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Lenses / Re: EF 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x Announcement Tonight

« on: May 16, 2013, 08:06:09 AM »

Fantastic lens but the cost is a lot. USA £7800, UK£ 12000. Over a third more expensive. Ouch!

See it from the bright side, you can do a weekend trip to New York, live in a swanky hotel and eat nice and on the Saturday pick a lens up from an actual shop stocking it while still saving money overall.

That price differnetial isn't the fault of Canon....they base price to the dealers is pretty much the same. It's juat a bit of blatent profiteering from the UK vendors who are selling at full RRP and think they will sell every copy they can get their grubby hands on.
At the current price differential, get a standby flight to the US and go and get one Stateside. It'll cost you time and energy, but will yeild a serious price saving.

and good luck with customs on the way back 

sorry off topic but as an aside is it correct that unlike bodies lens warrenties are world wide? I seem to remember reading that somewhere but It may have been on the back of a bottle of red 

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe to Stop Making Packaged Software

« on: May 11, 2013, 12:49:39 PM »

Photoshop Elements does not meet the requirements of the large group of amateur photographers who have graduated from point and shoots and only use RAW files.  PSE is more for JPG users.

How'd you work that one out? I only shoot RAW and happily use Elements

It's great that Elements works for you.  My point is that Adobe clearly aims at the family photographer producing JPGs.  The almost complete lack of 16 bit support (why bother when JPGs are 8 bit), ACR with many features disabled, restrictions on curves and adjustment layers, etc, etc, and the whole template scheme for thngs such as greeting cards and albums support the conclusion about its intended market.  Once again, it's great that it works for you and maybe you're better off than the rest of us who have become used to making extensive use of these features.

In response to other postings regarding Scott Kelby's Q&A - Scott says that at some point in the future if you don't like an increase in price you can simply stop paying.  This is utter nonsense since you then lose access to your data!

Now imagine if you are renting Lightroom and then stop paying.  Now you are completely locked out of all adjustments that you have made while paying over perhaps years.  Scary stuff.

Please don't think I'm in agreement with Adobe on this I'm not I really hope they get burnt.

Your right I don’t (think) I have the need to work in 16bit. I enjoy prints, maybe I'm missing a trick and should be working 16bit?
LR4 isn’t CC and used by many pros I assume that does allow you to work in 16bit?

As for the advanced manipulation tools, for photographers? maybe some of those amateur photographers who have graduated from point and shoots should go back and hone their photopgaphic skills rather than their PS skills or maybe that's me just being a synical old git, anyway that’s another debate not for this thread! 

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe to Stop Making Packaged Software

« on: May 10, 2013, 08:05:38 AM »

Photoshop Elements does not meet the requirements of the large group of amateur photographers who have graduated from point and shoots and only use RAW files.  PSE is more for JPG users.

How'd you work that one out? I only shoot RAW and happily use Elements

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Site Information / Re: Membership Approval Now Required

« on: May 10, 2013, 07:54:51 AM »

Naah just ask how much DR a Nikon sensor has, no real Canon user knows the answer to that…. No…. oh wait.… dooh 

(sorry someone had to  )

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EOS Bodies / Re: No 7D Mark II in 2013? [CR2]

« on: May 09, 2013, 04:41:09 PM »

The Grebe f***s of cos it won’t be seen dead being photographed with anything less than a 14DR that shall not be named so neither of you get the pic, but thankfully being a cleaver Grebe it phones the coastguard to alert them to the guy wading in 10ft of water….. would sir like a life jacket.
I love this site so many egos, pass me another roll of panf and some colouring pens.

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

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:07:03 AM »

EF 24-105/4.0 L IS II Please 
not on the list though 

Done.

Thanks....... aww now I can't change my vote, I demand a re-count 

Booo hisss. where's the hissy fit icon 

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

« on: May 08, 2013, 06:26:10 PM »

EF 24-105/4.0 L IS II Please 
not on the list though 

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe to Stop Making Packaged Software

« on: May 07, 2013, 03:43:02 PM »

A swap to this model of using Adope CS6 will cause some problems for big organisations that have to secure their datas .
The head of the IT department in the organisation where I work, is in doubt whether the state bureaus is allowing to open the firewall/safety-solutions to use this cloud based software. It is to risky. They are in fear to get hacked.
And we own really a lot of CS6 licences.

xps this is the aspect that most interests me I'd be really interested to hear what your company does about that or indeed what Adobe's (or your suppliers) response is.

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Lenses / Re: Best Lens for FF 6D

« on: May 05, 2013, 05:56:52 PM »

what the heck do you want to photograph?   

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Software & Accessories / Re: How would you achieve this look in Lightroom?

« on: May 04, 2013, 05:00:51 AM »

Dustin Abbott was kind enough to pont me in the direction of these

http://www.adobelightroompresets.net/lightroom-presets/ultrafaded-presets/

Looks like a close match to me

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Reviews / Re: Review - Google Glass

« on: May 04, 2013, 04:25:29 AM »

With all the paranoia around regarding authorities and public photography I can see many places treating this as a ‘spy’ cam and reacting accordingly, fascinated to see how this technology progresses.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 100D/SL1

« on: May 02, 2013, 04:08:03 PM »

Congrats, this looks like a cracking little camera to me especially with a 40mm pancake, would love them to come out with a 28 or 30 and a 60 at 40ish prices, would be a great little system.

For all the criticism Canon have taken recently I really think they’ve got it right with this one. For me it has the feel of when the OM1 was released.

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Lenses / Re: Macro lens or attachments to make my current lenses go macro?

« on: April 27, 2013, 03:45:28 PM »

You may want to consider Raynox DCR-150, cheep as chips (I got the 250 just for fun and would be too much macro for what you want) it’s a simple clip-on that would seem ideal in a wedding environment for just one shot, no messing about, very quick to use. Not sure if it’s up to pro requirements but I think it’s surprisingly good for the price.

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Software & Accessories / Re: [editing pictures] I can't live without...

« on: April 27, 2013, 03:25:50 PM »

Errrr...... 'Save As'

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Canon General / Re: Lost a 5DIII. Deciding how to replace. Big Value = Bad Idea?

« on: April 27, 2013, 03:19:08 PM »

DigitalRev offers their own 1 year warranty on all their Canon products, so in the event that you purchase a defective Canon camera and Canon refuses to service it under warranty, DigitalRev will cover the cost of repair or replacement. I forgot where I read this but it's somewhere on the DigitalRev site and I believe it to be true.

What happened in that story above was a DigitalRev employee took one of the DRTV 5D3s and shipped it as new in order to improve his performance rating (they were out of stock and he would have had to cancel the order otherwise, negatively affecting his rating).

That was an isolated incident and DigitalRev has taken appropriate action against the employee and compensated the blogger who wrote the story. Additionally, they hired an internal auditor just to ensure that something like this would never happen again.

The whole incident showed that despite the bad employee, DigitalRev was really on top of their customer service. I would definitely buy from them!

good post