Thanks

Crop and Full frame night shooting is worlds apart.

Recently i put a 7d2 versus a 6d, long exposure waterfront cityscape. As good as the crops can be at low iso, it's not even close - FF dynamic range int low light is a wonder to behold.

But.......

Beware the Af of the 6d. It's pathetic.

TWI by Dustin Abbott said:

infared said:

Great review...wish I hadn't read/watched...LOL!
I am sticking with my 85mm f/1.2L II.
Dustin...please do not do a comparison...just leave me in ever lasting ignorance!
That way I can still love the lens that I own.

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That is pretty much the way I felt about my beloved 135L after doing the Sonnar T 135 review.

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Yes..Yes...I remember reading it! At least you could say that the 135L was less than half the price and has super fast AF....
My 85L II may be less than half the price..but the AF is turtle-like..at best!!!!! LOL! (I do still REALLY love that lens...it;s unique).

hi to all, i'm a newbie and i've a question, a monitor like lilliput 668gl works in live view with the canon g 16?

I am never surprised at the ways people come up with to defraud people.

Thank you!

Some maternity shots of my wife goofing around...
Lex 38 weeks by Philip DiResta, on Flickr

Lex 38 weeks by Philip DiResta, on Flickr

And dancing...
Lex 38 weeks by Philip DiResta, on Flickr

Hi
if you can afford it -buy it!! I only have the first version and is very pleased, the new is even better!
I use it handheld a lot, even for a whole day shooting whales from small boats - no problem.
Attach a Common tern with old version 1.4x extender (since then bought the III ) on 7D
http://tromsofoto.smugmug.com/BirdsoftheNorth/Seabirds/i-G5F3PJH/5/X2/_MG_5351%20%282%29-X2.jpg

My guess is 12-18 months for the 1dx ii.

I've seen the 1dx for around $5800 recently, where the 1dxii will probably cost $7500... So that's another consideration.

Canon have included exposure compensation whilst in manual mode when auto ISO is set, this feature was included a while ago to the 1DX via a firmware update.

On the 7D MK II the meter on the top LCD is only ever an exposure compensation indicator. When you are in full manual the light meter will show on the back LCD and in the viewfinder.

A light meter is not needed in any mode other than full manual as the camera will be trying to set the correct exposure - hence why you would need exposure compensation instead.

Maybe Canon didnt include the light meter on the top LCD as this could become confusing? (even more so )

Ryan85 said:

I don't get the whole pancake lens thing. There so small on a dslr. Taking shots with them feels weird to me trying to use good form. To me why not just use a 24mm, 35mm or 50mm prime. I may be in the minority but there just not cup of tea

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To me a pancake lens looks and feels odd - too darn small. Also I can't get on with the rebel cameras because the grip is too small and I find them awkward to hold. But I like to put the pancake 24mm on my 7DmkII and take the camera out on the streets. Limiting myself to a single angle of view and being able to shoot relatively unobtrusively (the pancake doesn't look like it's being 'pointed at' a subject like a longer lens does) I find exhilarating and it sometimes gets me great shots.

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RGF said:

Look at the Yen / Dollar The Yen is rather weak (you can get many more yen per dollar than six months or a year ago).

Canon can sell at a lower $ price and still get the same (or more) Yen.

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That only helps for things that cost Canon Yen, all the stuff they pay for outside Yen, like raw materials, shipping, everything made in Thailand and the other 'foreign' plants costs more because of the Yen slip. Of course companies like Canon should be hedging to mitigate the general exchange rate changes, but going either way has its drawbacks.

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Raw materials are only part of the issue. Labor, R&D, marketing, admin, ... all add to COGS. These are mostly (exclusively) Yen based. Over all their production costs are (I suspect) relatively fixed, so the weak Yen is good, as we are finally seeing, for US consumers.

TexPhoto said:

As others have said, this is a tough question. Both lenses have some real advantages. As I shoot sports the f2.8 is critical for me. I simply could not shoot night games with an f5.6 lenses. And I do sometimes ad the 1.4X converter to this lens.

Part of me wants to recommend some combination of both. 70-200 and a 400mm f5.6 prime? But that is probably not going to be in the budget.

