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Lenses / Re: How to complete my lens lineup? Help!

« on: September 04, 2012, 03:29:56 AM »

I've seen 1Ds mark iii's around $2500. If one of those appeal you could potentially get one of those and the 35L.

Sounds good to me. Im pretty sure I saw them on keh.

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Lenses / Re: A New EF 400 f/5.6L Before Photokina? [CR1]

« on: September 04, 2012, 03:06:51 AM »

I was thinking of getting that lens eventually.

Well, so long as the update doesn't take the price out of 'quite affordable' territory. Otherwise forget it for me.

Adding to other's comments: f5.6 for lens like this means that its not $6000!!!!! Yes we want faster, but can one pay it? I can't. I'd love a 400mm f2.8 is ii but nuh uh for the $$$. Unless of course I'm not paying out my own pocket.

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Lenses / Re: Canon 14-24 2.8 - With our powers combined....

« on: August 31, 2012, 11:29:36 PM »

I've never used the nikon one, but Im willing to bet if canon made and miraculously made it even better than the nikon one it will on the pretty damn expensive list.

I see journo's with them on their nikon's quite a lot.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Your Ultimate Gear (wish)list

« on: August 31, 2012, 10:54:19 PM »

My realistic-ish (sort of - $$$) dream list at the moment: A very small portion I already own.

7D
1d mark iv
1dx or at least a 1ds mark iii

Canon ef-s 10-22
Canon 16-35mm f2.8 ii
Canon 70-200mm f2.8 is ii
Canon 35mm f1.4L
Canon 50mm f1.2L
Canon 300mm f2.8 is ii
Canon 400mm f2.8 is ii

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: rumor: D600 gets 16 Bit processing

« on: August 31, 2012, 10:46:34 PM »

in the 80's Nikon (who was the supreme leader of SLR cameras) did not take Canon AF lenses seriously and it paid very dearly by losing its top position to Canon and has not caught up ever since.

Oh, don't know about hasn't caught up since. I used nikons in the early 2000's, didn't care then but oh yeah, they were loosing badly. Now? Well they've already lost a chunk of the market which hasn't as of yet returned (if ever) but yes they HAVE caught up.

Damn, I just defended nikon! Sorry about that, but I thought it needed to be said. Doesn't matter what you shoot on nowdays, either make fantastic images, particularly in capable hands.

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: Where am I ?

« on: August 31, 2012, 09:55:25 AM »

Your on planet earth and not in Australia. LOL

NFI. Yellowstone national park perhaps? But seriously I have no clue. Is there even a lake there?

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: rumor: D600 gets 16 Bit processing

« on: August 31, 2012, 04:38:38 AM »

The D90 does not have in camera HDR. And why do you want built in flash? Other than occasional emergency fill, they're useless.

Looks like my partner (who has a D90) will have a nice upgrade path if they decide to in the next while. Myself, well I don't have any money to spend on anything much so I'll just wait it out and see what happens and make do with my 7D which is doing me really well anyway. Im not going back to nikon.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: World's most expensive lens

« on: August 28, 2012, 06:02:51 AM »

Did I seriously miss that? Ha, wow.

Publicity stunt perhaps.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: World's most expensive lens

« on: August 28, 2012, 05:15:41 AM »

Personally I don't understand how a Leica APO-Telyt-R 1:5.6/1600mm would be worth 2.79 million dollars. Thats really in WTF territory for me. Unless all the glass is sapphire crystal or something ridiculous.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 7D question

« on: August 06, 2012, 11:41:03 PM »

Yep, hit play first. Then zoom in on the LCD.

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Lenses / Re: Long Range L Choices

« on: August 02, 2012, 07:50:40 AM »

Siglauncher... ROFL. I love that name. *wonders who in hell would buy that*

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4 -v- Capture One

« on: July 10, 2012, 12:54:19 PM »

I've used a trial version of the capture one. At the time, I loved it.

However I obtained a copy of lightroom 3 (haven't got lr4 yet) and well, it flawlessly runs with photoshop (meaning you can export straight to cs5). From there you finish in photoshop, save it and lightroom picks it up again if you need to use lightroom to do one or two more things. THAT fact swayed me from capture one. Other than that, I'd propose that you should use whatever feels more natural to you.

I've used phocus too (hasselblad's program), didn't like it. It was ok, again one could probably get used to it, but it didn't grab me.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Are lens skins worth it?

« on: July 10, 2012, 12:46:14 PM »

I've always kind of had a problem with the bright 'oh wow, look at me' canon's. And they really do, scream 'look at me'. I've attracted way too much attention with the times I've been dragging one around.

I'll admit I was a nikon user most of my life, and the whole look at me white thing wasn't an issue. However now that I've arrived in the canon camp, I'll be seriously contemplating the neoprene ones when I have a big white lenses of my own (won't be that far away).

I'll also go forth and admit that I have gaffer tape on my camera, across the name plate at the top to decrease people staring at me (not sure if that works btw), and some tape on my bottom grip to protect it from scrapes (that one works!).

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Nikon D400

« on: July 08, 2012, 05:48:43 AM »

Well on the topic of the proposed D400, the nikon folk seem to be waiting an eternity for that one too. Im morbidly interested in this one, doesn't mean I'd jump ships.. again though! Sounds like it's going be a weapon either way.

Maybe all of us canon people shouldn't feel too bad about waiting for things.

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1dx a compromise?

« on: July 08, 2012, 04:16:53 AM »

Even medium format digital's are a compromise. Do they handle as easily as the 1dx you mentioned? Hell no. Do they go to what you'd call high iso? Hell no. But they are brilliant at what they do regardless. Your half way is a leica S2... still a compromise in many ways, just not its cost!

I think the 1dx in comparison to the competition is pretty brilliant, compromise or not. In an ideal world we'd all have multiple different cameras for different things (being able to afford them too) to rid at least 90% of the compromise.