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Site Information / Re: Membership Approval Now Required

« on: May 11, 2013, 02:55:44 AM »

I think it is a right step forward. My nickname here is pedro. It refers to my affinity for latin america. And it is also linked to me as an enthusiast photo amateur. Once you want me to change it into "Peter Hauri Enthusiast Photo Amateur", just mail me  Oh, as long as I keep my posting credits, though...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 6D + Samyang 24 Visits Badlands Milky Way Extreme ISOs

« on: May 08, 2013, 02:34:56 PM »

This is great stuff! My 5D3 is fantastic as well. I even dare to use it for ISO 102.400 stuff ;-)

So, if the 6D is slightly better at some ISOs, what will the next 5D/6D be sometime down the road with 0.18 nm sensor tech or less and Digic VIII if not VIII and hopefully no higher MP count than now?

I dare to guess, that my decent ISO 12.8k on the 5D3 might be the new ISO 51k by then. That's two stops, and a lot of wishful thinking, but who knows...! 

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 08, 2013, 02:09:10 PM »

Well, 0.18 nm or less from a sensor tech POV and the now rumored Digic VI would make a good pair in 2014. Sounds promising to everything FF as well...

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 06, 2013, 11:28:46 AM »

Somewhere in my mind I have the feeling Canon might not be doing the 0.18 micron process at all, but instead going directly to the next one (0.12, 0.09 or 0.065 maybe?), and that is why they have such problems in getting it to roll.

It makes sense doing something like that when you have your own factories and do not want to upgrade them too often. Going to 0.18, just to do it all over again in 2 years? I don't think so. But, leapfrogging the competition and take them by surprise, and in the same time prolonging the active time of the process platform? Yes, I think I'll vote for that.

Even better. Oh, what will a 5D4 be like...na forget it. The 5D3 is still way too much camera for me  But as I my current FF lens line up contains about all the ones I will ever need for my type of photography it is quite attractive to save up for whatever may be up next in the 5D series. I will not early adopt it next time, cause the 5D3 is really amazing. But if let's say, ISO 3200 really turn out to be the new ISO 400 in a crop cam like the 7DII, then I do not dare to imagine what the new ISO 51200 will look like on the next 5D...can you? 

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 06, 2013, 11:21:35 AM »

oh that will make some people unhappy.....

but maybe all this points to a 180µm process in 2014...
the big MP camera and the 7D MK2 both with a new sensor design made with a new manufacturing process.

prototypes could be out... but for mass manufacturing canon needs to build new factorys or update existing ones. and that takes some time.

The same source does say “several lenses will be coming in 2013″.

well can he be a bit more vague?
what lenses?

+1, same guess when I read it. So there is real joy in the waiting. Wonder what else will come out by 2015 and further down the road.

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Black & White / Re: Portraits of Poverty...

« on: May 02, 2013, 11:20:12 AM »

Well, most of us are wealthy enough to not click only but support actively any type of local or international NGO who's doing somehting about it... Hope you share some of your hard earned bucks with some of them a side of the photographs here. If not we private these citizens from their dignity, and a such an act we mustn't commit. We do I say that? I myself am part of an NGO who's taking care about these issues. Cheers, my two cents.

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Black & White / Re: Black & White

« on: May 02, 2013, 11:12:44 AM »

Sometimes before deleting my rejected pictures, I convert them to b/w and once in a while they turn into keepers Here are a few recent ones. Not sure if to crop them tighter and still trying to figure out sharpening...

The last one is my favourite of this stunning black and white study. Keep the good work up.

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Black & White / Re: Black & White

« on: May 02, 2013, 05:22:24 AM »

Z96A3597bALTTLKleinBWMASTER by Peter Hauri, on Flickr

ISO 50


Z96A0936aBWKleinMaster by Peter Hauri, on Flickr

ISO 16000


Z96A3506bTLKLEINBW by Peter Hauri, on Flickr

ISO 102400 ;-)

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Software & Accessories / Re: Screw-on ND filter for 16-35 II

« on: April 27, 2013, 02:14:27 AM »

I have been impressed enough with Haida's new Pro MC II filters in 77mm that I recently purchase one for my Tamron in 82mm.  I have both a ND1000 (10 stop) and ND64 (6 stop).  The filter ring is very, very slim and produces very little vignetting.

