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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Has anybody been using the 6D wireless function for live view to a tablet?

« on: January 24, 2013, 01:03:28 PM »

Your problem cayenne amounts to a different kettle of fish.  Using the HDMI connection requires a whole other class of dedicated monitors, slow heavy and very expensive to buy or rent -- I've used some. 

Canon comes to the rescue if you want to go wireless however, with their "wireless file transmitter" made specially for your camera model.  It costs only $850 (eight hundred and fifty dollars, less one penny to be perfectly exact).
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/consumer_cameras_wft/wireless_file_transmitter_wft_e7a

The issue of what you would broadcast To still remains -- which is the question I raise in this thread.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Has anybody been using the 6D wireless function for live view to a tablet?

« on: January 24, 2013, 11:34:15 AM »

I just started this thread in the "EOS Bodies -- for Photographs" department.  Since this topic is of at least as much interest for videographers, I hope any of you with info will join the conversation over there.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Has anybody been using the 6D wireless function for live view to a tablet?

« on: January 24, 2013, 11:31:29 AM »

There's going to wide variation in latency/lag time depending on the brand and model of the tablet you're using -- the speed of the "network" depends on this as well as the camera.  An acquaintance at Google suggests that there may be enough of a difference between the Apple and Android Canon apps to make a noticeable difference; as for hardware, the processor speed and its architecture as well as a list of things unknown to me, play their part.  Any experts in the house?!

What (current) make & model are you using, and how's it doing?  Can you compare across platforms?

If I owned a 6D my special interest would be in mounting a tablet from a base plate on a flexible arm in order to compose and focus manual-only lenses in live view.  How large is your live view area within the Canon app?

For reference, Jeff at the "OK-Canon" center scared up what he called an "iPad3" and measured the live view picture at 5" x 4 in landscape, with no cropping he could spot, although the aspect ratio is a little off.  He said some controls were in dead space to the left and right, though if you called up more these slopped onto the live view image about 1/2" on either side.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Are you really serious about 6D?

« on: January 15, 2013, 05:46:00 AM »

@Marsu42 & Hobby Shooter -- You don't need Adobe for this, Canon's free "ZoomBrowser" which comes with DPP and the rest, will show these points and the selected one in red: while viewing full screen in "zoom mode," click the View tab on top and select "Show Auto Focus Points".  Remember that the selected point will often appear in an odd place if you re-composed after locking focus.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Saw the 6D today

« on: September 22, 2012, 10:38:16 AM »

But if you must drop acid wait til after the test.

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Portrait / Re: Portraits of my GF, Would like feedback!!

« on: June 15, 2012, 12:26:45 PM »

@koolman:  Hard not to agree with this, though there can be exceptions, especially in bright overcast exterior conditions when peoples' faces can stand out with a kind of glow, especially when "exposed toward the right" -- no need for additional lighting there.

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Portrait / Re: Portraits of my GF, Would like feedback!!

« on: May 09, 2012, 01:33:24 PM »

As to your editing, I think the untouched originals look much more interesting as well as far more natural.  What's wrong with freckles?! The little red dash around her lips is a very pleasing contrast to the cool slate.  Red everywhere doesn't necessarily mean warm, or feel warm, it often feels merely like too much, as in too much ketsup.  If you are new at this I suppose you may just have to let it work through your system.  It could be interesting in the meantime to experiment with i/desaturating/i the colors, right down to the edge of black and white, and come back later for a look to see what if anything this might contribute to certain pictures.  I quarrel finally with your smoothing away all detail of your GF's lovely young skin -- any reasons for that should be decades off in the future.  Carry on!

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 09:53:44 PM »

@peederj:  You may be right about an eventual Canon Inc response but it sure is nice not to care -- as though Canon was the single source of all good things.  If I recall that BM spokesman interview there is already or soon will be an external battery, and you can run their thing from the wall. 

To recover, CanonSan will have to do more than simply relent, or relent part way -- he'll have to sprint to the other extreme, genie being out of the bottle.  The same outfit that took AFMA away from those poor 60D buyers, perhaps the most deserving women and men ever heard of?  I wonder...

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 07:08:38 PM »

Sorry!  Garbled the ISO bit and can't get through to the mgfr website -- but the range is 400-1600. 

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 06:33:32 PM »

@StephenMelvin -- but remember the fruit of that large sensor must first be squished -- down-res'd -- and then horribly compressed with many an imperfection boiled or baked in all before it leaves the camera.  Just the down-res'ing creates many difficult problems, such as aliasing.  By the time this orange juice leaves your 5kMkii or D800 it's low-grade concentrate, to put it in somewhat gruesome terms.  Blackmagic IQ should (remember I said "should") be an a whole other league from ANY dslr's.  Remember too that the 4/3rds sensor is not much smaller than super35.   What you'll lose is some -- but only some -- of the thinness of DoF, which is partly fixable and which at other times is more trouble than it's worth. 

Slowmotion -- non est; three ISOs: 400 native, +/- 1 EV.  So 1600 is your fastest -- good enough for me!

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 05:40:01 PM »

3.75 lbs, that it, so you should be able to fly it on some of the small cheap stabilizers.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 05:12:28 PM »

Thunderbolt.  Peaking also they have not withheld from the people.  Remote on/off, iris and focus control.  Apple ProRes and Avid codecs as alternatives to RAW; audio and video SDI x 2 built in; on-board mono mic (for a reference track, quality audio should always be recorded externally, cheap software such as Plural Eyes makes double-system painless, two x audio-in mic or line if you insist).  3.75, which includes the 3" monitor & hood.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 04:48:34 PM »

Forgot to mention the price -- $2,995!  That's 1/5th the cost of the C300 and it includes everything you need to start except a lens.  That 2.5k describes the sensor, not of course the 2k HD.  Double tap the 5" hi contrast monitor and it zooms in to assist with manual focus.  Connects electronically with Zeiss and Canon irises, auto-focus to come is hinted at.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 04:06:55 PM »

If the claims made by Blackmagic are born out, da revo has arrived.  Canon's c300 will sink like a $15,000 stone, 2.5k HD with uncompressed 12-bit RAW & 13 stops of dynamic range -- all this will be within reach of a hugely increased number of eager hands, and the various iterations of the 5D and hi-end dslrs in general will lose their place as instruments in quality-look low-budget production.  (This should come as a relief to some on these boards.)  Almost as amazing is the (non-proprietary) practicality of the system's parts.  If that wasn't enough they throw in DaVinci Resolve 9, full version, which they sell for $1000, and something else I forget what.  Okay so they want to hook you on their software, so what?  They're not Apple, at least not yet.

It's true that this new gizmo's sensor is closer to micro 4/3rds than full frame, and so 5Ds will have a place for a time as b-cams, but technique can recover the wanted narrow DoF.   I hope I'm not missing something here...

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Here it is ladies and gentlemen, that nose under the tent isn't a camel's...

« on: April 17, 2012, 03:24:25 PM »

... it just might be the nose of the future, that future we've been waiting for o so long.

http://www.eoshd.com/content/7927/the-downfall-of-the-big-guys-just-began-blackmagic-2-5k-cinema-camera-with-12bit-raw-for-3000

http://www.eoshd.com/content/7943/nab-update-exclusive-interview-with-blackmagic-cine-shooter-john-brawley-panasonic-af100-successor-deleted

The more I study this the better it looks ...