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Lenses / Re: Disappointed with 50 f/1.2 sharpness @ f/1.2

« on: Today at 07:10:30 PM »

>The 85mm f/1.2...on the other hand...

Yes. There they showed what Canon is able to do...

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Lenses / Re: Do you wish your 70-200L were black?

« on: Today at 07:08:02 PM »

If you shoot football for hours, you may get heatingproblems in the full sun. Maybe. I think normal usage of lenses won't cause you troubles with black lenses. I like the smaller attention with a black lense, even if it's more prone to heating.

I guess Nikon has a lot of professional lenses, too, without painting them white. So... if I'd had the choice I would always buy black ones. Maybe we can meet us at 18% grey. So we can even adjust the whitebalance at any time on it? 

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Lenses / Re: Do you wish your 70-200L were black?

« on: Today at 04:01:25 PM »

Yepp. Mine, too. 80-200L

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Lenses / Re: Disappointed with 50 f/1.2 sharpness @ f/1.2

« on: Today at 03:59:59 PM »

So, to sum it up... you could also use a 50mm 1.8 and patch it to L



just kidding

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Lenses / Re: Disappointed with 50 f/1.2 sharpness @ f/1.2

« on: Today at 03:19:20 PM »

@BirgerNiss

That's normal for this lense. The 50mm 1.0 is even worse. http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=14970.msg272132#msg272132

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Lenses / Re: 50mm.. Upgrade or not?

« on: Today at 03:13:18 PM »

@V_Raptor
Please submit something with f1.2, anything else dosn't make too much sense, I guess.   The problem of the 50L 1.2 is the aperture, wide open. I'm not someone who only reads specs, but this lense is far away from the 85L 1.2. The weathersealing is a nice *pro*, definately, so the bokeh is. But my cam isn't weatersealed, so mostly I don't care toooo much about the lenses. My only weatherproofed cam is my EOS 1n, so far   The colors of the L are far superiour in my opinion and if you make portraits the lense-unsharpness in the borders are more or less no problem. But if you use it as the normal 50mm alroundlense (as we all did back in the 70s/80s), you should know that the USM 1.4mm is overall the *better* choice.

50mm 1.4 (left) againt 50mm 1.2L (right)

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 70D Coming in July? [CR2]

« on: Today at 01:56:58 PM »

@Stuart
>Cool, if it come with a 50mm f1.4 lens thats nice too

I really would like to see some kits with fast primes, instead of those bad APS-C-Kit-Zooms. It even would improve Canons way to bring the people up on fullformat, later. Of course a amateur will not know what the advantages of  DSLRs are... they know their compact cameras and want to shoot landscapes, birds and whatever may come.

But the first time they tried a fast prime on open aperture, they'll get their mind blown away. To come back to the 70D, this cam is something for *semiprofessional* use. I think adapting a fast prime makes more sense than another 18-55. Maybe the 35mm 2 IS?

On a 1100D a Kitzoom fits, maybe

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1DX and 5D3 RAW files

« on: Today at 01:44:43 PM »

To bring some new points to the discussion... the 1Ds Mark III and the 5D Mark II have both the same sensor, but a different CPU. The Digic III and Digic IV may differ a lot in signalprocessing. Which doesn't mean that one or another is better. The same goes to 1DX and 5D Mark III, of course they both share a Digic V+, but the 1DX has two of em.

As you all know from the Intel or AMD Market, a CPU has a lot of steps and internal improvement from one series to another, even if they share the same name (f.e. Core2).

Last but not least, the internal firmwarealghorithm may differ from cam to cam. So somethimes the raws are getting better with a firmwareupdate, no one knows why

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Lenses / Re: 50mm.. Upgrade or not?

« on: Today at 12:08:12 PM »

@iSy.

The Canon 50mm f1.2 would leave you with mixed feelings. Of course it's a L-Lense, which gives you great colours and a fantastic bokeh. Otherwise it's sharpness is below (!) the 50mm 1.4 and will start to kick in at f2.5 and more . So, you should ask yourself the question why to spend a grand or more over the existing one, if you can't use the open aperture. From 1.4 to 1.2 you win around 30% of light, but the image will be blurry. Really blurry.

So if you need the extra light, which mostly can be done with a 1/3 of higher ISO stop, too... you should get the 50 1.2. This will work for analog photos nicely. Otherwise you should lend the lense for a day and you'll love or hate it.

Hint: The lense is weathersealed, but just if you do a filter in front of the lense. The rest is well done.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 70D Coming in July? [CR2]

« on: Today at 06:07:24 AM »

>I hope Magic Lantern can get 2k continuous raw video with a hack on the 70D. I'll probably need a 95mb/s card
>though. If they can do that, then I can forgive Canon for the same old sensor.

The 70D will most probably have SD Cards again, so I don't think that you'll gain much speed from it. The Speeds
written on SDCards are often far away from practical use, even the 60D had lousy results comparing to the 50D.

By the way... what would be the next number of this line? Canon 80D, then 90D and then? 100D (=SL1)... there you
have it!

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EOS Bodies / Re: EOS 70D & EOS 7D Mark II

« on: Today at 05:40:18 AM »

I knew that this answer will come and it seems to be a valid answer, but as I told... there are small external out there
which can do the same. When I used build in flashs to trigger external ones, they always needed to "look" to the
cam
because they need a visual connection. This was mostyl no help while shooting, and furthermore the small central
flash on the cam had to be bright to trigger, but I can't get rid of them for the result (I just want to flash from the
sides).

I think just getting a real flash is the way to go. I understand why someone needs an internal, but I totally disagree
that this belongs to a "professional" cam.

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EOS Bodies / Re: EOS 70D & EOS 7D Mark II

« on: May 21, 2013, 05:08:51 PM »

Who really needs a buildin flash? There are a lot of small flashunits out there (f.e. 270EX II), you can stick on the
body of you want. And those are far superior to the buildin-lightbulbs. It's like having a DVD-Drive in your laptop,
yes you need it once or twice in a lifetime, but better stick it externally and spare the weight 99% of the time.

But to come back to the 70D/7DM2 rumours...I guess the 70D will come out as an updated Version of the old 7D,
outspeccing the old cam, but with no magnesiumbody, SDCards or Prolike connectors. The 7DM2 will be out at
the end of 2013/beginning of 2014 with the new branch of sensors... which we'll get to use the next 4 or 5 years.

The WLAN/GPS enhancements of the 6D will get inside the 70D, I guess... they seem to work very well and give
some pluspoints against the Nikoncams.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom film look presets

« on: May 20, 2013, 02:41:56 AM »

Maybe a good starting point could be http://x-equals.com/blog/category/lightroom/presets/page/3/. They even sell some packs, but I guess you'll find a lot of free presets in the Net.

Greetings.

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Lenses / Re: Poll: Most Wanted New Lenses of 2013.

« on: May 17, 2013, 04:05:32 AM »

I don't understand why you all want those lenses. I would be satisfied with one, only. I need a 14-400 L IS USM f1.4 with TC 1.4 inside. But please not more than 500 grams. Thank you. 

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EOS Bodies / Re: EOS 70D & EOS 7D Mark II

« on: May 17, 2013, 03:34:54 AM »

@M.ST    Nice collection in your footnote. You already have the Nikon D4X? How do you choose which cam to take out? I'm still confused with my 4 or 5 Cams... I'll sell most of them soon, I'm sick of the headache of choosing everytime I want to shoot some photos