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Pricewatch Deals / Re: EF 24-70 f/2.8L II To Start Shipping Tomorrow in the USA & Canada

« on: September 10, 2012, 05:52:15 PM »

Just chatted with B&H... they're expecting a shipment on 9/13...

Wonder who's info will turn out to be "correct"....

Shipping tomorrow... so much for what the agent told me this morning... B&H has been great over the years (particularly this last year...), just get some strange "misunderstandings" of what's really going on sometimes...

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: EF 24-70 f/2.8L II To Start Shipping Tomorrow in the USA & Canada

« on: September 10, 2012, 11:07:58 AM »

Just chatted with B&H... they're expecting a shipment on 9/13...

Wonder who's info will turn out to be "correct"....

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Sports / Re: 1DX & 500mm f/4L IS II Varsity Football

« on: September 02, 2012, 11:34:01 PM »

Just thought I'd add a few...

1DX, 400mm 2.8 2... the one of the QB is 8000 iso... just whatever in camera NR... nothing post, jpegs out of the camera.

I bought the camera specifically because I shoot in the dark most of the time....

Sorry for the watermarks... have to do it on my site as most of these images end up as Facebook profile photos... and then in their printers....

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: What does an ST-E3-RT transmitter in a hotshoe do, that a master EX600-RT can't

« on: August 29, 2012, 11:04:59 AM »

Just get some yn622's.  They do ettl, hss, ratios, and pretty much everything else, all done in the camera menu.  They also control third party flashes.  Even better, $100 for two, and they are all transmitters and receivers.

But do they do it via radio or optical?  the new RT system is a HUGE benefit...

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Lenses / Re: Need some advice from owners of the 40mm and FF cameras

« on: August 28, 2012, 11:16:15 PM »

Hey James,
If you're used to primes to shoot groups and have the flexibility of moving your feet for zoom then I think you'd be good with the 40mm (no joke about the price being right).  I do not have that luxury.  When I did shoot with the 40 for a group it was specifically because that little guy fits in my pocket and I can slap it on quickly for a "group" shot.  The 24-70 doesn't fit in the pocket so easily...

MOST of the time when I'm shooting my 24-70 is because I NEED that flexibility because I cannot move very far but need to be able to get tight on a five year old baseball player but wide enough for a group of pre-teens for a buddy shot...  I don't have much room to be able to move so having that flexibility to zoom saves me a lot of time... I shoot 400-600 kids in one day that flexibility saves me A LOT of time.

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: What does an ST-E3-RT transmitter in a hotshoe do, that a master EX600-RT can't

« on: August 28, 2012, 11:09:17 PM »

The ST-E3-RT will save you $$ over the 600EX-RT too... but... (and this is coming from someone with six 600EX-RTs and two ST-E3-RT's...) my recommendation would be to get two 600's and one ST-E3 and you'll be able to have a tremendous amount of flexibility.  Gone are the transmission issues with optical (thus why a lot of people used a flash unit on camera... so your transmission to the slaves was better...)

I have so many so I can can have multiple setups and not have to worry about line of sight issues with the optical... I shoot outside a lot... been over the moon impressed with the ST-E3 and the 600EXs...

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Lenses / Re: Need some advice from owners of the 40mm and FF cameras

« on: August 25, 2012, 11:25:17 PM »

Any reason you're not looking at the 24-70?  You say you currently have a big hole between 20mm & 70mm...

I shoot nearly all my portrait work with my 24-70 as well as group photos, very versatile... I personally am not 100% pleased with the current version and have the "new" one on pre-order but at this point it is as good as vaporware...

I have the 40mm pancake... haven't tried portraits specifically with it because I like to be a touch further away, compress the background a bit more and also give people a bit more "personal" space... I've done some group work with the 40 and was pleased with the results...

I'm shooting on two 1DX's and a 5D3... been happy with the results of the 24-70 on all three bodies as well as on my former 7Ds...

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Canon General / Re: To CPS or not to CPS...That is the question

« on: August 13, 2012, 11:52:46 PM »

Platinum member...

I think of it as insurance... and it's cheap insurance at that when you drop your camera from a low level on turf and it tweaks the lens mount in the body just a slight bit which causes the lens to mount "stiff"...  that discount quickly makes up that "membership" amount.  Free (which is really "included") shipping both directions... just recently sent the 300 2.8 and 400 2.8 in for the firmware update... as well as my 5D3 because the lens release pin in the mounting ring was stuck in the body... covered under warranty but shipping "included" overnight...  So with these three shipments alone I would have been in the $150 range for shipping...

For me... "membership has it's privileges"... to use a catchy phrase...