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Video & Movie / Re: what's your favorite lens for shooting video?

« on: February 19, 2012, 04:06:12 PM »

Shooting handheld with a 55-250 is surprisingly difficult!

Baggin': Day 1

Considering the ergonomics of a DSLR, you shouldn't be shooting handheld at all.

I can't afford and shoulder mounts, follow focuses, or anything like that.  I just left my tripod at home that day.

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Video & Movie / Re: what's your favorite lens for shooting video?

« on: February 18, 2012, 11:34:33 PM »

Shooting handheld with a 55-250 is surprisingly difficult!

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Video & Movie / Re: what's your favorite lens for shooting video?

« on: February 12, 2012, 01:54:08 AM »

My 8mm fisheye!

I film snowboarding so that would be the reason I use a fisheye!

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Your Ideal video setup

« on: February 10, 2012, 04:06:00 PM »

Alright, to start things off, I shoot snowboarding videos and I will be doing longboarding/other stuff like this as the year goes on.  My question to you is what are must have lenses/bodies/accessories/other equipment for shooting video?

In an ideal world my setup would be:

7D (I like the burst rate as well because I shoot a lot of sports photography)
16-35mm F/2.8L
8-15mm L fisheye
70-200mm F/2.8 L
Glidecam HD 2000/4000 either one I've used both and they are basically the same.
A Camera Slider
A good Gitzo/Manfrotto/Slik Tripod with a smooth panning head.
Any sort of Shotgun microphone
A few different ND filters

Now, here's what I've got
60D (The articulate screen is actually nicer than I thought it would be)
8mm Rokinon fisheye (Optically excellent and build quality is second to none)
18-55mm kit
55-250mm EF-S
Crappy tripod

I'd like a waterproof housing but I'm going to wait until I upgrade bodies before I make that purchase.

I would include a GoPro and Canon HF G10 in the mix.

Oh I've got two GoPros, one HD Hero 1080p and the New HD Hero2.  I win them every once in awhile at competitions.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Your Ideal video setup

« on: February 09, 2012, 07:14:56 PM »

a monopod will be useful for your snowboarding videos, lots of creative way to use it for. and if you have a head that can rotate 90 degree. you can use it as a shoulder mount.
get good fluid head for ur monopod/tripod

That's what I've been leaning towards, it's generally cheaper too.

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Lenses / Re: Pricing of the New Lenses

« on: February 07, 2012, 10:41:20 PM »

"EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM $2299"

Yikes that's out of my range, but man do I really want that lens.

That or the 16-35mm F/2.8 L.  I love that lens!

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United States / My new Zeiss lens came in the mail today...

« on: February 07, 2012, 07:11:26 PM »

Probably not what you expected!  But the lenses are by Zeiss!

Very excited to have 1 of 4 pairs of these limited edition Platoon Goggles!





Needless to say, it handles CA very well and is tack sharp!   

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Magic Lantern Qs

« on: February 06, 2012, 11:48:01 PM »

Thank you Minnesota Nice. What's function are you using with ML?

Tijn: How do you choose the 'silent mode'? What's the point of this mode?

I am surprise that not a lot of people uses ML because it adds a lot of functions to your camera.

I use a lot of the video functions, follow focus, zebra, cropmarks, etc.

But I like the time lapse and long exposure features, saves me from having to buy a cable release.  I also like the quick zoom/delete functions.  Just makes the process much faster for me.

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Canon General / Re: Any large $$$ purchase tips? (How to save money buying gear on credit/debit)

« on: February 06, 2012, 01:56:48 PM »

I pay with cash for two reasons:

1. Don't have to pay it off later
2. The look on the clerks face

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Canon General / Re: Visibility of Canon gear at the Super Bowl

« on: February 06, 2012, 01:55:32 PM »

I noticed a swarm of black lenses at the end of the game.

You noticed the occasional 400/600mm by the red zones.

I was keeping my eye out for any camera bodies that looked unfamiliar to me but it was all so fast paced I didn't notice much.

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Canon General / Re: $5000 gear spree exercize

« on: February 05, 2012, 01:50:49 AM »

1. Glidecam HD4000
2. 16-35mm F/2.8
3. New tripod, a nice one not sure which haven't looked into it much
4. A few ND filters

Donate what ever is left over.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Magic Lantern Qs

« on: February 03, 2012, 11:27:15 PM »

I can answer your first question, when you push the button to get into the ML menu (On my 60D it's the trash button) go to the intervalometer and push "Q" and a second menu will come up.

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

« on: February 02, 2012, 10:44:29 PM »

This is the one lens I want more than any other.

The moving sidewalk picture was really awesome!

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Canon General / Re: Truth in photography

« on: February 02, 2012, 07:37:02 PM »

"Do you feel genuinely upset and angry when a photographer portrays a photo as something it’s not?  If so, why does this get you so worked up?"

I think it's pretty irritating, I don't care much but I don't feel like it's ok to lie about something and say it's something it isn't. 

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"If a photo is actually a combination of several photos, but the photographer implies that it is a single, unaltered image, do you consider this unethical?"

That doesn't fly with me, when I'm at work for example and I say I did "X" to your roof and it's all a seamless sheet that wont leak and all this but in reality I just stitched a few sheets of rubber together I think that would be unethical.  I think people should say how the image was generated.

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"Do you think photo buyers really care about the effort that went into producing an image?  If so, do you feel that an image with less manipulation is of greater substance than an image with more manipulation?  Or is this irrelevant provided that the photographer doesn’t mislead anyone?" 

I'm a one exposure guy, I personally wouldn't buy a photo that was clearly manipulated.  It just doesn't have the same appeal.  I think a photo is to capture a moment in time and manipulation just takes away from the reality of that moment.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Can someone debunk this Peter Lik picture... PLEASE!!!

« on: February 02, 2012, 07:49:48 AM »

Just catching up on this, I can't comment on the detail of the image, but I have seen the moon appear that big before.  Happened to me about a decade ago driving up to Maine for a Columbus Day weekend.  Think it was the Harvest Moon and coming up over Rte 128... Basically the moon was bigger than 8 lanes of divided highway and was also a gorgeous deep red.  Don't think it was nearly that sharp, but looks like something from another world.

Yeah you get extreme atmospheric distortion at a low level, especially with a 600mm lens or longer.