Canon 580EX Mark II with Bounce

Review:

The popular Speedlite 580EX Flash has been replaced by the new Speedlite 580EX II Flash, which features a host of improvements, including a metal hot shoe withan improved locking mechanism for added durability, an external metering sensor for non-TTL automatic flash exposure control and a PC socket for use with non- dedicated slave triggers.

Fully compatible with all EOS SLRs, the Speedlite 580EX II is gasketed for dust and moisture resistance, making it possible for users of EOS-1 class digital SLRs and many L-series EF lenses to use flash safely when shooting in dusty or wet environments.

Specifications

Guide Number: 58m (ISO 100, 105mm setting)
Flash shooting distance: 0.5 to 30m
No. of flashes: 100 to 700 (AA batteries)
Recycling time: 0.1 to 6s
Dimension: 76 x 134 x 114mm
Weight: 475g (with AA batteries)
Accessories: Omnibounce

Canon 580EX with Bounce

Specifications

Guide Number: 58m (ISO 100, 105mm setting)
Flash shooting distance: 0.5 to 30m
Flash Coverage: Auto 24-105mm (on full frame camera)
No. of flashes: 100 to 700 (AA batteries)
Recycling time: 0.1 to 6s
Dimension: 76 x 134 x 114mm
Weight: 475g (with AA batteries)
Accessories: Omnibounce

Canon CP-E4 battery pack for flash

Review:

For use with 580EX-II, 580EX, 550EX, 540EZ, MR-14EX, MT-24EX Speedlites. Accepts eight AA-Size Lithium, Alkaline and Rechargeable Ni-MH or NiCd Batterries.

This battery pack reduces full power recycling time from about six to 1.7 seconds and increases the number of full-power flashes per charge from approximately 100 to 432.

Nikon Speedlight SB600

Review:

With a focal length coverage of 80-400mm (5:1 zoom ratio), this is a extremely useful lens for bird and sports photographers. The Vibration reduction is clearly it's major feature and allows the photographer far greater ability to take handheld shots at shutter-speeds that would usually result in considerable blur from camera shake. Have a go at this bazooka!

Specifications

Guide Number: 30m (ISO 100, 35mm setting)
Flash Coverage: Auto 24-85mm extendable to 14mm with built-in wide-flash adapter.
Flash shooting distance: 0.6m to 20m
Recycling time: Approx 2.5s (full power)
No. of flashes: Approx. 220 (full power)
Dimension: 68 x 123.5 x 90mm
Weight: 300g
Accessories: Omnibounce, Speedlight stand AS-19 (optional)

Nikon Speedlight SB800

Review:

The SB-800 is Nikon's best flash. It works with every Nikon camera made for the past 40 years. It's the only flash, along with the almost identical SB-600, that works properly with the D70 and the new i-TTL exposure system.

The SB-800 can also be used as a master on-camera flash to control other SB-800s and SB-600 flashes wirelessly. You need this when using wireless flash with any camera other than the D70 and D70s whose built-in flash can do this.

Note: The SB-600 cannot be used as a commander flash, only a remote slave. So you'll need the SB-800 if you need a commander.

Specifications

Guide Number: 38m (ISO 100, 35mm setting)
Flash Coverage: Auto 24-105mm extendable to 14mm with built-in wide-flash adapter.
Recycling time: Approx 4s (full power), Approx 2.9s (full pwer, with Quick Recycle battery pack)
No. of flashes: Approx. 150 (full power)
Dimension: 70.5 x 129.5 x 93.0mm
Weight: 350g
Accessories: Omnibounce, colour gel filters (optional), Speedlight stand AS-19 (optional).

Nikon Speedlight SB900

Review:

The SB-900 i-TTL Speedlight leads the Nikon Creative Lighting System by delivering the portability, power, and versatility to support any photographer's creative lighting imagination. The SB-900 works as a wireless standalone flash, or you can use it as a commander or wireless remote light source. In commander mode, the SB-900 controls up to three remote Speedlight groups and an unlimited number of compatible Speedlights, with four wireless channel options helping you manage wireless conflicts in multiple photographer environments. The flash also offers streamlined controls and menus, including a rotary select dial that sets key flash functions quickly, along with a prominent master and remote control switch to simplify wireless operation.

