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Bah! These accountants! Expecting light to travel at a constant velocity!Quick question for anyone:
How long did the firmware upgrade take?
thx
Updated just now ... took 4 mins 10 seconds using the CF card. SD may be slower.
Quick question for anyone:
How long did the firmware upgrade take?
thx
the 60D is really unuseful today; more or less the same features of XXXD line
You know, it's true. I bought a 60D over 2 years ago and it's just sitting around collecting dust now that it's become "unuseful". It used to take great pictures and fulfill ALL of my needs but now, it's pretty much just a piece of crap - barely useful as a paperweight. It's weird too - my needs haven't changed, but somehow the camera has. Odd...
I think I'll just throw it away. I wouldn't want to burden someone else with such a "unuseful" piece of junk. DAMN YOU CANON!
/s
On a serious note - you'd think photographers (who are MOSTLY a reasonably intelligent group of folks) would understand that NO camera is designed to be EVERYTHING to EVERY PERSON. But somehow this goes over the head of most...
That's not really fair... it makes a fine paperweight.
Big sales on the 60D around here.... Body for $700, with 18-200 for $1000, and for some inexplicable reason, with 18-200 and tripod for $1900..... Bet they don't sell any of the last package....
Kind of looks like an attempt to clear out the 60D stock before the 70D is announced.
yes yes the generics are just as good, but if your gonna spend $2000 on a lens whats another $13 for the original
Cool ... but at $ 100, I'll probably wait for the Chinese variantsSave more money and get Chinese lenses as well. And bodies.
So much for people who were anticipating a fall in prices of Canon products due to JPY devaluation.
Weaker Yen may yet lead to reduction in the average price of Canon products. Most likely this will not be everyday shelf price (MAP price) but average price reflecting discounts and promotional $ available to retailers.
I finally made the decision to go in for the LEE filter system and things are way much better.I know you were the only person who got the LEE big stopper from B&H recently, so stop making the rest of us jealous
We want more, MOAR!!!
Build us a camera that has more of this and less of that, and much more of this, and could do this with only a little bit of that, and doesn’t need that in order to do this.
And it must cost less than this and definitely less than that…
And another thing: we want it now, we want it yesterday and we will want more tomorrow, and all the demands will have changed by then so stay awake!
OK, thanks for the gear tip. I am actually moving back to Europe in a few weeks and will hold any further investments until getting back. Also, this is a first try and I will see if I get hooked, looking at your pictures and if I could at least get close to that, I am sure I will be.
We have some beautiful landscape areas with creeks and a big lake close to our summer house. I'll likely continue to practice there before I'd go all in on more gear for this area.
Interesting comment about how you meter. You're on a quite advanced level. I have a lot to learn just starting out with it. I checked out a couple of videos and will shoot in AV and let the camera give me the shutter speed. It's a start and I don't want too much to think about.
Again, many thanks for all the info.
J
Good luck. You are blessed to have those potential subjects around you. Make do first with what you have and shoot in the golden hour/blue hour for optimum results. Long exposure photography is indeed a very interesting genre. As you already shoot in RAW, I also suggest you shoot in either MANUAL or BULB mode for more flexiblity as you don't have enough control of the shutter speed in Av mode. The key to long exposure photography is controlling your shutter speed but watching out with your aperture as well. Also, set your ISO as low as possible. Long exposure may also result in high noise(even at ISO 100) and this you'll have to find out yourself as you get along.Vignetting is also another issue but this can be addressed easily in LR or PS.