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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 3D X [CR1]

« on: August 21, 2012, 10:24:15 AM »

Going to medium-format type sensor will require Canon to give up on the EOS mount, which is designed for the 24 x 36 mm format.
The biggest square you can put in the same circle as a 24x36 sensor would be 30.6mm on the side, and with the same 6.9um pixel size of the 1Dx, you'd only get 8% more area and thus 8% more pixels - 19.4Mpixels.

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EOS Bodies / Re: more new stuff in august?

« on: August 21, 2012, 10:07:04 AM »

Some new power shot cameras     I'm more looking forward for the new 24-70 mrk II in Sep.

Funny you should mention the 24-70L II, I just read through the 1D-X "AF Setting Guidebook" published in June, and it says on pg. 37 that the 24-70L II is scheduled for sales start in July 2012

Oh, and the old 24-70L is not a group A lens like the Mk II, but only a Group B lens so you loose 4 diagonal-cross sensor points (the off-center AF point ones).

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Technical Support / Re: 60D Dust Help

« on: August 21, 2012, 12:48:41 AM »

get the katz-eye manual focusing assist screen while you are at it ;-)

I have one (split-prism classic type) for my 50D and I just love it. Why the heck can't won't Canon put one in by default? The normal focusing screen is, IMHO, hopeless for manual focusing.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Survival of the fittest/luckiest

« on: August 20, 2012, 09:27:08 AM »

Had Ye Olde 10D with an on kit-lens from the even older 500N sitting on a shelf, and one of the cats knocked it over so it fell to the (wooden) floor. Maybe 1½ feet drop. The 10D had no problems, but the kitlens had a bit of the plastic bayonet broken off. It would never be really well attached to a body, even though I glued the piece back with superglue.

Morale: don't buy lenses with plastic bayonets

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 7D Mark II Specs? [CR1]

« on: August 19, 2012, 10:41:50 PM »

I think it makes very good sense for Canon to differentiate between the x0D and the 7D lines by using the AF system and fps points.
The x0D series could be limited to 9-ish AF points and around 6 fps, and the 7D line would get an 1DX/5D3-like AF system (minus what cannot be inside the APS-C mirrorbox), so these spect sound very plausible to me.

More Mega pickles is ho-hum for me, but improved IQ/DR/ISO is certainly welcome.

My only trouble is that I've kinda fallen in love with the idea of purchasing a 5D3, so dangling a 7D2 in front of my nose is just unfair 

Edit: I'm not surprised about the timing of the rumour - we're entering the final month before PhotoKina.

Decisions, decisions, decisions, what shall I buy?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Cleaning Camera - some questions

« on: August 19, 2012, 10:52:34 AM »

And, how often do you replace your memory cards? Or do you continue to use them until they start to show errors?

I've never had memory cards develop errors on me, but so far I've only used Sandisk cards (CF & SDHC).

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EOS Bodies / Re: More Big Megapixel Talk

« on: August 19, 2012, 10:43:18 AM »

Slide translation:
Title: "Further expansion of EOS system"

Tier 1: "Pro"
Tier 2: "Middle"
Tier 3: "Entry"

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1DX Worth the Money?

« on: August 18, 2012, 09:41:45 PM »

I decided to go with a 500 f4 instead of the dx and I'm now looking for a 1d3 or 1d4 ! The 4 would be nicer with the 16 mp but most with pretty high shutter count seem to all be $4,500+ when new they were $5,000 I think lol but thanks for your post!

B&H have two 1D4's for $4000-$4200, and you should be able to get them for around $3500 I hear.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Your Canon EOS-1D X user tips

« on: August 18, 2012, 12:39:49 PM »

But now all lenses are done, and I also checked AF consistency and it turns out the 50 L is 97,9 and everything else is 99,5. I 'm pretty shocked. BTW is "Quality of focus" the same as overall sharpness? Or how do I read that?

If it's the quality measure of the AF consistency test, then it's 100*Qbest/Qmean (actually, manual says (Qbest/Qmean*100)-100.0, but that is obviously wrong). I did not find the "Quality of Focus" measure for an individual shot defined anywhere in the manuals.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D3 for sports/action?

« on: August 16, 2012, 12:17:41 PM »

I never said the 5dm3 was a turd for sports

Sir, we are in violent agreement.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5DMkIII for sports

« on: August 16, 2012, 12:24:18 AM »

If you haven't already read the thread "5D3 for sports/action?" started 4 days ago, I suggest you do since the topic is close to your question and there are some great input there that should be applicable to you too.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Possible to connect 1Dx direct to laptop without needing a router/switch?

« on: August 15, 2012, 06:32:44 AM »

1Gbit Ethernet don't need cross-over cables.
 But you have to setup things with static IP/DNS.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D3 for sports/action?

« on: August 14, 2012, 07:03:44 PM »

The 7D has a deeper buffer (~25 RAWs), vs 18 RAWs using a UDMA-7 card on the 5D3. Here the 5D3 and 50D are similar (16 RAWs).

The 7D vs 5D3 buffer depth in real life was not as in the Canon manuals per my experience

You're right I should have said that this were numbers from the manuals. The 50D seems to fairly spot-on WRT buffer depth.

14 shots with a slow Lexar 16GB 200x card
17 shots with a 30MB/s SanDisk Extreme III 8GB card
20 shots (3.3s) with a 32GB SanDisk Extreme Pro 90GB/s card
35 shots (5.8s) with a 32GB Lexar 1000x card (whoa! 35! vs 20! 5.8s of continuous shooting vs only 3.3s!)

(so the Lexar 1000x makes a surprisingly large difference on the 5D3 and is well worth the $ if you seriously shoot action with the 5D3, do note that the 16GB 1000x card is said to be slower than the 32GB and larger 1000x cards so the advantage may be less if you go for the 16GB size; with this speed card the 5D3 continuous shooting time easily beats the 5D2 and 7D)

Your test data just supports my excuse to invest in a couple of 32GB Lexar 1000x cards :-)
Clearly the CF controller in the 5D3 can take full advantage of the UDMA7 cards, and the v2.0.0 FW update shows that while the CF controller was UDMA7 capable when the 7D was designed, Canon lacked the 1000x-type card to do the FW development to do the finetuning needed to make it peak, and instead chose the conservative route to ensure correct functionality over speed.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Autofocus of 50D/7D with 2x III TC and 70-200 2.8 IS II for sports

« on: August 14, 2012, 09:33:43 AM »

Remember that the 7D & 50D with a 400mm lens will effectively be 640mm FF.

Shooting with a 400mm on a crop body requires you often to look over the camera to first spot the skier, and then "dive in" to find the skier in the viewfinder. If you have too much sideway motion, you often have the subject to move past the viewfinder before you can react. Then you pan to "catch up".

But the 400mm/5.6L is very nice due to it's size and weight. The f/4.0 and f/2.8L are quite big and heavy. And costly.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Autofocus of 50D/7D with 2x III TC and 70-200 2.8 IS II for sports

« on: August 14, 2012, 07:23:42 AM »

Among crop bodies with one has the best auto focus and pretty good fps?

Any experience with that setup ether sport or wildlife? (50D/7D 2x TC III and 70-200 IS II)
If someone has some samples with that setup, please post them.

I have had rather disappointing experience with my 50D and 70-200mm IS MkI, when shooting motorcycle racing (ie fairly small focus areas, with erratic movement pattern).

The 7D has a vastly more advanced AF system where you can link neighboring AF points to the main AF point - something the 50D/60D cannot do. The 7D also have a deeper burst buffer and a 8fps vs 6fps on the 50D. The 7D feels much more responsive than the 50D.

In short: pick the 7D.