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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Defective 5D MK III.....

« on: March 22, 2012, 03:07:48 PM »

The issue is that every image taken with the camera, no matter what ISO, F stop, RAW, JPEG, etc. is coming out very milky/blotchy, almost like the camera is applying heavy NR to every image.

Sorry about your luck but thanks for bringing this to our attention. When mine arrives, I will test thoroughly. The 5DM2 I just sold would easily outperform what you sent.

I wonder how critical anti-alias filter alignment is? If it were askew relative to the sensor, I speculate it would create some strange NR looking results...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark 3 Queue @ B&H

« on: March 22, 2012, 12:26:27 PM »

I ended up canceling my B&H order for the body after speaking to the rep at onecall.com. They have (or had) body kits in stock, to ship today with overnight shipping for tomorrow. When I called B&H to cancel he made sure I was aware that my order would be shipping later today. A tough decision, but the onecall.com guy was extremely nice and genuinely wanted me get it in time for use this weekend.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark 3 Queue @ B&H

« on: March 22, 2012, 08:07:57 AM »

I am still showing backordered order on 3/2 at 12:05 EST order #524XX. I could have picked up one today at Unique but I paid for my 5D3 in full at B&H.

Thanks for the info. My order was placed 25 minutes after you and is 528XX. My hopes of shipping in the first wave have faded knowing there are 300-400 people between us. I realize not all of those are 5D orders, but I would bet most of them are...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark 3 Queue @ B&H

« on: March 21, 2012, 03:02:40 PM »

The solution to this of course is to drive to NYC and line up outside there store Apple-style!

I kid.

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Lenses / Re: The anti-extension tube: EF-S adapter for EF lenses

« on: March 20, 2012, 09:26:44 PM »

As an aside; that's exactly how Olympus makes their 35-100 f/2.0 lens. It's optically a 70-200 f/2.8 with a .5x converter built-in. In theory, it should be a 35-100 f/1.4 -- it's certainly as big, heavy and as expensive as one.

Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for. It is possible and some is doing it, though not in a universal sense.

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Lenses / Re: The anti-extension tube: EF-S adapter for EF lenses

« on: March 20, 2012, 09:24:31 PM »

It sounds like you want a wider view from your lens.  You can get screw on wide angle adapters to give you a wider view.
 
Its probably possible to design a extender to do something like that, but it would be better to just get a wider lens.  I doubt if we would ever see something like that. but who knows?

I do not own a crop sensor camera. This was an idea I had and just wondered if it were possible.

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Lenses / The anti-extension tube: EF-S adapter for EF lenses

« on: March 20, 2012, 02:44:50 PM »

I have a theoretical question for any of you with a working knowledge of lenses/optics.

If an extender works by taking the central part of a lens's image circle and enlarges it to cover the whole sensor(thus magnifying and reducing brightness), shouldn't it be possible to create an adapter for crop sensor cameras that uses the entire image circle of a full-frame lens and reduces it to the size of the cropped sensor to gain the full angle of view? Would the resulting smaller light circle also be brighter since it's focused onto a smaller area?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark 3 Queue @ B&H

« on: March 19, 2012, 02:08:58 PM »

That's one nice thing about being in Boston...B&H's free UPS ground is overnight shipping for me.      But since I ordered a 1D X, I have a longer wait than you...   

I'm in DC, so it's usually 2 days. Which means if it ships Thursday, I'm probably not going to see it until Monday. I sold my Mk II last week and am camera-less with the cherry blossoms peaking this week!! ARGHH!!

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark 3 Queue @ B&H

« on: March 19, 2012, 01:44:55 PM »

Nobody is asking how many they will get. People want to know when they are likely to get their camera.  By answering a customer's question on when they are likely to ship the camera is not going to reveal their numbers nor will it reveal any 'special' agreement with Canon.  And by the way I doubt that would be the case.  This is USA,  if that got out and if Adorama/Amazon did not sue to Canon some other two bit retailer could. Why would Canon risk it? 

The reply from B&H when asked, "When will my camera ship?" has been "We don't know how many we are getting, we don't know when yours will ship." And you think B&H doesn't have a deal with Canon? Why does Canon allow them to be an authorized retailer when they also offer grey market Canon gear? And in order for someone to sue Canon for allotting more bodies to B&H there would have to be a law against doing that? Do you think the US Government attempts to regulate how Canon chooses to allocate inventory? Of course they don't.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark 3 Queue @ B&H

« on: March 19, 2012, 06:21:33 AM »

B&H is probably keeping quiet for one simple reason: Business intelligence. If they tell people how many they have coming or how many preorders there are, their competitors might gain an advantage. What if B&H has *special* terms with Canon on receiving priority over others...say receiving 5x many bodies initially as their closest competition. If that were to get out, every other retailer would complain to Canon and that advantage might get taken away.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: I have a 5D Mk III.

« on: March 19, 2012, 06:17:29 AM »

What did you think of the movie Rampart?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon is just stupid (still no usable auto iso in 5D III)

« on: March 15, 2012, 09:17:37 PM »

Here, check out Chad Reed and RV2:

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon is just stupid (still no usable auto iso in 5D III)

« on: March 15, 2012, 09:07:58 PM »

Why all the hate for auto ISO? I shot a motocross race with my 7D in manual with auto ISO so I could set the amount of depth of field and motion blur I wanted, but still let the light metering adjust the ISO to keep the exposure right. I shot a lot of panning sequences through the track's corners and also following the riders during big jumps which both involve widely varying lighting conditions. The results really came out pretty good. The camera selected ISO ranges from 100-640 depending...

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D3...why only usb 2.0?

« on: March 13, 2012, 09:33:53 AM »

Heck I'm still waiting for Apple to put HDMI in their Macs.

These Mini Display Port to HDMI adapters are under $7 and work like a champ: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5311&seq=1&format=2

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Lenses / Re: Rumored 10 new lenses, 5 of which (CR) mentioned...

« on: March 11, 2012, 07:40:16 PM »

Now, you want to shift Up, because that will make all the vertical lines look parallel in the photo.
But you want to tilt to the left, because your plane of (where you want the) focus is near on the left side, far on the right side.
That's why you'd want to have tile and shift at 90 degrees to each other.

That's a great explanation and you've just cleared up a misconception I had about these lenses. I have used tilt to control depth of field (usually to increase it) and shift to create panoramas, but I have not used shift to correct perspective, incorrectly believing this was done with tilt though I had never tried it. That confusion also prevented me from seeing the usefulness of the independent rotation. Thanks a bunch.