@Dustin: Thanks for sharing! Just ordered an ND 1000 (10 stop), 82mm, from Germany. Cost: about 57 Euros. A bargain compared with other labels...for example B+W. That was just the "icing on the cake" for my excellent 16-35 F/2.8 USM II which I recently bought used at a retail store for CHF 998.00 instead of CHF 1698 new or CHF 1400 online. Cheers, Peter.

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Canon General / Re: Why do you do Photography?

« on: April 25, 2013, 11:43:54 AM »

 It is my time to relax. Especially at night. This one I took yesterday at full moon. A train lit the scene, but I guess I have to go down to ISO 800 or even 400 that the whites in the pond won't get clipped again...any advice? Aperture was 2.8 on the 16-35. High ISOs due to darkness without any artificial lights.



Z96A3760bTLKLEINMaster by Peter Hauri, on Flickr

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Technical Support / Re: Request for advice: Nightsky Picture Stacking and PS techniques

« on: April 24, 2013, 04:51:42 AM »

Thanks everyone who engaged in replying to my questions. You helped me a good deal, folks! At CarlTN: enjoy! 
Cheers, Pedro

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Technical Support / Re: Request for advice: Nightsky Picture Stacking and PS techniques

« on: April 22, 2013, 10:31:14 AM »

I thought for a while when first reading your post that he was using alpha channel adjustments. Having now seen the video it seems he has just gone and altered the view to grayscale. Click on Image - Mode - Grayscale (this is just a viewing mode while working on the file), and change it back when done with the adjustments. Working in a grayscale is much easier as it's easier to see the adjustments without being distracted by the colors and colorfringing and such.


I have CS 6, but the same should apply. Also, be sure to shoot in Raw, as it gives you more flexibility in pulling on curves and levels afterwards.

Good luck.

Hi, thanks for your post. My problem is in CS2 if I have the color tiff on my PS desktop and click image-mode-grayscales, PS asks me: "Do you want to discard the color data?" And then as far as I can see it gets iretrievable afterwards...hmmm.

@MrBean: Thanks a lot! I will do so. Did several like that before, always like touch the limits ;- at least photography wise...

Cheers, Pedro

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Technical Support / Re: Request for advice: Nightsky Picture Stacking and PS techniques

« on: April 22, 2013, 05:38:55 AM »

Thank you so much. I was doing both : wide open and f/8. I will lower the ISOs next time and go wide open again. Still in the experimental phase with my new gear as well. I choose these settings due to the amount of environmental light as I was taking pictures around the house.

Cheers, Pedro

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Technical Support / Request for advice: Nightsky Picture Stacking and PS techniques

« on: April 22, 2013, 03:55:53 AM »

Hi,

I do some nightphotography on my 5D3. It is still amateurish because one always can improve.
After having seen this tutoring video

Curves and Levels - Easy 123 - Photoshop Astrophotography Tutorial	Small | Large

I am keen to do this myself. It is about curves and levels in Photoshop to enhance the data. My version is CS 2.

But there arise a few questions:

I downloaded deep sky stacker. stacked seven colour pictures: copies of the same photograph to give it a try.

This guy in the video starts with a greyscaled stacked picture. Others I've seen worked at RGB mode.
How is he getting a greyscale type of stacked photographs as mine turned out to be colour? It never looked like his in the beginning. Here's my slightly enhanced original picture

Z96A3724bMASTER by Peter Hauri, on Flickr
I guess it kinda deals with RGB channels. But I have no clue how to do it, even my curves and levels don't react the same way as his.

Is it a presetting in PS which he applied without mentioning it?
How can I do it in CS 2?

Thanks for any technical help.

Just another question: at what ISOs are you taking nightsky photographs for stacking purposes?

I currently take them applying 600 rule at ISO 6400 to 12800, f/8 with a 16-35 USM II lens.

Cheers and thanks in advance, Peter

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Lenses / Re: Just got the canon 16-35 ii and having a hard time seeing the value in this uwa

« on: April 20, 2013, 05:34:32 PM »

I purchased my 16-35 II in March this year. Used. CHF 998 instead of CHF 1400 online or 1998 retail. The lens is in excellent shape. As I had a 10-22 on my 30D I wanted to get back to a classic WA on the 5D3! It is almost my walkaround lens. Again!  Here's some first samples

Z96A3724bMASTER by Peter Hauri, on Flickr


Z96A3597bALTTLKLEINDefMASTER by Peter Hauri, on Flickr


Z96A3584b KELIN ALT2TLDEF by Peter Hauri, on Flickr
note: the photograph is upside down, the lake was used as kinda natural polifilter ;-)