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Canon General / Re: Europe trip, 1-2 months

« on: September 28, 2012, 02:36:31 PM »

  maybe I missed it (except Münster and the Alps) but did anyone mention Germany?

Are you planning for Germany, too?

Any special interests except usual tourist's targets?

And one more question: what time do you plan to travel? Summer 2013??

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sigma 12-24 F4.5-5.6 EX DG ASP HSM II

« on: September 27, 2012, 04:50:53 PM »

could somebody tell the differences to or a comparison with the EF 8-15mm f/4L fisheye?

I got a sample lens of that thing on my 7D at photokina and it's amazingly wide on APS-C:

Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sony Rx-1

« on: September 27, 2012, 04:41:27 PM »

for those interested in SONY
i caught a snapshot of the RX1 @ the photokina:

SONY RX1 by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

...maybe this camera is a kind of inspiration for an EOS M-6 with a FF sensor an EF mount 

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Lenses / Re: Update for the EF 24-105 f/4 L ?

« on: September 20, 2012, 04:13:33 PM »

I have a copy from 2009 (taken from a 5D2Kit) that I selected at my local Frankfurt/M. dealer and I am quite happy with it on the 40D and 7D and I also think that Canon will update other lenses but not his one.

Of course a new design inherited from 70-200 2.8 L Mk II and the latest Mk II of the 24-70 would be nice...
but
let's hope they announce one next year so we probably see (and talk about) prototypes in 2014/15/16...

How long is the 100-400L on duty? And still no update... (well, let's ignore the 10k$ 200-400 1.4x converter monster).

Anyway this workhorse will continue as the walkaround lens for 5D/6D and 1D-families for quite some time.

In case someone wonders what to shoot with the 24-105L, you may have look here:
http://www.ipernity.com/tag/canon/keyword/294182

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Lenses / Re: Lens creep. Is this normal?

« on: August 10, 2012, 02:02:46 AM »

my 24-105L does not creep at all, maybe you can have the Canon service fix that on warranty?

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Lenses / Re: Canon at the London Summer Olympics

« on: July 31, 2012, 02:05:45 PM »

Petapixel wrote about that 'room of dreams', titeling 
Canon’s Drool-Worthy Gear Room at the London Olympics
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/31/canons-drool-worthy-gear-room-at-the-london-olympics/

giving the source for the pics: INKIBOO on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkiboo/7604804042/#in/photostream
and 3 pics following

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Portrait / Re: We, The Photographers......Self Portaits..a Who's Who on CR

« on: July 30, 2012, 06:00:13 PM »

this is me, then

Ingo Kwiat by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS M System Announced

« on: July 23, 2012, 01:36:06 AM »

and a promo vid on youtube  right now 83 views....

The Canon EOS M - Small and simple EOS	Small | Large

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: June 30, 2012, 06:47:13 PM »

courtship display of the Northern Gannet, Helgoland, Germany


do you love me? by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 1D X - ISO test + RAW files

« on: June 26, 2012, 02:00:34 PM »

If their tests run positively, maybe we can rename them to 1DxO   
SCNR

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Lenses / Re: 24-105mm f/4 L IS on a crop camera

« on: May 18, 2012, 10:59:46 AM »

I used to have a Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 nonIS on my 40D and 'upgraded' to a 24-105L and have no regrets at all.

My lineup on the 7D  is 12-24 Tokina, 24-105L as a walkaround, and a 70-300 as a Tele, I have the 24-105 for universal use, on a very rare occcasion as a portrait lens at ~105mm (nice OOF) but for dedicated portraits it does not beat the primes at 50mm or 85mm.

For the price the Tamron is a great deal, maybe you keep it for your wife's 450D,
the 24-105 may be useful on a future FF body, too.

Examples?
Tamron
http://www.ipernity.com/explore/keyword/842090
24-105L
http://www.ipernity.com/explore/keyword/294182

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EOS Bodies / Re: Nikon owns Canon - in TV commercials

« on: May 06, 2012, 09:16:41 AM »

In Germany we see frequent Canon ads on TV - looking forward to European Football Championships (err, 'soccer')
as Canon is a Sponsor

http://youtu.be/jYsCXAddeDM
	Small | Large

I don't know if the one linked below is genuine canon stuff - but I like it just for playing with "yellow"
http://neunzehn72.de/canon-werbung-freeze-tag/

 

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Software & Accessories / Re: Flipside 400 AW / Fastpack 350 with gripped 60D/5D3 anyone?

« on: April 29, 2012, 08:23:42 AM »

Hi Raddy,

I own a Flipside 400 AW and put in the following

- gripped 7D + 24-105L
- EF 50mm f/1.4
- EF-S 60mm f/2.8
- EF 85mm f/1.8
- EF 70-300mm
- Tokina 12-24
- 580II Speedlite

on the side 2 x 1L water
in the pocket some useful stuff like tissues, a lens brush etc.
and on top you can put a jacket or so.

I have to say that I do not love to carry these 10kg around all day long...

looks like this:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/canon/5387278

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Software & Accessories / Re: PC power to process RAW photos

« on: April 22, 2012, 06:17:03 AM »

It could  be useful to check if there is a USB 3.0 port.

If yes, then check if the internal hard disk may be replaced with a SSD, ideally a SATA III like Samsung, Intel or OCZ. Depends on the budget but a combination of an internal SSD with e.g.  256GB and an additional external drive with 1GB might be a powerful and fast.

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EOS Bodies / Re: What will be the response to the D3200?

« on: April 19, 2012, 03:06:02 PM »

  I did not know that some day I'd post a link to NikonUSA...

it's not just a rumour... it's here:
http://www.nikonusa.com/Nikon-Products/Product/Digital-SLR-Cameras/25492/D3200.html#tab-ProductDetail-ProductTabs-Overview

$699.95

...so will we see a 1200D or a 2000D or even an EVIL 'Eosette' or Canonette at Photokina?
Or a 650D with a 22MP APS-C? [hopefully not!]
_{MY GF's PC (Core2Duo) has problems to process the 18MP RAWs of the 600D... so 24MP?! For beginners?? SRSLY???}