Photographers working on zoom photos will appreciate the SB-900's expanded auto power zoom coverage, which ranges from 17 to 200mm in the FX format to 12 to 200mm in the DX format. Photographers also have the choice of three light distribution patterns: standard (for general illumination), center-weighted (for portraits), and even (for groups or interiors). Finally, the SB-900 automatically identifies mounted color gel filters and adjusts the camera's auto white balance setting (available with select Nikon digital SLR cameras). Other details include automatic FX/DX format identification; user-friendly firmware updating; flash tube overheat protection; and a drip-proof mounting foot cover.

Specifications

Guide Number: 38m (ISO 100, 35mm setting)
Flash Coverage: 17mm - 200mm
Recycling time: Approx 4s (full power with alkalines), 2.3s (full power with NiMH).
Modes: Repeating flash (disco strobe mode), Auto Aperture, distance-priority manual.
Dimension: 78.0 x146.0 x 118.5 mm

Weight: 415 g

Accessories: Omnibounce, colour gel filters (optional), Speedlight stand AS-19 (optional).

Canon EF 1.4x II Extender

Review:

This tele extender can be used with fixed focal length lenses 135mm and longer (except the 135mm f/2.8 Softfocus lens), and the EF 70-200 f/2.8L, 70-200 f/2.8L IS, 70-200 f/4.0L, and 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS zoom lenses. Superb optically, it preserves the image quality of the lens it's mounted to and multiplies its focal length 1.4x. Effective aperture is reduced by one f-stop; autofocus is possible on any EOS camera when combined with a lens having an f/4 or faster maximum aperture. The new version II maintains the outstanding optics of the previous version, and adds enhanced weather- resistant construction, and improved anti-reflective surfaces in the barrel.

Canon EF 2x II Extender

Review:

This extender has been re-designed optically and offers excellent performance with compatible EF lenses (same as the Extender EF 1.4x II). Features a new seven-element design, and same weather-resistant design and anti-reflection internal construction as the new EF 1.4x II. The EF 2x II doubles the focal length of any lens it's mounted to, and reduces its effective aperture by two stops. With the EF 2x II, AF is possible with any EOS body if the lens has an f/2.8 or faster maximum aperture, and compatible Image Stabilization lenses maintain the IS feature when used with any current EOS

Kenko 2X teleconverter (Nikon Mount)

Review:

KENKO Teleplus Pro 300 converters are made with high quality multicoated optical glass supplied by Hoya corporation, the worlds largest manufacturer of optical glass. This glass will match the optical quality of the prime lens (even at the edges, unlike many teleconverters on the market today). The optical design of the elements and light path is wide enough not to cause any vignetting.

New DG Series have upgraded "Gated-Array" circuitry to work better with the digital SLR's and some of the the new digital only lenses. They still work the same with film SLR Cameras and lenses as well

They are designed specifically to be use with telephoto lenses of 100mm or above, and work best with telephoto lenses of 200mm to 500mm. The PRO 300's can be used with telephoto zoom lenses as well as prime lenses, but, due to their design, Kenko does not recommend them for lenses that have a zoom range that starts under 50 mm.

Kenko PRO 300 converters are intended to be used with expensive telephoto lenses and larger camera bodies. They have all metal lens mounts in both front and rear, as well as a metal core, to support today's heavy professional camera bodies.

Kenko 2X teleconverter (Nikon Mount)

Review:

The Kenko Auto Extension Tube Set contains three tubes of different length, a 12 mm, 20 mm, and 36 mm, which can be used individually or in any combination to obtain the desired magnification.Kenko's Auto Focus extension tubes are designed with all the circuitry and mechanical coupling to maintain auto focus and TTL auto exposure.

Extension tubes are designed to enable a lens to focus closer than its normal set minimum focusing distance. Getting closer has the effect of magnifying your subject (making it appear larger in the viewfinder and in your pictures). They are exceptionally useful for macro photography, enabling you to convert almost any lens into a macro lens at a fraction of the cost while maintaining its original optical quality.The extension tubes have no optics. They are mounted in between the camera body and lens to create more distance between the lens and film plane. By moving the lens father away from the film or CCD sensor in the camera, the lens is forced to focus much closer than normal. The greater the length of the extension tube, the closer the lens can focus.

