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EOS Bodies / Re: A New 100-400 & Coming Announcements [CR2]

« on: July 25, 2012, 12:24:51 PM »

I'd rather have & wait on one of these:


Screen shot 2012-07-25 at 8.45.59 AM by Bombsight Photography, on Flickr

Wild guess: Those lenses (the ones in the background also appear to be 200-400's) are in London waiting for CPS sports photographers to borrow or buy them.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS M & EF 800 f/5.6L IS

« on: July 25, 2012, 08:42:22 AM »

How long did he stay in that position 

Was there a monopod Photoshopped out of the picture?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS M & EF 800 f/5.6L IS

« on: July 25, 2012, 08:09:05 AM »

Did he happen to mention how long the combination took to focus?

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EOS Bodies / Re: first pic of canon mirrorless?

« on: July 21, 2012, 11:14:38 AM »

Are those extra contacts on the hot shoe and if so, has anyone else noticed them?

Could that mean that the hot shoe is for something else in addition to a flash?

EVF perhaps? There is also one extra contact in the lens mount, for power zoom perhaps?

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EOS Bodies / Re: New Product Announcement Invites for July 23, 2012

« on: July 10, 2012, 10:44:45 AM »

Good - lets get another one out the way so that the Low cost FF rumours can start again.
The 650D looks to rock and is pushing the 60D and the 7D out to pasture - there are lots of great new SLR's to come.

The 7D firmware upgrade is supposed to come in August. My guess is that the 7D will be around for another year. At least I hope so. I just bought a refurbished 7D from Canon Direct for $1087. The shutter release on my 40D is becoming increasingly erratic.

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Lenses / Re: Owning the Canon 200-400 f/4L Vs 400 f/2.8L II

« on: July 05, 2012, 04:57:14 PM »

I own the 300 f/2.8 and use it regularly with both TCs to shoot field sports and motorsports, typically in daylight. The focal length flexibility of the 200-400 zoom is much more important to me than the lost of an f-stop.

However, if the $13,000 rumored price for the 200-400 is true and Nikon introduces the D400 that is rumored, I may buy the Nikon 200-400, a 1.4x TC and a D400 body for a couple thousand dollars less that the Canon lens alone.

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Technical Support / Re: CAMERA SETTING for Firework - Your thoughts???

« on: July 02, 2012, 10:31:30 AM »

Mark Wallace from AdoramaTV has great video for shooting fireworks. He recommends the following:

Use Tripod
Use Cable Release
Manual or Bulb Mode
Aperture - f10 (start from there and play with it).
Manual Focus (Just shy of Infinity)
ISO 100

I have used these before and got great results. Good Luck.

I tend to use f5/6 to f/8 instead. One think I try to exclude are the lights from the rockets going vertical. I just want to get the burst when they reach altitude. That means that I use Bulb exclusively.

Another point is that the best pictures of fireworks are also pictures of a pretty landscape lit by fireworks. That means that you will probably have to be further back and higher, maybe a lot higher, than you might think.

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Lenses / Re: TSE Macro Lens

« on: June 30, 2012, 01:09:09 PM »

Considering how well my 90mm TSE lens takes extension tubes and/or a 1.4x teleconverter, a dedicated TSE macro lens seems unnecessary.

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 100-400 f/4-5.6L IS [CR2]

« on: June 28, 2012, 09:31:31 PM »

Push-pull zoom lenses were invented for manual focus systems. In that application, they made perfect sense, since they allowed the photographer to both zoom and focus without repositioning his/her hand on the lens. I owned three in Canon FD, including the Vivitar 35-85 f/2.8. I also used extensively the Canon 80-200 f/4 FD L zoom lens which, as it happens, was a 2-ring zoom.

Guess what! With AF systems, most of us let the camera do the focusing most of the time. I currently own the 100-400 and a 2-ring 70-200 Sigma EX, plus three shorter zooms, all 2-ring. The 70-200 has been a workhorse for 12 years. The 100-400 had to be sent to Canon for repair after it stiffened up and ultimately froze at 400mm. I've never had problems with dust though. Count me among the people who badly wants the next-gen 100-400 to be 2-ring, with the zoom ring behind focus ring.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Announcement Day July 24, 2012? [CR2]

« on: June 22, 2012, 08:16:42 PM »

Reminds me of the fellow who had his gear chewed up by a bear last month (there abouts). It chewed up a new 400mm - so even 400 is not long enough when he comes up to you from behind.   

If you're talking about the one on the lensrental.com blog, it was a 600.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Announcement Day July 24, 2012? [CR2]

« on: June 22, 2012, 11:12:28 AM »

Lets hope the 200-400 f4 is one of the len's announced. I need one for October as im off to the forest to shoot bears, with a camera not a gun.

Mick

Where are you going? In Upstate New York State, where I live, October is prime time for hunting bears with guns but not cameras.

I'm just afraid that the Canon 200-400 will be so expensive that the Nikon 200-400 plus a D800 (or maybe a D400) will still be cheaper.

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EOS Bodies / Re: New 5D Mark III Firmware Before the End of May [CR2]

« on: June 17, 2012, 08:26:53 AM »

Are any of you complaining to the right people, namely Canon, or are you just making your cases here? I've sent e-mails to Canon USA about the 1/250 maximum and EC omission with "M" and Auto-ISO. Just a suggestion.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 4 More DSLRs Coming in 2012? [CR2]

« on: June 13, 2012, 10:36:05 PM »

Using a 1D-class body for the big megapixel camera would be insanely stupid, an open invitation for Canon studio and landscape photographers to buy a Nikon D800. The only thing worse than selling a low end camera that cannibalizes your high end camera sales is to have the damage done by a competitor's low end camera.

So, the D800 is 'low end' becasue it doesn't have integrated grip? Fascinating.

There is also the difference in price between the D800 and 1Dx, but you already knew that, didn't you? Does the phrase "willfully misunderstand" mean anything to you?

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EOS Bodies / Re: 4 More DSLRs Coming in 2012? [CR2]

« on: June 12, 2012, 04:37:26 PM »

Using a 1D-class body for the big megapixel camera would be insanely stupid, an open invitation for Canon studio and landscape photographers to buy a Nikon D800. The only thing worse than selling a low end camera that cannibalizes your high end camera sales is to have the damage done by a competitor's low end camera.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X Manual Posted

« on: June 12, 2012, 07:29:40 AM »

+ 1 Many thanks for the manual. Now I can read it before my new camera finally arrives.  This negates the effect that I would rather be shooting with the camera than reading the manual once I have finally got it.

Also typical me.
Haha 

I did the same thing with my 5D3, read the manual the week before I got the camera.

Am I missing something or are Exposure Compensation and Automatic Exposure Bracketing also disabled on the 1Dx in "M" mode with auto ISO? That's how it works on the 5D3 and it's really annoying.