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Bought a T2i Body, need everything else, batteries, cards, etc.

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SnorkBoard
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I'm wondering what I should get as far as batteries, memory cards, filters, cleaning and maintenance stuff, tripod, filters, ect. I have literally just the body and strap. Not even the manual.

As far as lens go, currently my buy list goes:

Tamron 17-50
50mm
8mm fisheye (for skating, snowboarding, dorking around)

Also looking to get a CamCaddy or something similar. Would like something fig-rig like that wasn't so expensive, or huge to carry around.


Anything else? I don't really have any experience but I'm looking to get into photography and filming/ making edits of outdoor activities and dumb little videos of things I think are funny.
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Laurent.
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Memorycards: Sandisk, Lexar, PNY, etc...

Buy the models that say: "EXTREME" "PRO" "ELITE" "1000X" "POWER" DIGITAL RAPE"

Batteries: Genuine Canon or aftermarket, your choice.

Filters: meh it's digital and not a Leica M8 so no real need for filters right now. (Buy an ND filter later)

Cleaning: Giottos Rocket Blower.

Tripod: Second hand 90's Manfrotto's made from Aluminium rods so thick and solid you can use them as foundation for a skyscraper.
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Mag
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Memory cards: I use sandisk, always have always will, I've had one break and no longer work for some reason, but I was still able to get all the files off it just fine, never had them corrupt, and It's all I've been using for years. I stick to the sandisk 16gb extreme 45MB/s. It's more than fast enough for whatever I need, I have 2 of them, although I'd recommend getting more if doing paid stuff. I usually just shoot 16gb in a day so I have the 2nd one as backup.

Batteries: I stick to using at least 1 official battery, for whenever I want to just grab the camera and can appreciate having battery levels, and otherwise I'll just use cheap ones off amazon/ebay, generally look for ones with good reviews, just because I'm a pussy about the batteries leaking.

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PacificRimJob
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Get a cheap ND filter if you can afford it... but it's really not necessary, honestly.

If you're going aftermarket, I personally have like 5 "Wasabi Power" aftermarket batteries for my T2i that last longer than the Canon branded ones. Pretty affordable.

Get a battery grip. Meike makes solid 3rd party ones. I have had them for my T2i, my 20D, and my 60D.

for a tripod, you could go with an old 2nd hand manfrotto, it's not a bad choice, but I use a Ravelli tripod that's built pretty much just as well, and has a fluid video head on it. Cost me less than 100$, and the QR plates (made by Giottos) are pretty affordable.

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eheath
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Why is everyone recommending such a high end memory cards? You literally will be fine with a class 10 card for t2i, buying the model that is 5x as expensive won't change anything.
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PacificRimJob
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Seriously. I use the Transcend cards on mine. That's really all you need.
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Mag
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@eheath the reason I get them is over here they were cheaper at the time than the 30MB/s ones. 50% extra speed for faster transferring to the pc + the fact that it'll last longer(when I end up with a camera that the 30MB/s couldn't handle), so if it's only 1/2$ more I think it's worth it.
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eheath
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But why not buy a card thats cheaper than both?

BTW you don't get a faster transfer to your computer.

Also, you'll never have a camera that is 30MBps and uses SD cards (at least not for a LONG time), your dslr is only 24mbps which is 3MBps...
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Mag
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Such as? class 4 couldn't keep up

What makes you think you don't you get a faster transfer rate?

Yeah I suppose you've got me there, but bare in mind 30MB/s is the maximum speed, class 10 cards are only guaranteed to have a minimum of 10, which isn't fast enough for a lot of gh2 hacks, again, futureproofing.


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eheath
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Well if you're shooting with a hacked gh2, thats a different story. We're talking about t2i. I didn't say buy a class 4, I said buy a class 10.

And the speed on the memory card is write speed, im pretty sure read/transfer speed is all the same. I've imported with lots of different sd cards, from class 10 to 60MBps and they're all the same.
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Mag
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Oh fair enough, yeah I'd probably have gotten class 10s if they were cheaper.

Ah, that could make sense, I've only noticed the huge speed increases when copying files ONTO the cards, so you could well be right there.
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SnorkBoard
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Thanks, I think I'll pick up some SanDisk extreme pros and Wasabi batteries.


One more question, the guy that had it before me put Magic Lantern on it, should I revert it to the original software for learning? how do I do that?
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Mag
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As eheath has just explained, you could just get some regular class 10 cards instead, and IIRC I got magic lantern the same day I got my cam, and it didn't seem to hinder my learning. I'd keep it.
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I have transcend, kingston, and sandisk. All class 10, and all 16GB. With both transcend and kingston, i will get a "movie has automatically stopped recording" error quite frequent. With sandisk, i have not gotten that once. And the card wasnt really much more expensive. Just my experience though.
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eheath
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They're still all class 10 I'm not talking about brand I'm talking about speed.
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[J_Gasper]
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Oh word
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Just to prove this wrong, I had a class 10 card sitting around (16gb SanDisk for GoPro), and I have some Samsung 40MB/S write and 80MB/S read 16GB cards which I've tested previously against the San Disks and they do just fine. So the test was two 15 minute videos 720 at 60p - GoPro, and 400 RAW files from a D300s, coming straight off the card on a SATAIII cable to a partitioned RAMDisk. The only bottleneck occurring at the card and the total size of the transfer being 6.21GB for the RAW files and 3.15GB for the video, totaling 9.36GB. The times are:

45MB/S Samsung card - 2 minutes and 31 seconds - it was slower with the individual RAW obviously, but average of 62 MB/S read so not too bad.

Class 10 SanDisk card - 6 minutes 3 seconds - slowed down a little again on RAW, but avg of 26 MB/S read.

So if anyone else would like to argue still about how there is no real difference in the cards, I beg to differ. the difference is substantial, and I know it saves me a lot of time when I come home and have many full cards I need to dump, and there's not much you can do other than sit and wait, and personally, I would waste a lot of time and productivity on class 10 cards. So eheath when you argue that there's not much difference, I'd say there's more than twice as much.
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eheath
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It all depends on what you're doing, with only 1 card (i used 32gb so i could shoot multi day) its not a big difference. But, if youre importing 3-4 cards then yes it could make a difference. I personally use scandisc extremes (class 10 cards dont work for 1080p60 on fs100) but even dumping shot from a gopro with a class 10 card i didnt really notice a difference. Again, its all based on what you're doing, not many kids with a t2i are dumping mutli-cards a day like you.
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SnorkBoard
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What's my best bet for a case? I really like F-Stop Shallow Medium ICU because It would be cool to just keep in my regular backpack, but there out of stock.

anything similar or have another recommendation entirely
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Moosen
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I used to use those until one literally fell apart in my hands and I have had multiple read and write errors.

Also I would recommend a tamron 28-75mm over the 17-50mm. It is actually usable on a fullframe later. Sharper, built better. I just like it a lot more.

and +1 on the battery grip, I love mine!
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