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Lenses / Re: Lenses for climbing photography
« on: May 13, 2013, 12:20:18 PM »
See this thread......
http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=14715.0
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Software & Accessories / Re: GoPro Video and Helicopters
« on: May 10, 2013, 05:37:58 PM »......Indeed! Fires the imagination right up, doesn't it?
I almost wish I had not started this thread as now I have googled "quadcopter" and I am hooked, totally hooked!......
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Regarding various restrictive or/and prohibitive laws, I read somewhere that one way around such laws is to tether the craft to the ground as the craft is no longer 'unmanned'.
Of course a tether will add weight, the lifting capacity of the craft will need to be increased to compensate.
And, obviously, the totally free flying capabilities will be greatly reduced.
Still, even tethered close, many creative possibilities remain within the unusual perspectives still possible.
The actual tether could be as simple as kite string (oops, string broke, it got away, sorry officer) or how about CAT5 cable for tethered control of the camera to a PC?
I can think of many applications where a tether would be undesirable, such as outdoor athletic events like foot/bicycle races and the like, how cool would that be to follow the leaders along a course?
Still, if local laws prohibit such use, work within those laws, best possible.
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Software & Accessories / Re: GoPro Video and Helicopters
« on: May 07, 2013, 08:56:03 PM »...I have put my gopro .... up on a stunt kite. .....Um, even if the results were unusable, that was a brilliant bit if innovative thinking. Kudos for thinking that up and giving it a go!!
The stunt kite was a bit more interesting.... let's just say that if you need to produce unwatchable, nausea-inducing video, a stunt kite and a GoPro are the way to go....
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There are times when I would like to take a bird's eye view of something....Google for quadcopter.
The learning curve to fly a quad is reported to be very short, unlike a helo.
What you are asking about has already been done by thousands.
There are lots of vendors and forums on the quad topic.
There a DIYs for building your own quad or buy one ready made, prices from a few hundred to several thousand.
GoPro use is common, so are DSLRs.
There are radio controlled gimbal mounts for camera aiming, actual camera controls will be limited to WiFi range.
Er, dare I say, "The Sky is the Limit"?
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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 360 Indoor/Outdoor Panos. Does ANYONE know ANYTHING...
« on: May 06, 2013, 06:04:12 AM »
I can't think why one would want to use a wide angle lens with it's native, curvature distortion. What then? Correct the curvature of each image in post, then stitch them together? Sounds like a lot of work.
I'd think to shoot more frames with a more natural perspective, such as a 40 mm or 50 mm, stitching those together would allow for a more natural perspective, the multiple frames get you the wide viewing angle natural to a panorama.
Anyway, here's a goggly thing https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_rn=12&gs_ri=psy-ab&gs_mss=flash%20panorama%20s&tok=l1f0fIKd4INOA_vYH3q_hg&cp=23&gs_id=1dd&xhr=t&q=flash+panorama+software&es_nrs=true&pf=p&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&oq=flash+panorama+software&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.aWc&fp=a53dde7358203403&biw=1280&bih=850
Looks like a lot of options right there.
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I'd think to shoot more frames with a more natural perspective, such as a 40 mm or 50 mm, stitching those together would allow for a more natural perspective, the multiple frames get you the wide viewing angle natural to a panorama.
Anyway, here's a goggly thing https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_rn=12&gs_ri=psy-ab&gs_mss=flash%20panorama%20s&tok=l1f0fIKd4INOA_vYH3q_hg&cp=23&gs_id=1dd&xhr=t&q=flash+panorama+software&es_nrs=true&pf=p&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&oq=flash+panorama+software&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.aWc&fp=a53dde7358203403&biw=1280&bih=850
Looks like a lot of options right there.
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Lenses / Re: New Tilt-Shift Lenses in the Wild [CR2]
« on: May 02, 2013, 04:32:18 PM »Insightful post, PBD...but you're missing the big picture. It's not just a 'because we can' moment - it's one more small step on the road to the EF TS 12-400mm f/2L Macro IS Pancake lens we all want.D'oh, you forgot motorized tilt and shift mechanisms for tethered use.
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Pentax to also use the 24MP Sony FF sensor?
« on: April 27, 2013, 07:22:14 PM »
Ahh, Pentax. Back in the day, oh never mind nostalgia, but the LX, what a machine.
Anyway, having been a big fan of Pentax 35mm film SLRs, I've been pretty disappointed they've not introduced a full frame digital, maybe soon. As we on this site all know, or should know, rumors are just rumors unless and until they become fact.
