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5D3's First Engagement Shoot...
justsomedude:
--- Quote from: SomeGuyInNewJersey on March 22, 2012, 11:56:38 AM ---Glad to hear you are enjoying the new camera... Mine should be shipping today. My 5 year old daughter is going to a birthday party at an indoor play place called "pump it up" Ive always had problems there with my 550d due to the low light and movement... If my 5d3 arrives in time tomorrow it will be a great test for it.
Quick question... You are talking about LR4 with the 5d3 shots... So:
- Is there a new update to use the 5d3 raws?
- Did you shoot jpg?
- Did you convert to tiff in Canons software then import that into LR4?
Actually that was 3 questions... :)
Oh and now I think fo it I have more...
The AF performance you mentioned in low light... what lens were you using? What was the max aperture? I think you were probably using a 70-200L f/2.8?
Great shots by the way... have you shown the client yet? Though I am sure they didnt care about anyhting you had to say about your wonderful new camera! :) I liked the ones with the sunset clouds in the background. [/list]
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Sorry I missed this post SGINJ! Regarding editing in LR4...
There is no LR4 update yet to natively view the 5D3 files. I had to download the new Adobe DNG Converter. It is in beta, so YMMV. Others have suggested converting all CR2s to Tiffs, but that was taking too long for me. The DNG conversion went much faster. And LR4 can open Adobe DNG files just fine. However, I do wonder if there is information lost in the x-fer, as the DNG's are about 20% smaller in file-size than their Canon RAW counterparts.
Regarding AF in low-light, I was using the 70-200 f/2.8 IS L as you predicted. The AF was "OK" in low-light. Seemed to get lost at times, and give up at other times. Honestly, I prefer this to the camera just guessing on some random focal plane, only to give me a blurry image I have to delete later. I'm doing an event gig tonight, and I'll most likely implement the AF assist on my 580 exII (although disable the flash for some shots to test the high ISO). If you'll be indoors with low-light, I'd still recommend using an AF-assist beam, be it via an ST-E2 or 580EXII.
Max aperture for this shoot was f/2.8 in the night settings. I tried to stay above 5.6 in the daylight, just to keep their bodies well within the DOF. Didn't have much option as it got darker, while wanting to keeping my shutter speed above 1/40th without ramming into ISO 25800 land. Didn't feel like testing that out with a client just yet. :P
And yup - sent them these samples this morning. They are happy with the results. :)
itsnotmeyouknow:
--- Quote from: justsomedude on March 22, 2012, 09:45:03 AM ---
--- Quote from: cps_user on March 22, 2012, 02:21:08 AM ---To be honest, I don't see anything that couldn't have been shot with the 5d2.
But the good thing is that at first sight I'm just thinking "damn awesome shots!"
;D
Nice to see some real, good shots instead of all the crap they've thrown at us so far.
im sure it performs up to par! How you like af and metering?
Getting mine today, sold the 5d2 yesterday.
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Thanks, CPS. Much appreciated!
Regarding the AF and metering, it's hard to give a 100% honest review after only 2-hours of shooting with it, but I will give my first takes:
* In good light, the AF is noticeably faster to lock on - and lock on correctly. Also, the AI Servo is SICK at tracking (at least running humans - all I've tested so far).
* In low light, the AF is noticeably slower, and seems to either lock on correctly after a bit of a delay - or hunt and give up. This was a gripe many had with Nikon - slow to lock but at least you got a sharp image. I actually prefer this to the old "quick lock - hope you get the proper focal plane!" approach of the old 5D2. It seems like now we either have proper focus after a delay, or no focus at all (visible through viewfinder). I prefer this to the unreliable AF of the MKII, as now I have better confidence in whether the focus-lock indicator is real and not just guessing at some random focal plane.
* The metering is phenomenal - and while some have complained of the DR, it seems I'm able to recover a heck of a lot more highlights than I could from my 5D2 images. Whether this is improved functions of LR4, or better metering of the 5D3 is hard to tell at this point.
I'll post up more info as I continue to use it, but so far I'm thrilled with the 5D3 performance. Oh, and one last bit of info... while every shot I posted probably could have been done on a 5D2, I would say the first one could not. That was shot at 12800 ISO with no external flash.
Honestly, and I mean this sincerely... the noise of the 5D3 at 12800 seems similar to the 7D at 1600. It's TOTALLY usable/workable, and will totally change my approach to low-light photography. The ISOs are one of the most amazing upgrades to this line - they are just mind blowing!!
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I hope it's the camera too, but the new Highlights section of LR 4 is worlds better than the old recovery slider. Was able to recover detail that was completely blown out earlier
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