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Lenses / Re: Need some advise: light sensitive lens indoors

« on: November 08, 2012, 08:28:09 AM »

the tamron 24-70 is amazing, optically speaking. Check out lensrentals reviews of lens failures. the tamron is listed pretty heavy for the element falling out. But that is RENTAL after all. I treat all my gear nicely and probably wouldnt have an issue. Resale on non OEM lenses is never great, but that would probably be a keeper anyways. Just my .02

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Lenses / Re: Need some advise: light sensitive lens indoors

« on: November 08, 2012, 07:43:28 AM »

the 2nd to front element in the tamron is glued in place with 3 dots of glue, if you dont treat it like an activated mine there are a lot of cases of the element coming loose and rattling around inside. What about a used 24-70 /2.8 mark I? that should only be a tad over your budget. I used a 50mm on my crop-body indoors, and unless you have a lot of room, I found the 80mm equivelent a little too tight. ever think of the sigma/canon 50mm 1.4?

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Black & White / Re: Shadow Casting

« on: November 07, 2012, 08:55:07 PM »

Thanks, I drive by this most days, and decided to stop a few nights ago for this shot, I thought .5 would be too slow, so I took some higher ISO shots, but this one was plenty sharp.  I like both the shots above mine a lot /\

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Black & White / Re: Shadow Casting

« on: November 07, 2012, 07:16:50 PM »

a little shadow casting.    .5 sec handheld :-P

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Lenses / Re: Canon Lens Serial Number -question

« on: November 03, 2012, 05:41:07 PM »

I just sold my 28 f/2.8 and noticed it had a date code

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Lenses / Re: Thinking about a 17-40 f4L USM. Thoughts?

« on: November 03, 2012, 09:34:31 AM »

Friend of mine dropped his 40D/17-40 down a flight of concrete stairs and his lens broke in half in the middle and made a big mess. canon put humpy dumpty back together for ~300 bucks and he says its better than it ever was.

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Software & Accessories / Re: What is wrong with my settings?

« on: November 02, 2012, 10:00:57 PM »

looks like you need to replace your screen's magenta cartridge, should fix it right up. Maybe do a display-head alignment.

Ok haha but seriously, windows picture viewer was the only program that did this to me, and I thought windows was just junk(debatable) Until I got Lightroom 4 and it did the same thing. I changed my monitor's profile and it fixed it. Seems programs use color profiles all differently. Im not sure how your screen calibration works, but try picking a more generic display, and then calibrate to that?

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 28-135mm

« on: November 02, 2012, 09:50:29 PM »

I agree, how hard would it be to machine more notches for the lock to fit into?!?

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Lenses / Re: Hoya UV filters

« on: November 02, 2012, 09:48:42 PM »

I have a 72mm Hoya HMC uv(c) It seems to handle flare well, and is a million times better than a sunpack non-coated POS. I will say a lens-pen cleans filters amazingly. I dont mind quickly attacking a filter to clean it when im not in ideal conditions, I wont do that to a bare lens, and therefore would have a dirty front element more often, not that it is a huge deal. But im kind of anal, I clean the outside of my camera with an old lens brush often :-P

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Lenses / Re: Thinking about a 17-40 f4L USM. Thoughts?

« on: November 02, 2012, 09:37:38 PM »

The 17-40 is excellent on aps-C. top notch build quality and very puncy. Im getting one soonish. On FF there are a few weak points.
-very high vignetting
soft corners below f/8
and high distortion(which i will embrace and have fun with when I go FF, and correct in post if need be)

Note: the EF-S 15-85 is Very high in distortion at 15mm. Very sharp though. I have played with a friend's 17-40 and it is very vivid and punchy. Not sure if the 15-85 is too

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 28-135mm

« on: November 01, 2012, 08:24:42 PM »

I had a 28-135 that did the same thing it wasnt a horrible lens otherwise, but I found the focal length was too narrow, and too short. I bought 2 lenses to replace it. On a crop-sensor like your 7d you will find use for a wider lens, like 18mm or less. Wide is fun :-)

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Lenses / Re: 24-70II or 17-40+5DMARK II

« on: October 30, 2012, 06:35:31 PM »

Im leaning toward a 5dII and 17-40 myself.  17-40 first, ditch my 17-70(even though I love it) and then get a 5dII

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EOS Bodies / Re: Phoblographer 6D review w/ comments on AF

« on: October 29, 2012, 05:58:05 PM »

I have some big mits and it supposed to pretty much be a 60D, but my hands dont dwarf my 60D! Andre the giant lives!

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5DM3 - Problems with tungsten lighting

« on: October 29, 2012, 02:20:27 PM »

Yeah I was thinking about half wave DC retifiers, only 60 times a sec. for those, you are right 120/sec for most AC things

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5DM3 - Problems with tungsten lighting

« on: October 27, 2012, 01:38:49 PM »

Oh, and BTW tungsten is the type of metal used to make the filament in a traditional lightbulb. Much different than flourescent. :-) Tungsten does not show a flickering effect as pronounced because it is literaly a red(so bright it appears white) hot piece of metal, and does not have time to cool down enough to flicker