Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

Presto transportation card - will be taking the Go Train to work! Will probably be buying a couple pairs of dress pants this weekend also. Got a few pairs of black dress pants and khakis, but I want some grey and blue dress pants!

 

I live in the UK, so its a bum bag. It can be just a handle bag or belt pouch and over the shoulder bag.

 

Oakley Racing Jacket (OO-9171) in gloss black with Ice Iridium Polarised lenses in my prescription - figured since we're off on a family hol to south of France later in the year I'd better have a proper pair of sunglasses*





*Wife bought them as my birthday present

 

Pair of these:



One of these:



And a parallel connector for the cards.

 

A 15 litre fermenting vessel for some experimental beers I want to try in small batches.

 

...

 

That'll teach me for replying from a phone, whole comment was deleted. Here we go again:

Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC USD:



Crumpler Proper Roady 9000:



When I upgraded to a full frame camera a month back I sold my old D3200 to my brother in law. Unfortunately for me that meant I was out a normal lens as I only had a 50mm f1.5 which was completely manual and a 105mm f2.8 macro. Since I included the bag in the sale I was also out of a way to carry gear around. Turns out shooting with only a macro isn't that bad, but it's not so practical for indoors stuff and is rubbish for landscape (funnily enough). The Tamron is a great lens for the money. Great quality optics, good vibration control, solid build quality and a nice constant aperture, fast autofocus too. Importantly I can now take normal photos round and about, which is much more practical.

Bag wise Crumpler are usually a safe bet, but they do vary. Their camera bags are simply much better than their normal stuff I swear. I had to switch out for a Crumpler laptop bag in the meantime, it was rubbish. Their normal bags seem to be well made but really poorly designed. They just don't have any capacity given their dimensions, the camera bags are cavernous though. I packed all my gear into this one and it still looks empty.

 

They look full cover to me...

 

...

 

I like that acool block but I heard it uses 1mm thermal pads everywhere. Is that correct/

 

...

 

A PCB and PIC for my own home-made soldering station. Because geek!

Edit: oh, and...



Brass lacquer made according to a recipe from 1892, for scientific instruments etc.

 

I bought a big cup of Pick and Mix. Damn right I did.

 

Pics Or It Didn't Happen!



Who wants to play ultimate frisbee sudden death?

 

Dewalt table Saw and dust extractor for a planned home renovation.

 

Shoot a brother a link to that brass black, or at least a formula. Been looking for that stuff. Don't care if it's German, as I read it enough for modding work.

Found it. Hella expensive, it is.

 

You're in luck. German brand, but a US company:

http://shop.kremerpigments.com/en/mediums--binders-und-glues/brass-lacquer--from-1892-79622:.html

Creates that warm golden finish on brass that you see on Victorian microscopes and instruments.

 

I think we know where this is going.....

 

AMD FX 6300 Black Edition - got me some hex core action