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Reviews / Re: By Request: Comparison between Canon 40mm "Pancake" and Tamron 24-70mm VC

« on: Today at 11:17:09 AM »

Do not overestimate Tamron's weather sealing. My recent experience tells that both sealing against dust and humidity are close to none.

Did you have a problem with this lens? Will you elaborate?

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Canon General / Re: Question about editing for online consumption

« on: June 17, 2013, 04:28:25 PM »

Are you exporting for sRGB? And, do you have your screen calibrated with a hardware calibrator?

Exporting for aRGB will make for some whacked colors (usually muted or clipped) and an improperly (or not at all) calibrated screen means that you are adjusting the colors to taste on that monitor, but not to a standard. The export then changes the output to match that.

Yes, I export to sRGB and have calibrated the monitor with a DataColor Spyder3.

I am reasonably sure this is an issue with lower-end monitors. On my uncalibrated tablet and phone these images look as intended. The tablet has IPS display and the phone is an AMOLED. My concern is really all the budget laptops that are out there.

The first image was shot by my brother and edited by me. It looks very contrasty in JPEG on my iMac and tablet as mentioned. At work it's pretty flat. If I max out the monitor's contrast it looks okay. However, no one would set this monitor that way as it makes most pages and OS screens barely readable. I feel like there are a LOT of people in this boat.

The second image shows some clipping on the top of singer's head at home. At work, his whole face looks posterized and featureless. I know stage lighting is very harsh and I over-exposed it. That's not the point. I felt it looked acceptable at home but not on this monitor.

All I can think to do is buy a cheap LCD to preview on while editing. Or just saying, "Screw it. I'm not going to worry about the viewing experience of people with crap displays. If they cared how images looked, they would have spent more money."

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Canon General / Question about editing for online consumption

« on: June 17, 2013, 04:07:27 PM »

I edit on a 27" iMac which has a pretty nice IPS LCD display. I make sure that my Lightroom exported JPEGs look good on screen before publishing them or sending to other people to make sure the color space change and compression haven't ruined the look. When I come to work and look at them on my office/commodity grade Dell 24" monitor, I am often pretty disappointed. The colors can appear clipped in some cases, muted in others. Contrast is much lower.

So, my question is...how can I (or should I) take in to consideration the wide range of screens the image might be viewed on?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is This the EOS 3D?

« on: June 17, 2013, 03:10:15 PM »

Dam it...I just ordered a 5D III as my 2nd body

A 3D will be much better

Why would you post your receipt here? Are you trying to brag about having two 5D Mk III's? I don't get it.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Is it time to consider Sigma lenses seriously?? competitive to Canon?

« on: June 14, 2013, 10:15:34 AM »

I LOVED the Sigma 17-50 f/2.8 OS when I had a 7D.

And I love the 1.4 primes that I use now.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Fuji and Panasonic have developed Organic CMOS sensor with increased DR

« on: June 14, 2013, 09:46:53 AM »

They claim it offers:

• Industry's highest dynamic range
• 1.2 times higher sensitivity than conventional sensors
• Captures much wider angle of light at each photosite

http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n130611.html

Maybe they have a surprise for us in the next gen Fuji X camera.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Serious Bug in Lightroom 5

« on: June 12, 2013, 08:57:41 AM »

Mine is running well on Mac. Seems faster. I was unsure about upgrading due to the lack of new features, but a speed difference is probably worth it given how much time I spend in there.

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Software & Accessories / Re: New Macpro teased at Mac Conference

« on: June 11, 2013, 10:15:13 AM »

As an audio engineer relying on pci-express expansion cards and working on pro tools this new mac pro without any expansion card slots is a pile of crap.

I can see lots of studios moving to windows because of this.

form cripples function.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Mercury_Helios

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Software & Accessories / Re: New Macpro teased at Mac Conference

« on: June 11, 2013, 09:02:27 AM »

No displayport or DVI, so you are pretty much limited to thunderbolt displays (or HDMI),

Oh, really? I own each of these and they work great through the Thunderbolt port on my MacBookPro.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024606&p_id=6007&seq=1&format=2

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024603&p_id=9475&seq=1&format=2

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 DG OS (new) impressions

« on: June 11, 2013, 08:17:55 AM »

The review from this thread claims IQ is much improved: http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=14801.msg268631#msg268631

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 DG OS (new) impressions

« on: June 10, 2013, 03:11:54 PM »

I found Roger's experience with the dock and the 35mm 1.4 an interesting read: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/06/sigma-optimization-pro-and-usb-dock

Also, I know initially it was stated that the lens would not have updated optics, but now I've read elsewhere that it has and is much sharper than the original. I feel we should be cautious about making statements one way or the other until someone definitely states what the situation is. I've been hoping Roger will get the change to post some impressions.

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Black & White / Re: black and white with the use of selective colors

« on: June 05, 2013, 12:46:37 PM »

Cat!

Yep, that's pretty cool!

I think the B&W with selective thing tends to get overused. The only reason I think it works in my shot of the cat is due to the way the sun beams fell across her eyes already.

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Black & White / Re: black and white with the use of selective colors

« on: June 05, 2013, 12:37:03 PM »

Cat!

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sigma 120-300 f/2.8 DG OS HSM Delayed

« on: June 04, 2013, 01:51:36 PM »

Q8-MC, those three shots on your Flickr look pretty damn good. I look forward to seeing anything else you post!

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Lenses / Re: If you could only have three lenses...

« on: June 02, 2013, 05:46:20 PM »

Of everything I own, the Tamron 24-70 VC, Canon 70-200 2.8 IS II, and Sigma 35 would be the ones to keep I had to give the rest away.