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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1D X White Balance Bug NOW WITH SAMPLES...

« on: June 08, 2013, 04:57:28 PM »

The "flash" WB setting is intended to work with speedlights that feed back info to the camera. It should be set at approx 6000K with other flashes. It could be that there is some sort of lack of feed back or faulty feedback between your kit and the camera.

You could set a custom WB. You can take a single shot of a white card and use that to set Custom WB. Then the WB should be set and be consistent. I do this using a color passport and get good consistent results, but any old 18% grey or light grey should do it fine.

Thanks for your comment. But unfortunately it seems nobody understands the issue here. It's not a white balance problem or color inaccuracy. It's random images with the wrong color...
Definitely not flash related problem. Because it happens with any WB setting even without a flash firing.

Well I certainly thought you were saying you were having problems with a "white balance bug". I'm sorry if I have misunderstood your problem that I was trying to help with.

I didn't realise you had tried "any WB setting" I apologies if my attempt to help has waste your time and for not understanding your "issue" better.

You didn't waste my time. We are all helping each other here and trying to learn at the same time... But the original post clearly states the problem. It's white balance shifting in some images, not a white balance color issue.
The samples are contiguous images side by side showing the problem.

Your first post clearly stated you were using flash white balance.  I still suggest that a custom white balance might help, but it seems you do not consider that you can learn anything from my help.

and BTW like someone else said in some of the side by side comparisons you posted the image you consider has a problem looks better to me than the one you have fixed.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1D X White Balance Bug NOW WITH SAMPLES...

« on: June 08, 2013, 04:39:10 PM »

The "flash" WB setting is intended to work with speedlights that feed back info to the camera. It should be set at approx 6000K with other flashes. It could be that there is some sort of lack of feed back or faulty feedback between your kit and the camera.

You could set a custom WB. You can take a single shot of a white card and use that to set Custom WB. Then the WB should be set and be consistent. I do this using a color passport and get good consistent results, but any old 18% grey or light grey should do it fine.

Thanks for your comment. But unfortunately it seems nobody understands the issue here. It's not a white balance problem or color inaccuracy. It's random images with the wrong color...
Definitely not flash related problem. Because it happens with any WB setting even without a flash firing.

Well I certainly thought you were saying you were having problems with a "white balance bug". I'm sorry if I have misunderstood your problem that I was trying to help with.

I didn't realise you had tried "any WB setting" I apologies if my attempt to help has waste your time and for not understanding your "issue" better.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1D X White Balance Bug NOW WITH SAMPLES...

« on: June 08, 2013, 04:00:13 PM »

The "flash" WB setting is intended to work with speedlights that feed back info to the camera. It should be set at approx 6000K with other flashes. It could be that there is some sort of lack of feed back or faulty feedback between your kit and the camera.

You could set a custom WB. You can take a single shot of a white card and use that to set Custom WB. Then the WB should be set and be consistent. I do this using a color passport and get good consistent results, but any old 18% grey or light grey should do it fine.

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Lenses / Re: Why Does the 100-400L Sell So Well Still ?

« on: June 05, 2013, 06:31:59 PM »

It's an underrated lens. Better than you might think reading some posts.

One of the good things is "it's a push/pull"  not everyone's favorite option at all, but it makes for a compact walk around with lots of reach. I've taken tens of thousands of shots with mine and have no trouble selling shots taken with it.

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Technical Support / Re: two Mark IIIs same settings show different available images on 4gb card

« on: June 05, 2013, 02:07:46 AM »

Two Mark IIIs same settings show different available images on 4gb card

Both Set to large L 5760X3840 but one camera shows 500+ available images on an empty formated 4 gig card and the other shows 350. Thoughts?

Thinks, have you read Page 32 of the manual where it gives the information the others have said above?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1Dx Shutter Lag change from 55ms to 36ms Downsides?

« on: June 03, 2013, 06:03:16 PM »

Those who have used both speeds, can you actually 'feel' the difference? Thx. Am curious!

i just tried both speeds, and yes, i can actually "feel" the difference...

-c

Wow that's impressive! You must be very sensitive. It takes about 100 to 400ms to blink and you can feel the difference of  a max of 0.019S! 

I tried the faster release for droplet photography. It was not very consistent. I never thought to turn if off for a consistent timing. I'll give it a try next time.

