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I'll replace my good-old EOS 400D with a newer 60D model to handle noise better, support wireless flash sync

You've named three catagories and I have three specific answers, so I hope you'll forgive a multiple-choice answer =P

Camera: I just bought my D700 (and my beloved BlackRapid dual strap) so I'm not terribly in need of anything, but if I had one more lens it would be a Nikon 70-200mm (or 80-200, I'm not picky) f/2.8 lens. I'm shooting more concerts in larger venues as of late and the distance from pit to stage is rather tricky when all I have is a 24-70 f/2.8.

Lighting: I have plans to print out every DIY guide for lighting on this site, go to a craft supply store, and buy everything I need to make all of it. Lighting is my weakest skillset and that's a problem if I wanna go pro. I plan on making an all-in-one kit that I can carry around.

Peripherals: My laptop is now 4 years old and it takes forever to process RAWs. Birthday's coming up and a new iMac could be on the way according to my parents.

I'm beyond the point where it will take one more piece of gear before I hit my peak, now it's a bunch of little things.

My next purchase would definitely be a lens.....a good lens....either a prime or a fixed aperture zoom lens....and it would be in wide angle range... :) wish me luck guys! want to make it soon! :)

My Photoblog!

Seeing as I just bought a new lens, a 35mm Voigtlander Nokton Classic, I think a hot shoe cable for the flash might be in the making.

I just got a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM last week to replace my 150mm Sigma macro lens so I can more easily use the lens as a tele lens while walking around with no tripod. It rounds out my kit with 5D, 24 f/1.4 and 50 f/1.4 which all fits nice and snugly in the very portable Domke F-5.

Now all I need is a way to carry around 4 weeks worth of pictures when I travel through Japan. A whole bunch of cards seems to not be economical anymore, right now I am leaning towards a Vosonic photo tank because of its standard battery and user replacable high capacity hard disk.

a canon 70-200 f4 is and a canon flash 580 ex.

I need to work on my macro abilities.

I could use a 2x telephoto adapter to extend the far end of my 50-200mm sigma lens.

And I'm thinking about buying a helicopter...

Item #1 - A Sigma 18-50 2.8 HSM OS

Item #2 - The D90 replacement, it will replace my trusty old D40.

Next item(s) on my shopping list is / are flashes: SB600 (or 800 / 900) for on-cam and some smaller / cheaper ones too for off cam, along with small portable light modifiers.

Maybe some fixed lens too, like 35 or 85 mm 1.4 or 1.8.

As part of a regular upgrade regiment I'll be replacing my older iMac with a new one.  The direct benefits for my photography should be obvious, a huge (27") high resolution IPS screen? Yes, because color accuracy = love.  Faster, more ram, more hdd space, etc. all make life a bit easier, oh yes and a built in SDXC card reader is just icing.

However, before the regular upgrade came about I had planned to buy (when available, which should be another month or less) some fancy ND filter for my favorite lens (The venerable Nikkor 35mm 1.8G (DX)) with an eye towards improving my flexibility especially in inconveniently bright scenarios, also with winter coming up the snow.. well yeah.  The filter is the Genus GL GNDF-52 ND 52 mm Fader Circular Filter System and though it's not out, a local photo shoppe has a 77mm version that I had the opportunity to toy around with.  Very nice.  It's a great idea for someone like me who doesn't make it his business to rely on filters normally but occasionally simply needs one to make the desire pictures.

I already have a decent camera for what I like to do, so my next item to get is (and don't laugh) a polarizing filter and an ND gradient filter.

next on my list is the 35mm f1.8g lens followed by a 60mm macro, then maybe a 85mm f1.4 when I can save some cash

Pentax 15mm f4, I need a wide ange as the widest I have right now is 28mm, wich isnt all that wide on aps-c. I would also really like a manfrotto 410 pan tilt head as I am currently using my view camera on a ball head, wich can be rather hard to adjust with any precision.

Well, I've just bought a new camera and lens. I think my next purchase should probably be a nice gift for my wife for being so understanding ...

Will be a Canon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6L IS. I am selling my 70-200mm f/4L and 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM to fund the purchase, as the new lens combines the best of both, albeit heavier. Since the ETA is anyone's guess, I might end up purchasing the Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Design Premium upgrade (I currently use CS3) before the lens.

Pocket wizard

MiniTT1 & FlexTT5

I really hate walking to my flash to change power level.  This really distract both the photrographer and the model.

I just picked up a couple of very inexpensive flashes, that I love especially considering the price. And even though I just bought some rip-stop to make some kind of soft box, I think I'll try to pick up a double fold shoot through umbrella.

