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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF70-200mm f/4L USM

« on: July 26, 2012, 02:43:51 PM »

@taperoo2k: I love that 2nd photo, the arms blurred in the foreground makes it feel more immediate and more like I'm there

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM

« on: July 26, 2012, 02:40:46 PM »

5 shot HDR @ 1.4

Did not see this one until today (June 18th).
Great photo - it makes me thirsty and wanting to drink one. So the HDR effect works

Wow, fantastic shot! What'd you do for HDR? Is it a lot of manual work and forget using any of the software or letting PS try and do it for me?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What CF card for 1D X?

« on: July 26, 2012, 02:35:25 PM »

For Video Drizzt is right (long live the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk).  However for rapid fire stills here is the difference between UDMA 6 and 7.


  Camera         Card       Shots till full     Buffer empty in
5D Mark III    UDMA 6          15                    15.2 sec
                      UDMA 7          26                     3.5 sec


Stats pulled from
http://blog.willshootphotography.com/2012/06/udma-7-cf-card-performance-on-canon-5d-mark-iii-and-1d-mark-iv-soooo-worth-it.html

Oh...didn't know it was that big of a difference. I guess it should, ~60MB/sec vs 150MB/sec write speed, yea, that's huge! Maybe I'll have to invest in 1 UDMA7 card for my 5d3 for when I want to do lots of super burst shooting.

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Software & Accessories / Re: lightning trigger app - any good? No reviews....

« on: July 26, 2012, 01:21:50 PM »

If you have a MagicLantern supported camera, you can use that on the camera to shoot lightening http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7002555087/lightning-photography-with-magic-lantern

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Software & Accessories / Re: Operation could not be completed. (com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.)

« on: July 26, 2012, 01:20:40 PM »

Go buy a workstation with Win7 on it

Using some quick google-fu I found http://forums.adobe.com/thread/978420, might be useful. Check to make sure you have updated your OS.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What CF card for 1D X?

« on: July 26, 2012, 12:05:32 PM »

Or, if you're paranoid, have it write the same image to both cards simultaneously.

That's not paranoid, that's just good sense.  Personally, once the images are transferred to the computer they are immediately backed up to an external drive.  Before the 1D X, the only time there was just one copy of the images  - and thus, increased risk of loss - was on the card after capture but before transfer.  That's one reason I'm glad the 1D X has dual CF instead of CF+SD - I can write RAW to both cards simultaneously without a big hit on buffer clearing speed.

I have three 32 GB 90 MB/s cards, with simultaneous writing to both.  Slot 1 gets swapped out for image transfer, and the card in slot 2 gets formatted only when all images are backed up to two external drives in different physical locations.  Ok, maybe a little paranoid.   

Well, I'd say if you do this for money, it's just good business sense. No way you want to tell a client you lost all their shots by accident or because a card died!

Get an UDMA card! You won't regret it. You will need speed for video especially!!!

150 Mbit/sec is less than 19 MByte/sec, you don't need the super-fast UDMA7 cards for that. You do need a UDMA card, but the 30 MByte/sec cards are sufficient for the most part.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Does the T4i Overheat?

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:45:10 PM »

If you're worried and it's in direct sunlight, it's easy enough to put an umbrella, or some kind of other sun shade. Probably a good idea anyway, as the heat might cause additional sensor noise and not be good for the battery.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Friends, help me choose a better one! Thanks

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:25:56 PM »

Add a few decent lenses (50mm f/1.4 is a great starting point) and you can get started producing great images.

Even the nifty fifty 50mm f/1.8 is pretty good for video on a crop sensor. Maybe throw in the new 40mm f/2.8 (especially if you get a T4i and use the video AF), or one of the cheaper 24/28/30 to go wider.

