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EOS Bodies / Re: A thought about 5dMK3 "softness"

« on: March 26, 2012, 11:00:42 PM »

An interesting development tonight.  I have been working at +6 all day on  my 50 1.2 and been pretty happy, thought I might see a bit of front focus this evening, set back to 0 and everything is totally spot on.  Will check tomorrow once the sun comes up if it is the lighting or if it just needed a bit of working in as the lens and body are brand new (makes no sense, I know). 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Those not getting sharp images from the 5D III...

« on: March 26, 2012, 10:57:38 PM »

Notice how he/she said that they did MFA adjustments.  I really think this is key.  check your focus adjustments.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D Mark III vs. D800... what comparisons do you want to see?

« on: March 26, 2012, 10:54:28 PM »

Check the focus accuracy on both bodies when close and far from subject under daylight and tungsten, to see if any micro adjustment is necessary.  There have been a few reports that the 5dmk3 needs a bit of adjusting with most lenses to get really sharp shots.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D III focus accuracy with fast primes wide open

« on: March 26, 2012, 07:35:41 PM »

I've been shooting my 50mm 1.2L wide open for the last few days.  I did have to do a +6 micro adjustment but so far it has been very good on about 80% of shots and excellent on about 70% or so.  I think a lot of the variance has nothing to do with the AF, but rather a very slight movement on my part after the AF locks.  If you even swayed a mm it would be noticeable.  I've also had a lot of good luck with off center AF points.  Here is a shot I took with an off center AF point (then one over his right eye).

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php/topic,4864.msg96476.html#msg96476

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EOS Bodies / Re: Just a street portrait 5Dkm3 and 50mm 1.2 L

« on: March 26, 2012, 12:42:32 PM »

Great photo!

There's just one thing that bothers me and it's that not both eyes are in focus. That's the thing I find most distracting but other than that, I love everything else about it.

Actually there are 2 eyes in focus I think... the mushroom on his hat has one eye in focus too

Great shot, I love the shallow DOF with only one eye (on the guy ) in focus.

Its great that even with just one eye on the plane of focus you also managed to get the nose ring mostly in focus too... was that planned or a happy accident?

Excellent image loads of character to it.

Thanks, I was actually mainly hoping the anarchy tat in between the eyes would also be in focus, but the fact that the nose ring was too, was just a little icing on the cake.  As for the second eye, I sort of like the fact that it is out of focus.  One of the reasons I got the 1.2 was to get portraits where the head is not all in focus, the dreamy quality and attention that it forces on the face has always fascinated me.  Now I can finally replicate it. 

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EOS Bodies / A thought about 5dMK3 "softness"

« on: March 26, 2012, 12:23:39 PM »

I'm new to canon and along with my new 5Dmk3 I am also breaking in some awesome new L glass.  I will agree that I was a bit disappointed with what seemed to be soft images at first, but I quickly realized that the focus was a bit off on both lenses.  I just did a little micro adjust and it made a HUGE difference.  I bought the SpyderLensCal a while back and I know that it is way overpriced and I could easly build one for next to nothing, but the convenience of it almost mitigates the annoyance of micro adjusting.  Just shoot, review, adjust and bang your done.  I think this may be the cause of the discrepancy of so many different people either saying they are getting sharp images or not and then attributing it to the camera body, DPP or JPEG engine and saying maybe I just got a bad unit.  If the camera was back focusing by just a little it would be really hard to tell it was not just a soft image because you wouldn't see the sharp in focus region.  Anyway, try checking for focus adjustments I've noticed a lot of the people getting good results on other forums are noticing this as well.  Nice thing is you can also enter in the serial number after you adjust a lens and it can store up to 40 individual lenses, so hopefully once you get one dialed it will be go for a long time.

if your curious about the lens cal thingamajig here is a link to a vid of how easy it is to use, or it will give you a good idea of how to make one yourself.

http://spyder.datacolor.com/learn_videos_spyderlenscal1.php

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EOS Bodies / Re: Just a street portrait 5Dkm3 and 50mm 1.2 L

« on: March 26, 2012, 12:01:50 PM »

Awesome shot mate.

I just bought the 50L yesterday. For a 5D classic mind. Did you manually select a focus point over the eye?

My big issue with the 5D3 is the lack of focus screen thus having no idea if a shot like this is in focus or not and trusting the camera entirely.

Happy to see that it seems to be doing the job! Love the skin texture and the bokeh.  I'd probably dampen the vignette a little more - but that's just personal preference.

I'd love to see a few more!

Ya I metered the face AE locked it then I popped over to a manually selected AF point at the composition I wanted and then fired the shot.

I'll post more as they come.  My girlfriends brother just had a baby, so more portraits today although not as gritty.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Just a street portrait 5Dkm3 and 50mm 1.2 L

« on: March 26, 2012, 11:59:13 AM »

Gorgeous cute little devil you captured there.

Was it actually shot at f/1.2, or a slight bit smaller?

f/1.2, I mean kinda hard to justify all the extra cost/weight if you aren't going to use the extra half a stop you get from the 1.4, plus I think that at 1.2 is where the character of the lens is most evident...

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EOS Bodies / Re: Just a street portrait 5Dkm3 and 50mm 1.2 L

« on: March 26, 2012, 11:55:35 AM »

I love the hell out of it man.
Such a small DOF to work with and it looks like you nailed it.  I like how the mushroom,anarchy tat, closest eye, nose ring,  and lip piercing is all in focus and sharp - because those are the main focal points in this portrait.  I would be proud of this one.  Gritty.  Nice job.

Thanks!

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EOS Bodies / Re: So frustrated with new 5DmkIII - returning it!

« on: March 26, 2012, 03:49:09 AM »

I've had to micro adjust my lenses.  Try it might make a huge difference.

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EOS Bodies / Just a street portrait 5Dkm3 and 50mm 1.2 L

« on: March 26, 2012, 03:46:52 AM »

I am just getting into portrait, street shooting and using Canon and a full frame with a 50mm 1.2.  You only have one chance at a shot like this on the street.  I met this graffiti artist yesterday and lets just say he wasn't going to stand still for a portrait for more than one shot.  example of the AF, especially on a 50 1.2 which has been historically plagued by AF issues.  Also detail and FF DOF.  Let me know what you think...

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EOS Bodies / I don’t think the D800 is a general purpose tool. A real world review.

« on: March 24, 2012, 03:41:22 PM »

I'm loving my 5dmk3 and my new L lenses, but for those of you still drooling over the d800 (not that it matters because a camera itself can't take creative interesting photos), check out this real world review, very interesting....

http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/03/23/first-impressions-review-the-nikon-d800/

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5Dmk3 in camera lens aberration correction samples

« on: March 24, 2012, 02:18:01 AM »

I think that means it was made in Utsunomiya in september 2011... ya?

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5Dmk3 in camera lens aberration correction samples

« on: March 24, 2012, 02:04:51 AM »

What is the datecode on your 50L2?

UZ0909, why?

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5Dmk3 in camera lens aberration correction samples

« on: March 24, 2012, 01:32:07 AM »

How's the 50mm F/1.2 focussing with the 5D MK3?
I was wondering if it tames some of it's bad focusing behavior?

I really want to get one of these next, but I'm not sure if the 5D MK3 will make things worse or better?

Cheers

ET

So far seems pretty good.  I had to add +6 to the autofocus micro adjustments, but since then it has been pretty spot on, I mean the DOF is razor thin, so I think its pretty great considering that and the fact that even a sleight movement after you lock focus could shift the focus point as well.  Also it lock really fast, even in the dark...