So finally on Nov. 4th the annual Winter Promotion has appeared on the German Canon Website.
This is : because it starts from Nov. 1st and lasts until to Jan. 31st.

You can choose between up to 180€ cash back or up to 300 € credit/deposit for buying another product within that time.

For details look here:
http://www.canon.de/for_home/promotions/

Note:
There is still a "EOS plus X" promotion running in parallel until to Jan. 31st that looks more attractive to me, if you're looking for a new body plus lens.

Enjoy your GAS

PS.:
Something I recognize:

• While Canon rises the (MRSP) prices the cash back/deposit value is getting lower and lower ???
• There are fewer and fewer prime lenses included lenses

ahsanford said:

File under 'Dubious' -- a reasonably sharp 15 second handheld exposure:

http://www.thephoblographer.com/2016/11/03/olympus-omd-em1-mk-ii-can-handheld-15-seconds-get-clean-exposures/#.WBti5Nx_3-8

- A

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Looks legit to me. Remember these are small files. Would look doable for FB or Instragram but not great at 100%.

Still does a beautiful job

Canon made the non-profit CDPs Climate A-List for the first time obviously because of their nonprofitability from last quarter.

3kramd5 said:

If I were designing my own it would be 645.

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Well, MF chips are available if you order enough of them...

It can't be that difficult - look at all the new players in the booming MF camera market
First film makes its big comeback, and now medium format ... we are indeed in a golden age.
[ ;-) ]

Look no further than the new Feelworld monitor FW760. I buy it from a Feelworld sales named Kevin(I remember his email is [email protected] ).
The 7'' monitor accepts 4K signals and IPS full HD 1920*1080, which is perfect for DSLRs, mirrorless cameras and cinema cameras.
The features including:
Histogram, False Color, Zebra Exposure, Embedded audio meter, Focus Assist, etc.
And it is really slim and light weight design.
I really love it. It is really an affordable monitor for 4K cameras.
Below is the product link from their official website:
http://www.feelworld.com.cn/ShowInfo.aspx?id=386&py=FEELWORLD-7-IPS-4K-HDMI-Full-HD-1920x1200-On-Camera-Monitor-Ultra-thin-Design-FW760

The task is to AFMA the V2 Tamron 150-600 with the Tap-in console. The software used for AFMA is Reikan Focal. So far so good......

The Tap-in console allows one to enter AFMA values for the lens at various distances and focal lengths. The recommended distances are 2.2metres (minimum focal distance), 20 metres, and infinity (I picked 100 meters).
At each distance, you run an AFMA test at 150, 200, 300, 400, 500, and 600mm focal length (18 Focal AFMA runs in total), enter the values into the Tap-in software, program your lens, and you are done....

I had no problems with the runs at 20 meters, but the target was too large for the minimum focal distance runs and too small for the "infinity" runs. I tried printing the target out smaller, but I ended up having to print it at 25% size and the quality through my printer is pretty bad when shrunk that far (but Focal ran!)..... I also tried to print it larger for the "infinity" runs, but it was only good for 500 and 600mm and would not work for the wider settings.

any ideas out there?

eml58 said:

The 5DMK III Ok
The 5DsR just doesn't cut it for low light Wildlife, but a superb camera when you have enough light and things move a little slower.

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Strange conclusion. 5DS/R has up to 2 full stops better DR and better noise than the 5DIII. Plus it will focus after the 5DIII gives up so both functionality and low light results are superior with the 5DS/R.

If you have an iOS device, this is really simple. None of the mess I'm reading is required. Get the app ShutterSnitch, and you can select the Canon 5Dmk4 directly from the setup menu. I'm not sure if the app is available for Android, but it doesn't hurt to check. This is a great app. I've been using it for years.

Don Haines said:

davidmurray said:

Don Haines said:

CanonGuy said:

davidmurray said:

drmikeinpdx said:

davidmurray said:

I'd also expect to see lots of cheap, virtually unsalable older models - including my own 5D3.

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I'm sure my 5D3 will be thoroughly worn out by then! Best purchase I ever made.

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I too am very happy with my 5D3.

It's just that 92dB is massively massively huge dynamic range. It would permanently wipe the smile off the Sony fan-bois.
Such a dynamic range would be difficult if not impossible to print without significant compression of that range.
Much like digital sequencers, synthesizers, and recorders did away with the need to be skillful in playing music and capturing the sound, so too will a 92dB DR camera do away with the need to consider the amount of light on different parts of the subject.

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You are cute to think that others will just sit back lol. Canon is miles behind DR wise. Let them play the catch up game first lol

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93 dB would be 16 stops..... Yes, it is better, but it is not revolutionary better.

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More like 30 stops - if one stop is a doubling of light.

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If it was a 10log function, then it would be 31 stops, but this is power and for that we use a 20log function and we end up with almost 16 stops.....

