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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« Last post by Rienzphotoz on Today at 07:08:27 AM »

Here is an image of a baby Pigeon, made with iPhone 4S ... this chick was well concealed in a corner behind the ledge of our office exhaust fan (I guess the Mama Pigeon was making sure cool air-conditioned air from our office is being piped to her baby, form the intense desert heat ... birds are really smart creatures) ... the only way I could make this image was with my iPhone stuck through the exhaust fan, aiming at this bird, as the gap was too narrow for any camera, let alone my DSLR, to fit.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: New Canon 5D Mark III

« Last post by Fleetie on Today at 06:44:04 AM »

Wow; you've obviously been saving your pennies.

I bet you're really enjoying that nice big viewfinder image, and I expect you'll have lots of fun with your excellent new camera.

Have fun!

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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« Last post by Sporgon on Today at 06:38:55 AM »

I have posted the Haystacks picture in the lens gallery, but thought I'd pop it into the Landscape gallery along with another picture. They are both taken in the English Lakes District National Park, the first from a small mountain known as 'Haystacks", looking towards Crummock Water and Ennerdale Water, with High Stile in the middle, at 2,643 feet. I know many around the world will laugh at that height being a mountain ( not those in the Netherlands     ) but to us Brits it's a mountain.

Second picture is taken in Borrowdale by the River Derwent, looking towards Maiden Moor, a paltry 1,887 feet.

All on the 24-105 at f11, at which aperture this lens is as good as anything else really, especially after pp.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« Last post by Rienzphotoz on Today at 06:32:18 AM »

Long time lurker; first time poster.
This thread inspired me to start birdwatching.

Moobark, welcome to CR ... I really like the first pic ... very nicely done.

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Lenses / Re: Telezoom lens (70-300L vs 70-200 vs 100-400)- Advice

« Last post by Jens_T on Today at 06:09:57 AM »

Thank you to all your remarks to all that replied so far.

Besides that, what you need to do is to see the focal lengths you shoot at. That should tell you what you need. I got the 100-400L for birds and animals. Having said that, I shot with it at the Grand Canyon and I did use it at 400mm.

I did that and am in the 200-300mm (*1.6 for crop) range if I need details.
Price (in the range of the discussed lenses) is not so much an issue.
When the 70-300mm L came out I thought it was overpriced for the fact that it is a slow lense - which doesn't matter so much for landscape though.

Probably the best thing really is to rent the 70-300 and try it.

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

« Last post by cid on Today at 06:09:29 AM »

at the falconry show during medieval festival


tyto alba by <CiD>, on Flickr

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: Best smartphone for use with Canon DSLR?

« Last post by smithy on Today at 06:05:10 AM »

On the back of this thread I decided to spend the $10 and bought DSLR Controller to use on my Nexus 7.  I already had a USB on-the-go cable, so it worked straight away with my 5D3.

So far I'm reasonably impressed.  However, it is taking me a little bit of time to figure out the interface!

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Lenses / Re: Standard Lens for Paris and London holiday.

« Last post by honsten on Today at 05:51:04 AM »

Just make the most of what you have, the 16-35 would be good because we have very narrow streets in London and especially Paris.
Personally speaking, I just slap the 40mm STM on the 6D for walking around/travel. Its so convenient and the optics are as good as it gets regardless of price. Maybe take one as a body cap

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EOS-M / Re: EOS M Announcement in the Summer? [CR2]

« Last post by nubu on Today at 05:42:51 AM »

By now I am really happy with my little eos-m, especially for the price!  Even on a astronomical telescope it works quite nice! Here a test on a 5" Apo-Refractor incl. the Canon EF2xIII reaching 1824mm.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« Last post by serendipidy on Today at 05:35:06 AM »

My Heron friend caught his 3rd fish since we've been a fishing team. 7D, 100-400@400.