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Lenses / Re: 85 1.2mk3 anytime soon?

« on: May 06, 2013, 08:01:45 PM »

Your right, if it was more weather sealed I would feel more confident to use it in more extreme conditions, but I used it on the "Snow Monkeys" in Japan at Nagano in December, snowed an absolute bitch & the temperature was well below freezing, on the 1Dx the Lens performed a complete treat.

You used the 85 1.2L II in snowing and freezing conditions? Are you aware that this lens is not weather sealed? Why are you not confident about the lens if you did this? Does it still work?
I dare not take mine outside sunny and dry conditions.

Yes, I was aware of the issue of the Lens not being weather Sealed, but for me the Lens/Camera is a Tool, so it's about risk, if it had been Raining I may not have considered the risk acceptable, and used the 70-200f/2.8 II, but in this situation, with the Snow Monkeys, it was heavy Snow, below freezing, so the Snow was tending not to melt on the equipment, and it worked just fine, the Lens performed well & I came away with some Images I was Happy with & the Lens with a clean up, still works just fine, appreciate the concern.

The confidence part comes into Play only in the degree to which the particular Lens is weather sealed (also consider dust), if it's a known sealed Lens such as my 300f/2.8 L IS Version 2, I'll simply use it in any & all weather/dust conditions, if it's a known Non sealed Lens, then it becomes a risk/confidence of survival situation, I'll generally though err in favour of the Image as a Lens can be bought back from the Dead after water immersion or dust issues, not so a Camera, which is why I use a 1Dx/1DMK IV with a 5DMK III as a fall back.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe to Stop Making Packaged Software

« on: May 06, 2013, 07:55:47 PM »

what a bunch of ***??!!! <insert any desired expletive

oh well looks like i wont be changing from CS6 in a hurry
I absolutely loathe subscription software

but what real alternatives are there? seriously when push comes to shove the competition
just are not as good as adobe its pretty bad for to punish loyal customers like this
I hope it backfires and hurts them.

I have assumed with a name like "wicked wombat" you may be an Aussie, well, for the privilege of being in that far flung Country of Australia, you get to be charged 40% more than your American Cousins, Aussie current cost of CC is around $1200 bucks US equivalent. Adobe & Apple (among others), have a similar Model of charging by Country, AUD is up, so they take advantage of that, plus the fact that they simply can charge more and people continue to Pay.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe to Stop Making Packaged Software

« on: May 06, 2013, 07:36:07 PM »

Forgetting the cost for a moment, how would Lightroom service even work? Half the time I use it, I am on my laptop away from the grid.  Are we going to have to load our photos upstream to the cloud in order to work on them?  That doesn't seem practical to me when you are dealing with a couple hundred images in LR.

I don't believe they're talking about cloud-based apps. I think you download and install normally, but activation and ongoing use requires an active subscription. So if you decide to stop paying, you can no longer open your files in the app. That's my big concern with this model. I also use a lot of site-licensed software at work and it can be a problem running such software when you're away from an Internet connection when the software decides to "phone home", depending on implementation. That could be an issue for people like you taking LR to remote locations on a laptop.

Lots of questions, though, particularly because they're planning to charge $10/mo for a single app and $50/mo for the full boat ($30/mo for the first year for upgraders). That's like buying a new copy of LR every 1-1.5 years, which I don't always do, and $360-600/yr is a LOT more than I pay now for all my Adobe software (PSE, Dreamweaver, etc).

Guess I'll be milking LR 4/PSE 10 for a long while, and hoping they still provide free Adobe Raw and/or DNG converters if I ever need a new camera.

Brave new world.

This is correct, I currently use Adobe Cloud for current release of all Adobe products, you download & install what you need as you need it, the product is then on your Hard Drive just like the DVD you purchased, you again download any updates as part of the subscription model you paid for. Each year you pay the subscription.

It works & works well, I'm completely Happy, but there's a caveat, the current system of Adobe Cloud is designed for Companies that require the use of more than 1 Licensed user, it's not really designed for the individual user, hence the +USD$800 price Tag.

In Asia in particular the most cloned software is Adobe, you can buy a full copy of CS6 Suite of the side of the road in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam etc, for $10 Bucks, so you can see why companies like Adobe are heading towards this Cloud Based Subscription Model, it's inevitable gentlemen, and Ladies.

I dont know for sure, but I would envisage Adobe creating a single user service of the Cloud at some point in the next 12 months, I would think prior to CS7, and I cant se the pricing not being more flexible for the single user, wouldn't make sense to try to charge a single user 800 bucks a year, as has been stated, Adobe will loose a huge amount of Business, and Adobe before all else, are about business & profits while providing a service.

