Thanks PwP.

Spokena, yes I might actually get one. Thanks. I didn't actually know you could buy that part.

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Mt Spokane Photography said:

Khalai said:

Mt Spokane Photography said:

Canon has patented a ton of pellicle mirrors over the years, and even produced two or three models using them. They all flopped. I would not buy a fixed pellicle mirror body. What a fixed mirror gives is a poor OVF and poor high ISO, the worst of both worlds to me.

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What I want is hybrid OVF/EVF body. So I can use OVF for AF lenses and EVF in dim light and MF lenses

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That is one positive thing about pellicle mirrors, but I'm not sure it overcomes the negatives.

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Well the patent I'm referencing, has the mirror still capable of moving UP, whilst other patents have some kind of variable transmittance. I'm hoping that some kind of variable transmittance mirror with hybrid OVF/EVF sees the light of day before the mirror dies out completely.

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That sounds like the existing mirror, it has a pellicle center section where part of the light goes thru to a sub mirror underneath it, thru a lens and onto a AF sensor in the bottom of the mirror box

Don't hold your breath, there are many patents from Canon as well as others. One of the issues is light reflecting off both faces of a pellicle mirror and creating a ghosting effect. Really thin glass reduces it, but then, you do not want it banging up and down. Canon has a patent to make the super thin pellicle mirror as well.

Pookie said:

It's like going to a wine forum and asking others if you'll like merlot or cabernet better.

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The OP appeasrs to be from Argentina, so perhaps a Malbec would be the best choice.

magarity said:

Is there any hope that the smaller flashes will make the transition to radio control as slaves? ...

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Short answer: No!

Long answer:
For the small flashes I'd expect the RT and controls too expensive to get market acceptance.
If you would want to invest in an multi flash system (that's what you plan using RT) you also want flexibility and power. So I cannot imagine flashes below GN 43 getting RT treatment.
Honestly I was surprised to see the 430 III with RT. But to me this was because for a lot of hobbyists the 600 RT (at least two or three of them) are too expensive.

Jopa said:

Wow. Hasselblad a few months ago, and now Leica... Crazy stuff.

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Leica is aimed at those who are willing to pay big bucks for a status symbol as well as those who can afford surpurb craftsmanship. Its a fluctuating business, when sales slow down, you need a cash cow to fall back on.

Great shots, Don. I am surprised that it cleaned up so well.I have taken some shots that in my living room with no lights and they were impossible to correct in DPP. The better one can properly expose his shots the easier it is to clean up the noise. That is something I have to get better at.

Looks like the sensor is pretty good, wouldn't you agree?

Brian

P.S. Sorry I made you spend 2 grand. (Hee Hee Hee)
P.S.2 It is so nice to be able to shoot indoors without using a flash.

Hi SecureGSM.
Thanks, that is a really clear and concise explanation to my rather ambiguous question!

Cheers, Graham.

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in afew words: the bigger the number the better camera performs at high ISO. this number corresponds with the highest "usable" (noise levels) ISO level for the camera. i.e. 5D III Low Light ISO is: 3652 and 5D IV Low Light number is: 5011. Than means that 5D III is as "noisy" at ISO 3652 as 5D IV at ISO 5011. or in another words: 5D IV has 1/3 stop high ISO advantage over the 5D III. I hope it does make sense.

Valvebounce said:

What do the numbers in this quote (from the 7DII, but each camera has its own number) mean? 'Low Light ISO Setting 1901.'
For this number, is bigger better or worse?

Cheers, Graham.

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ok..it doesn't move...but it's so far down the lens that it almost seems to be a 1 piece design...not 6...

the usb thing is not a bad idea...i wouldn't have put it on the front of the lens though...
i wonder if that's the next step for sigma/tamron..instead of their usb docks..and the chinese have beaten them to it
yes, i know it means not selling a bunch of docks but still...

I bought Mark iV too while waiting for a 6D upgrade. Lot more expensive but works for events. I like to shoot time laspess so 6D II can be an excellent upgrade. If AF system is improved might be even useful for events

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I went ahead and sold my 6D in anticipation of the mark II performance and to get the maximum dollars back before the flood if used gear. The feature upgrades make this a needed improvement over the original. Waiting on the price drop around November, until then I snagged an 80D.

