Sorry … can't get excited about a 15 stop filter. I find my 10 stopper adequate for all my long exposure scenarios. But then I might be missing something.

The 5D MK III is reportedly no longer in production. Canon is not going to update firmware in a old camera model to add new features. If there is a actual problem, they will.

expatinasia said:

Has nobody bought it yet?

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Nah. I'll keep my current phone (iphone6) until I can't. If I break it I'd consider the S7 - having reasonable waterproofing is pretty cool.

Silverman said:

You can easily identify the right body as 1DX II: look on the new start/stop buttom "switch" (on the 1DX II now like on the 5D series) and the new joysticks.

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Thank you for showing this to me.

The silent mode of the 1DX II has a different characteristic than the silent mode of 5DSR but also higher possible FPS in silent mode. The noise sounds very usable for my needs.

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And if this video contains enough information for you than it's okay.
Please note, I didn't want to offense you for your decission,
I only wanted to say that this video wouldn't have helped me,
even though I am now convinced that it's a MkII.

It's a pretty simple plan... make a high quality product that works well and people want. Then you don't have to fix it as often but when you do, fix it right with a smile and keep that customer (happy) that you worked so hard to get selling the quality product in the first place. Oh... and a bonus is that a happy customer will bring other customers to you and sell for you.

Wonder how much NIKON paid to have that printed ...

Re: Sony A6000 bricked and un–


What had happened was that the upgrader was corrupted because of my bad internet connection.
I called the IP, he did something with the line, then I used another browser to download another upgrader and the procedure finished with success.


Canon cameras are good for taking pictures. Just saying.

gigabellone said:

Well, adding an UWA prime would be a hard choice: it would cost a lot more, and i'm also considering an overhaul of my gear to really consider what i need, and try to keep everything packed in a somewhat compact and not too heavy package. On several occasions i have left my gear at home because of either size, weight, bad camera bag choice, unwieldy tripod.

I'll buy the 16-35/4 and keep the Sigma 35 for a while, just to be sure i'm doing the right thing.

Thanks for the feedback and the insight!

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I think you are making a very wise decision to keep both for a while. Good thinking.

Aglet said:

meanwhile, like to the whole IR interview is here

www.imaging-resource.com/news/2016/03/21/fujifilm-interview-cpplus-2016-inside-x-pro2-leap-forward-phase-detect

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Frankly you deserve a medal if you managed to read that whole interview. Why does he not use a video camera, or at the very least a voice recorder, when doing such in-depth interviews? I know it is only personal opinion, but I hate reading long interviews when they are just written out in Q&A form like that.

As I am not going to read the whole thing, I will just repeat that what was said about Thais:

TI: About $550 as a price range, but bear in mind that was the price for Thailand. It's probably worth three months' salary or so [for customers in that market].

DE: Wow. And they're still buying them in huge quantities.
[Ed. Note: This is really incredible, that mass-market consumers are buying cameras that cost three months' salary!]

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is totally erroneous and completely inaccurate as well as misleading.

As Tyroop said, and I concur, most Thais use their smartphones to take pictures, many even have two! And many do spend much more than they should on their phones when you consider what some of them are earning. But the average middle class Thai earns a lot more than that ridiculous figure quoted above.

Ask most middle class Thais what they think of Fuji and they will most likely say they like the food, but that the restaurants can be really busy at certain times making it difficult to get a table! Yes, it is a popular and reasonably priced Japanese restaurant chain in Thailand!

OK, I did some more testing. Up until 1/25s it stays at roughly 10ms before the second curtain (then at about 75% of track length).
For 1/30s shutter speed and faster, setting second curtain sync does nothing but the normal first curtain sync is used. The change at 1/30s is documented in the manual of the 70D (it is also in the manual of the 5D3).
If they implemented this limitation, the 10ms I'm seeing might be normal, but should in any case be documented, as this drastically reduces the usefulness of the second curtain sync for any shutter speeds faster than about 1s.

First curtain sync flash seems to happen about 2ms after the curtain opens at the bottom of the frame (nearly at the middle of the 4ms track) and nearly at the start of the exposure at the top of the frame. This means that the shutter takes about 2ms to fully open (starting at the bottom of the frame) and afterwards the flash has about 2ms to fire until the shutter closes again (starting at the bottom of the frame).

Quote from one of them:

"It's going to be very interesting for next few months here in DPR. Looks like to achieve anything at high end we had to sacrifice lower end DR. Canon have improved the DR for their new cameras and Nikon reduced it. Most probably 1DX II will have more DR than D5. I can see there will be lots of arguments here about this."

Jack

I think having one FF and one APS_C would be a good choice too.
Be honest, nowadays when you no longer do any printing, sensors no longer a major issue to concern. I would rather consider about af speed, fps and iso.

Antono Refa said:

privatebydesign said:

The MP-E 65, I doubt if that will ever get upgraded, it has no real competition so why bother? It won the competition in the field of one!

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<nitpick>There's a 5x macro lens for m43 by Yasuhara Nanoha.</nitpick>

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Hmm, m4/3 isn't quite the same as FF though is it? At just 1/4 the sensor area they aren't really the same thing.

Thanks for sharing.

PhotographyFirst said:

It will be interesting to see how DXO reacts if the 1dX II has some sort of industry leading low ISO DR, or Nikon/Sony forums getting trolled about their ancient sensor tech.