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

« on: May 06, 2013, 07:21:29 AM »

1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, @ f/5.6 & 1/250th ISO200

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Lenses / Re: 35 & 85 or 50 & 100 for photographing kids

« on: May 06, 2013, 04:54:14 AM »

Either the 85f/1.2 L II or the 135f/2 L are going to give you years of wonderful Images, both are classic lenses, I would say the autofocus on the 5DMK ii can be a little slow, but since I've gone to the 5DMK II & 1Dx it's no longer an issue, not that I felt it was a major before, but autofocus speed is much improved now. The following Photos aren't kids, although the Monkey is a Kid Monkey so probably counts.

Smokey Guy: 5DMK III 85f/1.2 L II, @ f/4.5 & 1/160th ISO320

Snow Monkey Kid: 1Dx 135f/2, @ f/5.6 & 1/125th ISO800

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: 5D MK III Images

« on: May 06, 2013, 04:28:18 AM »

You run across the strangest things in the woods!

Looks like the spot they used for one of the early scenes from "Interview with the Vampire" didn't find Tom Cruise in the area did you ??

Good find & good Image as well.

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Lenses / Re: 85 1.2mk3 anytime soon?

« on: May 06, 2013, 04:01:00 AM »

What i would like to see is weather sealing,inner focussing and f1.0 but honestly i guess your right probably a long way off so i think i will wait till august and go for it

It'll be a long wait I'de say, the sharpness of the 85f/1.2 L II just cant be beat, contrast/colour are excellent, it was a little slow to focus on my 5DMK II & 1DMK IV, but since I've gone to the 5DMK III & in particular the 1Dx, no complaints about the auto focus set up any more.

Your right, if it was more weather sealed I would feel more confident to use it in more extreme conditions, but I used it on the "Snow Monkeys" in Japan at Nagano in December, snowed an absolute bitch & the temperature was well below freezing, on the 1Dx the Lens performed a complete treat.

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

« on: May 06, 2013, 03:54:37 AM »

1Dx
600mm f/6.3  1/3200   iso 400 case 1
I posted a few  landscapes with a 1DX  if have some time !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garys_utah_pixs/

"Aztec Butte", great Image Gary.

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

« on: May 06, 2013, 03:48:39 AM »

1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, Shot @ f/7.1 & 1/160th ISO250

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

« on: May 06, 2013, 03:47:17 AM »

1Dx
600mm f/6.3  1/3200   iso 400 case 1
I posted a few  landscapes with a 1DX  if have some time !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garys_utah_pixs/

Amazingly Sharp Gary, great stuff.

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

« on: May 05, 2013, 08:33:14 PM »

One more from the meet, then I'll stop.  This was with the 300 f/2.8L IS I.

Nice shot bdunbar79, this is a Lady that obviously runs with purpose, I might have tried this with the 600f/4, safer.

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

« on: May 05, 2013, 08:31:53 PM »

Shooting the Goose

Kid with a Goose: 1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, Shot @ f/5.6 & 1/400th ISO200

3 Kids & The Goose: 1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, Shot @ f/5.6 & 1/400th ISO200

Shot in a small Village near Bogor, in the Mountains Above Jakarta Indonesia

Eml....these are great images, so much so that I saved and tweaked one of them and reposted the tweak.   Again, very nice shots.

Hi Northstar, like it as well, I try to give some idea of the area, what I was trying to do as well was get the far distant "Mist" into the shot, it was interesting in that the chap I was shooting with was using a 5DMK II & a Tamron Lens, same settings but he was getting a load more of that Misty effect in the background, we put it down mostly to quality of Glass, my Canon L glass was just cutting through the haze, better colour & contrast, his less quality Glass was picking it all up, but interestingly some of his shots simply looked better because of it, next time I'll bring along some non L Glass & try it again.

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

« on: May 05, 2013, 08:10:19 PM »

Last One

1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, Shot @ f/5.6 & 1/800th ISO200

Really stunning shots

Totally agree. Great photos.

Thanks Guys, it was a step change for me, usually I'm shooting stuff with Big Teeth and a Bad Attitude, it was great to shoot without having to look over my shoulder, well, except after a while these Kids thought it might be good fun for the photographer to get wet as well, thank you Canon for the 1Dx & weather proofing.

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

« on: May 05, 2013, 08:04:34 PM »

1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, Shot @ f/8 & 1/250th ISO200

Nice shots eml

curious, do these kids have to worry about snakes or gators in a river like that?  Probably a dumb question but the thought came to mind.

Hi Northstar, in Java there's no really poisonous snakes & no Gators, but the river itself is used at this village level, for bathing, toilet, washing clothes etc, the river runs clear directly from the mountains behind us, but downstream anywhere would have to be a health hazard for anyone that doesn't have the build up of immunity that doing this from birth brings. When your shooting in places like this you need to be aware of villagers bathing, I always ask permission to shoot around the area & I never shoot people in personal situations, bathing etc, these are very much your basic village Indonesian, Beautiful people.

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

« on: May 05, 2013, 07:56:03 PM »

1Dx 70-200f/2.8 II, Shot @ f/8 & 1/250th ISO200

Awesome shot eml58. It looks like one of National GEO photos

Thanks Dylan777 much appreciated.