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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Only 1 lens

« on: December 18, 2012, 04:05:09 PM »

I'm glad to hear everything has worked out, and that you haven't given up all your gear.  Enjoy the time with your baby, and hope you get plenty of beautiful and memorable shots. 

+1

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Only 1 lens

« on: December 15, 2012, 05:14:15 AM »

If I could have one camera and one lens! I'd seriously contemplate a Leica m9 and a 35mm f1.4 ... Or I'd get a 1ds mark iii and use my zeiss 2/35. - cheaper option.

Btw Unless you really won't use a 5d2 I'm not sure I'd be wanting to sell it either.

You might want to read more carefully before replying. He's trying to free up some funds for his baby*, not asking for 'best regardless of money'.

^{*) literally. I know, I'm attached to my 5D3 too, but we're talking one with ten little fingers an' ten little toes an' everything.}

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Technical Support / Re: Purple Bars On Top of Letter Box Bars Appearing in Live View Mode on 5D Mark III

« on: December 12, 2012, 12:59:29 PM »

Menu C.Fn 2 > LV shooting area display > set to Outlined. This'll get you blue lines if you set your aspect ratio to something else than 3:2. Getting them with 3:2 (and " I played a sample video recorded") suggests that you engage live view by entering movie mode, when the camera selects a movie aspect ratio regardless of image settings.

Anyhoo, this is normal behaviour that is achieved by a combination of various settings. Exposing your precious to strong electromagnetic fields to reproduce the blue lines might prove counterproductive

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 5D Mark III Discoloration/Pealing; Slowly Growing

« on: December 12, 2012, 07:50:38 AM »

Photo 2 does, by the way, show that it really is a production error - or the side panel would've worn equally. I'd venture a few phone calls to see if you can get it repaired under warranty.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 5D Mark III Discoloration/Pealing; Slowly Growing

« on: December 12, 2012, 05:10:29 AM »

I have flashbacks of a product issue statement from Canon about this very problem. A certain product range was affected by discoloration over time due to some plastic issue. But I can't remember if that was the 5D3 or some other model. But looks similar certainly.
There was some dicussion on it here as well.

I think you might mean http://www.canonrumors.com/2012/08/canon-rebel-t4i650-recall-again/ ?

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Lenses / Re: Canon 50mm 1.8iii... L... Real or fake?

« on: December 11, 2012, 02:34:55 PM »

That is awesome!!!  You should have painted on an IS button as well 

Regrettably, it is not mine

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Lenses / Re: Canon 50mm 1.8iii... L... Real or fake?

« on: December 11, 2012, 11:30:41 AM »

There's more where that one came from

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Only 1 lens

« on: December 11, 2012, 03:48:30 AM »

I'd sell the 70-200 and the flash and see how far that gets you - 5D2 and 24-70 is still an awesome combo. Trading the 24-70 (I'm assuming mark I) for a 24-105 is probably only going to cost you. Then, if worst comes to worst, you can always sell off everything else and go the xxxD route, or even go P&S.

And kudos for having your priorities straight

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark III Frustrated Focusing problem

« on: December 10, 2012, 05:38:39 AM »

Empathy notwithstanding, OP reminds me of the woman that bought a big Winnebago motorhome, put it on cruise control, left the wheel to make herself a sandwich (or something) and was surprised the unsupervised vehicle crashed. Even won her a big settlement, but I think a little common sense goes a long way.

If you blindly buy and things do not go as planned, there always is the chance that the fault lies with you; so you probably could expect the - very mild! - criticism in this topic. If you can't handle that, you probably really are spoiled rotten and deserving of disappointment. After all, you best learn through failure

Unless, of course, it really was a troll. Proficient in more ways than one, in that case

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Lenses / Re: 17-40L vs 24-105L

« on: December 08, 2012, 04:51:47 AM »

I have 'em both and I can unequivocally say: go for the 24-105. 24mm is more than half decent for landscapes and the lens is great for everything else. I was happy with it as my walkaround lens on a crop body and over the moon when I mounted it on the 5D3. IMO, the 17-40 is versatile on crop bodies only. It still is a very nice lens, but with 40mm or less I wouldn't want to do portraits or sports or really, anything but landscapes.

And then, IS.

YMMV but for me it'd be a no-brainer

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Contests / Re: CR Christmas?

« on: December 07, 2012, 01:38:51 PM »

Unless distant.star is Dutch. He still may be in "Sinterklaas" mood. In this Dutch holiday they celebrate by giving eachother (especially children) surprise presents accompanied with a verse that is giving clues for guessing what your surprise will be. 

I'm Dutch, and at no point did the topicstart remind me of a Sinterklaasversje 

Het is leuk geprobeerd/maar je hebt het verkeerd/en dus weer wat geleerd/wat je vast niet deert 

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Contests / Re: CR Christmas?

« on: December 07, 2012, 12:43:59 PM »

You can just state that there's a typo in http://www.canonrumors.com/2012/12/gura-gear-giveaway/. No need for the guessing game - unless, of course, you don't want it fixed.

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Contests / Re: Gura Gear Giveaway!

« on: December 07, 2012, 02:34:14 AM »

I need one. I'll buy one in the end eventually, since I do that with all bags, because so far I haven't found one that is any good  So, might as well ship it to me already!

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Lenses / Re: Is this the normal bokeh for an L series lens

« on: December 01, 2012, 04:48:12 AM »

Probably becouse the surface reflect an "oval" beam of light!

I don't think so. Some googling led me to this (very interesting) page, which says:

Sometimes what would be a circular out of focus highlight in the center of the image has a lemon shape outside of center, gradually more near borders and edges. This is caused by mechanical vignetting because the optical path in the lens is too narrow. Resulting shape is often a intersection of two non-concentric circles, often described as "lemon shape" or "cat eye".

But that immediately raises the question why even a classy lens like the 135L (which was used for this shot, according to the exif data) shows such 'defects'. I'm assuming this is a consequence of shooting wide open (tho I'm not sure), is it something to do with the ratio between distance and aperture? Anyone?

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Lenses / Re: Is this the normal bokeh for an L series lens

« on: December 01, 2012, 03:11:14 AM »

Great shot, dirtcastle. What I don't get is how the 'lemony' bokeh shape in the bottom come into being. Could anyone explain?