Chaitanya said:

Those illuminated buttons are seriously useful, I think Olympus was the first maker to implement illuminated buttons. Too bad that trend didnt catch up until now, just yesterday I was shooting in Sahyadris(western ghats) on a rainy, windy and foggy night and was jealous of my friends D500 which also has those back-lit buttons.

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out of interest can you set the brightness on the D500?

cpsico, my gear far exceeds what my capabilities are/will ever be as well. Canon glass was the reason my friend and I moved more recently to Canon from Nikon. For me the 400 DO II is a dream come true.

Pros have to be serious but for me it's all about an amateur enthusiast having FUN outdoors.

Jack

Don Haines said:

But what camera does Justin Beiber use to take a picture of his Big Mac

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An SL2 with the new EF-S 35mm Macro would be perfect for that!

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scyrene said:

daphins said:

Mt Spokane Photography said:

Khalai said:

Or just forget in-camera HDR JPEG only altogether, bracket a couple of RAW files and HDR merge manually back home

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Its a entry level camera, and most users will use those in camera features. Nothing wrong with that. Most of us here use raw and process separately, but the world is changing, people want to and expect the ability to upload and post photos in real time.

I've been around long enough to remember the discussions when Single Lens Reflex (SLR) film cameras came out. There were lots of naysayers, but they pushed out the rangefinders almost over night. Same thing when autofocus came along. Now, its upload immediately to social web sites, and that's what is needed to attract a new generation of camera buyers. Rejoice, they are keeping the camera manufacturing business alive so us old timers can keep doing it the "RIGHT WAY??"

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i'll actually be doing his above workflow. Hadn't pulled HDR's off the camera yet, so i didn't know they were JPEG's (which makes sense).

Is there a way to identify photo graphs as being part of a series as we take them, so I know which ones to compile as an HDR in post-production?

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You'll have a group of three raw shots and a jpeg, with consecutive file names, though the order may vary; but you'll see one bright, one normal, one dark, and one jpeg, and that's your batch. It's fairly straightforward to parse them once you've found the first group.

FWIW in-camera HDR output is pretty poor in my experience (usually overcooked, although it's a matter of taste), and of course as the output is jpeg you have much less processing latitutde than if you blend them in software, but it's a quick way of shooting bracketed raws which can be aligned and blended later; I tend to delete the camera-produced jpeg once I've been through them all.

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So noob question. If I'm shooting RAW and shoot an HDR it will shoot 3 RAW's and a jpeg. When people complain about the HDR performance of the 6D, are they complaining about the jpeg produced from the 6D, or the quality of the RAW's?

Following on that, if I were to manually bracket the RAW's and compile as an HDR image later, would that solve the "poor HDR" performance of the 6D?

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I've only used the HDR function on the 5D3 and 5Ds but I assume it's the same for all current bodies? The output is jpeg.

Combining in software is always going to produce a better result*, but it takes longer, of course.

*The in-camera HDR function has a few options, and I haven't tried them all, but all the ones I've tried have produced similarly poor output jpegs *to my eyes*.

Hey mazza1967,

Have you heard of the latest V2.4 for the AD600 strobe??
I know it is supposed for Olympus cameras, but does it affect the Canon functionality in a way??

Can the Olympus point and shoots now optically trigger the AD600's??

Baker Beach is another good option for pics of the GG Bridge, some good sunset light from that side.

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jeffa4444 said:

Backed by strong sales of smart phone components, cameras and games revenues Sony announces best ever 1st Quarter with $ 730M profit (four times the profit from a year earlier)

The profit surge comes partially from its sensor business now fully recovered from the earthquakes.

Source: BBC News

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"Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Four times more than when they shut down from an earthquake, with warnings for a downgrade in sensor demand for the year from a forecast from just a couple of months ago. Gaming profit, the traditional cash cow of the group, down 60%. Group profits 12% below analyst estimates.

Not doomed but not as rosy a picture as the headlines might imply, and constantly below estimates.

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It did say "best ever" - is this untrue - just wondering?

Jack

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Yes, but if you just bought another company then it should be, and Sony have bought other companies in the sensor manufacturing arena. So the analysts project an income for the combined group and Sony are missing those projections, and they are downgrading annual projections. So not as bullish as "highest 1st quarter profits ever" would have you believe.