Currently looking at the following:

Sigma - fixed lens - 30mm f1.4

Sigma - fisheye lens - 15mm f2.8

And some storage... probably 1.5 or 2Tb external HDD

Finally got myself a nice tripod couple of days ago, now I'll go after lens, and then some lighting.

Oh yeah, I'm deciding whether to get a small external monitor, or buy a tablet to use as auxiliary monitor for shooting videos... have my eye on an HP Touchsmart or an iPad.

I just bought my first off-camera flash, and the natural next-step in my opinion is a trigger. I'll also consider getting a modifier, like a small softbox.

I JUST made a purchase for new gear, to fill that void I felt was definitely there. I got two hotlights with 48" umbrellas and a 52" 5-in-1 reflector. I'm really happy with all of these. I outfitted the lights with 36-watt flourescent bulbs instead of the 500w incandescents that come with it so I don't burn my house down.

Nothing is very high on my urgent list, now. I would like to play around with softboxes and add to my lighting gear, but that's definitely just a "want". I'm in that awkard happy place where I have no photo gear "needs".

I'm a bit cheating on that one since it's not the next purchase I'll do... but one I just did last week. I'm still waiting the package, though.

That's the Westcott 28" Apollo Softbox (kit with the stand) I purchased as my first light modifier. Hope it'll prove to be a good choice for a beginner who is dying to learn more about lighting! :]

I've got a hole in my lineup right now between 70mm & 300mm and it's driving my crazy; the short lenses are too short and the long lens is too long.  Since I've got a wedding booked next summer and am preparing for a major push into portraits, getting this lens is essential to me.  It's fast, it's sharp, and it fits my needs perfectly.

Nikon d3100- upgrading from a d70s.

I am looking to get a new camera body first, probably a T2i/550D or 7D.  I'm mainly shooting wildlife at the local bird refuges and some high school sports with an air show mixed in from time to time.  Still trying to figure out which one would be better for me.

After the camera body, I'm looking to get an EF 100-400mm L zoom lens.  The extra reach and L quality glass should make my bird pictures look stunning.

I want new stands and modifiers like umbrellas and softboxes, the next month I get it! :)

Maybe a SB-28 for strobist and a new phottix receiver.

The light is the key! Whatever the camera or lenses you have...

I am looking into some wireless triggers and flash modifiers along with an 85 1.8 lens. That is all short term, in the next two months. After that it is learning, practice, reading, practice, shooting concerts, practice, and saving for that 135 f2 L and Canon 5D II (This time next year hopefully)

Other then that, just today I bought a 1TB external back up drive just for my photos, something I do about once a year.

2 Flash Heads with soft boxes and umbrellas

Reason: Occasionally I do studio work / on location and it would be nice to have some decent flash heads to do so. Currently using 1 x 580ex II and 2 reflectors. Looking into what's best for my budget (£500-600). 

5D MK ii

Reason: Underwater photography and video. Getting into diving and it would be extremely useful. Something for the future. It would also be good to have the increased sensor from the 40d, full frame instead of a 1.6 crop factor. 

Also my 40d is getting rather worn from its high amount of use. It's already been repaired twice from failures. I'd say it was time for an upgrade. Maybe I'll wait until the next version from the 5D MK is out to see if there is something better to offer.

That's how I manage to get shots like this...

http://www.briancareyphotography.com/Newfoundland/Newfoundland/12161816_...

My next upgrades, both to be brought towards the end of this month:

A Canon 70-200 L IS USM f/4 to replace my EF-S 55-250mm with a better quality and faster bit of glass.

Then I need to get a new flashgun to replace my old one which isn't working correctly any longer, either will be a Metz 58 or a Speedlite 580 EX II, because they include a secondary reflector which is very useful outdoors.

I would love to add to the versatility of my lens collection with a wide angle and a higher quality tele-zoom, but before I do that, I need to replace my aging laptop. I will be upgrading to Adobe CS5 though, and may be getting Lightroom as well.

My next piece of gear will be the Alienbees ABR800. http://www.alienbees.com/abr800.html No real powerful reason, really. I just think I'm at that level where I could really make it work for me.

A pair of new SD cards, around 4GB each, and a license for Disk Digger recovery software.

Last week I had a 3 day important assignment, and the 8GB Lexar I was using lost more than half the pics. I was able to recover most of them, but Can't trust the card anymore for future assignments.

Either full-time or rental studio space for model/glamour work.  My house is out of the question, and I've been unable to find a rental studio here in town.

ill be purchasing three alien bees B800 strobes and a vagabond powerpack with various modifiers.

While I could probably do with some filters DIY or otherwise, I think the next high dollar item I want is a Nikon SB-600 or two with gels so that I can be more creative with background lighting. While gear is nice, yup, I have GAS, what I really need is more time to practice and new subjects that I am not bored with, then I can come back to my current subjects and see them in new ways. Does anyone sell a box of time I can put in my gear bag? I would be all over buying one of those.

