.

[Raskill]

A sigma 300mm F2.8 and corporate tickets to the Supercheap 1000 (which aint so supercheap coincidentally).

[Zeeke]

ya might be somewhere with the trip to New Cal... wouldnt mind going there and doing some flyfishing for bonefish on the flats there..

is a d2x all its cracked up to be? i know it is.. for a shoddy amateur like myself.. would i really need it? cept for people to go "Wow, thats a big camera, are you a photographer?"

Tim

[birddog114]

ya might be somewhere with the trip to New Cal... wouldnt mind going there and doing some flyfishing for bonefish on the flats there..

is a d2x all its cracked up to be? i know it is.. for a shoddy amateur like myself.. would i really need it? cept for people to go "Wow, thats a big camera, are you a photographer?"

Tim

Me too! NC is my famous destination in the past few years, I'm not fishing but "fish" nudist on the beach

[Raskill]

8 shots a second is very handy.... Beats the hell outa 3 (if your lucky)

[embi]

with $5000 you may be able to get a pre-release D200

[birddog114]

8 shots a second is very handy.... Beats the hell outa 3 (if your lucky)

Nah! not really!

[DionM]

A Canon 5D

Seriously, I would buy a fast wide angle zoom, and a fast mid tele zoom. Get rid of the slow kit lens

[pippin88]

I'd buy a nice wide angle, a 70-200 Sigma + 2x TC, possibly a fast mid range zoom (24-70? - maybe a 24-120). Lots of storage, upgrade computer a bit, and so on.

[Zeeke]

Some good replys so far... my personal comp is already packed up with storage page.. having 3 120gig hard drives and 1gig of ram..

ive thought about buying a laptop.. but also considered just a small personal file storage device i can transfer images onto, ive also looked at macro lenses.... very tempting.. and some tele zooms.. this is where it all has me really confused... i want to do macro photos.. but also have a lense to do some zoom photos on birds.. then wide angle lens for portraits and fishing fotos.. which are often in a small boat and with the kit lense.. i dont find it shows as much detail as i want.. and doesnt show the surroundings as much either.. So really.. im confused.. and then a sb800 would be nice too..

Tim

[MCWB]

Interesting thread! Really depends on your shooting needs I suppose. Must haves for me would be:
1. SB600/SB800
2. WA lens (Sigma/Tokina/Nikkor, whatever is the best compromise for you)
3. Fast tele-zoom (maybe with VR)
4. CF cards (but they're cheap).

If you're sorted on the computer side of things:

Sigma 12-24 (or maybe the Tokina, haven't played with the Tokina enough) $890
24-120 VR $750
Sigma 70-200 2.8 $1070
Sigma 1.7x TC $300?
SB800 $500
LightsphereII $60-80

Then ~$1400 worth of primes: 50/1.4, 35/2 etc, or substitute the Sigma 70-200 2.8 with the Nikkor VR-flavoured version, or substitute some dedicated macro lenses in there, or... Plenty of options!

[cameraguy21773]

I think $5000 in Oz is about $3750 US so I would probably do this based on MY shooting desires. Your mileage may vary.

You already have the D70 kit.
Nikkor 17-55 f2.8
Nikkor 80-200 f2.8 AF-S
Nikkor 300 f4 AF-S
Nikkor TC-17e II

This suite would do anyone well for many years.

[petermmc]

I'd buy a one way ticket to Tokyo, walk through the nearest subway and give the rest of the money to a poor looking vagrant who would then have enough money to stop his father's company from going into liquidation, make his fortune, remember me, and introduce me to Mr Nikon, his uncle, who would let me have eleven free lenses.

I think it happens like that...or is it 8 free lenses and 3 new cameras including the new Nikon D200s, D3x and D4xFF prototype with in built 160gig card.

The I woke up.

[Zeeke]

Actually a mate of mine got Married last night in Japan.. went over there for work and to teach english.. ended up meeting a young girl.. and getting married.. lucky bugger.. might need to do that myself lol

Tim

[birddog114]

Actually a mate of mine got Married last night in Japan.. went over there for work and to teach english.. ended up meeting a young girl.. and getting married.. lucky bugger.. might need to do that myself lol

Tim

Zeeke,
The fish here will cry loud if you do that!

[Zeeke]

Actually, if i did.. the fish here wouldnt be so scared and fisherman around here might actually have a chance of catching the next big one

Tim

[mudder]

I think if I had a few $k to spend, I'd spend it on photographic workshop tours so I could learn how to get good results with the stuff I already have

[birddog114]

I think if I had a few $k to spend, I'd spend it on photographic workshop tours so I could learn how to get good results with the stuff I already have

mudder,
When you have few $k to spend , pls come up here and we fly to NC for a joyful workshop

[Nnnnsic]

What would you buy if you had $5000 to play with and only owned a kit d70 with no other extras?

I only own a kit.

I'd either fund a film or buy a Canon XL2s (around $5000 AU) from Hong Kong.

[gstark]

Pointless bloody question.

But 2 tix to EU.

[petermmc]

One tick for yourself and one for your new telephoto to travel in first class. You can have its drinks as well.

Pointless bloody question.

But 2 tix to EU.

[Aussie Dave]

Well, if someone handed me a D70s with kit lens (18-70 DX) & $5000 to spend, I'd email Birdy and order the following (in no particular order):

Sigma 70-200 2.8 HSM
Sigma x1.4 TC
Nikon 50 1.4D
Nikon 12-24
Nikon SB800
Transcend 80x 2Gb CF card
Lowepro Mini Trekker AWII Backpack
Benro C227 Tripod
Benro KB-2 head
Benro MC80 Monopod
Copperhill dSLR Cleaning Kit

That should come in just under $5K.

With another $10K, I'd look at adding to my PC and getting a good laptop.

All I need now is for someone to give me $5000 - $15,000

[Zeeke]

Birdy might get a email from me next week.. if ive reached full member status i think thats right?

Tim
p.s. he might get to go to New Cal too!

[MHD]

Sigma 70-200/2.8
Sb-800
Nikkor 28-70/2.8
50/1.4


sell kit lens

[bloop]

I'd get myself a plasma television. I've thought about selling all my camera gear and getting one... hmmm what to do...