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Lenses / Re: New Lenses in January [CR1]

« on: October 02, 2012, 03:27:51 PM »

An interesting statistic is that canon have sold twice as many EOS lenses as Camera's.  I forget exactly where  this cames from but, they basically issued press releases when they had sold x million cameras and 2x million lenses.

This means that on average each camera has two lenses.    This means that most people who buy an SLR camera never buy another lens for it.   Most of the people who do buy additonal lenses are those who will spring for the better quality lenses. 

I think Canon has a pretty good understanding of the market and where they make their money.

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Lenses / Re: New Lenses in January [CR1]

« on: October 02, 2012, 12:15:48 PM »

I should have stated in advance I'm limiting my self to non-L lenses. I'm sure the L primes have a market, just like the superteles, but it does not include the average hobbist who isn't making any money off his lenses.

I don't make money from photography, but have two L lenses.  I belong to a photography club and I see lots of other members with L grade lenses.  Amateurs like me  usually have one or two in their prefered shooting ranges, the people who shoot professionally  have the whole range covered.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Canon presets for Lightroom 4.1

« on: October 01, 2012, 04:07:28 PM »

Hi.

There is a setting in lightroom that will let you mimic the manufacturers colour rendition.

There is a menu called "Camera calibration" at the bottom of the right tool menu-thing. Select one of Canons picture styles in the "Profile" setting. That should render colours the way you're used to.

+1, and you can set it to automatically apply your prefered setting on import.  You may also want to change the colour space from adobeRGB to sRGB

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Lenses / Re: Canon 200mm 2.8 l ii: what's the deal

« on: October 01, 2012, 04:03:13 PM »

As mentioned in another similar thread, I own the 200L f/2.8 II. And I suspect I may be one of only a handful of people in this forum..

I also own this lens.   Bought it second hand when funds were scarce.   Never seen the need to replace it with a zoom.

 

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 7D - should i wait or not?

« on: October 01, 2012, 10:05:05 AM »

Unless you need the 7D right away then wait.
I too am looking to upgrade from a T1i,  and the obvious path is the 7D. 
I'm waiting for the 7D2 at this point as i expect it will give better sensor performance than the 7D.
The price of a used 7D will drop when the new model comes out so if the new model isn't better then I can get a 7D cheap.  Until then I will continue shooting with my existing gear missing the occaisional photo that the better AF and speed of the 7D would capture.

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Lenses / Re: New Lenses in January [CR1]

« on: September 29, 2012, 09:41:39 AM »

Revised graph without the 100mm macro IS.  This is a telephoto but it does shift the cost up a little.
The 200mm f2.8L, 300mm f4L and 400mm f4.6L weren't included as they are all old designs, they are  not weather sealed and 2 of them don't have IS. 

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Lenses / Price of new lenses

« on: September 29, 2012, 05:37:00 AM »

Got into a bit of an arguement on another forum.
Produced this graph to back up my lens pricing.
Thought you might like to see it as well.
The blue dots are the following data taken from B&H
The Red dots are the estimated prices for new lenses based on the regressed equation of the data.


 B&H   $   (L/f)   Lens
1049   ( 36)   100mm f2.8L IS
5999   ( 100)   EF-200 f2L IS
7249   ( 107)   EF-300 f2.8L IS II
11499   (143)   EF-400 f2.8L IS II
10499   (125)   EF-500 f4L IS II
12999   (150)   EF-600 f4L IS II
13899   (143)   EF-800 f5.6L IS

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Lenses / Re: New Lenses in January [CR1]

« on: September 27, 2012, 07:52:58 PM »

so a 400 f/4 probably won't be small or cheap ... but can't we get a 500 f/5.6 IS?  the sigma superzooms that hit this focal length (150-500) aren't huge or hugely expensive.  I'm sick of stuff that only goes out to 400mm.  for your average consumer, you can get there with a 70-200 f/2.8 + 2x, a native 100-400, a 300 f/4 + 1.4x, the venerable 400 f/5.6 ... all of which puts you at roughly 400mm f/5.6.  why can't we get something a little longer than that without having to spend $7k?

