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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon EOS 6D Rating by DXOMark

« on: December 12, 2012, 03:01:47 PM »

To be honest.. I really don't like and I Don't believe in this DXO mark website..
They have been paid by Nikon to update and posts all this fake numbers.. bunch of BS!
PISSES ME OOFFFF!!!

Many complains over the net:

http://fakechuckwestfall.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/5d-mark-iii-d800-d4-dxomark-sucks-balls/

I chuckled when I realized that you included a parody site in your URLs.  Like you, I don't really use DXOMark in my camera shopping / comparisons since their ratings are... odd... but it was still funny.

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Lenses / Re: Canon lens setup for weddings

« on: December 04, 2012, 11:44:37 AM »

I'm tagging along here.

I'm in a similar situation, thinking about what makes up a decent wedding kit, and I have a 7D and 5D2, 24-105 f/4L, 70-200 f/2.8L IS II and 50/1.4+85/1.8 for when I have time to swap.

My thought would be that the 70-200 f/2.8L IS II would be on the 5D2, and I'd need to swap to a 16-35 f/2.8L II on the 7D as a GP zoom, the 24-105 is just not fast enough or have that apeture effect, for the 7D.

I'd take a 16-35 II over a 17-55 EF-S, because the 16-35 doubles as a great UWA on the 5D2 should I need it.

Ideally, I'd be on a 2x FF setup with 24-70 II and 70-200 II but there's that hobby-grade budget that's stopping me.

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Video & Movie / Re: timelapse. how they do this

« on: December 03, 2012, 08:49:38 AM »

I was just guessing that if you, for example, make consequential 30 sec long exprosures you will add a segment to the top and delete a segment from the tail of the trail and it won't be a smooth movement as seen here

Yup, that is why I think it is made of composites...

If you put a mouse pointer at the end of a trail, it seemed to me that the frame advance was about 1/5 th. the star trail length; hence my magic number of 5...

this, definitely.

It's something like this:  Take roughly 130, one second exposures.  Then it's a startrail of 1-30 for frame 1, frames 2-31 for frame 2, frames 3-32 for frame 3...repeated roughly 100 times for the 4 seconds of video.  Pretty cool effect but WOW tedious.

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: AA Battery Charger and Batteries

« on: November 09, 2012, 05:20:05 PM »

Don't buy 15-minute or 1-hour chargers!

As somebody has already posted, you want to charge at ~500ma or thereabouts, no faster.

Actually, there are some fast chargers that are good.    Its the cheap ones that just pour on the current and badly overheat your battery that are a problem.  10 or 20 or a few more recharges before a battery dies is not uncommon with them.  Then users blame the batteries.
I'd recommend the MH-C801D charger, and it's a 1 hour charger.

I did some additional research, and the fastest rate recommended is 0.5-1C, which is just over a hour.  So a one-hour charger might be ok, but you're working at the limit.  I know for a fact 15-minute chargers kill batteries, been there done that.

I was definitely conservative in my 500ma recommendation, however, I'll give you the nod there.  That's an "optimal" number and not really a limit... I'm just careful to baby the batts, as it was a pretty large investment to replace all my household with eneloops!

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Lenses / Re: Canon Announces New Lens Caps!

« on: November 09, 2012, 11:02:56 AM »

This has been an interesting (and humorous at times) thread!

I'm going to weigh in... I do *not* like the pinch-type caps, I have some experience with the Tamron caps, and they were finicky, and I hit inside the filter threads all the time.  I find the Canon caps more intuitive, because you're pretty much "fingering" the filter thread area when you put the Canon type cap on, whereas you're blindly aiming the Tamron pinch-type cap.

Also, I wanted to ask... why are folks putting caps on their lenses, with the hoods not reversed?  What's the point?  I can certainly see the desire to either a) leave the hood on, skip the cap or b) reverse hood, put cap on, but why have the hood + cap installed?  Are you worried about dust with the hood on?  If so, then why aren't you worried about covering the felt inner surface of the hood with dust while it's not reversed?

Discuss!

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Technical Support / Re: how she got this look/light to work above sync speed

« on: November 09, 2012, 10:56:55 AM »

I have seen local photogs that do similar type of work, and they are using scrims and more commonly, reflectors.

I agree that a ND filter would be the way to go if you need strobes/flashes w/out HSS.

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: AA Battery Charger and Batteries

« on: November 08, 2012, 09:07:24 AM »

Don't buy 15-minute or 1-hour chargers!

As somebody has already posted, you want to charge at ~500ma or thereabouts, no faster.

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: AA Battery Charger and Batteries

« on: November 07, 2012, 10:00:02 AM »

Eneloop or alternatively the Duracell "pre-charged" batteries for sure!

As far as charger, I suggest any of the excellent Lacrosse chargers, I use two of the BC500's due to the default charge rate being optimal, and they can run with included 12V cigarette lighter plugs.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Would I benefit from going full frame?

« on: November 07, 2012, 08:41:23 AM »

I almost exclusively use the center AF point

I am aware that if I move to FF, I will have to trade my EF-S lenses for FF equivalents.

7D up to ISO 1600, but the noise above that is bad.

These three statements tell me that yes, you want to jump to the 5D2.  Skip the 6D unless you want the gadgetry.

I made the exact same choice a few months ago, and have no regrets... my 7D is on eBay right now.

The experience I've had was approximately a 1.5 stop advantage in ISO noise, and a larrrrge difference in DOF in my everyday shooting, due to the focal length multiplier change.

Do yourself a favor and pick up a fast/cheap prime to play with if you swap, like the 50 1.4 or 85 1.8, you'll be amazed in the beauty of the DOF for portraiture.

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Canon General / Re: Amazon policies.

« on: November 06, 2012, 01:11:15 PM »

Yeah, that's not the way amazon works, they don't do layaway type service.

Also, as somebody else pointed out, the BNA (your shipping address) is part of the fraud prevention.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Rokinon 14mm f/2.8

« on: November 05, 2012, 12:19:54 PM »

Frodo that shot of the Milky Way is amazing!  That's the kind of example I was looking for.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Rokinon 14mm f/2.8

« on: November 05, 2012, 12:12:38 PM »

I dug through the forums here, and I didn't see a dedicated thread (there was some good info in the 12-24mm thread tho).

You did not find anything, because Rokinon does not make lenses, they rebrand other makes.  Search for Samyang.

Point taken!

I did search for Samyang 14mm as well, there's nothing here for that either.

I labeled this thread as such, because Rokinon is by far the most popular brand name this hardware is being sold under, but I was/am aware that this is just a reseller brand.

Thanks for everyone's contributions.

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Landscape / Re: Landscape of Inner Mongolia

« on: November 02, 2012, 02:48:06 PM »

Wow, that's a great assortment of shots!

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Canon General / Re: Canon's MAP Pricing Goes Into Full Effect Today

« on: November 01, 2012, 04:54:37 PM »

Amazon is now complying with the price set by Canon, the 5D3 body is up to 3299 (after 200 rebate)

I was hoping they'd do the "add to cart to see price", but appearantly Canon will match Nikon's draconian policy regarding pricing.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Rokinon 14mm f/2.8

« on: October 31, 2012, 09:03:34 AM »

Price is the same at amazon (I imagine one of these two is matching the other).