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Lenses / Re: Do you still love 24-105L?

« on: April 26, 2013, 05:23:33 PM »

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Wow, Sporgon, your building panoramas are fantastic!

Back on topic, the 24-105 is my most versatile lens. If we could get a 24-105 f/2.8 IS, I'd happily sell most of my other lenses.

Thanks kev8d, that's much appreciated. I should point out that there are two of us involved in Building Panoramics, and nearly all the pictures are a result of a combined effort, so I can only really claim 50% of the credit 

@dick - there seems to be a lot of sub standard copies of this lens out there, probably because so any have been made. With a little pp at around f8 this lens should be able to hold its own against the big hitters .

The Building Panoramics pictures are evidence that this lens can take incredible pictures, especially stepped down.  Nice work BP!

Many thanks bholliman. Your kind praise help to keep me motivated !

When we moved to FF in 2005 my partner bought the 5D 'kit' with the 24-105. At the time I was adamant that we should only use primes for our BP pictures, but in time it became clear that as we were using the 24-105 in its strong zone, ie 35-70 @ f8, there was just no difference in the finished pictures between it and lenses such as the 50 f1.4.

I like to take a few pictures of show jumping for my own pleasure using the 135 and 200 L, and a while ago I thought I would see how the 24-105 fared in this situation. To be quite honest I didn't think it was bad, even at f4.5. I'm not suggesting that this lens can compete with the 135L as a portrait lens, but in this situation I wasn't unhappy with the result. It was shot on the MK1 so the 100% crop isn't that big. It's certainly not garbage 

The rider is Donald Whitaker, the youngest of the world famous Whitaker show jumping dynasty. When he wins a medal at the 2020 Olympics remember you saw his first here, on CR 

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Lenses / Re: Do you still love 24-105L?

« on: April 26, 2013, 02:47:30 PM »

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Wow, Sporgon, your building panoramas are fantastic!

Back on topic, the 24-105 is my most versatile lens. If we could get a 24-105 f/2.8 IS, I'd happily sell most of my other lenses.

Thanks kev8d, that's much appreciated. I should point out that there are two of us involved in Building Panoramics, and nearly all the pictures are a result of a combined effort, so I can only really claim 50% of the credit 

@dick - there seems to be a lot of sub standard copies of this lens out there, probably because so any have been made. With a little pp at around f8 this lens should be able to hold its own against the big hitters .

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Your best animal shots!

« on: April 26, 2013, 02:38:59 PM »

One of my best shots. At least for yesterday.. 
I managed to annoy a Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) by not moving out of its way and insisting to stick around and photograph him/her.

Great shot of a red squirrel,

Nice to see some shots of squirrels where they are not being torn apart by some bird.

It was a bad month for squirrels on CR in March 

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Lenses / Re: Do you still love 24-105L?

« on: April 26, 2013, 02:08:45 PM »

I use mine for non-critical stuff, Like ebay photos, vacation photos and personal stuff. When I do use it for clients it's usually at F/8 so no-one could tell. It's a great lens if your using flash...

f8 - that's the key to optimising results from this lens.

All our Building Panoramics pictures that have been shot with this lens are at f8.
Even so, it still has to be king of versatility.

I viewed your website. Great work! It seems DR is not limiting your creativity. 

Thanks Ramon, appreciate that. 

Yes, unlike some I have a vague idea of what under exposure is, and also know how to use that clever 'bkt' feature in the camera menu 

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Lenses / Re: Do you still love 24-105L?

« on: April 26, 2013, 12:15:42 PM »

I use mine for non-critical stuff, Like ebay photos, vacation photos and personal stuff. When I do use it for clients it's usually at F/8 so no-one could tell. It's a great lens if your using flash...

f8 - that's the key to optimising results from this lens.

All our Building Panoramics pictures that have been shot with this lens are at f8.
Even so, it still has to be king of versatility.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Bye Canon?

« on: April 26, 2013, 03:58:09 AM »

Maybe English isn't the OP's first language.

Maybe he meant Bye Buy Canon ?

After all, no credible person's first post is going to be 'Bye Canon' on CR.

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HDR - High Dynamic Range / Re: Post your HDR images:

« on: April 25, 2013, 04:07:18 PM »

Three shot bracket, blended manually in PS then tweaked in LR:


Kilchurn Castle [IMG_1384] by GammyKnee, on Flickr

Nicely done - in good taste

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Lenses / Re: Do you still love 24-105L?

« on: April 25, 2013, 02:44:33 PM »

Yes
 

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: The last roll of Kodachrome – what would you shoot with the last 36 frames?

« on: April 24, 2013, 03:13:09 PM »

naked supermodels....

Nah, even better... Granny P0RN

Hmmmmm,  . If your going to do that do the rest of us a favour and use a film without such fine grain

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Canon General / Re: That's my money you are profiting from Canon!!!

« on: April 24, 2013, 01:01:32 PM »

Yes you do have to be careful with off beat humour humor on CR.

What we need is a little 'tongue-in-cheek' face icon ! 

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Software & Accessories / Re: How to achieve this amazing editing effect ?

« on: April 24, 2013, 10:44:35 AM »

Hi all....

Thank you so much....

It was great lighting at the time.....the colour I got from Canon DPP. No Photoshop touch.

Thanks.

Andre Arment.

 

Welcome to CR Andre.

Have a look at my post on page 1.

(Is there a face icon for smug mode ? Maybe it's 





 

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Software & Accessories / Re: How to achieve this amazing editing effect ?

« on: April 24, 2013, 07:10:51 AM »

The backgrounds of the two pictures are not identical.

Andre was stood a few yards further to the right.

I stick to my comments in earlier posts. It is a Rarinda inspired picture.  ( In fact it is a blatant copy ) ( Actually I have no right to make that comment as I don't know for sure who took the picture first or even if they were taken on the same shoot. Rarinda's does exhibit a typical early 5D mk1 brown cast to me though which would suggest it was taken a while ago. But the brown tone could be for effect).

However I think they are both beautiful.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: 135mm f/1.8 DG OS ART Next from Sigma? [CR1]

« on: April 23, 2013, 04:34:46 PM »

Yep, one of the ten commandments on CR.

Never ever dish the 135L 

Actually out of the two I prefer my 200L f2.8 

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EOS Bodies / Re: Bye Canon?

« on: April 23, 2013, 04:28:56 PM »

I'm just frustated and i want canon to know!
I mean i love the 60d, but no real video af. I want a seald dslr
with a big viewfinder -and a good video af. Maybe even a gps since i do make most of my photos outdoor on many different locations...again, frustrated.

I think that if you are hoping for genuine 'video camera' type AF from a 70D you are likely to be disappointed. The video AF capability of the 650D is barely any better than what preceded it.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 6D viewfinder too big ?

« on: April 23, 2013, 04:22:17 PM »

You make a valid point. In the halicon days of 35mm SLRs the true pro cameras had smaller viewfinders than the other little gems that were produced in those days. Cameras such as the Olympus OM1 and Pentax MX had much larger viewfinders than any of today's DSLRs.

It is easier to follow fast sport when you can clearly see the whole picture.

You can fit a Canon eyepiece extender to your 6D which will give more 'eye point' and make the viewfinder smaller. They are quite cheap.  I use them on my FF cameras for sport.