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Hmm, as a worn out EE me thinks power is 10log, V and I being 20. Not that it matters.

Jack

Re: Stock Notice: Sigma 12-24mm f/4 DG Art at B&H Photo

Chaitanya said:

sleepnever said:

Chaitanya said:

reviews of this new lens seem quite good. I would have liked to see some sort of weather sealing to make it a good lens to use in field.

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I agree. I really wish SIGMA would start doing that to these higher end lenses. I'm not really sure what "Dust- and Splash-Proof Construction" means, especially because I don't see that on even SIGMA's website.

People always reply and say "well nobody uses it in the rain" -- sorry, not true. I live in the PacNW and its wet/moist/etc here and I don't just shoot in the dry-ish summer. And yesterday I was out doing couples photos for friends with my SIGMA 50 1.4 ART and it was drizzle to light rain. Really wish it had some sort of sealing. That's my ONLY gripe with these new lenses. They're fantastic otherwise.

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I really didnt understand Sigmas logic when they released Sport and Contemprary series of lenses with weather sealing while they excluded the Art series from it. I can understand they want to build ultimate no compromise lens in terms of performance so Image stabilizers got axed but weather sealing is just plain silly. I find it easier to protect the gear from rains( I use my gear a lot during monsoons in Western ghats and here when it rains it rains bucket loads) but moisture is what has killed my lenses and other electronics before.

This is what the forests of western ghats look like on a good day during monsoons:
IMG_7201 by Chaitanya Shukla, on Flickr

I have already lost 430ex and 100mm L due to moisture in these forests.

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I used to take a lot of shots in the rain forest in the film days. And yes - moisture kills everything. Brings in fungus too. Using Sicilia bags and plastic bags for sealing off your gear before/after use can save your gear (and your film... ). Also, be mindful of temperature swings! Walking into a dry, air-conditioned hotel room will increase the risk of condensation inside the camera a lot.

Btw Canon weather sealing does not imply rain proof - at all. It also does not protect against moisture developing in your camera.

Sabaki said:

pwp said:

Sabaki said:

The 50mm story intrigues me.
I can see a new 50mm f/4.0 outshining the current f/1.2 for a considerable period before Canon release the new L

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Hell will freeze over before Canon releases a 50mm f/4. Guaranteed to never happen.
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lmao!!! Sorry mate, typo on my part! I meant a new 50mm f/1.4! Hahahaha

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Should have guessed it was a typo. A new 50 f/1.4....so now you're talking! Let's have it with IS.

-pw

http://search-asia.canon-asia.com/canon__asia_en__asia_p_en/search.x?ct=Support&hf=category%09zubaken&cf=model_sm:EOS+M5&d=MANUALS

Great shots, Dave. Well done. 8)

ahsanford said:

Wow:
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2016/11/nikon-105mm-f1-4-e-mtf-bench-tests/

Sharper at f/1.4 than the 135L is at f/2 and nearly as sharp (again, at f/1.4) as the 100L at f/2.8.

That's impressive.

- A

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The 135L is not perfect wide open. Dustin Abbott recently shared some comparisons to the new Milvus lenses which show the age of the 135L. It's good but in honesty not perfect wide open.

I must say that the Nikon 105/1.4 is sharper wide open than I expected. I thought it would be decent at f/1.4 but very sharp at f/2 and f/2.8. This one appears to be like the Canon 35L II... i.e. very sharp wide open and with low astigmatism, so perhaps it could also be good for "deep-sky" astro mosaic shots. We'll have to see if the low astigmatism translates into low "coma" as well or if f/1.4 will summon seagulls in the corners. At that price though the Zeiss 135 Milvus looks like better value for money.

Don Haines said:

I think that the users of big/long glass are a small proportion of all shooters, and that small group comes mostly from affluent amateur photographers.... the birding/wildlife/plane spotters... I do not know a single pro who uses them for work, but the birding community has them in spades!

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Actually, I'd honestly say that pros make up most of the market for long glass. The Associated Press alone has hundreds, if not thousands, of the 400mm f/2.8, 200-400 f/4 1.4x, and 600 f/4 just in the US and that's just one photo agency. They buy them as soon as they come out as well, and replace them as soon as they break. Now if you think about Getty, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, and everything else out there, there's a hell of a lot of these lenses sold to newspapers. Sports photographers would probably also outnumber birders in general, and when you get into that, there's thousands on thousands of college, high-school, and professional sports photographers.

The newspaper I mainly work with specifically has the Nikon 300mm f/2.8 and 200-400 F/4, and that's a smaller-sized paper.

I'd say Canon makes most of their sales of 1DX and big white lenses off of these sports/news agencies that buy them in bulk. Getty Images brought about 35 big whites to the Olympic games, for example, and that's definitely a tiny part of their whole agency.

