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EOS Bodies / Re: F1 Silverstone - advice with the 5D MkIII AF

« on: June 22, 2012, 09:45:45 AM »

Start practising using AI Servo now. The trick is to keep the AF point glued to exactly the same spot on the car at all times as you pan with it. Sounds impossible? Its not, but it needs practise.

Try to avoid fence posts and the backs of spectators heads suddenly dragging the focus from the real subject.

You will not get 100%, but the focus success rate should be high. 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Examples of DR photos and why this is important to landscape shooters

« on: June 18, 2012, 08:10:14 AM »

I use a 5D2 now. When it was new to me I spent a couple of days with a pro landscape 'tog who used the same camera. We discussed the DR and came to an agreement that 5 stops was about it. The 11 point something quoted by Canon is completely artificial. Look at the actual DR graph and it has around the 5 stops in the centre, then long, almost horizontal tails top and bottom. These tails achieve nothing except artificially push the quotable DR sky high.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon 30D to 5D Mark III - Too big of a jump? (advice please)

« on: March 07, 2012, 02:00:32 PM »

I sold my 30D and got a 5D mk2 in December. It has been a very easy transition with no big surprises. 

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EOS Bodies / Re: What would make $3500 for 5DmIII justifiable for you?

« on: March 05, 2012, 10:42:46 AM »

In truth, maybe 48 MP, 61 AF points, no video, no fps (none at all), no extreme ISO, but super clean low ISO, better DR at 50ISO.

And so on. In other words, throw out the current Canon obsession with a camera that will shoot "a black cat in a coalmine on video" business model and instead give me a still landscape 'togs dream camera.

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Lenses / Re: 24-70 too short for full frame?

« on: February 13, 2012, 10:12:52 AM »

Certainly the old 50mm "standard" lens was never truly successful back in the 35mm days. From memory the true standard by popular vote was around 80 or 85mm.

But I bought my 24-70 for a 35mm body and it was very successful, I've since used a crop 30D and have only quite recently returned to full-frame with a 5D2. I use the 24-70 as my "walk-about" lens, but generally have other choices available for special purposes.

I suppose it all depends how YOU see the world. I do tend to see the world in slightly tele lens focal lengths, definitely not a wide-angle person naturally. The second lens I bought demonstrates this perfectly, it was the 70-200. It's a very useful zoom, but probably not as used as the 24-70.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Just how strong is the Magnesium Alloy construction?

« on: February 13, 2012, 05:36:40 AM »

The Eos-3 is of all plastic build. You should have read and heard the fuss made over that! But as already mentioned here, being plastic, it absorbs shocks and it has proven to be a very successful camera. So why Canon continues to build magnesium alloy chassis I have no idea, it cannot be for financial reasons because surely metal is more expensive?

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Split? 5D X & 5D Mark III [CR1]

« on: February 10, 2012, 03:21:01 AM »

I do hope its true. The high mp version would be my dream camera.

Its what I hope Canon will eventually do with the 1Dx, because its speciality means it will not suit everyone as it stands.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Anyone else want a cropped sensor?

« on: February 09, 2012, 06:15:03 AM »

Ever since buying my one and only crop camera, the 30D, I've been pining for a return to full frame. Now I finally have a 5D2, the answer to your question is a catagorical NO!

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Software & Accessories / Re: TIFF or JPeg for storage

« on: February 01, 2012, 11:14:24 AM »

I am a serious Belt AND Braces type. I save all my CR2 RAW's as shot, then once those that I deem to be worthy of post processing have been attended to, these get saved seperately in TIFF format.

Everything is then saved twice on a dual disc external harddrive.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D mkII upgrade with a mkIII or 1Dx

« on: January 30, 2012, 07:27:36 AM »

No, as I've only just bought a new mark2 I will not be hurrying to replace it with anything at all.

But I don't understand much of the excitement over the 1Dx. It is a very nice camera, of that there is no doubt. But its not any kind of replacement for the 1Ds3 or 5D2.

Now give me a 60 something AF point, eye-controlled full frame 3D and you would need to fight me to be first in the queue.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon 1D-X: "Full" 2-Stops ISO Improvment...only in JPEG??

« on: January 29, 2012, 05:23:06 AM »

There seems to be a serious misunderstanding of where the 1Dx sits in Canons line up. Its a next generation 1D, intended for PJ,s on a tight deadline. Hence the Jpeg thing.

Any pro looking to replace an aging 1Ds mkIII should be very careful if they seriously think the 1Dx is a possible replacement.

While not admitting it (yet?), Canon will eventually be forced to reexamine their thinking because the 1Dx fails to deliver on so many fronts for the landscapist/studio/fine art pro and serious amateur. Either that or loose customers to the Dark side.

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Technical Support / Re: Hot / stuck pixels on new 5d II

« on: January 25, 2012, 02:38:47 PM »

Sorry to say as pixel counts go ever higher, so do the number of hot/dead pixels. It's a fact of life.

Unless they impinge on a print they get ignored, even if I need to clone one out during post processing its such a simple job I often don't realise I've done it.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mark III (or other) Followup

« on: January 25, 2012, 08:57:19 AM »

   I am hearing a lot of Nikon users saying that they are not going to upgrade to the D4, still more have concerns over the file sizes which will result from a 36MP sensor in a possible D800, so large that stock libraries will not accept them without downsizing.
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From my own experience, as MP numbers climb, so do picture library requirements. No names, no pack drill, but I know of more than one that unless a contributor uses a 1DS3 or 5D2, even an uncropped image is not big enough.

So decisions made on current picture library requirements is a bit silly.

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EOS Bodies / Re: *UPDATE* 5D Mark III Sighting?

« on: January 24, 2012, 02:49:32 PM »

Interesting that the "originator" of this series of images claims not to have touched them. Yet in one shot I can clearly read Canon under the rear LCD but in another it has been very roughly blacked over.

Looks like someone has been fibbing to us!

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EOS Bodies / Re: *UPDATE* 5D Mark III Sighting?

« on: January 24, 2012, 10:31:23 AM »

unfocused,

A full frame body with something like 25 mb, say 19 AF (all cross type) points and never mind the extra bells and whistles its bound to come with? Yes, I'd be up for it at a sensible price.