I am trying to buy a D700 new or used  and I really would like to get the Nikon 400 f.28 use or new.

I will be getting a photoshop CS5 upgrade later this week and the Nik and One On one

Colection

I am making most of all of my light modifiers now use shock corder carbon fiber tent poles

Last but a big on one of the new MacPros 12core computer loaded to go.

Just "upgraded" from a Rebel XTi to a Canon 20D (is it an 'upgrade' if you purchase an older, but heftier camera body? hmmmm???) that came with some new lenses for me, so I'm ready to improve my filter collection. I want to get a good graduated ND filter, but am perplexed by the array of choices, so glad to see others have same desire. Perhaps I can learn from them.

I have loads of things on the list for new kit that I want and the top item changes on a regular basis but the thing(s) at the top at the moment are a new 27" iMac with RAM upgrade, a new 30" cinema display and a L size Wacom tablet

All so I can get stuck into the retouching side of things a bit harder

My plan is upgrade my Nikon D90 with the new replacement for D700, maybe next year when it comes. I have saved up 2/3 of the money so I am well on my way, Nikon just needs to release it.... :-D

My next purchase will most likely be a reverse lens macro adaptor. I got my hands on a broken nikon 18-55 lens, still working great except it can't zoom anymore. So I'm going to make myself a nice macro lens.

just bought a prime lens (WOW! I am enjoying every shot!) and next in my list is:

.a pair of Pocket Wizards, although I am not a usual flash user, but perhaps it's because I don't have a decent gear for that.

.I'm dying for a fisheye lens to play with!

.a second hand 5D mII to test its performance ( I use a nikon d90)

I plan to get an adapter ring, male-to-male, to reverse-mount a 2nd polarizer filter onto the one on the lens, to make myself a variable ND filter without having to take apart and reassemble the 2nd filter. I tried this out, hand held, yesterday - it did work, but not very well, lol, since I was also hand holding the camera.

Canon 7D to replace my aging 20D

I have two...

A decent flash. I've been experimenting with people's faces coming into a bright patch of light. Like this this. It's a little frustrating since you can't always get the sun to cooperate. It would be nice to have a flash to make my own bright spots.

Oh, and a graduated ND filter for sunsets. Fix those blown out sky and dark land mass images.

I would like to upgrade to a Canon 60 D and Canon 70-200mm F4 lens and a flash light.

Flash gun.  Canon 430 or 580EX II.  I have an EOS 450, would love a better camera (where will THAT one end....?) but I only have a very old Vivitar flash and the on-camera one.  I'd like to be able to use softboxes and umbrellas but without a decent flash there's no point really.  I have limited cash resources, best buy so far have been my Vanguard tripod and ball head and my Tamron 70-300.  I have some nice shots but a flash is the missing chunk at present. 

The next piece of gear that I get are pocket wizards so that I can use the studio lights I have.

An external flash/speedlite and a better carrying case, maybe something like a lowepro backpack/sling - I like to carry my camera & a lens or two, but the case I have now is a pain in the neck...literally, LOL

Pocket Wizards.... although I'm toying with getting the Phottix Atlas transceivers instead or perhaps the Radio Poppers Jrx.  Long story, short: reliable wireless flash triggers.

I just ordered the 2010 photovision dvds.  www.photovisionvideo.com  Can't wait to get them and learn more.

While there is many things on my need to purchase list for photo equipment, the very next thing I am dying to get is the Canon Speedlite 580EXII.  I am in photography school and next week we will be taking a speedlight class.  It would be great to experiment with light while I'm home.  Hopefully I'll be able to purchase it by Monday.

I've been waiting for Nikon to come out with a D700 replacement for quite a while. Thats my next significant gear purchase.

My next buy is going to be an upgrade of my lenses.

Currently I got an old Nikkor 50mm which I will replace with a new one as the old one dosent use the full potential of the 3D-metering, and a new telezoom lens (donno which is gonna fit in my budget) as the Tamron 70-300 is just awful in quality and usage.

few days ago i've bought Holga 120CFN and now want to buy orginal soviet LOMO LC-A

Just bought a softlighter, but its no use if the flash won't fire, right?  When I say reliable I mean: uses AA, doesn't suck power like crazy (the YN 04 II suck the battery dry), good price (below a 100 USD to me is the limit) and can at least be triggered 9 times out of 10 from a distance of 20 meters.  I know there's a lot of these out there, just need to choose which. 

Probably looking for a 70-300 Nikon lens (or Tamron version) so I can do long range strobing. :)

Nikon D700 Replacement for sure.