For general photography and "ocational" wildlife I'm going to say 70-200 f2.8 and converter. I just think the 70-200 f2.8 should be in the bag of almost any photographer, it is such a useful lens.

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I was reviewing a picture of the BG-E16 in advance of buying a 7D2 and noticed what appeared to be a rubber gasket around the part of the grip that extends into the battery compartment of the 7D2. I haven't seen such a gasket on any previous battery grips, and I've known it to be a strong weakness to a camera's weather sealing if using a grip.
Does this mean we finally have some level of weather sealing guaranteed even with the grip?

Here's the picture I'm referencing of the BG-E16
http://cdn01.dcfever.com/articles/news/2014/10/141029_canon_7d2_08l.jpg

And here a BG-E11 for the 5D Mark III that definitely does not have the gasket:
http://berminghamcameras.ie/images/detailed/1/product_detailed_image_6137_957.jpg

Seems pretty exciting to me.

I had an X-Rite Colormunki but recently upgraded to the i1Photo Pro 2. There is a big difference in price ($500 vs. $1500) but also a huge difference in capability.

The Colormunki send 55 color patches to the printer twice for a total of 110. The i1Photo Pro 2 sends 1600. I use the i1Photo Pro 2 to also calibrate my Eizo 243 CG monitor. I use the X-Rite Colorchecker Passport to create a camera color profile for my Nikon D810 camera. I do a lot of prints with the Canon Pixma Pro-1 printer using Ilford Galerie Prestige Gold Fibre Silk paper.

I have found if you use the X-Rite Colorchecker on the camera and the i1Photo Pro 2 for the monitor and printer/paper combination, there is NO error. The camera display, monitor and printed image are exactly the same; every time, no exceptions.

There is just no mystery anymore; it just takes a lot of money. Keep in mind the cost of ink and paper can be upwards of $5-6/page for my setup but the "do it right the first time" capability of this hardware/software saves a TON of time and frustration

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Mitch.Conner said:

slclick said:

Mitch.Conner said:

slclick said:

Tis the season

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... to call people trolls for desiring anything other than the products Canon currently makes.

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Now you went and took my completely harmless post and added a negative connotation. Hardly the spirit there my friend.

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Tis the season for eggnog? <- better?

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Cheers! (better be a little something extra in it)

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Yes partake in the good eggnog till all the IS technology in the world can't help you.......

Shopkeeper, Solvang, California

Valvebounce said:

I hate automated filters

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... a quick and inconspicuous "+1" to that as I just realized that my former post on internet censorship by automated filters was censored ... but in general, the mods are doing a terrific job on CR

Just buy an adapter and put it on your Canon. True it will be fully manual but that really isn't much of an issue at these focal lengths.
You will need one that allows aperture adjustment but they are pretty cheap!

I have some more examples to share. I'll try to get them up today. I think the 5D III is experiencing a little bit of diffraction softening at f/10+, and it seems aberration limited at f/8. Tough call there, but with sharpening, it cleans up pretty nicely.

Is this the husband/wife team that shoots Canon and Nikon? (One half of the team each dedicated to a different camera system?)

Maybe that explains the vast difference in photography styles and why one shot has such poor color saturation. (It almost looks sepia or monochrome!) LOL!

Seriously, this is a fun thread. Is it just me or does the jepabst shot in front of the bride/groom with the skyline and street behind them almost have a 3D, sort of toy perspective like the couple were "dropped into" the scene in photoshop? Don't get me wrong, it's a great shot, I'm just wondering how you got the shot to have sort of a surreal quality to it. Twilight Zone perhaps?

I wonder how its IQ and performance will compare to the 14mm f/2.8. The 14mm is already pretty good.

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neuroanatomist said:

ahsanford said:

(As always, I post these hoping for a proper group skewering. I eagerly await Neuro's rebuttal web-series, entitled "I am the anti-Tony", but it hasn't happened yet.)

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To rebut, I'd first have to watch. There are many things higher on my priority list than viewing Northrup's videos. Watching paint dry and picking lint from my umbilicus are two things that come to mind...

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You gotta give the guy props for getting his name recognized though. You may not agree with him, but the fact that he can get his voice heard by so many using the internet is fairly impressive. The same applies to KR.

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Thanks for sharing

First a Canon RX100 II and now a Canon RX10.....how exciting. :-[