Sigma could probably do it.  Their 120-300mm F2.8 was around $3000  before the recent remodeling. 
So they could do a similarly priced 400mm f4, maybe even a bit cheaper as primes use less glass, but their 300mm f2.8 prime was about the same price as the zoom so I would expect they'd charge a little more for a 400mm.

Sigmas' 500mm zooms are only f6.3 which is why they are not hugely expensive.  Their 500mm f4.5 is around $5000

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Lenses / Re: New Lenses in January [CR1]

« on: September 25, 2012, 06:03:07 PM »

It will be interesting if a 400mm f/4 IS comes out.  I would think if priced right it should sell very well considering how old the 400/5.6 is and the desire for its replacement.

A 400mm f4 will likely be about $7000.  It will be similar in diameter and cost to a 300mm f2.8 II

I doubt that many owners of the 400 mm f5.6 will be rushing out to buy a 400mm f4.

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Lenses / Re: Wide Angle Zooms (non Canon)

« on: September 25, 2012, 09:53:35 AM »

See Rogers comments at LensRentals on the wide angle zooms.
Basically they are all about the same so get the one that suits your budget.

Personally I chose the Sigma 10-20mm f4.5-5.6. 

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EOS Bodies / Re: 7DII feature requests...

« on: September 22, 2012, 03:50:01 AM »

I request that the 7D2 be a camera rather than a rumor...

Simple!

Amen Brother.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Watch those CF pins on your 5D3

« on: September 21, 2012, 08:36:08 PM »

Yes, it can absolutely show up in the use of the camera. More generally if you use the burst mode, especially like sports and I think birders often will. According to Rob Galbraith's amazing table, with my 5d3 if I have the Lexar 1000x 32GB CF card in, I'll get around 73 shots in 30 seconds. With my Transcend 400x 32GB card (he only lists the 16GB card), I get around 36 shots in that same 30 seconds. HUGE difference. Es

Thanks for that table.  I guess none of my camera's has a high enough performance.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Why I'm not jumping to Nikon

« on: September 21, 2012, 05:33:34 PM »

One lens, the  400mm f5.6L  nikon just doesn't have anything comparable in the same price range.

The sensor is only one part of the IQ.
I'm also on a T1i .  Waiting to see what the 7D  mark 2 looks like.   

One lens that might tempt me to go to the dark side is the Nikon 200-400mm.   If the price  rumors about the Canon 200-400mm 1.4x are correct then the  Nikon would start to look very attractive.

   

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Watch those CF pins on your 5D3

« on: September 21, 2012, 05:03:19 PM »

The pin / socket arrangement on CF cards violates rule 101 of connector design. 
Sockets go on the power side, pins on the non powered side. 
It was designed by a total klutz.

Given the evident problems, why do gearheads  always want Dual CF slots in their cameras?

I know CF cards can have higher speed ratings, but does this actually show up in the use of the camera?

I've got a mix of CF and SD for various camera's and I don't really see an advantage to the CF cards.

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

« on: September 20, 2012, 06:32:06 AM »

BTW! Anyone find it strange DxO has the finished analysis/review of the D600 days after it is released? And they still haven't finished they analysis/review of the 1D-X !?
...

Nope.

Nikon had the D600 on sale via the web/stores 5 days after it was announced, so it is likely that Nikon were able to ship a production matched D600 to DxO ahead of time.

How long did it take Canon to even get 1DX cameras out to folks that were going to need them for the Olympics? And how long did it take for the 1DX to show up in stores? Don't blame DxO for Canon's inability to delivery/perform.
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DXO appears to have a Nikon bias.  They haven't released scores for the 1DX, the T4i or the Olympus OMD EM-5, but they get the D600 out within days of its release.