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Site Information / Re: Travel Photography thread...

« on: March 05, 2012, 02:40:15 AM »

I travel a lot. It comes to about 70% of my monthly expenditures! I would suggest, if you want to go light (at least light for me), that you take something like the following (depending upon, of course, your specific style or likes):

1 Wide Angle Zoom like the 16-35 (You will always want context shots and these are hard to get in cities without wide angle)
1 Medium Zoom like the 24-70 (Great all around - 50% of time on camera)
1 Longer range prime like 85/1.2 or 135/2  (great for street photography when you want to stay back from folks and shoot. Also good for portraits and low light, DOF, etc)

1 body and 3 lenses can be enough. You can leave the 70-200 and its travel weight at home. Great lens, but walking the streets of tokyo? You'll come to hate it!

My 2cents. Have a great trip!!!

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 02, 2012, 03:27:32 PM »

With 5D III Specs...are you going to get 1D X?

Most likely the 1D X, yes.  Still not 100% decided, but I definitely didn't preorder the 5DIII.

With you there Neuro.
In UK 5d3 + grip £3330  1dx £5300

I think I'm on this bandwagon. 5Dm3 is certainly good, and better than the 5Dm2, but for the difference, I'm going with the 1Dx. They just didn't do enough for an $800 price increase. If you have to break the bank, why not do it for the flagship?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Hugely Disappointed In 5D III Price

« on: March 02, 2012, 05:00:03 AM »

You guys in the USA should consider yourselves lucky!!! Here in the UK, the 5DmkIII is retailing for £2999.95 - that's $4780 USD!!!!!!!

I would happily pay $3,500 USD for the 5DmkIII. The US price tag translates into around 2,100 GBP, which is roughly the same as the 5DmkII when first released in the UK.

As usual, the prices over here are ridiculous. For 3,000, I'd rather get a refurbished 1Dmk4.

I get it. I live in GerMONEY (as someone else on the threads here put it). Hell, if you have to spend the money, buy a ticket to NYC for a weekend (cheaper than the price difference) and buy it at BH's store. You'll get a camera and a weekend getaway (with ample shooting opportunities) for the same price!

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EOS Bodies / Re: Pixel Size and Actual Photoshop Percentage Comparison Canons/Nikons/Nikon D800

« on: February 29, 2012, 12:47:09 PM »

Why is everyone mixing up sensor size with megapixel size?  Both arguments are correct. If you establish a size for the pixels, then 36 is double 18, BUT this is not equatable with sensor size, even if the receptors(pixels) are jammed in there.

We need the optical physics guy here. Larger sensors have optical physics properties, regardless of megapixel count, that smaller sensors don't (due to light gathering area), but don't confuse that and think that more megapixels is the equivalent of a larger sensor.

It might have the megapixel count of medium format, but it is definitely not a medium format sensor. Hasselblad and Mamiya are not quaking in their boots over this. But it is cool to have the MPs, though I'm not sure that the file size is worth it unless you're trying to print billboard size photos!

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EOS Bodies / Re: Just got word the 5D III isn't coming this week

« on: February 28, 2012, 04:42:18 PM »

Aww man... what a party pooper... 

You have my deepest sympathies. But you know... One strategy is to stash some money in a top secret fund for use when the wife says "no", muahaha  . Then you tell her that you've been saving up for a loooooooong time and the funds will not be coming out of your account 

This way she'll be so proud of you for saving and feel sorry for you at the same time that she might just let the purchase slide 

That doesn't work because then you risk the slush fund going straight towards a new dishwasher/kitchen floor/college fund...

You just need to make sure to stick to one brand and buy things that look the same. So all bicycles are red, all lenses have the red rubberband, all cameras are canon and black... you get the idea. 

Amen, Brother! Wife: Is that a new lens!!!     Me: Nooooo, Darling. I've had that forever, sitting over there with the others.  Wife:  Oh. Well who can tell?  You and your gadgets! 

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EOS Bodies / Re: The new 5D Mark III ?!?! PICS!

« on: February 27, 2012, 12:02:21 PM »

@MichaelCruz  I lived in the Middle East for years. Call me crazy, but I think I'd recognize that rubble and sky anywhere. Do you know if these pics were taken in the Persian Gulf region?  Funny, everybody focused on the camera, but my mind kept saying "that looks like Bahrain or Qatar or UAE (Couch pattern is also very ME). I hope that doesn't give someone away, but it is interesting if they are testing there. Or maybe a rich Sheik already has one and that's where the pics came from?!

Wow, you have very keen eye!  The cam is here in Dubai

and you've got some neat photos of Dubai on your website..

+1

Nice! I guess I should have just looked there first. That's what a forum is for. So you can say something and then realize it was obvious to everyone else already!  Anyway, Michael, thanks for the pics. I think you've crashed the server a couple times. It took 5minutes for the forum to load!

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EOS Bodies / Re: The new 5D Mark III ?!?! PICS!

« on: February 27, 2012, 09:09:48 AM »

@MichaelCruz  I lived in the Middle East for years. Call me crazy, but I think I'd recognize that rubble and sky anywhere. Do you know if these pics were taken in the Persian Gulf region?  Funny, everybody focused on the camera, but my mind kept saying "that looks like Bahrain or Qatar or UAE (Couch pattern is also very ME). I hope that doesn't give someone away, but it is interesting if they are testing there. Or maybe a rich Sheik already has one and that's where the pics came from?!

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EOS Bodies / Re: The new 5D Mark III ?!?! PICS!

« on: February 27, 2012, 08:10:05 AM »

Can someone identify the lens on the 1DX? Great photos!

Yes, it is the 85mm f1,2L II. But i was wondering first, too. It looks unfamiliar from this angle.

Gracias; I think you are right (holding mine at that angle as we speak).  I'd never seen it at that angle I guess, ha.  I knew it had to be something relatively fast given that big front element.   Thanks again.

Thanks, Westbild and Isurus!

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EOS Bodies / Re: The new 5D Mark III ?!?! PICS!

« on: February 27, 2012, 07:30:37 AM »

Can someone identify the lens on the 1DX? Great photos!

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1D X Delay, Weight, Number of Shots ***Official***

« on: February 27, 2012, 05:32:10 AM »

Maybe the next announcement will be for an external battery grip for the 1dX!   

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Lenses / Re: What's your favorite Canon lens and why?

« on: February 26, 2012, 04:01:23 PM »

Gotta love the 85 1.2, but then again I really enjoy shallow depth of field, portraits, street photography and such. Would love to learn to use a tilt-shift for architecture, but those lenses are even more expensive than the 85 1.2!

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Price Drop on 7D and 60D with release of 5DMK III

« on: February 26, 2012, 01:17:10 PM »

Yep, it seems that with everyone waiting for the new release, many people want to sell their 5DMkII or 7D to help finance it. Looks like the market will be flooded with these bodies. Prices are already dropping on eBay and other sites. Let's hope it doesn't drop too much. I hope to get some value out of my 7D and a few EF-S lenses so I can make the upgrade.

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

« on: February 26, 2012, 11:28:06 AM »

Thank you very much. It was also my walk-around lens when I had my 40D. Now my walk-around lens is the 16-35mm II which I also like a lot.

@esbenlp Great shots! Question: If this was your walk around, when were you walking around in space?! How did you get those curvature of the earth shots with the blackness of space above?  I can't believe no one else on this forum said anything about that! good stuff.