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Lenses / Re: I've tried the 200-400 today! :D Very happy
« on: February 11, 2013, 10:11:00 AM »
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Lenses / Re: I've tried the 200-400 today! :D Very happy
« on: February 11, 2013, 10:10:23 AM »
and another guy trying it out
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Lenses / Re: I've tried the 200-400 today! :D Very happy
« on: February 11, 2013, 10:09:37 AM »
Another picture
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Lenses / Re: I've tried the 200-400 today! :D Very happy
« on: February 10, 2013, 09:00:06 AM »How heavy is it? How long can you hold it?
It's not that heavy at all. I was quite surprised when I held it that it felt quite good with the weight. No problem hand-holding it for me, even though my techniqes was not the very best for the quick shooting that I did
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Lenses / I've tried the 200-400 today! :D Very happy
« on: February 08, 2013, 04:14:55 PM »
Today I've had the oppertunity to try the new 200-400/4 IS with the 1.4x converter 
I've never tried any longer lens than the 70-200/2.8 II IS, so it was quite amazing to have the oppertunity to try this one out. The place had quite bad lightning aswell so I had to use ISO 12.800 on the 5d3, but the images looked very nice.
I really like the fact that I could switch on the 1.4 so easily and the lens felt very "light" (as far as I could tell).. but very well built!
I've attached a picture of me trying it out with the 5d3 here. Have some more pictures on my phone. Have to bring my own 5d3 tomorrow to try it some more!
I've never tried any longer lens than the 70-200/2.8 II IS, so it was quite amazing to have the oppertunity to try this one out. The place had quite bad lightning aswell so I had to use ISO 12.800 on the 5d3, but the images looked very nice.
I really like the fact that I could switch on the 1.4 so easily and the lens felt very "light" (as far as I could tell).. but very well built!
I've attached a picture of me trying it out with the 5d3 here. Have some more pictures on my phone. Have to bring my own 5d3 tomorrow to try it some more!
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Video & Movie / Re: 5D mkIII Wedding - Jenna + Eric
« on: January 20, 2013, 03:57:29 PM »
I must say, very very nice work! I really loved the video although the music was a bit to loud towards the end
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Lenses / Re: *UPDATE* Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L II Pushed Back to October?
« on: August 30, 2012, 04:04:17 AM »Oh absolutely!
I know that very well, that's why I wrote that I fully understand the 2,8 zooms
I just think those lenses document, not get that type of IQ I love from fast primes.
And it's the reason I sold my 70-200 mk2 also and got the 135. The 70-200 never made me smile, the 135 just does exatly that, every time.
So for me (and I see a lot of other amateurs here that wants the 24-70) I don't get it when you can have a lens like the 35 L.´in stead.
I have only 2 zooms, but will buy me a third one later on, the 24-105 due to the comfort of the zoom when traveling. I've sold my 24-70/2.8 for the 35/1.4 and dont miss it at all.
When I shoot weddings I use one body with 16-35 (or 35/1.4).. and the 70-200/2.8 IS II or the 85/1.2 or 135/2.0 on the other body depending on the situation.
Just got back home from a travelshoot in Turkey and I had the 16-35/2.8, 50/1.8 and 135/2 and I think I missed a lot of shots switching between lenses all the time. A 24-105 would have been better than the 50/1.8 on these locations and my 135/2 with 1.4x is quite nice and the 16-35 is awesome
But the 24-70/2.8 I don't miss att all..
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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: How to shoot brackeded shots for HDR (5d MarkIII)?
« on: August 20, 2012, 07:57:32 PM »
Tnank you fallenflower and M.ST.
I think I know how to do now.
I've disabled the HDR and Multi Exposure-things in the "quickmenu".
Now I have "5" "number of bracketed shots" in the "C.Fn1:Exposure"-menu enabled.
Then I had to go to "Expo.comp./AEB" option under "SHOOT2" (the second red menu) and set the 5 exposures (-2,-1,0,+1,+2) with the dial and "set" it.
When I try to take pictures now it is 5 pictures that I take when I do a "shoot". I've set the cameras mode to the fastest shootmode "H" and when I hold the button on the remote it fast takes these 5 shots and then stops. If I press and hold the button again it takes another 5 pictures.
Just like I want it!
My following question:
Is there any way that I can "change" the exposures with buttons/wheels on the camera and not in the menu? I can change the +/- from where I starts.. like I want it to start at -1 and then it changes to "-3,-2,-1,0,+1"..
I think that I've seen (and done this before?) that I can with the wheels change both the exposuresteps (like ½ steps between) and then all the way to "0" to disable the bracketing? Like holding a button and scrolling a wheel and not have to navigate to the menu.
Best regards.
Fredrik
I think I know how to do now.
I've disabled the HDR and Multi Exposure-things in the "quickmenu".
Now I have "5" "number of bracketed shots" in the "C.Fn1:Exposure"-menu enabled.
Then I had to go to "Expo.comp./AEB" option under "SHOOT2" (the second red menu) and set the 5 exposures (-2,-1,0,+1,+2) with the dial and "set" it.
When I try to take pictures now it is 5 pictures that I take when I do a "shoot". I've set the cameras mode to the fastest shootmode "H" and when I hold the button on the remote it fast takes these 5 shots and then stops. If I press and hold the button again it takes another 5 pictures.
Just like I want it!
My following question:
Is there any way that I can "change" the exposures with buttons/wheels on the camera and not in the menu? I can change the +/- from where I starts.. like I want it to start at -1 and then it changes to "-3,-2,-1,0,+1"..