I have an  original Konica-Minolta 5D DSLR.  I'm looking for that upgrade to a full-frame Sony SLR with a magnesium body construction.  Maybe an a850, or something like it. I want the Dynamic range that FF offers.  

Next will be a flash upgrade to Sony's HVL-F58 or something better.  I think they have a HVL-F63 coming out.

All my lenses and gear already work with the above.  All my gear is newer than the camera as well.

Hiya!!

I have a Nikon  D40 and the next big upgrade/jump will be to D300s with 85mm F1.8 on it to capture some killer portraits :))

3.0 ND filter to pop on my lenses.  Super excited to work it with some serious time-lapse.

I'm going to buy a filter holder and use it to hold filters and different bokeh shapes, so I don't have to make a second holder just for bokeh. Plus with the filter holder there is a bigger chance of having no light leaks. :P

Well first on my list, which I will be getting this weekend, is white backdrop paper, but that doesn't really count because my parents are paying for it since it's for school.

But as far as purchases I'm actually going to make, first up is going to be a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. I especially need that for my portrait class. But I also hope it'll help out with other low light photography. After that is going to be a new laptop. My current one is about 4 years old, and it was cheap then, so technology-wise , it's about 6. Hopefully I'll have an actual job soon and be able to buy it by Christmas time.

I would like to have several new lenses :

100-400L
70-200L (Probably the F4 IS)
17-55 F2.8 IS
and... 180mm... ain't sure if it will be canon's or third brand.

A small step ladder. I want to shoot from above.

Ah, yes. And a boom and a reflector stand...

There are several things I have plans for to get in the near to nearish future. The most likely one to come up next is a new computer. I actually just sold my old first gen Macbook Pro and got a new 13" Macbook Pro. Obviously I don't want to be doing much editing on the little screen so my plans are to build a new computer and run OS X on it(yay hackintosh) with a nice matte quality monitor (reason I didn't just get an imac was the glossy screen).

For the camera I am currently using a D40 and am planning on jumping way up to the D700 and those glorious ISO levels. With that I'd like to get with it is something along the lines of a Nikkor 85mm f/1.8.

Lens:

70-200mm 2.8 Lens and 1.4 or 1.7 tele-converter are on my short list

This will be for kid sports shots mainly ... I figure this combo will have multiple bennies including all that upper body strengthening I never seem to get to the gym for :-)

I am a broke beginner. My next item will probably be a reverse ring (i think that is what it is called) so that I can put 2 lenses nose to nose for macro. 

For me it would be a 400mm F4 lens with a 1.4X Teleconverter. I am a wildlife shooter and really need the long lens thats fast.

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2 things defo: new computer and new tripod.

Just got the green light from the holder of the purse strings to not only get but build my own PC (also comp geek as well as photo geek!) as now almost 8 year old desktop is groaning with only CS3!

Then got my eyes set on Manfotto 055XBPRO legs with a 3 way head (Giottos or Manfrotto - not sure yet) as first venture into proper tripod land - currently still living with a £12 argos junk.

After that, planned but no budget yet - Tamron 90mm macro and a better walkaround to replace the 18-55 that currently have.

I have been shopping around on the net for cheap strobist stuff lately, the next thing I am going to purchase is a few Cheetah Speed Pro Brackets to allow me to use all my Bowens fit light modifiers on regular speedlights. I just put in an order for 4 of them :-)

http://www.cheetahstand.com/servlet/the-25/Cheetah-Speed-Pro-Bracket/Detail

Ohh crap! I just realized that I will have to buy more flash units and a load of pocketwizards to actually make use of them...

I really need two things, but I'm only gonna buy one of them in the sort term:

1) Westcott Apollo Softbox 28" recessed front (this is the chosen one).

2) A telephoto lens, still haven't decided wich one. Thinking about the Sigma 70-200 to get started.

My most up coming purchase will be some film.

All too often I'll be lured by the new gear "nano cystal coating and the like" but in all reality for my purpose the gear I have does what I need it to do... It's nice to see all the new flashy toys, but if it'd just live in a box most of it's life... is it worth the purchase?

Going along with your list... I'd say I needed more the motivation to go out and shoot than any new object.

I'd say a flash. Not necessarily an expensive one, just a flash. I bought a Canon Rebel II (film) for my photography class and this body works with all of my lenses (EF mount) but it has no flash. Its going to be way easier to take photos in the dark of people with 400 speed film with a flash.

Nikon 35-70 2.8
Sigma 70-200 2.8

I'm in the market for a new bag to carry my gear...not sure what yet...I don't want a backback The incase ari marcopoulos bag is pretty sweet...looking for something along that type of bag.