Over the past month or so, I sold my EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM and my EF 24-70 f/2.8 L USM lenses. I’m mainly happy with the EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM lens, and I am currently listing my 50mm and 35mm “regular” primes on Craigslist for sale. Eventually, it’ll just be me and my 50L.
I ordered a Singh-Ray Vari-nd so I can slow down time and be a bit abstract. It’s very difficult to shoot certain scenes during the day, and the ability to add an extra few stops to the exposure will help me lengthen certain shots, and do stuff like turn lakes into glass in my photos.
On another filters subject: Filters NOW has pretty much the best price for home air filters as I could calculate. My method was to go to the filtrete site and look at all the linked vendors. I figured shipping costs into the price per filter, since I’d normally pick them up from the store.
I spent about an hour going over the prices for a 16×20x1 and 10×20x1 filters and found this site has the best prices overall. I ordered a years supply of filtrete red filters, and I’ll be budgeting about 19 dollars a month to savings for next year’s buy. Buying them all at once saved me quite a bit versus Lowe’s prices. It’s about $70 in savings for buying them in large quantities.
I could save a lot by buying $3 fibreglass filters, but filtrete filters really do cut down on the dusting I have to do around the house.
I’m also arranging to replace the UV anti-microbial lamp in my furnace. That’ll be about $70, with shipping.