Nikon Extension Tubes (Kenko)

Review:

The Kenko 3-Piece DG Automatic Extension Tube Set is designed specifically for use with Nikon digital SLR cameras and lenses ranging from macro to semi-telephoto, and allows the photographer to enable a lens to focus closer than its normal set minimum focusing distance. Getting closer has the effect of magnifying your subject (making it appear larger in the viewfinder and in your pictures). They are exceptionally useful for macro photography, enabling you to convert almost any lens into a macro lens at a fraction of the cost while maintaining its original optical quality.

These extension tubes have no optics. They are mounted in between the camera body and lens to create more distance between the lens and film plane. By moving the lens father away from the film or CCD sensor in the camera, the lens is forced to focus much closer than normal. The greater the length of the extension tube, the closer the lens can focus.

This set contains three tubes of different length -- 12mm, 20mm, and 36 mm -- which can be used individually or in any combination to obtain the desired magnification. These extension tubes are designed with all the circuitry and mechanical coupling to maintain auto focus and TTL auto exposure with most Nikon lenses, given there is enough light to activate the cameras AF system properly.

Lensbaby (Canon Mount)

Review:

The Lensbaby for Canon SLR Cameras combines an old-fashioned bellows camera with an up-tight tilt-shift lens, and photographers to lock the Lensbaby in a desired bent position simply by pressing a button. Then, using a traditional barrel focus mechanism, you can do fine focusing and precisely place the sweet spot of sharp focus before pressing the shutter release. Lensbaby selective focus SLR camera lenses take photos with one area in sharp focus, with that sweet spot surrounded by graduated blur. You can move the sweet spot of sharp focus anywhere in the photo by bending the flexible lens tubing.

The Lensbaby features low dispersion, high refractive index and multi-coated optical glass doublet.The Lensbaby is a good choice for fluid, photojournalistic shots, and includes the following feature:

Focal length: About 50mm
Minimum focus: 12 inches
Apertures: f2, f2.8, f4, f5.6, f8, f11, f16, f22
Aperture type: Interchangeable levitating aperture disks
Automatic light metering is possible by shooting in aperture priority mode for almost all digital and film SLR camera bodies .

Manfrotto 190ProB tripod

Benro Tripod

Calumet tripod

Video Tripod (Heavy Duty)

Video Tripod (Light)

Camera Battery/Vertical grips

Our range of camera vertical grips include:

Nikon
1) Nikon MB-D10: For Nikon D300, D700
2) Nikon MB-D200: For Nikon D200
3) Nikon MB-D80: For Nikon D80

Canon
1) Canon BG-E4: For Canon 5D
2) Canon BG-E3: For Canon 350D, 400D
3) Canon BG-E2: For Canon 20D, 30D, 40D
4) Canon BG-E2N: For Canon 20D, 30D, 40D

CF / SD memory cards

Our range of memory cards include:

Brands
1) Sandisk Extreme III / IV
2) Kingston
3) Transcend 120X / 133X / 150X
4) Sandisk Extreme III/IV

Compact Flash (CF card)
Available are 1, 2, 4 and 8 GB CF cards

Secure Digital (SD card)
Available are 2, 4, 8 and 16 GB CF cards

Camera Batteries

Our range of camera batteries include:

Nikon
1) Nikon EN-EL3: For Nikon D50, D70, D70s, D80, D100, MB-D80
2) Nikon EN-EL3e: For Nikon D50, D70, D70s, D80, D200, D300, D700, MB-D10, MB-D200, MB-D80
3) Nikon EN-EL4: For Nikon D2Xs, D3, MB-D10 (with attachment)
4) Nikon EN-EL9: For D40, D40x, D60

Canon
1) Canon NB-2LH: For Canon 400D, 350D
2) Canon BP-511A: For Canon 5D, 40D, 30D, 20D, 10D
3) Canon LP-E3: For Canon 1D, 1Ds, 1D II, 1Ds II
4) Canon LP-E4: For Canon 1D III, 1Ds III
5) Canon LP-E5: For Canon 450D

Lens Filters