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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS-1D X Delays

« on: April 18, 2012, 09:43:57 AM »

I am hoping to shoot my own wedding with it!

 

Sit yourself down in a chair.  Now...grab the bottom of the chair and lift yourself and the chair up off the floor.  Being the photographer at your own wedding will be about 5 times harder than that.

It will be OK - his wife is the second shooter

I heard of one wedding where the bride was an avid photographer, bats or bugs or something. She got a group photograph of everybody at her destination wedding, except herself and groom. That included the caterers in the kitchen, the valets parking the cars, the pool attendants, the professional photographers they hired to cover the wedding, everybody. Somebody got a picture of her getting the picture. She was on an 8-foot ladder and the groom was steadying the ladder, to make sure she didn't fall off and break something important. There were something like 350 people in the group photo.

As I recall, the wedding was budgeted at something like $4 million, including the charted 747 from New York to the destination, some seaside resort in Goa, I think.

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Lenses / Re: Sport Photography: Targeting 400mm preferably with a zoom range

« on: April 17, 2012, 08:16:18 AM »

A 300 f/2.8 with 1.4X and 2X teleconverters. Alternately, the 100-400. I've used both combinations on a 40D at Watkins Glen raceway and both work well. The 300 works better although focusing can be a bit slow with the 2X. I have a 20x30 inch blowup of a Daytona Prototype taken with the 300/2x combination and it looks fine. I'm waiting for the 200-400, hoping that it doesn't cost $13,000.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Cinema EOS 1D & EOS C500 for NAB

« on: April 11, 2012, 08:48:27 PM »

So is the Cinema 1D going to also serve as Canon's high resolution studio and landscape still camera...for $10,000? This thing could have 39MP+.

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EOS Bodies / Re: New Cinema EOS Above the C300?

« on: April 11, 2012, 08:30:06 AM »

I think maybe CR should stick to consumer-to-semi-pro-level rumors, because it seems like people don't get that this would be a whole different level of camera.  Post after post comparing this rumor to the FS700 - haha

In other news, Nissan Europe may develop a new Formula One car, priced at $800K... and the verdict from the CR crowd is that it is way overpriced compared to the upcoming Scion FR-S, and Nissan should just improve the Altima first.   

Maybe you should read this: http://www.eoshd.com/content/7767/canon-c300-versus-arri-alexa-on-game-of-thrones  Here's a quote from that posting: "The big story here is just how mind-blowingly good mass produced low cost technology is getting."

and then later down he keeps going on about how digital the C300 looks and how even a few DSLR looked more organic at times and kept praising the Alexa like mad in 90% of his responses in the comments

I'm assuming by "comments", you mean Hurlbut's blog, not the EOSHD comments.

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EOS Bodies / Re: New Cinema EOS Above the C300?

« on: April 10, 2012, 04:25:18 PM »

I think maybe CR should stick to consumer-to-semi-pro-level rumors, because it seems like people don't get that this would be a whole different level of camera.  Post after post comparing this rumor to the FS700 - haha

In other news, Nissan Europe may develop a new Formula One car, priced at $800K... and the verdict from the CR crowd is that it is way overpriced compared to the upcoming Scion FR-S, and Nissan should just improve the Altima first.   

Maybe you should read this: http://www.eoshd.com/content/7767/canon-c300-versus-arri-alexa-on-game-of-thrones  Here's a quote from that posting: "The big story here is just how mind-blowingly good mass produced low cost technology is getting."

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Software & Accessories / Re: Looking for an ND filter for waterfalls

« on: April 03, 2012, 01:57:13 PM »

I use a Cokin P series wide angle holder and, for waterfalls, a Hitech 3-stop filter. I have 6 and 9-stop filters coming, but those will be used for other things or, at least, I think so.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Shot wedding with 5DIII, dissapointed in AF

« on: April 02, 2012, 05:58:45 PM »

FWIW, I found the LV calculator I used here:

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/photography-articles/88197-excel-2003-lv-light-value-calculator.html

I compared its output, at three different sets of values, with the table on Wikipedia Exposure Value page and they agree.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Shot wedding with 5DIII, dissapointed in AF

« on: April 02, 2012, 05:31:52 PM »

How dark is 2.8 @1600 ISO with 3 seconds exposure ??
Just a question, but what do we expect from the AF with this kind of darkness ??

I was wondering that myself. Using an Excel application just downloaded from the Internet, it is EV -2.6, which is less than the lower limit specified by Canon. I really wish that somebody would check this, though. There are bunches of charts on the Internet, but most assume a constant ISO of 100.

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Site Information / Re: Canon Rumors Site Information

« on: April 01, 2012, 01:10:16 PM »

And how does "reputation" implementation correct any of the problems of the "Karma" implementation? The plain answer is that it doesn't. The issue, simply stated, is that, if the goal is to "fix" the poster's behavior, neither implementation provides enough information to give useful feedback. Instead it allows, even invites, sociopaths to anonymously attack posters without actually telling the posters what they are being attacked for. The ONLY implementation that makes sense is on a per-posting basis. It would also be really nice if the attackers couldn't remain anonymous. There is too much anonymity in sites like this and it is insanely stupid to add more.

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D Mark III Nighttime ISO Comparisons

« on: March 31, 2012, 01:05:41 PM »

Nice examples!

I will use ISO 100-25,600 with no problem what-so-ever... Perfectly usable. 51,200 I will use only if need be, it is my emergency ISO 

Uhm... Excuse me but, where exactly are you planning to use them?

If you're a photojournalist shooting in warzones, sure, nobody would care about the noise in your photos, it's my bad then...

Perhaps a better question is: how large is the display medium and how many pixels can it display? A relatively small display with relatively few pixels tolerates a lot of noise, regardless of subject matter.

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x Finally Ready? [CR2]

« on: March 29, 2012, 08:38:16 AM »

$11,000 is a couple hundred dollars more than the combined price of the Nikon 200-400, a Nikon 1.4X TC and a D800 body at B&H. If Nikon introduces a "Pro" (16MP, 10FPS) DX D400 for $2300, that saves another $1000.

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Lenses / Re: What lens are you patiently waiting for?

« on: March 28, 2012, 10:53:51 AM »

Realistically, the 200-400 f/4 / 280-560f/5.6 (Where is it? Is Canon desperately trying to make enough units to supply pro photographers at the London Olympics?)

In my dreams, a 200-500 f/4 or better yet f/2.8-4 with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 from 200mm to 350mm.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Women will hate D800 *full size image*

« on: March 27, 2012, 10:51:41 AM »

2.5 pixels of Gaussian blur (in Photoshop) helps things immensely

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Is Continous Autofocus a big deal for those who shoot video

« on: March 26, 2012, 10:02:25 PM »

The Canon XF100/105/300/305 are all marketed as "professional" camcorders. For $3000 to $8000, they certainly don't seem targeted at the kiddie's birthday party market. And all of them have autofocus capability, and it's apparently fairly sophisticated. (They also have built-in lenses and fairly small sensors.) If "professionals" use manual focus, why is this capability included in these models?

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Lenses / 28-300 L

« on: March 26, 2012, 01:45:06 PM »

Why? Well, it was invented as the one lens to use when you could only use one.