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EOS Bodies / Re: The 5D Mark III Will Start Shipping Again - but when?

« on: April 28, 2012, 04:16:40 AM »

http://www.procamerashop.co.uk/category/Cameras/Canon/EOS_Digital_SLR,l.html

Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital SLR Body
Ref. Code: 37717    Canon
In Stock
Usual dispatch time: 1-2 days    £2,649.99

I take it this is too good to be true?

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EOS Bodies / Re: Light leak on 5D3 IS a big issue, and should embarrass Canon

« on: April 27, 2012, 08:12:12 AM »

If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a million times don’t exaggerate! 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Let's see some great shots taken with old, cheap gear!

« on: April 25, 2012, 04:10:58 PM »

As this is was with my current camera and I don’t recall thinking mmm…. this is cheap when I bought it I’m not sure if this pic is valid but I just wanted to join in and feel the love 

Great shout for a topic, well done

500D + kit lens

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EOS Bodies / Re: We need a "Canon Whiners" Section!

« on: April 24, 2012, 04:58:15 PM »

and I for one will be joining it......

5. Fixes the time zone for the Samoa Islands.

I am absolutely disgusted with Canon my 5D3 is going right back…… oh wait I don’t have one 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon 5D Mark III Light Leak Resolution (Canon USA)

« on: April 24, 2012, 08:09:31 AM »

This is from canon-europe...

* Some examples of a dark environment are as follows:

1. When the body cap is attached

2. When the lens cap is attached

Ya gotta laugh, no sarcasm there at all

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: DxOMark scores for 5DMkIII out - total score 81, 5DMkII had 79

« on: April 23, 2012, 03:14:01 PM »

So I guess he must have done those low ISO tests after his visit to Yosemite otherwise he would have taken all those lovely pictures on a D800? oh wait there is that lens I suppose and that’s the point it’s a system, both are, with strengths and weaknesses. His conclusion is a balanced one.

http://www.fredmiranda.com/5DIII-D800/index_final.html

I do agree however about falling behind in sensor tech. If that continues to happen over time then that would be an issue. What’s easier for a company to do, improve a lens or improve a sensor?
Was also wondering is Sony and Nikon mated for life or is it a fixed term requiring negotiation?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon or Nikon...

« on: April 23, 2012, 08:02:07 AM »

So then I took it outdoors and found that, in the viewfinder, you can't see the red flash on an AF point when it's focussed! That's a serious issue for me.

Does that mean doesn't display at all or it's just not bright enough? If you are shifting focus point then how do you see which point is selected other than use the back panel and menu? I don't have one (obviously) hence the question. Still saving.... it's going to be a long year

+1 all the other points you make and love the tones in the first tree piccy - but waiting on all the 'put the lens cap on' quips to solve the focus point issue you have 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Light leak on 5D3 IS a big issue, and should embarrass Canon

« on: April 21, 2012, 02:39:32 PM »

I’m posting this because I genuinely don’t understand what’s going on in that video.
The photo’s taken with the top plate light one look better exposed to me?
Also shouldn’t the viewfinder be covered there must be a light source shining into it? although maybe that shouldn’t matter as it’s a constant I suppose.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Kitty

« on: April 21, 2012, 01:08:28 PM »

Sir Charles or Charlie to his friends
F1n 200 2.8 about a 50% crop
Would be a much easier shot with our 500D but having so much FUN teaching my daughter pre-focusing, anticipating the moment, manual camera control and of course with ‘only’ 36 exp. really thinking about it first.

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EOS Bodies / Re: What will be the response to the D3200?

« on: April 21, 2012, 11:47:29 AM »

Actually I think it’s a great idea for entry level cameras to all have huge megapixes, lets say around 100 and top pro cameras to have around 18, everything else on a sliding scale in-between. Now what that does is get it into everyone’s head that the better you get at photography the smaller the number bit like a golf handicap…. ah I’m better than you I’m on 24…… oh dear does that make me sound like a last years Nikon fanboy…… well maybe not then 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Light leak on 5D3 IS a big issue, and should embarrass Canon

« on: April 18, 2012, 05:43:23 PM »

I really would like to know how many people would have noticed this flaw on their own, not reading about it on the web. So the Internet ruined it all! 

Hey I like the interweb you get a good laugh, oh yeh and there's always porn 

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EOS Bodies / Re: The Big Megapixel Body in 2013?

« on: April 18, 2012, 05:37:29 PM »

Take a 1Dx spec camera and up the MP to say min 36 but probably 40 I wonder what that would give the top fps to be? and who knows maybe they've throttled the digic processors back a little knowing the road map. That would give them the reason for the high price as Nikon et al would not have a direct equivalent. If there's going to be one it won't be a 5D derivative would be my guess

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EOS Bodies / Re: Light leak on 5D3 IS a big issue, and should embarrass Canon

« on: April 18, 2012, 05:19:13 PM »

What many has it been confirmed by? So far I have seen one person say that he found a difference with the lens cap off and it ONLY occured at EV1, the absolute bottom limit of the metering performance range, where it underexposed by 1/3 of a stop.

That sounds like me you're referring to, and you're making the situation sound significantly worse than what I discovered.

Set the camera in manual mode to EV 1 (1" @ f/1.4 @ ISO 100), and find a dark corner of a dark room to point to until the meter bug is centered. Turning the LCD backlight on and off will not budge the meter at all. This is the bottom of the specified range of the 5DIII meter.

Set it to EV 0 and the backlight still won't change the exposure.

At EV -1, the backlight moves to the right by 1/3 stop when you turn it on...but you can't say that it's causing underexposure at that point because it's operating outside of its design parameters and may well already be off by some unknown and unspecified amount in either direction.

At EV -2, the backlight still only makes the meter move 1/3 stop to the right.

At EV -3, the backlight makes the meter bounce between 1/3 and 2/3 stops.

At EV -4, the backlight makes the meter move solidly on 2/3 stops to the right...and you're five stops below the bottom of the meter's range (30" @ f/1.4 @ ISO 100) and basically in the dark. There's no way the meter's readings are reliable, with or without the backlight on. Any photographic meter -- not just the one built in to the camera.

If you're actually photographing in conditions even as dark as EV 1...well, either you're doing long-exposure tripod work, maybe of the nighttime skyline, and you know full well that your meter is already useless...or you're being silly showing off your new toy outside at night away from the lights, and probably shooting at ISO 25,600 or something ludicrous and you know the results, though surprisingly not bad, will be totally useless for anything serious. And at EV -2 when the "problem" actually starts to appear, and only at a third of a stop? We're talking moonlit landscape photography, where no sane person even thinks to have a look at the meter. Hell, you're probably thinking of shooting in bulb mode with a stopwatch in those conditions....

Cheers,

b&

Don't suppose anyone has a D800 they could try this with, just for a laugh hehehe

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 5D Mark III Product Advisory

« on: April 17, 2012, 03:57:25 PM »

canon - I won't be able to afford this camera until after Christmas so chill have a few days off

see what I did there I just cancelled you out hehehe 

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mk III vs D800/E, is the 5D3 better at anything?

« on: April 17, 2012, 08:32:51 AM »

Ah so it IS better at photographing nude women, I'm for havin one of them. make it two