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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: F/8 Autofocusing impressions

« on: May 17, 2013, 01:38:45 AM »

I've used my 1D X with a 600/4 II and 2xIII to track birds in flight, sometimes handheld. It does fine.  However, when shooting small birds in thickets (branches in front of and behind subject), where the bare 600 II locks onto the bird easily, with the 2x it hunts a bit - in that situation, it behaves a lot like the bare 100-400L.

Did you use spot single point or regular single point focus for this test?

Thanks, Will T.

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Lenses / Re: Poll: Most Wanted New Lenses of 2013.

« on: May 07, 2013, 03:24:35 AM »

EF 300mm f4 L IS II (4 stops of IS)

EF 400mm f5.6 L IS (4 stops of IS)

EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 L IS II (no push pull zoom) (4 stops of IS)

EF 50mm f1.4 & 85mm f1.8 IS (4 stops of IS) not L

Any prime with an IS upgrade.

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: April 30, 2013, 11:15:27 PM »

This is not a great shot, or anyting exceptional, but I just wanted to point out that YES, that is the ball.  I have no idea how that shot turned out the way it did.

Must have slipped off her tung?

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Lenses / Re: 300 f/2.8L and 400 f/2.8 at f/2.8

« on: April 28, 2013, 12:32:05 PM »

Yeah a lot of my shots were from a slope or slight increase in gradient.  Wonder if at such a wide aperture, if my camera is tilted downward, the focal plane is slanted enough that the face is in line with the grass in front?  Oh hell I don't know, I'm shooting with my 300 tomorrow until I know what's going on and thankfully I posted these or I wouldn't have looked until tomorrow night.

That would explain why my track ones don't display this, or unless the misalignment just happened recently.

It is twice as bad when you and the subject are on a incline since the subject will effectively be tilted towards you when they are below you.

Will T.

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Lenses / Re: 300 f/2.8L and 400 f/2.8 at f/2.8

« on: April 27, 2013, 10:45:15 PM »

I'm doing better.  I wanted to update you guys.  The 400 f/2.8L I IS requires a LOT of skill, care, and expertise.  I shot at f/3.2 all day at the GLIAC golf tournament.  I need to edit these later, but had to get 3 quick out to Jeff at GLIAC and just thought I'd share.  I used AF Case 1, and used an AF point two up vertical from center, and was very, very careful to focus directly on their faces through the shot sequence "burst."

Are you shooting down hill?

Will T.

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Lenses / IS is mandatory!

« on: April 17, 2013, 01:47:12 AM »

IS is mandatory!

So is f2.8 for focus speed and accuracy.

Canon keeps shooting themselves in the foot,  I will not buy a 24-70mm without IS and f2.8!

Same goes for 16-35mm!

Will T.

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: *UPDATE* Canon USA Rebates Starting April 14, 2013 [CR3]

« on: April 14, 2013, 04:56:19 AM »

Just ask B&H for an adjustment or just to redo the paperwork.

They would much prefer skiping a return.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Charge new LP-E6 batter over night?

« on: April 10, 2013, 12:06:23 AM »

When you get it charge it untill the Canon charger shows charge compleate. 

That is all that is needed.

It is a smart charger!

Will T.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 7D L Announced, Shipping in May

« on: April 01, 2013, 08:53:32 PM »

This shows the mean-spiritedness of the website owner!

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Does Canon really have a Flagship Stills Camera?

« on: March 31, 2013, 04:46:12 PM »

the 1DX can do everything, and just as well or better, as both the 1Ds3

This is just not true!

Anyone, or at least most that shoot with both like me will tell you so!

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Does Canon really have a Flagship Stills Camera?

« on: March 31, 2013, 01:29:47 AM »

The last true Flagship camera Canon sold was the 1DSIII. 

Since it has not been replaced yet Canon's best camera is the 1DX.

To be considered a Flagship camera the 1DX would need 2X the pixels at the very least.

Do not get me wrong I have both and the 1DX is the best yet, less the pixel count!

I have owned every 1D/S pair.  Canon has not made a matching Flagship camera since the III.

When the 1DIV came out I waited for the S that never came, Thus never buying a 1DIV.

I will not buy another Canon 1 series camera until a 1DXS type of studio camera is released.


P.S. I should have said "NO" since they no-longer sell the Flagship camera 1DSIII!

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Lenses / Re: Question for owners of Canon 200mm f2.0 and 70-200mm f 2.8 II lens

« on: March 23, 2013, 03:32:33 AM »

And don't forget you can stack two 2x teleconverters and get an 800mm f/8 that will still autofocus on a 1D-series (I'd like to see how usable that would be though, any of you lucky-suckers who own one wanna test?).

No it will not.  At f5.6 it starts to hunt (1.4 & 2X)! P.S. due to over shooting the correct focus position!

The 200 f2 IS has 5 stops of IS that no one seems to notice (as stated in the user manual!) canon has not changed the user manual since release and after using my lens I agree with the manual.

I sold my 300 f 2.8 L IS to get this lens because of the added value of nearly 300mm f2.8 and 400mm f4 with the 1.4 & 2X converters with 5 stops of IS.

Yes I use my 7-200 mk II more but when shooting bar bands with a 1DX at max ISO nothing else will get the shot!

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Anyone using UDMA7 cards in 1DsMk3? ...and they work?

« on: March 18, 2013, 04:38:50 AM »

I just shot my 1DIII with a 32GB 1000X UDMA7 Lexar so most likely not a problem.  I may have already shot with the 1DsIII but can not be sure.

Will T. 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: How Do You Clean your sensor? And how often?

« on: February 24, 2013, 01:51:31 AM »

 

Scotch Bright or a Brillo pad!

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Technical Support / Re: Possibility to recover overwritten images on harddisk?

« on: February 20, 2013, 01:42:08 AM »

It is possible to recover the overwritten files.

NO! It is not possible to recover overwritten files!  This is fact! You can restore them from a backup only!  What you can recover are files where the file allocation table hase been overwritten, erased, deleted, or corrupted but the actual file data has not been changed.  The best example of this is when the file has been deleted.

Will T.