Anyway the 2nd, if Pentax isn't going to release a FF DSLR or/and mirrorless, what is the point of this lens?
http://www.pentaxwebstore.com/product/9377
43 mm, FA mount, f/1.9 for $750 USD. Seems Pentax considers it a pretty special product with those specs at that price point.
I've tried to find out if this is an old lens design from way back that I had just not heard about until recently, but I can find nothing much at all about it's history, release date and such.
The only clues I've found regarding it's production age is that it is missing from several, stagnant web pages a few years old indicating to me at least, that it's a fairly recent release.
I only learned that Pentax has a 43 while watching that unimpeachable internet sage, Kai on digitalrevtv in his Canon Shorty Forty review, he said to the effect of, "Canon hasn't had a pancake lens lens, well, since ever. And 43, no one but Pentax has ever had one of those".
Really, what's the point of a Pentax 43 if not for a full frame body and the only full frame Pentax bodies use film?
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Anyway, having been a big fan of Pentax 35mm film SLRs, I've been pretty disappointed they've not introduced a full frame digital, maybe soon. As we on this site all know, or should know, rumors are just rumors unless and until they become fact.
Anyway the 2nd, if Pentax isn't going to release a FF DSLR or/and mirrorless, what is the point of this lens?
http://www.pentaxwebstore.com/product/9377
43 mm, FA mount, f/1.9 for $750 USD. Seems Pentax considers it a pretty special product with those specs at that price point.
I've tried to find out if this is an old lens design from way back that I had just not heard about until recently, but I can find nothing much at all about it's history, release date and such.
The only clues I've found regarding it's production age is that it is missing from several, stagnant web pages a few years old indicating to me at least, that it's a fairly recent release.
I only learned that Pentax has a 43 while watching that unimpeachable internet sage, Kai on digitalrevtv in his Canon Shorty Forty review, he said to the effect of, "Canon hasn't had a pancake lens lens, well, since ever. And 43, no one but Pentax has ever had one of those".
Really, what's the point of a Pentax 43 if not for a full frame body and the only full frame Pentax bodies use film?
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Technical Support / Re: Urgent Help Requested:Photos for my website
« on: April 24, 2013, 11:35:16 AM ».......By the way, it's very obvious in one of those pictures that the carpet wasn't even on that floor. It's a composite image.Now that is cheating.
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@yoldashh
How about a link to your website?
You can't do anything about a competitor's content, only your own.
Think a minute about web marketing. It's no easy task to steer eyes to your web front, but once there, don't chase them away.
For me, and I suspect many others, if I do stumble on a site of interest to me and that page doesn't show me something right away, I'm gone right away. A site has to be exceptionally compelling to keep my attention in spite of overload, there's simply too much other stuff I could be doing, looking at.
Sometimes, on a slow loading site, I'll select a brief term or description to google with, then I'm off to a competitor's site, you do not want that to happen with your site.
Be glad you can't upload 10MB images, they take WAY too long to load.
If there are only a very few images on a page, images could (which doesn't mean should) be as large as 1MB.
Lots of images, flash content and the like and/or large files, all increase page load times and we do not want long page load times.
If a smallish image, like a thumbnail, links off to a larger, hi resolution image, that hi-res image should indeed be large and detailed for high clarity. Once a site visitor's interest has gotten to that point, they will wait for beauty to unfold, at least I know I will.
As others have already posted, use DPP, Lightroon, Photoshop or whatever to downsize your edited raws when exporting.
Consider exporting in two sizes, one for 'thumbnails', the other for individual product pages.
By all means, do shoot in the largest raw format possible.
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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: Ring Lights
« on: March 08, 2013, 07:55:47 PM »I think fing lights for portraits are creepy! Unless you are going for a vampire effect. Wait a minute, can you photograph a vampire...Only in live view. Since vampires don't reflect in mirrors, the viewfinder will be blank on an SLR.
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Portrait / Re: Post your best portraits(street, studio, candid etc...).
« on: February 26, 2013, 05:09:24 PM »
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Black & White / Re: street photography...feedback please!
« on: February 13, 2013, 06:46:34 PM »I see you shot in color then converted to black and white, I'm looking for shooting in black and white from the get go, and trying to use my mind and "see" the world in black and white as I shoot, but I'm finding it difficult to imagine that. My mentor stated he can do that sort of. Have you ever heard of doing this?....
