So thinking that a case/bag and a filter (polarised) would be useful…what else?

New to DSLR – K100D – and have a tripod, and lens hood, but nowt else.

Well if youve not got one get a UV (clear) filter to protect your lens, then a polariser is nice but i dont use mine that much. Remote is good if you can get one, not just for self portraits but for playing with long exposures.

Spare battery

Get a decent 50mm f 1.8 lens for it. You’ll get far better image quality and good action and low light shots. Speaking of which, a solid tripod is very useful too.

Sorry you already have a tripod. Doh.

Get a case before you get anything else.

Well if youve not got one get a UV (clear) filter to protect your lens,

I’d say the opposite, personally.

I love my circular polariser. ND grad filter is probably the next filter I’ll get.

Cheaper accessories: remote release, lenspen, microfibre cloth, battery, SD, a Pod, batteries, SD cards…

TBH though, I’d say forget all the tat and save up for a flash and a decent tripod.

Sorry you already have a tripod. Doh.

+1, oops.

Batteries: takes AA 🙂
Not thought about cleaning bits – will sort.
How does a remote release attach? Not sure mine will take one…

Any suggestions for a small pouch/bag to carry the thing in? Cheap ebay job?

Decent tripod – I have one, someone left one at work last year and I bought it out our lost property at Christmas for £1 🙂

No one have mentioned a decent external flash.

Ahem.

As well as my proper tripod, I got a Jessops own brand table top tripod – a fairly solid one (they vary a lot). Fits in the camera bag and means I’ve always got some sort of tripod when I have the SLR out.

Depends what you are doing with your camera – I’ve had mine 4 months and not used the onboard flash yet.

Don’t bother with the filter. I did, then kept noticing lens flare and whatnot. Then I realised that with even the most rudimentary care it’s easy to keep the lens safe.

A tilt and swivel flashgun is a pretty good investment if you want to take photos indoors (of course). Not so cheap tho.

My circular polariser doesn’t seem to do much on my DSLR – I had one on my film camera and loved it to bits *shrug*.

Tripod – not particularly useful outside of special situations I don’t reckon.

After a nice bag (any will do there are millions) and perhaps a flash, a fast prime lens will be good for you.

But really you don’t need any of it – get camera, get out and take pics.

cheap extension rings are fun for playing with Macro. Cheap old lenses off ebay, I think pentax lenses are pretty much all interchangeable.

Aye, cheap old prime is on the birthday list….Another reason I went Pentax was cheap old lenses fit….

Cheap slave flash. I can’t live without my flashes.
Shame you don’t have a Canon as I’ve got a 28mm prime for sale.

Seconded a nice s/h prime – I have the benefit of being able to use old Minolta glass, having a Sony. The 50mm f1.7 I bought for £65 recently is lovely – nice solid metal body, lovely colour and….. the Bokeh!!!!

My new tripod is waiting for me at home – I think this will reap many rewards for my photography.

Shame you don’t have a Canon as I’ve got a 28mm prime for sale.

How much, out of interest?

Tripod – not particularly useful outside of special situations I don’t reckon.

Not useful except if you want to take photos with best sharpness that your camera is capable of.

How much, out of interest?

110 of your English pounds plus P&P, I might even throw in a Tamron 28-300mm for and extra 20GBP, might…. 😀

Hm.

What’s the speed of it?

What’s the speed of it?

Eh?
Here’s the ad.

Ah, right. F/2.8, then. Gonna say, if it was the F/1.8 I’d have torn your arm off.

Good lens, reasonable price, but I’m not sure I can really justify it to myself at the minute. Cheers for the info though.

If it was the f1,8 it would have been priced a touch higher.
It’s a cracking lens and lived on the camera before the 17-40, almost all my cycling shots were done with this lens. The zoom gives a bit more flexibility and the L counts for quite a lot.
If you were close to Chester I could have let you have a little play with it.

I’m fairly close to Chester. (-:

TBH, I’d love to take it off your hands, but due to a number of factors I’ve got very little disposable income at the moment.

I’m fairly close to Chester. (-:

Looks like you’ve just saved yourself the P&P. 😉

You’re a bad man.

(-:

You’re a bad man.

Not the first time I’ve heard that. 😈
It’s just gone on Gumtree, I’ll see what happens there.

One thing I always have with me is a decent sized Pentax lens cleaning cloth, I still have a large one which I use to wrap my standard lens in in my bag, its lasted me years!

Decent Lens hood is another must not forget too for me.

Not useful except if you want to take photos with best sharpness that your camera is capable of

It’s a hell of a lot of faff for what is really a tiny improvement in overall image quality. If you are taking landscapes or still lifes, sure, but it does depend heavily on the kind of photography you are going for and the situations in which you find yourself.

The first things I bought were:
(had a tripod)
Spare battery
Spare card
Lens cloth
Loweprow Slingshot bag
50mm f1.8 lens
70-300 lens
Adobe Lightroom
Remote shutter release
Remote flash triggers
Cheap manual flash + gorillapod to go with it
Cokin system with Polarising filter and ND Grad filter
Large cheap ebay reflector
Large cheap ebay light tent
Then replaced kit lens with an upgrade.

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I now use the flash stuff a lot more than the filters.
I use the light tent quite a bit for product photography.

Very rarely can be bothered with tripod unless in a studio-type setup. Very rarely can be bothered with Cokin. Too much faff.
Tend to use timer function rather than remote release.

A tripod is a must for me as I want to play with long exposures.

Since we are listing stuff, my purchases were as follows, in rough order:

Olympus E-600 DSLR
8Gb memory card
Small shoulder bag
40-150mm lens (cos it was on offer)
Polarising filter
Spare memory card
70-300mm lens (cos the 150 wasn’t long enough for wildlife)
Large rucksack to store it all in
Monopod
35mm macro lens
Tilt/swivel flash
Smallest bag that would fit the camera (so I could put it in the camelbak)
Wrist strap (to enable getting the camera out quickly and putting it away)
25mm pancake lens
8mm fisheye
30mm f1.4 (those three were me going a bit mental on ebay)
Even smaller bag to accomodate camera + pancake
Shoulder bag with room for two lenses and camera and guidebooks, maps etc for tourist purposes
Tripod
Ring light for macro work

Not the most exciting purchase, but after using the straps which came with the camera for years, getting an R-Strap has made a massive difference to the perceived weight of the camera. I even took a medium format film camera on a two mile walk without feeling it was a problem. There are also cheaper copies available for £20ish.

This might do the trick for carrying and protection, pretty good price I reckon Bag

Lenspen or cloth and spare batteries/memory card are a good start and remote release too

Could buy no end of stuff, but get taking some pictures first, not a bad idea to get some sort of processing software, Photoshop Elements is as good as anything for the money

Tripod – not particularly useful outside of special situations I don’t reckon

That is one of the worst bits of advice I have ever heard someone give to a photography newcomer

£60 for a strap?!

A 50mm prime lens, decent speed lite flash and cheap remote triggers from deal extreme. Must get camera out this week.

Not really into this remote flash business so far, tbh.