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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 12-24 f/2.8L [CR1]

« on: February 27, 2013, 10:30:32 AM »

12-24 f2.8...meh at best, price will be well north of $3k.

And east of 1000 gram

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Finnish wearing on my 5D Mark III

« on: February 25, 2013, 01:36:39 AM »

I did not notice this on my 5D MK III
Is it possible that you use some fluid / cream on your hands or other? Just guessing..

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 7D Mark II Spec List [CR2]

« on: February 19, 2013, 12:44:57 PM »

• 24.1mp APS-C Sensor
• 10fps
• Dual Memory Card Slots
• 61 AF Points
• ISO Performance to get close to the 5D3
• GPS & Wifi

And for 2100$ ?

No way! Looks like someones dreamlist.
As a 7D user I love to have this kind of upgrade but it seems unreal to me.

Why jump from 19 to 61 points? 19 is good. The combo of 24.1MP and 10fps is already impressive upgrade. Why GPS & WiFi? There are available solutions

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Nikon d7100 might be annonced next week

« on: February 17, 2013, 10:32:19 AM »

A 7d2 is also on my list.., I am not i a hurry but wouldnt mind one either

Any chance they put the 5d3 autofocus system in the 7d successor?, an improved sensor(less noisy then the 7d) and 8-10 fps would make me buy one

My guess....not likely. A 7D successor may have increased megapixels(likely 20 tot 22), one stop better noise reduction, fps still around 8, new menu with presets like 1Dx.....but this all is a guess

yep i think we will not see a 7D MK2 anytime soon.. end of the year is my guess.
same 500nm process.. so maximum of 24MP... i say 22 MP.

some noise improvements... but nothing to be excited about.

GPS and WIFI will be in it im pretty sure.

the guys, like me, who are waiting for better image quality at low ISO will have to wait until 2014 and the next FF generation.

GPS & WiFi ......more likely in the 70D. The 7D can make use of the GP-E2, I am sure the successor of the 7D as well

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF135mm f/2L USM

« on: February 16, 2013, 11:16:54 AM »

THE mid range portrait lens. Period.


Float Like A Butterfly von Florian Bieler auf Flickr

Wonderful photo!
I love the 135mm

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Nikon d7100 might be annonced next week

« on: February 16, 2013, 07:57:41 AM »

A 7d2 is also on my list.., I am not i a hurry but wouldnt mind one either

Any chance they put the 5d3 autofocus system in the 7d successor?, an improved sensor(less noisy then the 7d) and 8-10 fps would make me buy one

My guess....not likely. A 7D successor may have increased megapixels(likely 20 tot 22), one stop better noise reduction, fps still around 8, new menu with presets like 1Dx.....but this all is a guess

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Technical Support / Re: How do you store and archive your images?

« on: February 16, 2013, 04:55:57 AM »

I have two external Harddiks with each 3TB diskspace. They are USB 3.0 and it's a double backup system on weekly basis of my laptop.
I am currently working on a NAS system with raid.

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Lenses / Re: lens recommendation soccer

« on: February 14, 2013, 12:37:25 PM »

Personally, I prefer my 7D and 70-300.
The soccerfield is big. The 5D III and 70-200 is nice for close goal action. But fieldaction I try to get by long zoom and have also the OOF around the subject. And for me, the field action is more exiting to shoot

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Tamron's fast 24-70mm zoom rates well in testing compared to Canon and Nikon

« on: February 13, 2013, 03:30:54 AM »

Two weeks ago a big electronic shop had a cool deal, so i got one for 800€
I wanted to replace my 18-55 kit lense. Planed to invest in some decent glas for a FF upgrade in 2-3 years.
Unfortunately the one i got was absolutelly crap.
On my 450D the focus hit only 40% of the shots, and when it hit the pictures were much softer then those from the kit lens.
I know these are two diffrent types of lenses, but for this amount of money this can not be the state of art.
Most likely I piced up a veryvery bad one and normaly it is a much better lens, but after being so excited about the lens I was very disapionted.
And with this performance lack I am going to give it back tomorrow.

So let my just say this: If you buy one, buy it at your local camera store where you can test different ones, I don't know if it's a Tamron thing that there are bad ones in each production or whatever.

+1
 
And, I can imagine that the first productionseries have some problems. I'm no ealry adopter in this case

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Tamron's fast 24-70mm zoom rates well in testing compared to Canon and Nikon

« on: February 13, 2013, 02:48:45 AM »

I love mine. Sharper than the 24-70i it replaced plus IS and a cool $1000 left over in my pocket by not springing for the new canon. About the only thing that annoys me is the direction the zoom turns and if I was really nit picking the af could be a tad faster. IMHO this is the best lens on the market in this range when you consider all the factors.  But if all you want to do is look at 100% crops of the sides of brick buildings then by all means get the canon. It's really got me thinking also about the new tamron 70-200 2.8 IS.  If that's as close to the canon version then there is a good chance that could end up in my bag as well.  I'm waiting for more reviews and real world user comments before making that leap.

If you consider all factors, there is not competitor    Then it is easy the best lens.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Tamron's fast 24-70mm zoom rates well in testing compared to Canon and Nikon

« on: February 13, 2013, 02:46:36 AM »

From what I can deduce from all the different reports regarding this lens is that it is definitely a viable alternative to the Canon one. I got a quoted price of 840EUR for it, which seems decent, other opinions?

Good price. I see new prices in the Netherlands starting at 999 euro

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Lenses / Re: Anyone Want an Improved 16-35mm over the much requested 14-24mm?

« on: February 13, 2013, 12:59:09 AM »

The 14-24mm was on my wish list. But instead I bought the 16-35 II
I actually like the range 16-35. It suites me well as landscape / walkaround and indoor lens. The thing that could be improved though is the sharpness at 2.8 in 16 to 24 mm. There are other things like some vignetting at 16mm but those can be taken care of in post-processing. 

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Canon General / Re: Post-Processing Woes

« on: February 10, 2013, 01:33:13 PM »

Yes, happened to me as well. Also, I think it looks good on my screen only to find out it doesn't look good on other peoples screen. I just downloaded Lightroom while I normally use my DxO Optics Elite just to see the difference in use and output.

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Sports / Re: Women's RBS 6 Nations Championship

« on: February 10, 2013, 06:15:06 AM »

And, what aperture, shutterspeed and ISO did you use?
Great capture of action.

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EOS Bodies / Re: *UPDATE* EOS 70D is Coming, The Future of Pro APS-C Will Change

« on: February 09, 2013, 05:04:03 AM »

......... But perhaps more interesting is how it is going to differentiate itself as an expensive crop camera when there are FF cameras available at far lower prices now than there were in 2009. The simple answer would be "sports, birds-in-flight", but the 5Dmk3 is far more suited for those things than the 5Dmk2 was.

-h

Previous the entry FF (5D MKII) was cheaper than the crop for birding / sports (1D MKIV). So it is possible to introduce a crop for sports / birding (7D MK II) for a higher price as the entry FF (6D). The question is: how much more ....and.... is it on par or better than the 1D MK IV? If the latter, than for sure the price will go up to 5DMKIII level - maybe even higher.