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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mk III Owners - are you happy?

« on: March 30, 2012, 07:02:29 PM »

It's still way to early for me to tell. I've only shot Macro with it so far and the differences with it and my t2i in overall IQ is subtle just after 3 0 minutes of shooting. I've lost reach, the DOF is much narrower which is good and bad for my macro shots. I shot some iso 3200 shots and they looked amazing in the viewfinder but ended up looking really flat in DPP and LR. I have everything turned off except for Chromatic aberration and illumination and currently shooting in Standard mode and have strictly shot center point AF. The below image was shot with the 100mm 2.8L Macro: Wide open at 2.8, 1/200, and iso100--sharpening and NO-NR

I am looking forward this weekend test driving with the 50mm. You can see one of my floral keepers here:

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EOS Bodies / Re: Amazon - 5DIII Body only

« on: March 30, 2012, 05:25:18 PM »

Ordered mine March 2 at 6:45am pst. Received the camera on this last Monday!

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EOS Bodies / Re: HDR Photo From MK3

« on: March 03, 2012, 02:36:23 PM »

With in-camera HDR combining, I am going to predict that a number of people with more money than taste will get a 5D3 and flood flickr.com and similar sites with awful HDR photos.....

Isn't that the case now w/o the 5D3 :p

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

« on: March 02, 2012, 10:49:52 AM »

huge corporations often hedge currency rates so not to disrupt pricing. I'm not sure if that is something practiced by Canon or Nikon but Car companies have been doing it for a long long time. That is how BMWs released in the mid 2000's did not see a relative price increase in the US even though the Euro had rallied more than 50% on the dollar during that time.

older article but i'm sure most of the principles still apply:

http://www.gocurrency.com/international-foreign.htm


I pre-ordered it this morning at Amazon, just in case Canon makes a price decrease or I decide to just bite the bullet. But I am leaning heavily to just buying a 5D2 with a 70-200 2.8: MKII and calling it a day.

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

« on: March 02, 2012, 01:34:49 AM »

At 3500 I would rather just pick up a used 5d2 with a 70-200 2.8l mkii and call it a spring! I'm pretty sure the 3500 sticker price will scare many non-pros away.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Introducing the Canon 5D Mark III

« on: March 02, 2012, 01:29:32 AM »

Was hoping for 2700 considering just getting a used mkii and picking up a 70-200L 2.8mkii which would put me in the 3500-3700 range. If I did the same combo with a MKiii I would be at 5700! That is pretty much the deal breaker for me.

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Contests / Re: Blue Crane Digital Giveaway!

« on: May 27, 2011, 02:54:42 AM »

Understanding the Canon Speedlite

Electric Orange Bugaloo!