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Software & Accessories / Re: Manfrotto Repair: I thought I was buying from the best

« on: May 02, 2013, 05:27:58 PM »

I'm not sure Manfrotto is the best? I use it but I have never considered it the best. 

some of us really need our equipment. we can't twiddle our fingers waiting for a repair for months, free or not.

If my tripod was waiting for repair, free or not, I would not be missing photography.  I would be getting a spare or borrowing one, it hardly seems that important.  BUT with crap service like that, free or not, the spare would probably be another make. 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Color Differences, 5D3 vs 1D4

« on: April 29, 2013, 02:33:07 AM »

You could try using color calibration. I use a color checker passport. I get on ok with it but not everyone has the same results.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Back to the Future Parts 1/2/3 Canon Strategy

« on: April 29, 2013, 02:21:31 AM »

Thankyou Unfocused, the point of the thread is to obtain valuable comments such as yours.

Really singsling? Are you sure it's not so you can make loads of assumptions and try to say how clever you are? I'm not sure if your post is supposed to be funny by being provocatively daft, or if you really think you have an insight into canons thinking.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Hackers turn the 1DX into remote spy tool

« on: April 28, 2013, 06:36:56 PM »

  So someone is going to hack into my camera and steal my photos 


I hope he's not expecting to just "make himself the author" and sell them for lots of money. He may find they are not that valuable. 

And what a novel idea, a camera is a surveillance tool you can use to take pictures. I can see why this guy is an expert. 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Why do we buy Canon? What idiots are we?

« on: April 27, 2013, 03:58:07 AM »

This idiot had a look, to see what rubbish was been said this time. 

Now I'm going to get back to getting something useful from the useful thread about taking pictures.

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Abstract / Re: Bursting Balloons

« on: April 26, 2013, 02:42:18 AM »

Hey, on this subject...anyone have any ideas on variations for this I could try? I'm going try adding food coloring and then two balloons at the same time with different colors in each to see if I can get a mixing effect.

How about a surgical glove?
Why stick with balloons? How about light bulbs? If you don't mind cleaning up  and be careful 
You could shoot anything your gun can make an impression on really. How about a flower dipped in liquid nitrogen. Now you really need to take care!

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Software & Accessories / Re: ColorChecker passport, what's wrong?

« on: April 25, 2013, 06:18:36 PM »

Viggo - I'm not sure it's very helpful but I use the color checker passport to get profiles for my 1dx and5d3. After carefully following the instructions lr4 produced some quite effective profiles for me. Certainly they are much better than the standard ones in lr or the "camera" options in lr. They aren't perfect, my red is oversaturated and I normally end up pulling it back a bit. But I have a good starting point if not a perfect one.

I paid close attention to getting the white balance right and the exposure. I seem to remember checking the exposure values of the whites and the color balance was specified in the instruction as needing to be within 1 percent.

Good luck hope it works out for you.

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EOS Bodies / Re: DxOMark Sensor Performance: Nikon vs. Canon

« on: April 21, 2013, 02:11:53 AM »

proper exposure what is that?

 

Just one of the basics of photography.

If you are not to sure about this there are many "photography for beginners " type articles on the Web. You could start by trying to understand them. 

Your lack of understanding is probably why you can't take a decent photo. I never get the sort of noise in my photos that you get with your canons. Your last comparison showed crazy amount ts of noise and banding etc in the Canon shot and a hopeless soft nikon image. So may be you don't understand focus either and that's why you put up such rubbish shots from both you cameras.

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EOS Bodies / Re: DxOMark Sensor Performance: Nikon vs. Canon

« on: April 20, 2013, 03:16:17 AM »

*Sigh* I don't really know why I continue to argue the point. I know its pointless...

If I know something is pointless I tend not to bother. But I have noticed that some people never know when to give up. Me, I'm just going to go on taking pictures that really please me with excellent quality that surpassed my expectations by quite a long way. If someone wants to tell me how rubbish my photos are without ever seeing them, well I'm not going to be very impressed with their reasoning or judgement.   

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon Announcements on April 23, 2013? [CR2]

« on: April 18, 2013, 06:28:18 PM »

I know one thing that will defiantly be announced on the 23rd.

Ankorwatt will announce he has managed to take two pictures, one will be taken with a 5d3 and will not be very good. Just maybe the other will be taken with a d800, that one will surprise him with how good it is. 

Anyone want to take a bet against this prediction? 

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6D Sample Images / Re: Anything shot with a 6D

« on: April 18, 2013, 01:33:50 PM »

Hi All,

For comparison here's my 6D with the cheapy 70-300 F5.6 non-L lens at 300mm.

6D  70-300 @300 1/250 F11 ISO 400

This lens was $400 on sale and for the price it's obviously respectable.  While the 300 F2.8 was nearly $7k, any wonder I'm concerned.

Jack

Jack

You have put up a lot of negative comments about your 300 f2.8 and being unhappy about your purchase of it and the camera.

You may be suffering from expecting that your kit will make up for your inexperience, of course it is quite possible that you have been unlucky and got a poor copy of one of the best lenses made and/or a mismatch with your camera.

Spending lots of money on kit will NOT ensure you take good pictures, trust me I have proved it.

Skulker

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: How do you prevent buttons from being accidently changed on Canon 1DX?

« on: April 14, 2013, 05:42:44 AM »

As I am into wildlife photography it is a constant problem for me as the camera is in a cover most of the time and then I need it quickly. The cover seems to push the buttons. I often find that a button has been pressed. My solution is to turn the camera off. Not very satisfactory at all. I have auto power off set to 1min now so that helps minimise the problem.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Big Megapixel Development Announcement in the Fall? [CR2]

« on: April 12, 2013, 06:10:52 PM »

well, the megapixels gives you freedom , the DR also.
IF Canon has the same camera as Nikon, what should your answer be then?
I do not like resolution, or a great DR

Interesting that you think the Megapixels gives you freedom. I take it to mean to crop more. That's not something I need. I get all the "reach" I need from my current lens selection. 

I see your comments about resolution or DR try to take this away from the Megapixel topic. That is EXACTLY what the post before mine was talking about. So I won't comment, but you can rest assure I don't agree with your attempt to imply that I am influenced by the make of the camera.

But thanks for the reply about Megapixels. I certainly was surprised that the increased IQ of the 1Dx and the 5D3 allowed me to crop so much that I do not miss the crop factor from the 7D

Ever heard of Gigapan?
Everyone using those will be grateful when higher resolution cameras are more common.

No never heard of it.      I did look it up, look like it makes all those big megapixels cameras a waste of time, you can get as many pixels as you like by using as many photo's as you like. Enjoy your pixel peeking  But its not something I will ever use. Just not my type of thing.  I was at a lecture the other day from someone who actually produces large composite images, many costing about $40,000 just for the post processing. He uses a camera over 8 years old, and he had no wish to change to a newer model.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Nikon D800 Value Dropping?

« on: April 12, 2013, 05:44:38 PM »

A photographer who I hold in high regard, got rid of his D800's very quickly. He much prefers the D600 and produces great results from the D600. (he still uses the D4, and has nothing against Nikons and, for the record,  neither do I)

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EOS Bodies / Re: Is the SL1 sensor an improvement?

« on: April 11, 2013, 03:01:47 PM »

It is true, he asked how it would compare to his T2i, not a D800.  A D800 or Nikon was not mentioned by the OP!
Its not going to be much different from his T2i.

Since when has that stopped anyone from bringing up the comparison?   

and when will it stop them