The best B&W photographers "see" in B&W. Part of the trick is looking for shapes, patterns and textures, but mood comes into it too. When it comes to digital, conversions often work better than actually shooting in B&W, as to get the best tones, you need the full tonal range to start with. Digital B&W settings tend to be too flat to get real impact, without alot of work (which you can't really do from a jpeg). Oversaturating before conversion can give some real impact. Of course black and white film is another story, as it has been designed differently.
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Seeing in B&W comes naturally if you shoot B&W all the time...when you mix it it becomes more difficult. Think about this.....in the days of film i shot almost exclusively b&w with my 4x5 field camera. the view on the ground glass was upside down...but I never noticed it, it becomes completely natural after a while...Ansel Adams talked about pre visualization..i o w you 'see' the final, in his case, print, before you trip the shutter....thus you teach yourself how the tones and contrast etc etc will look before you make the image... the mind can do anything, all it take s is a bit of practice!
Shoot in RAW + JPG, set your camera to shoot in B+W. Your review on the camera screen will be the embedded JPG in B+W, the JPG on your computer will also be B+W, the RAW will be in color.
In post, the color RAW will give you the most to work with to get to what you visualized as you shot.
Ansel was real big on visualization. He worked hard getting things just so in camera with his zone system, film and filter choices all the while visualizing what else he was going to do in post, both while developing and printing.
Ansel was well aware that digital imaging was in the fairly near future, I think he'd be delighted with what he could do with RAW and post.
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Video & Movie / Re: Urban Exploration - filmed with Canon 7D
« on: February 11, 2013, 01:26:42 PM »
I liked it. I do have a fascination with ruins of all sorts, lives that passed through, who lived, laughed, loved, worked, cried, died, keeps my mind wandering.
Um, how to ask?
"Raika .....forgotten and it will never wake up again."
I cannot forget what I never knew and I've never heard of Raika before.
I tried some google, got no Raika answers there either, that is indeed pretty well forgotten I guess.
Please, briefly what, where is/was Raika, what happened to cause it to be deserted? Perhaps downwind from Chernobyl?
Um, how to ask?
"Raika .....forgotten and it will never wake up again."
I cannot forget what I never knew and I've never heard of Raika before.
I tried some google, got no Raika answers there either, that is indeed pretty well forgotten I guess.
Please, briefly what, where is/was Raika, what happened to cause it to be deserted? Perhaps downwind from Chernobyl?
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Sports / Re: Women's RBS 6 Nations Championship
« on: February 10, 2013, 11:20:46 PM »
Great set of photos!!
I know nothing of rugby, so little that I had to google RBS in the thread title, but these photos show Women that clearly do know rugby and are 100% involved.
Absolutely great facial expressions in all these shots, great job capturing those expressions and the intensity of the action.
Pretty lopsided score, is rugby a new game in England, eh?
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I know nothing of rugby, so little that I had to google RBS in the thread title, but these photos show Women that clearly do know rugby and are 100% involved.
Absolutely great facial expressions in all these shots, great job capturing those expressions and the intensity of the action.
Pretty lopsided score, is rugby a new game in England, eh?
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Technical Support / Re: Photos Accidentally Put in Recycling Bin But Don't Show Up There
« on: February 05, 2013, 10:31:57 AM »
I've never had any files deleted from an external USB drive end up in the recycle bin. I always COPY from the USB drive to C:\, E:\, whatever, sort out the junk which does go into the recycle bin, then clean up the external drive once back up of the keepers has been completed and tested.
Files you've deleted from that external drive are likely still there as noted above and several recovery options suggested, get to it.
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Files you've deleted from that external drive are likely still there as noted above and several recovery options suggested, get to it.
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Lenses / Re: Unboxing Zeiss CP2 - the first Mindcut Techfile
« on: February 04, 2013, 07:23:46 PM »https://vimeo.com/58725919
Hi, hope you like my little unboxing ... :-)
Cute jokes!
Looks like you are planing some serious video work!
But, um, linky thingy no worky as posted...
It should go to
| Unboxing Zeiss Compact Primes on Vimeo | Small | Large |
edit.... embedded thingy no worky either, link below does work though.
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Black & White / Re: Black and White Landscapes!
« on: January 29, 2013, 09:19:52 PM »
Portencross Pier at Sunrise, BW [IMG_8875_6_7_Manual-2] by GammyKnee, on Flickr
.......I especially like Gammyknee's shot just above. How did you get the entire frame in focus?
Yes! Yes!
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