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It depends if in this particular model's CMOS there are signal amps on chip already.

You know: DxO test the sensor only ignoring half of the Canon's logic before the end RAW image output. Ergo the evaluation is injustice for Canon up to now. We';ll see. The Canon's CEO said that they will change that.

It is a big problem for me. I currently use my power adaptor quite often on my 1DX. I use it for indoor sports where I am in a static environment, as well as in the studio. I also use it if I am using the camera as a B camera for video.

But the reduced frame rate for sports is a big disappointment for me considering the CN$850 price for an AC adaptor.

Hi,
I have just bought a Godox AD 360 and started to use it with my YN-622C TX and YN-622C units.

As I read it in the forum it works well with PC Sync to PC Sync connection when I want to use it on high shutter speed. I only noticed that when I for example change the shutter speed from /2000 to /4000 it makes an effect on the flash exposure too. I made the test in a dark room so there was no ambient light. Is it normal?

I tried to make the SuperSync with my YN-622C TX on my 6D and the AD360 on the hot shoe of YN-622C but there was banding.
Can you give me tip how should I setup the timing of the YN-622C TX?

Thanks in advance!

PhotoGuy said:

Zv said:

Decided not to go the Fuji route and stick with Canon instead for my mirrorless needs. Got myself a 'like new' but used EOS M2 from Amazon.jp this week for a piddly amount compared to those Fujis. Going to test it out properly tomorrow at an event with lots of people moving around at a parade. Initial tests at home were positive; focuses significantly faster than the M1 especially with my 11-22 lens. The 22/2 is still slow, my conclusion there is that it's the lens and not the camera. Going to try some adapted lens tests too.

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How does the M2 with the 22mm compare to the original M? No improvement at all or not as big as the 11-22?

Anybody else noticed the M10 with the 15-45 dropping to 320€? Thats a very good price ...

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Not sure I understand the question. The M2 with the 22mm is overall slightly smaller. AF is a tad faster too. The 11-22 though focuses a lot faster, it always did.

That 15-45 is dropping a fair bit on Amazon.jp already which is surprise. In comparison the 11-22 is the same price at what I bought it at. That was a while ago. It's held it's value well and I can see why - it's a quality lens!

M10 was gonna drop no matter. All of the Ms did.

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Mt Spokane Photography said:

So which is it? F/4L or F/2.8 MK II. Your title and the photo title does not match.

We all know that the f/2.8L MK II with a TC is very good. The f/4L NON IS with TC's suffers at the long end considerably.

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Oops, it should have been f2.8 in the title not f4. Thanks, corrected it. Mine is the mk I.

Hi all,
Been some time that I opened this thread. Unfortunately the portraits haven't been taken yet. Very busy with another project at school, but next month I will start with the first pictures. Thank you very much for all your replies. Really very kind of you. Great to read all of them.
Thank you again!

Two things:

1. Is everything ok with your gear now?

2. CPS is not supposed to be an endless supply of repairs. A repair of an out of warranty item does not magically give it a new warranty. I would like to hear about instances in your personal dealings where this was the case. Automobile work comes to mind.

Is it not feasible they found an actual problem that had yet to manifest itself and since you are not a certified lens technician, you thought nothing was wrong?

I think you should be happy. Sometimes the road is rough but the destination is beautiful.

Seeing this announcement makes me pretty happy. The new art lens seems to be successful in matters of the Zoom possibility, but remaining the quality of a fixed focal distance. With the f 1.8 it surely offers great opportunities for enlightened pictures with an easy way of handling it.

j-nord said:

nhz said:

Personally I'd rather see an excellent and affordable 4/300 DO that competes with the Nikon 4/300PF.

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600 DO seems too obvious but also more expensive than the 600f4ii? A 300/4 DO, now that would be an interesting lens. My biggest concern is that the DO design doesn't take TCs as well which is a real benefit to the current 300f4. A lot of people seem to want the 400f5.6 refreshed and include IS, this seems pointless with the 100-400ii as good as it is. Id rather see a 300f4 with an across the board improvement. Updated IS, AF and sharper at f4.

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Yes, 4/600 DO will probably be similar or even higher price than 4/600 II; there's also the rumored 5.6/600 DO but even that will cost about the same as a small car probably ;-)

Just looking at the 4/400 DO or the Nikon 4/300PF, TC's are not a problem for recent DO lenses except if you are extremely critical. Both do very well with a 1.4x TC, with 2.0x in addition to some optical quality loss the AF becomes a problem for moving subjects and in that case you should probably start with a brighter lens like the 2.8/300 II.

A much improved 4/300 DO could be my dream lens I'm currently using the 4/300IS but consider switching to 100-400II instead despite the much higher weight, because of the better AF, IS, better reach and better closeup capability. Agree that the 100-400 doesn't leave any room for a 5.6/400 IS (except maybe lower weight, but I think the market would be too small also given the significant used market for the 5.6/400).

Red drafting tape.

IMG_7437 by RexPhoto91, on Flickr

Meanwhile, Toshiba is in hot water over accounting practices, and apparently sold the medical imaging unit to Canon via transfer to a shell company first, which though unusual is probably not illegal, but is concerning in light of the other investigations.

Had a photo shoot yesterday using the YN 560 IIIs and even after 130 full power pops in 90 mins they just kept going. Understandably they did get quite warm!