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Reviews / Re: Review - Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L II

« on: November 07, 2012, 02:09:05 PM »

I think one factor  to explain the missing IS is that this lens is aimed at landscape photogs who are always shooting on a tripod and turning off IS anyway.

saying this lens was aimed at landscape photographers is a bit of a stretch, no?  i'm always looking for the widest, lightest piece of kit to bring with my tripod when i go hiking/camping for days at a time

more like wedding photographers imo

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: Deal: Canon EF 24-105 f/4L IS $749

« on: November 01, 2012, 06:58:50 PM »

Anyone else find it strange the first half of this thread is talking about what looks like a price drop in the 5D III, and not this lens? lol

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Canon General / Canon's Minimum Advertising Price to go into effect Nov 1

« on: October 31, 2012, 06:31:08 PM »

"Canon to Begin Crackdown on Minimum Advertised Pricing Tomorrow, November 1

Canon will begin cracking down on minimum advertised pricing (MAP) starting tomorrow, Nov 1. The retail prices for several DSLR cameras as well as some lenses will be changing significantly. If you plan on buying a DSLR camera in the near future, I suggest buying it now."

The-Digital-Picture.com

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/canon-news/

I must be missing something here or perhaps I don't understand the idea behind MAP.

What on earth would incent a retailer to carry Canon gear if they have no control over the pricing of their inventory? 

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: Deal: Canon EOS 5D Mark III $2799 from eBay

« on: October 31, 2012, 02:02:28 PM »

no, i'm pretty sure we've seen $2750 from adorama selling through ebay

http://www.canonwatch.com/deal-today-only-eos-5d-mark-iii-for-a-crazy-2750/

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Lenses / Re: 85 1.2 L2 not sharp at 1.2

« on: October 23, 2012, 07:30:24 PM »

Before you return it, do some testing on tripod in good light to see if the lens is the problem.  It would be even better if remote shutter release is used.

this.   when i first got my 85 II, i shot a casual event with it shooting wide open the entire night.

when i got home, i previewed the images on a screen and found all of it to be hopelessly out of focus.

propped it onto a tripod and ran it through a battery of tests with MLU on center point - turns out i sucked shooting @ 1.2 

i installed a focussing screen that helps make things snappier at larger apertures and makes manually focussing possible with such extreme apertures as well.  manual focus is still tricky, but now possible.

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Lenses / Re: A very dumb view

« on: October 22, 2012, 05:10:04 PM »

+1.  Although wide angle lens hoods are almost pointless for protection.

+1.  especially for WA zooms since they take up way too much real estate in the bag

How many people use hoods indoors?

all the time.  i take family portraits and without fail, every lens is grabbed at one point in time by a well meaning toddler or child wanting to look through the business end of my 85L or 70-200L

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Lenses / Re: Canon fd lenses

« on: October 12, 2012, 02:39:13 PM »

Canon FDn 135mm f2 is an amazing lens, and is one of only several lenses I kept when I liquidated my MF kit to pay for EF mount gear.

I absolutely adore the Vivitar Series 1 90mm f2.5 macro.  Make sure it comes with the 1:1 matched teleconverter.

I'm not sure if EdMika's adapter would maintain infitinity on this, but if it's used for close ups, i suppose that wouldn't matter.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 5Dc as an entry for FF? yay or nay?

« on: September 27, 2012, 02:41:36 AM »

within it's limits it great. i even love how easy the menu is because it's not loaded full of BS.

+1

i love my 5Dc!!! 

as long as i don't use AI servo or go crazy with the iso haha 

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Landscape / Re: Best lens for landscapes for a trip to the mountains?

« on: September 24, 2012, 01:14:03 PM »

I was in Switzerland in August and you are in for a real treat!

I only needed one lens: 16-35 II (mounted on 5Dc)

Here's what I was able to photograph with it

Lauterbrunnen Valley


Lauterbrunnen Valley - Paragliding POV 1


Lauterbrunnen Valley - Paragliding POV 2


Trummelbach Falls


Staubbach Falls


View from atop Shilthorn

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Landscape / Re: 17-40 f4 for lower light vs 16-35 f2.8

« on: August 28, 2012, 03:00:36 PM »

I too struggled with this choice when I purchased my UWA back in 2006. 

At the end of the day, I ponied up the cash for the 16-35 II for several key reasons

1) Waaay better sunstars at f16: the 14 points are very distinct and not softened/ambiguous like the 17-40 gave me
2) 1mm on the wide end for me is significant and very meaningful.  More than happy to pay more for this
3) And lastly, yes, occassionaly there is the need to shoot @ 2.8.  Not very often at all, but I like having options

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Software & Accessories / Re: Looking for an ND filter for waterfalls

« on: April 03, 2012, 01:58:32 PM »

word of caution if you stack ND's or polarizers on top.  if you're shooting landscape, you're likely to shoot wide.  those filters can produce vignetting unless you use a step up ring to work with larger filters (e.g. 77mm lens stepping up to 82mm stacked filters

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mk III Owners - are you happy?

« on: March 30, 2012, 05:18:11 PM »

If I could change anything would be to take the megapixels down to 16-18 or so, but I'm thrilled with my new Mark III

isn't that what MRAW and SRAW are for?

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Lenses / Re: Recommend me a lens that's better/more useful than a 50mm lens

« on: March 27, 2012, 03:18:56 PM »

I'd prefer a 40mm f/2 pancake lens to a 50.  Just a bit wider than a standard lens, with a much smaller form factor.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D3 Mirror Lock up use and reccomendations

« on: March 27, 2012, 01:48:28 PM »

Just a quick tip, use one of your custom functions to enable and disable MLU and possibly along with a 2sec timer if you're not triggering remotely.

It's a shame MLU is buried within so many menus, forcing those that use it frequently to assign a C# setting to it

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EOS Bodies / Re: Amazon - 5DIII Body only

« on: March 27, 2012, 01:37:23 PM »

My order was placed 3/2 at 10:30pm EST (def not in on the super early orders) and my order is still showing 'not yet shipped'

How people who ordered after a lot of us have better order statuses at this point is beyond me. 

I'm baffled by all this and it's pretty obvious there is no rhyme or reason to what Amazon is doing on this one.

could it be that folks with amazon prime are getting preferential shipping timelines?  no one seems to mention whether or not they order with that perk