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Lenses / Re: Insuring Gear...

« on: October 11, 2012, 12:12:40 AM »

Joining the Professional Photographers Association is an easy way to get $15,000 in gear insurance, non-scheduled.

There is a scheduled option for added cost also.    http://www.ppa.com/

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EOS Bodies / Re: Eye Fi and 5D Mk iii

« on: April 29, 2012, 10:10:05 PM »

Popular as in how common this combination is used or how happy we are with the reliability of Eye Fi.

FWIW, I have experienced the shutter lockup with my 5Dm3 without Eye Fi, not yet had the problem wile using this card.

Re Eye Fi,  one you get it set up, works great for onesies twosies shooting,  if you're doing a lot of shots or time lapse, the wifi connection in direct mode always craps out after a number of shots and requires a card pull to get it working again.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Can anyone post production 5D Mk III raw files?

« on: March 21, 2012, 11:32:27 PM »

After running a sequence at every ISO setting, I would say the ceiling for ISO on the 5DM3 is 4000/6400 IF you need the full resolution.   If you are scaling down to internet sized pics, run all the way up to 20K.

Why do I need full res?   Well, I was hoping to shoot time lapse video of the night sky in Joshua tree and keep at least one copy of the video in 4k2k res.   Will see how it goes.

Have no idea if this is a firmware issue or intrinsic.   

_E

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EOS Bodies / Re: Can anyone post production 5D Mk III raw files?

« on: March 21, 2012, 11:17:30 PM »

Here is a 10,000 ISO JPEG.  5DM3 pointing out the window.  Looks phenomenally better than the RAW.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Can anyone post production 5D Mk III raw files?

« on: March 21, 2012, 11:07:10 PM »

Where can you post RAW sized files?

My 5Dm3 ISO above 8K is unusable quality when shot at max rez and looking at full rez.  Lower rez raw images up to 256k dont look bad.

I can see how after cleaning up the image high ISO would look good. but at full size its crap.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Picked up my 5D MK III - SF

« on: March 20, 2012, 10:30:55 PM »

(they are now sold out) thanks to a fellow member on here!

You're welcome ;->     Yep around 10:45am.

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EOS Bodies / What are you shooting first on your 5Dm3?

« on: March 20, 2012, 10:20:08 PM »

Me -> time lapse, San Francisco from various vantages sunset/night sequences.
Curious to see what the better ISO gets me.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 20, 2012, 07:19:54 PM »

Now that I have my unit, the blood fever has cooled 

Lets be fair to B & H.   They dont have the inventory on and and dont really have the answers yet.

It would be easy for them to make something up to appease everyone today, forestall the cancellations and then hope for the best.   Maybe its a mark of integrity that they would rather loose a customer than lie to a customer..

My "Lesson Learned" about B & H was in assuming the larger guys would have best inventory on a hot new product.   It just didn't work out that way.    I have no issue with their customer service or overall organization.

cheers
-E

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 20, 2012, 12:31:24 PM »

San Jose Camera has a few left holding one for me until I can drive down from SF.

Adios B & H.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 20, 2012, 12:01:57 PM »

Lesson learned, B & H.

I just spoke to a poor besieged rep at B & H.   

Here are some direct quotes.

"No, I wouldn't say it will be shipping in the next couple of days."
"Maybe end of March, beginning of April."

I mentioned units are showing up at local stores and some people on-line who ordered at B & H are feeling left at the back of the queue.

"Sorry".

I'm a march 2nd order. 

Will go prowling today and cancel B & H at first opportunity.

_E

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 19, 2012, 08:19:12 PM »

If you count up the early copies reported by users with more than one prior post, I think we have maybe one or two earlie copies reported in the US.   This is more rare than Elvis sightings  .   So don't feel all that left out.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 19, 2012, 06:24:49 PM »

With the various stories of 5dmIII showing up at various local shops, I gave the local SF Calumet store a call.

They guy very politely laughed at me.   Nothing shown up yet.  Not sure how many might come in or when,  back ordered "for months of inventory".  "If you haven't already ordered, you aren't getting a camera until June".

I mentioned some people reporting here of copies showing up at various stores.  He was incredulous.

I'm in the queue at B & H late pm march 2nd, kit.    Waiting to see them re-run my CC.

cheers
-E

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Software & Accessories / Re: Sandy Bridge Intel HD 3000 graphics

« on: March 19, 2012, 03:10:10 PM »

It depends on your workflow.   

At present, some of the adobe tools have HW acceleration that leverages Cuda specifically on nVidia cards.   If you do a lot of work with numbered stills for video (time lapse) then you might care about that.

-E

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EOS Bodies / Re: Things to Do while waiting for your new 5DmIII

« on: March 19, 2012, 02:56:26 PM »

7) Medically induced coma.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5DIII pre-order thread

« on: March 18, 2012, 09:25:28 PM »

I'm waiting for mine like the rest of you.  But I've been on the other side of this.

I had a small sideline business selling specialty electronics, some had long lead times.   The customer base was a mess to deal with.  One guy pestered me daily and requested constant status reports.

Finally after 20 status request updates I lost my cool and told him "Its just a garage door opener, not a kidney transplant.  Be patient".

I should have saved the email response, it was a highly creative string of four letter expletives.

So be cool everyone.  A week after GA on the 22nd, if you dont have a ship date, then it might be time to look at optons.

cheers
-E