Christmas Pressie Ideas!

Hi All

It's about now that Mrs Puggy asks what I'd like for Christmas and to be honest I'm at a loss so I thought I'd turn to you all for advice and thought it might make a nice discussion point

Budget is £100 - 150 at a push I'm quite happy to go into the second hand market if need, most of my kit is second hand anyway.

Quick run down of what I have seems appropriate

K-5
Metz 50AF-1
Tamron 17-50
Sigma 105 EX
DA 55-300
M50 1.7
Great Tripod (3LT Eddie)
Hazard4 Recon Sling Pack
77mm SRB 10 stop and rings to make it fit all the lenses
77mm SRB CPL
lens pens, rocket blower etc

Things I have been thinking about were maybe flash triggers but I'm not sure how much use they would be compared to using on camera flash as trigger and have no idea what brand/spec I should be looking at. A graslon Insight flash diffuser which seems a good product but very expensive for a bit of plastic. A fast 50 but I'd really like the sigma 1.4 50 so not sure about getting DA50 1.8 as stop gap. or maybe some macro bracket to replace the cheap polaroid thing I've used thus far. Oh or a Q

So any ideas for the awesome bit of kit I'm missing would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

What about upgrades or plug-ins to your PP programmes ( hdr, noise reduction, etc )

Depends what you like to shoot, for example there's a sh sigma 10-20 at lce that's just over your budget at £169.

Would your missus perhaps enjoy using the q and it could be a present you could share?

One option not yet suggested - how about a a photo trip with an over-night stay to somewhere you can put the gear you have already to good use?


Carl

That has just gone to Mrs A as a request for my Christmas present - great call Call!

An excellent idea. How much stuff do we really need? Using it somewhere you've never been, is a brilliant suggestion.

I try and get on a photo weekend most years this year was area around bempton cliffs
All be it mostly wildlife hoping to get to Suffolk next year if not might try Farne island

Thanks for the input.

I do agree that a trip would be a good idea, in fact a great idea sadly due to sick pets and no one to be able to administer meds we don't get to stay away from home, maybe something local tho.

Hi
I don't take the wife I go with a group of friends off another forum

If not a trip away what about a workshop nearby? There are lots of day long workshops around.

Or leave Mrs Puggy behind, and go enjoy a two day course. Then you can give her a trip to something that appeals to her, but not to you, that she can go on, so there is always someone home with the pets.