I think that I've seen (and done this before?) that I can with the wheels change both the exposuresteps (like ½ steps between) and then all the way to "0" to disable the bracketing? Like holding a button and scrolling a wheel and not have to navigate to the menu.
Best regards.
Fredrik
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EOS Bodies - For Stills / How to shoot brackeded shots for HDR (5d MarkIII)?
« on: August 16, 2012, 04:47:24 AM »
Hi!
I've been trying to figure this out, but how can I shoot like 5-7 bracketed shots with my 5D markIII ? To make HDR on my own, not using the cameras HDR. I would like to have my own 5-7 RAW-files to play with
I would like to shoot them easy with a remote (Canon TC-80 N3). I've tried to set this up but it don't seem to work?
The ideal thing would be to have a quickmeny to "enable" this, then set the "middle"-point and just "fire away" and the camera takes the 5-7 shots just by holding down the remote trigger-button or something.
Any tips/ideas how to do this? Any guide? Have tried to google it aswell as playing with the manual but didn't find any good pages for it.
Best regards
Fredrik
I've been trying to figure this out, but how can I shoot like 5-7 bracketed shots with my 5D markIII ? To make HDR on my own, not using the cameras HDR. I would like to have my own 5-7 RAW-files to play with
I would like to shoot them easy with a remote (Canon TC-80 N3). I've tried to set this up but it don't seem to work?
The ideal thing would be to have a quickmeny to "enable" this, then set the "middle"-point and just "fire away" and the camera takes the 5-7 shots just by holding down the remote trigger-button or something.
Any tips/ideas how to do this? Any guide? Have tried to google it aswell as playing with the manual but didn't find any good pages for it.
Best regards
Fredrik
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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D MK III Images
« on: July 22, 2012, 09:17:11 AM »dragonfly...70-200 2.8
handheld...shot this using the live view zoomed in...the wind died down just enough to get the shot.
Why does the exif say Nikon D7000? Isn't this a 5D MK III Images-thread?
1/640, F8, Manual, ISO500, 300mm
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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4.1 Running SLOW!
« on: June 02, 2012, 04:36:49 AM »The slowdown has been an issue since the Beta...
I even made a video about it a few weeks back.
Lightroom 4 is SLOWWWWWWW!
The bottlenecking is most prevalent on rendering previews, and exporting web galleries...
Constant beratement of Adobe has yielded ZERO results...
I've been a LR user since the very first incarnation (pre-LR1), and this is by far the biggest screw up thus far.
and there seems to be no fix in sight, except for a complete teardown and re-build.
I know Lightroom 4.1 is slow as hell, but you compare COPY and COPY AS DNG. That's not a fair comparison because your computer converts the .cr2 -> .dng in the process on COPY AS DNG
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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4.2 RC no update from Adobe on final version or fixes to problems
« on: May 29, 2012, 04:02:08 PM »
LR4 is EXTREMELY slow! Can't believe I found a program that slow on a top modern computer such as a Intel Core i7 2600 with 16 gb RAM high-end graphic card and a SSD-drive.
The 3.6 LR was way faster.
The 3.6 LR was way faster.
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Canon General / Re: LEE filters vs Multi-exposures
« on: May 29, 2012, 04:09:31 AM »
My conclusion so far is that I will use multibracketing, except when I have to remove glare from water/surfaces.. and have to use a longer shutterspeed. Then I will be using the filters from LEE.
And in the future I might get some graduated filters aswell so I can handhold them in front of my setup manually. A little more tricky, but way better than multiholders etc from LEE with vinjetting.
And in the future I might get some graduated filters aswell so I can handhold them in front of my setup manually. A little more tricky, but way better than multiholders etc from LEE with vinjetting.
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Canon General / LEE filters vs Multi-exposures
« on: May 27, 2012, 10:06:08 AM »
Hi!
I've been reading a lot on landscape photography on different forums, watched youtube-videos, read magazines and so on. What I've seen is that some use Multi exposure - shooting to ensure that details in shadows aswell as in skies are obtained. Some even turn them into HDR (with different styles).
The thing is that I've also seen lots of videos and articles that use advanced filters like the LEE Filters to obtain similiar result.
What are your opinions about the two different methods to take great landscape photos?
I guess that a polariser cant be done with multi exposures or in post processing, but the graduated ND-filters etc could be achieved?
What makes it worth the 500 euro to obtain the LEE filterholder, NDfilters, polariser etc.. vs just using multiple exposures instead?
Best regards!
Fredrik
I've been reading a lot on landscape photography on different forums, watched youtube-videos, read magazines and so on. What I've seen is that some use Multi exposure - shooting to ensure that details in shadows aswell as in skies are obtained. Some even turn them into HDR (with different styles).
The thing is that I've also seen lots of videos and articles that use advanced filters like the LEE Filters to obtain similiar result.
What are your opinions about the two different methods to take great landscape photos?
I guess that a polariser cant be done with multi exposures or in post processing, but the graduated ND-filters etc could be achieved?
What makes it worth the 500 euro to obtain the LEE filterholder, NDfilters, polariser etc.. vs just using multiple exposures instead?
Best regards!
Fredrik
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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D Mark III & 1D X Black Focus Point in AI Servo Information
« on: May 27, 2012, 06:35:25 AM »
And that doesn't help me either, since the black point is black against the black background.
I had my red dot AF invisible yesterday in the strong sunlight. No system is perfect unfortunately
Still want an option to turn on the focuspoint/have the focus point light up when I hit focus in AI servo-mode
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