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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D MarkIII Low ISO performance in shadows

« on: June 22, 2012, 06:36:37 AM »

I find metering in almost all cameraes to be quite a bit under for MY taste. I like to overexpose both the 5d2 and 5d3 in "normal" light by at least one stop. It gives me VERY little noise with all NR turned off in Lr, and nothing when some applied.

Do your NR BEFORE sharpening and use the masking option to not sharpen the areas that aren't edges. And if you want an underexposed image, do it in post.

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Lenses / Re: Could a 35mm f/1.2 L be in testing? (pic)

« on: June 21, 2012, 06:22:00 PM »

I wish they would sell lens parts separately, so only price would interfere with ones ideas.. like, all lens elements could be combined as you wish. I can think of a few lenses i would like to build...

A 14 TS f 1.4 for example...

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Lenses / Re: Could a 35mm f/1.2 L be in testing? (pic)

« on: June 21, 2012, 03:19:03 PM »

Your point was about wide open sharpness of a 35 f1,2... that's why i mentioned sharpness .. and that the 50 was easy made good, which isn't true.

And while the 85 is å heavy lens, it's still a lens and it is only 130 grams over a 24-70....

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Lenses / Re: Could a 35mm f/1.2 L be in testing? (pic)

« on: June 21, 2012, 09:07:04 AM »

Typo, typo, typo.

I think so, too - at ~50mm it's easiest to design fast lenses, but if the focal length gets smaller it'll be quite a hassle to release a f1.2 35mm that's sharp wide open as a L lens should be. Much more likely they'll just add weather sealing to a 35/1.4L, reduce the vignetting and double the price.

I always heare that, yet no 50 lens comes even kind of close to the 35 or 85 IQ.....

The current 35 L compared to the current 50 L, I can see way better colors and contrast from the 50, but sharpness is way better on the 35 at all distances, the AF is faster on the 35 and in some cases more accurate.

But given a updated 35 or even if it was made the same year, the 35 would most certainly be better at pretty much everything. And the 50 L is okay sharp wide open, at the perfect distance, but the 35 kills it when both at 1,4.

And the 85 with it's old design is waay better than the 50 in every aspect except size weight and AF, although the 85 is extremely accurate.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1dx Japan site

« on: June 21, 2012, 05:57:43 AM »

Man, I hope Canon doesn't pull this crap on every pro-release in the future...

I sit an look at my pictures and think, "Colud this have been done with the 1d X?" and the answer is no, it couldn't, because it wasn't here.... And, for me personally, I can't see what the 1d X will provide of shots the 5d3 can't, but then again, I'm no sports photographer...

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1dx Japan site

« on: June 20, 2012, 09:41:09 AM »

We must make a thread that only includes personal experiences, customer reviews, and samples. I'm living vicarioulsy after deciding to stick with the 5d3 instead, BUT you must try to convince me!! 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Examples of DR photos and why this is important to landscape shooters

« on: June 19, 2012, 04:41:02 AM »

Into the sun

Oooooooh! Lovely! I would love to learn your technique if you can share it.

A big ass reflector...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS 5D Mark III Firmware 1.1.3

« on: June 19, 2012, 03:19:56 AM »

They said features will come at a later point, I guess that something.

They could also give me å second My Menu tab, and the ability to flip my menus around...

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EOS Bodies / Re: Examples of DR photos and why this is important to landscape shooters

« on: June 17, 2012, 05:34:40 PM »

To those that don't think DR is too important, I provide the following hand-held shot.  Although it is an extreme example, it demonstrates how a little more DR could make more the frame more usable.  A crop is fine, but the entire frame is horrid.  I could not get this shot in magic hour, and I could not take it on a tripod (HDR) or use an ND grad.

Indeed, but this kind of shots is where you pull out your flash. Landscape is way harder when flash really can't be used, but for these type of shots, using a flash makes them REALLY pop..

Keep in mind these aren't purposely made to show the most DR possible, but edited to my liking.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 35mm f/1.4 L or Canon 50 mm f.1.2 L - for Weddings

« on: June 17, 2012, 04:59:07 AM »

During my tests with the 50 1.2 for portrait uses, I found the AF for the 50, terrible.  Sometimes, maybe 20% it would lock on and be awesome, sometimes, it would be close, but just off, and sometimes, the camera would show focus confirmation, but image would be blurry as heck.  Plus the MA was so off I had it on the max MA to get it in focus for the few shots it got focus.  When i tested the 35 1.4, on the same body as the 50 test, I got a lot more in focus in more demanding situations.  The only time the 35 was OOF was when shutters were too slow because it was too dark, which isn't a lens issue, but a camera/operator issue.  Dont get me wrong, I wanted to love the 50, but for the sample I tested, it's too unreliable.

How fair is that? If you had å copy at Max out MA, you haven't got a properly calibrated lens, and of course that won't work. I didn't get any stability or accuracy with my 50's before i used REIKAN software. But now, the 50 L is just fantastic, and as you can see from my bottom signature, I have the others to compare with. It isn't perfect, but it's what's closest in the 50 focal...