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PowerShot Cameras / Re: Im looking into getting a new camera

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:22:22 PM »

T3i is good, check the Canon refurb website, they might have them a bit cheaper than new and still in good condition. If they have body only, you might save enough money to be able to put $300-400 into a lens of which there are a few decent ones. I used the original Sigma 17-70mm on my XSi and thought it was a pretty good lens. There's a newer version out which has Sigma's image stabilization (OS) tech. Apparently reviews are somewhat mixed, between OK and pretty decent. Even if you don't get that, if you can afford to get something other than the kit lens.

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Lighting / Re: When do you use spot metering?

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:10:04 PM »

I don't use spot metering, and with the instant feedback of an LCD i don't know why anyone would. I really don't know why i would want it linked to differing AF points either. But i'm weird....

This is something I would love in the 5d3. Lets say you have a composition where the center is something very bright, say a window on a very bright day, but you're subject is inside in a fairly dark room. The metering would automatically expose for the very bright light from the window, so your subject would be very underexposed. If the metering was linked to the AF point, and you put the point over the subject, it'd meter for the subject instead of the window. You can still do similar to that, you just need to put the center over your subject, hit the AE-lock button, then recompose. But that's a bit of a pain sometimes, and one more thing to remember to do.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What CF card for 1D X?

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:07:27 PM »

Thanks guys. I will go for Lexar Professional 1000x 32 GB CompactFlash Card LCF32CTBNA1000. I will get one card to test it and take it from there. I would rather get 64GB but it gets pricey. 

You can always buy a 2nd and put it in the 2nd CF slot. Just set the camera to automatically overflow onto that 2nd card. Or, if you're paranoid, have it write the same image to both cards simultaneously.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What CF card for 1D X?

« on: July 25, 2012, 08:15:59 PM »

I do shoot pictures of running horses often so I need to clear buffer as fast as possible. Coming from 1D Mark II N I am sure I'll be happy with this upgrade. I want to use full writing speed of the camera..

I hear ya!  Try shooting rapid fire on your 1D Mark II or worse, the 1Ds3, rapid-fire RAW.  I locked mine up once for 30 seconds while the buffer cleared, lol!

Yea, get the fastest card you can then. Lexar Pro 1000x, SanDisk Extreme Pro 90MB/sec. The later is UDMA6 and slower than the Lexar Pro 1000x, but still very fast.

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Sports / Re: Soccer

« on: July 25, 2012, 08:11:20 PM »

Ah yes, if it's got more colors it's better     If it keeps your customers happy, go for it. Be careful with it though, you can go too far.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What CF card for 1D X?

« on: July 25, 2012, 07:29:40 PM »

Once you get to the 30MB/s speed, you should be pretty much set for video on the 1DX. For stills, how often are you going to be shooting very large bursts?  If you're going to be doing lots of sports, I'd definitely say get the top end UDMA7 cards (such as the Lexar 1000x), since you'll likely be doing lots of bursts and writing out lots of images to the CF card in a short space of time.

If you're just doing a few frames, pausing, a few more, you can get away with a much slower card. Look at the 60MB/sec cards, I've had a good experience with the 32GB Transcend 400x (60MB/sec write) cards on both my 5d2 & 5d3.

The higher end SanDisk and Lexar seem to be the top brands, but like I said, I've been good with Transcend.

In terms of sizes, if you've got the money, I wouldn't go for cards less than 32GB, and go for 64GB if you don't want to carry around as many cards. Just remember, download them to your computer often, and back them up often. Just because it's from a good, name brand doesn't mean they don't fail ever. It happens, every manufacturer will have a few bad cards here and there. Just from a good one, you likely won't.

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Sports / Re: Soccer

« on: July 25, 2012, 07:06:19 PM »

Was that high(ish) level of vignetting intentional and done in post? it also looks (on my screen) as if the images are exposed fairly well, but have had their contrast increased (thus increasing apparent color saturation), and possibly overall darkened a bit. Unless it was just a fairly overcast day.

Questions aside, they look very well done, although I didn't look through them all.