Not bad work on display here. I need to up my game.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/1515307818/announcing-the-winners-of-usa-landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2016

As a fun side note, not a single one of the 16 award winning shots was taken with a 5DS or 5DS R. The award winning shots came from 14 different cameras, including a fun levitating shot taken on a T3i (!) of all things.

- A

mpollock said:

Seems to me the real problem here is that Canon is applying lens corrections to an image for some lens other than what is attached to the camera. OK, they probably don't have correction info for Sigma lenses and even if they did I wouldn't expect Canon to apply them. But to modify images incorrectly seems to me to border on malicious. As a software engineer looking as some of the things Canon engineers do in firmware, I can assure you it's not due to incompetence on the part of Canon engineers that this image modification is happening.

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Sigma lenses identify themselves to the camera as if they were a similar Canon lens in order to get it working. I don't think Canon should go the extra mile to identify that the lens is actually a Sigma pretending to be a Canon and turn off lens correction.

kaihp said:

Old Sarge said:

AcutancePhotography said:

Old Sarge said:

Or, if like me, you recently changed your browser settings to "Erase Cookies on Closing" (or something similar to that) then you have to log in every time you close your browser and open it again. I'm back to keeping cookies until they expire.....because I am lazy. But that isn't the most secure way to operate.

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I wish there was a way to filter cookies that are convenient to me (to keep)as opposed to cookies that are convenient to marketeers (to block/delete).

But I guess that would defeat the purpose of cookies.

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It would, but we can still wish for it. My son, who is real security conscious, not only dumps cookies every session but he also has disabled JAVA, running it only on virtual machines. He also has disabled flash. Not to mention his daily onsite and offsite backups (he has me doing a weekly onsite and daily offsite myself....I didn't realize before that paranoia is contagious).

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If you use Firefox, have a look at Self-Destructing Cookies. With SDC, you can tell it to delete cookies after you leave the website (ie all tabs referring to that site is closed), after you close the browser, or "never" (I set this for sites where I like to be kept logged in).

Works really well for me. YMMV.

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Thanks, Kaihp. I do use Firefox and will look into this.

AcutancePhotography said:

Old Sarge said:

I didn't realize before that paranoia is contagious).

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You know that people are talking about how paranoid you are.

;D

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I have suspected this for some time.

atkinsonphoto said:

I don't want to complicate the experiment, but I do have a question. Don't aperture and ISO change with different sensor sizes? My understanding is that focal length and aperture should be multiplied by the crop factor and ISO divided by the crop factor to get equivalence. This means for any given lens/aperture/ISO, you'll get a longer focal length, narrower aperture and lower ISO for crop sensors vs full frame. Do the results still compare apples to apples to apples?

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Yes they do. But the premise of the OP's linked article is specifically focal length limited situations where all images are cropped to the same fov, the same area from each sensor. Therefore effectively the same sized sensor.

In this specific comparison there is no equivalence calculation.

Hi,

Here are some data that may interest you, ordered by most used.
Some photographer are shooting more shows than others so it to hard to get a true representation.

Last season 2017 Spring Summer

NIKON D4S
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
NIKON D500
NIKON D5
NIKON D7200
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EOS-1D X
NIKON D4
NIKON D800
NIKON Df
NIKON D810
NIKON D3S


2016 Fall Winter

NIKON D4S
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
NIKON D7200
NIKON D3S
Canon EOS-1D X
NIKON D810
NIKON Df
NIKON D800
NIKON D5
NIKON D3
NIKON D4

Cheers

Mikehit said:

Jopa said:

3kramd5 said:

eli452 said:

I do not understand these mine/latest model Canon camera Vs. Sony/Nikon/whatever brand latest model threads.

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It would be more interesting were it like "will it blend." Smash them together and see which one lasts longer

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What a great idea! I would love to see a 1dx2 vs d5 blending challenge

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No-o-o-o-o!
Physics tells us that if a particle and anti-particle ever come into contact there is instant annihilation and with two object that size the power released could destroy the world! The only thing left floating in space will be dozens of Sony A7RIIs that were shielded by the layers of adoration and the sense that no-one really knew why they had been created.

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;D LOL^2!

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Hi Folks.
Wow, I thought this app was being left to expire, this is fabulous news, I do like this app. Off to update if my phone hasn't done it automatically, I haven't used it for a week or two.
Thanks for sharing this.

Cheers, Graham.

chrysoberyl said:

I like this lens! Yes, there are flare issues, and some folks may have issues with the AF, but I don't use AF with this lens.

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I had the lens for a few years and used it fairly regularly. I never had issues with the AF. I had heard some people saying manual focus because an issue because of damage to the clutch governing the manual focus ring.

Overall, I thought the lens was superb. Like you say, though, just gotta be careful of that flaring.