My experience is similar, and I probably should have my own sample calibrated. It's especially frustrating because I've never encountered any such problems with the 35L (two samples), 85L, 135L (three samples) or 50 f/1.4 (3 samples) for that matter. Slight MA needed, sure, but nothing like this.

Well, then I guess the 300 f2,8 L IS sucks bigtime, because mine missed by 30 meters aiming at 100 meters, and that was at +20.... It needed hardware calibration, and when it came back I adjusted it to +6 and it was dead on. Calibration doesn't have anything to do with "bad" or good lenses at all. It has to do with tolerance. And in my experience you can go 10 and 10 steps at the time and see no difference, heck both my 50's where very close, but not perfect (like my other lenses) until I ran the FoCal software, it only adjusted them 2 steps from where I was, but it made a HUGE difference in stabillity and accuracy. Farther and farther adjustment doesn't always make it better and better, it's the RIGHT adjustments you need.

Just checked, and it seems the 50 and 135 are the ones that are the least adjusted both on my 5d3 and my gf's 5d2. My 24 is at +16, but it hits perfect. I ran it through FoCal, and it gave me +16...

35 is at -11 but also hit perfect.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 35mm f/1.4 L or Canon 50 mm f.1.2 L - for Weddings

« on: June 15, 2012, 05:40:16 PM »

During my tests with the 50 1.2 for portrait uses, I found the AF for the 50, terrible.  Sometimes, maybe 20% it would lock on and be awesome, sometimes, it would be close, but just off, and sometimes, the camera would show focus confirmation, but image would be blurry as heck.  Plus the MA was so off I had it on the max MA to get it in focus for the few shots it got focus.  When i tested the 35 1.4, on the same body as the 50 test, I got a lot more in focus in more demanding situations.  The only time the 35 was OOF was when shutters were too slow because it was too dark, which isn't a lens issue, but a camera/operator issue.  Dont get me wrong, I wanted to love the 50, but for the sample I tested, it's too unreliable.

How fair is that? If you had å copy at Max out MA, you haven't got a properly calibrated lens, and of course that won't work. I didn't get any stability or accuracy with my 50's before i used REIKAN software. But now, the 50 L is just fantastic, and as you can see from my bottom signature, I have the others to compare with. It isn't perfect, but it's what's closest in the 50 focal...

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What modes do you usually use on your camera?

« on: June 12, 2012, 08:08:44 AM »

Av always to control dof and I adjust ISO on the go, it's the fastest way for me by far. Them the shutter can vary quite a bit without resulting in an exposure difference, if I used M i would either over or underexposed.. but when I use my flashes I always shoot M. I can't anything else to work...

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Lenses / Re: Which lens lineup for 5D3?

« on: June 12, 2012, 03:31:50 AM »

After spending å couple of months with my 5d3 i find the most used lenses are 24 ,35, 50, with the 50 absolutely most used. After calibration in Reikan it is truly wonderful... 135 was awesome at an airshow I attended, and the 17 does what no over lens on the planet does, but I don't shoot that much landscape. The 85 is soo good I will never sell it again, but it doesn't get used that much.

But this is ONE dude's use of lenses, talk to å sportphotographer and he will love a 70-200 which I absolutely hate. Had the old and mk2 version of the 2,8 but NEVER used it, I find it very boring compared to the 135....

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Software & Accessories / Re: Reikan FoCal Testing Distance and Accuracy

« on: June 07, 2012, 06:06:14 PM »

I thought drivers were for trucks and racecars.  What the hell are they doing on a computer?  Gee, I'm glad to be a Mac user.   

There is nothing wrong with Windows.  The driver conflict usually caused by software.  Windows provide a default driver for camera devices.  After you install EOS utility, the driver will be updated.  When you upgrade your EOS utility, the driver will be updated again.  Windows is much open than Mac, so it doesn't restrict Canon for the driver update.  If EOS utilty programmers have perfect coding, the new driver might bring you some benefits.  On the other hand, users might face some problems when the code was not well written.  Nothing is absolutely right and wrong between open and close platforms.

For us that do not care about drivers and which code is written well and want to turn the machine on, run the software of choice to do a task. Such as turning it on, edit my raw's in Lightroom and then shut it off to shoot some more, pc and all of it's openess dosen't make sense. 

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Software & Accessories / Re: Reikan FoCal Testing Distance and Accuracy

« on: June 07, 2012, 07:51:15 AM »

In danger of sounding very stupid, what driver? I didn't install anything for the 5d3 to work on my stoneage XP laptop (mac user). I tried VirtualBox with Windows7 ultimate, but then it did not recognize my 5d3 either.

Does EOS Utility work for your 5D2?  Anyway, try to download USBDeview from the following webpage.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
Use it to delete your 5D2 driver and plug your 5D2 again to see if that will work for you.

I thought drivers were for trucks and racecars.  What the hell are they doing on a computer?  Gee, I'm glad to be a Mac user.   

Amen to that... Mac is like my old Amiga's , if the joystick didn't work , well them you hadn't plugged it in!