Mind you 'the market' like what the current boss is doing and like the multi billion dollar gamble he has made with putting a lot of his eggs in the sensor manufacturing basket, funny because that is the area of the business with the biggest annual downgrade due to the availability of cheaper sensors. Go figure.....

I tested it initially during a couple of events when I first got the camera, but ultimately I didn't think the doubled(!) file size was worth the marginal amount of additional adjustment available in post. For example, when the focus was a tiny bit off and I tried to "fix" it using the microfocus shift, the ENTIRE image got softer which didn't help me very much. The other thing is I was forgetting to turn it off and I'd end up with an entire set of 80MB raw files...that's even larger than the files out of the 5DSR...

I concluded that I'm going to be working with files of that size, I'd rather them be 50MP so I have not used DPRAW since the initial "test period" I set up.

Mikehit said:

Thank you all for your comments.

Ian - I have found a minimum of 1/500 is needed for most shots.
1/320 is OK for for people standing still or at the end of motion such as the bowler at the end of his bowling action, or the batsman at full backswing or end of his stroke.
At 1/500 the ball is slightly blurred as it reaches the batsman and modest action is OK.
The fast bowler in full flow was 1/1600 sec and is a wee bit blurred.
At 1/2000 the ball starts to freeze.

The first set were taken with a 7D2 and 100-400 - the fast bowler was at 400mm with no tc and very slight crop with the bowler at the far wicket. I was sat on the boundary rope at a local town match.
The second set were 1Dx2 with 400+1.4 which is pretty much the same FOV.

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I'll second those - gloomy, overcast days I'll be at around 1/640th and in bright sun anything up to 1/2000.

When is it coming? Next week, and my *guess* is as good as any. When is the M80 coming out?

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photojoern.de said:

For travellers from abroad, this really sucks. I will certainly not hand over my camera as normal luggage, so I have to carry it on. Pretty lot of hazzle. For what reason again, please???

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What is the hassle? Take your camera out of the bag, have it x-rayed and put it back in your bag. Just like you do with a laptop.

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It is a PITA.

Let's see...i"m traveling on my own and if I have to scan everything they want....I'll have
1. container for my backpack
2. container for my laptop (work)
3. container for my iPad
4. container for my camera
5. container for my camera bag
6?? Maybe 3 more containers if they want one per lens I have in bag...?
7. OH yes...my fscking shoes on the conveyor belt....and then walking through without belt...then with everyone barreling through, have to get my belt and shoes back on before my pants fall down....then, put everything back into the proper bag (all those containers of mine along with everyone else piling up at the end of the belt.....

It's a major PITA....and still to this day, when the Feds test the system, they consistently get like 98% or better of the fake weapons and bombs through......

This crap does no good and only basically causes the law abiding public problems....

C

Hi Yiannis.
My apologies, I wrote a reply to you on the 29th, but I guess I was so tired I didn't send it or closed the page too soon before it finished uploading.
Thank you for your reply, it will be helpful, and I do have a decent(ish) mic, a Rode Stereo Video mic. So far I have only taken some stills of a fairly boring installation process in a prestigious location and I am not at liberty to share the shots, I have some more opportunities to get shots and I will try to grab a couple from a public location which I can share in case anyone is interested.
Again my apologies, I appreciate the help people like you provide and I felt terrible that it appeared I had not the manners to thank you.

Cheers, Graham.

Yiannis A - Greece said:

Dear Graham,
i used to own the camera about 2 1/2 years ago (i bought it the 1st day it was available in Athens shops and almost immediately regretted doing so, because i got three "lemons" in a row; the known problem with the AF was existent in the first one and also in both the replacement copies i was given) and still have the pdf version of its manual after getting rid of the particular cameras. The answer to your question is "YES"; 7D mark II can send 1080p signal to a recorder (like Atomos etc) connected to the HDMI output.
Just have a decent mic connected to it because, as usual, the internal ones suck compared to a good quality external one!

Hope i helped you, have the best of times shooting with your camera.

Best wishes
Yiannis A, Athens, Greece.

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Coral Snake Micrurus fulvius by Kris Bell, on Flickr

Two examples on the 5d3, one single shoot of 20s (f/1.8) and a stack of 6x30s (f/2.0)...