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Street & City / Re: City Skylines

« on: November 26, 2012, 10:33:42 PM »

Atlanta Skyline

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Lenses / Re: Need filter suggestions - Ordered Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro

« on: November 14, 2012, 11:11:21 PM »

Here are some test shots handheld f2.8, 1/100 and 1/80 (2 shots), ISO 8000. I am already liking the sharpness and Bokeh. Wow

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Lenses / Re: Need filter suggestions - Ordered Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro

« on: November 14, 2012, 04:16:28 PM »

Just picked up the lens from BestBuy, I'm very excited .

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Lenses / Re: Need filter suggestions - Ordered Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro

« on: November 14, 2012, 03:17:49 PM »

Got it. I have a 5DM3. Thanks Neuroanatomist

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Lenses / Re: Need filter suggestions - Ordered Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro

« on: November 14, 2012, 02:51:28 PM »

Thanks ALL for your valuable suggestions.

One question though. I am picking up the L series version of the lens and I thought this lens is weather sealed, please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again

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Lenses / Need filter suggestions - Ordered Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro

« on: November 13, 2012, 11:37:51 PM »

I ordered a 100mm 2.8 L lens and should be picking up from the store tomorrow. I am planning to use this lens for Macro and Portraits. I use Hood on my other lenses at all times which I plan to do with the new lens as well.

Please suggest what filters I need for Macro and portrait. I do have a Marumi CP (77mm) that I use on my other 2 lens (77mm and 67 mm with a step down/up ring).

Thanks in advance.

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Lenses / Re: "Affordable" telephoto lens for wildlife

« on: October 31, 2012, 10:23:21 PM »

I have a 70-200 f4 IS USM lens and I am planning to shoot some bird shots next month (during my vacation). Is there a compatible teleconverter? Canon support person told me that he thinks only f2.8 lens are compatible with 1.4x or 2x teleconverters but does not know for sure if I can use the teleconverter with f4 and manually focus?

Please advise.

I have the 5D3, a 70-200/4 IS and a 1.4x mark II and they play together very well, including reasonably fast AF. The 2x TC's will fit as well, but you will have to focus manually. That's a firmware measure: you get yourself a Kenko 2x TC and you should be able to use AF on f/8. In that case, though, you better be prepared for very slow AF with lots of hunting

Thanks for your quick response. Will there be an IQ difference between Canon and Kenko?

Sure there is, and normally you'd pick Canon over Kenko. Kenko, however, has a whole series of TC's, some pretty good, some pretty bad, most of 'em cheaper than their Canon counterparts. I picked up a 2nd hand 1.7x which is very 'not very good' (but it was cheap though!), I hear their top ones are between Canon's mark II and mark III, IQ-wise. However, I cannot speak from experience.

Thanks RC and Scrappydog

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Lenses / Re: "Affordable" telephoto lens for wildlife

« on: October 31, 2012, 03:45:12 PM »

I have a 70-200 f4 IS USM lens and I am planning to shoot some bird shots next month (during my vacation). Is there a compatible teleconverter? Canon support person told me that he thinks only f2.8 lens are compatible with 1.4x or 2x teleconverters but does not know for sure if I can use the teleconverter with f4 and manually focus?

Please advise.

I have the 5D3, a 70-200/4 IS and a 1.4x mark II and they play together very well, including reasonably fast AF. The 2x TC's will fit as well, but you will have to focus manually. That's a firmware measure: you get yourself a Kenko 2x TC and you should be able to use AF on f/8. In that case, though, you better be prepared for very slow AF with lots of hunting

Thanks for your quick response. Will there be an IQ difference between Canon and Kenko?

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Lenses / Re: "Affordable" telephoto lens for wildlife

« on: October 31, 2012, 03:27:23 PM »

I have a 70-200 f4 IS USM lens and I am planning to shoot some bird shots next month (during my vacation). Is there a compatible teleconverter? Canon support person told me that he thinks only f2.8 lens are compatible with 1.4x or 2x teleconverters but does not know for sure if I can use the teleconverter with f4 and manually focus?

Please advise.

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Street & City / Re: City Skylines

« on: October 14, 2012, 01:38:10 AM »

Atlanta Night Skyline

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Software & Accessories / Re: Recommendations needed for Compact Flash cards for 5D Mk III

« on: September 20, 2012, 11:21:51 AM »

I am using Kingston 600x 32GB, no issues so far  and with Transcend USB 3.0 Super Speed Multi-Card Reader for SD/SDHC/SDXC/MS/CF Cards (TS-RDF8) Supports UDMA7.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Insects

« on: September 12, 2012, 11:44:08 PM »

Shot this Butterfly in Blue Ridge Mountains
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balajimandalapu/7981337390/#in/photostream/

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: AFMA Callibration - How much is too much?

« on: August 08, 2012, 03:57:49 PM »

Hi, Did you use any software for Camera/Lens calibration? Is there any online tutorial or best method to calibrate. I have a 5DM3, 24-105L F4, 70-200L F4 IS USM. Any advice is appreciated

I use Reikan FoCal Pro, highly recommend it.  For my 1D X, manual mode is currently the only option, 5DIII works in semi-auto (for my 7D, and the 5DII I used to have, calibration is fully automatic).

For manual AFMA, I wrote a tutorial for TDP, based on LensAlign Pro, but with a DIY option as well.

Thanks

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: AFMA Callibration - How much is too much?

« on: August 06, 2012, 04:00:36 PM »

I would be interested to see what others have had to AFMA input into their 1DX's.

Here are mine.

16-35L II: W=4, T=7
24-105L IS: W=4, T=2
28-300L IS: W=4, T=4
70-200L IS II: W=2, T=2 (haven't done it with 1.4x/2x TCs yet)
100-400L IS: W=-1, T=1
35L: 4
40 pancake: -1
85L: 0
100L Macro IS: 3
135L: 0

Hi, Did you use any software for Camera/Lens calibration? Is there any online tutorial or best method to calibrate. I have a 5DM3, 24-105L F4, 70-200L F4 IS USM. Any advice is appreciated
Thanks in advance

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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« on: July 18, 2012, 12:05:05 PM »

First time Post 

I like.

Peace!

Thanks