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United Kingdom & Ireland / Re: Advice for photographic venues near Whitby, UK

« on: June 02, 2013, 06:29:31 PM »

Thanks scarey and bjd.  Especially great to hear about the nesting birds as I very much enjoy birding!

In that case Bempton rspb reserve.

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: June 02, 2013, 05:35:50 PM »

Testing out the new firmware.

1/2000, f8.0, ISO 2500

Zoomed to 560 mm with the 1.4TC in place

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1DX and 5D3 RAW files

« on: May 31, 2013, 02:46:53 AM »

we can discuss in absurdum ..........

At last you have given an accurate account of your posts.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: How to measure and set white balance on 60D

« on: May 31, 2013, 02:30:05 AM »

guys thanks for the replies
i'm try some of the steps mentioned above
the bit i'm not sure about is importing the image - what do u mean? how do i do that
(ok - i've only had the 60D a short time - so a little clueless)
thanks in advance

If all else fails you could try reading the user manual. 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Firmware Canon EOS-1D X

« on: May 30, 2013, 03:45:43 PM »

Just upgraded to this. It seems to work.

Oh no now I have to take lots of pictures to test 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 1DX and 5D3 RAW files

« on: May 30, 2013, 02:50:37 PM »

it says more about you and your ignorance to other contrys
tell me, which contrys have more freedom that the Nordic contrys and  Germany, Holland etc  ,  about   woman's right to abort, homo marriage   and to religion freedom?
Go out and travel and discover the world
If it is US, I have lived there 1973-75. I love and hated it because of the double moral,double standard , simplified: you could not f@ck but smoke lot of pott and be high as rats and then  go to church every sunday , auch  not the life we are used to up here in the north Europe
are we done about "free country"

What on earth has this got to do with the topic?

I live in Europe. Would anyone else please not take this as a typical mindset.

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Technical Support / Re: 5dm3 - FPS Drops when battery below 50%

« on: May 29, 2013, 02:31:12 AM »

If you cared to read my full post instead of choking on the first sentence where I said I didn't buy your explanation, maybe you would have understood the point I was trying to make.

I wasn't saying that the slowing doesn't happen, I was just trying to figure out what is happening inside the camera to cause it. And I was saying that in cell phone world not using a regulator would be bad (actually impossible) design, and I was wondering if camera could work without one.

So you though it'd be funny to make sarcastic remark that if I'm so clever I should go help Canon design better cameras. Real funny.

Actually English is my second language, Swedish third, German fourth and Japanese fifth. Also took some studies in other languages, (in descending order of skills) Korean, Spanish, Chinese and French.

So sometimes I need to write it bit longer so I don't get misunderstood. But still I can't help it if someone deliberately skips the points I make and hangs on to the few sentences they wanted to misunderstand.

Thanks for another explanation and there was me with no idea that I was choking on your wise words. It's very good of you to help me. Also thanks for telling me that you never said what I never said that you said. I'm sure you were not trying to put words in my mouth.

Also thanks for explaining that English is your second language, that's pretty obvious. But I only mentioned it to point out it was irrelevant in reply to someone else, I never commented on your language skills. But it is so interesting to find you are a skilled multi linguist as well as a talented engineer.

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Technical Support / Re: 5dm3 - FPS Drops when battery below 50%

« on: May 28, 2013, 06:54:34 PM »

Some of us on this forum don't have English as a second language, I am sure it's fun for you to joke about it. For some of us we end up using more words to try to explain our point. Feel free to laugh at it though.

The funny bit is not the poor language skills. You have made a nice attempt at diversion by implying that I am being nasty. For your information I am quiet dyslexic and would never mock someones attempts to communicate. I don't think anything I have said can be reasonably interpreted as mocking anyone's language skills.

FYI I find it strange and amusing that people get into such convoluted attempts to justify what amounts to guess work. The OP posed a question about reduced performance on reduced battery charge. While saying that he could not find any information about this issue. Yet it is in the manual that this will happen, then people start saying how bad it is and others try to say it should be better.  Why on earth would someone ask if there is any information available and then ignore the information available?. If someone claims to be an expert why would they ignore the information available and start making guesses and assumptions? That's what I find funny.

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: May 27, 2013, 04:38:35 PM »

For you Edward.
It's cheetah day!

Very nice shot Sanj