Hey all,

Here is the link to Pixel's site with the instructions:

http://pixelhk.com/Down/DownPage.aspx?Title=MAGO

Hope this helps!

Gary W.

I WENT TOO THE EXPO WEDNESDAY "SET UP DAY"
AND WAS ONLY ABLE TOO GO TODAY "A RAINY SATURDAY" BUT MET SOME COOL SHOOTERS
PICKED CANON'S BRAINS ABOUT HOW TOO SHOOT CERTAIN STUFF WITH THE NEW 7D MARK 2 "funny how everywhere i went today in the expo everybody was like how did u get so fast there hard too find & get" i was aggressive went too beach camera warehouse in central nj at Edison NJ and got a kit package with the stm lens lol
but umm i learned that sony,samsung,panasonic and nikon have edges over CANON big time in there cameras and some of there lenses that available and that are coming in the next 6-8 months
canon needs too wake up i cant believe the mirrorless cameras where so cool and fast and small "there trade off are they are not durable 1-2 drops and water damage and they might be done" i know everybody wants 4K video but only a few form what i played got it down packed
SO WHAT DID U LEARN FROM PLAYING WITH CANON AND THE OTHER BRANDS??
what can canon do too even catch up in certain areas

It's important to talk about distinguishable pixels rather than "4K." After the lens, the OLPF, the sensor, the RAW converter, the codec, and the necessary post, the number of pixels you can get out of a capture system is usually far less than the theoretical maximum imposed by the nominal pixel counts. Same with bit depth, sampling rate, etc. We need standardized chart/DR/RS/Noise etc. tests of every video mode of every camera but those are not to be found for reasons that continue to baffle me.

And for practical considerations, here's a nice hands-on with the FS7. Seems it's sort of at the "Mark I" level, needs firmware improvements, as does the Metabones Speedbooster to work with it. It also could use some hardware tweaks. It's a little early still for the FS7, and the Canons still have a few advantages as he mentions.

http://www.newsshooter.com/2014/11/01/sony-fs7-field-report-week-1-the-canon-c300-killer/

Hi grey4.
Do you by any chance have an aftermarket grip fitted? I do and occasionally get similar symptoms, no 4second shot review, no playback of images, various controls not working.
Remedy, turn off grip, turn off camera, remove batteries, remove grip? (Not sure if this is necessary, it might help resolve a funky contact pin).
Put it all back together and play happily.

Hope this helps, if not dry rice or similar desiccant and warm area as others have said.

Cheers, Graham.

JumboShrimp said:

heptagon said:

The reverse is also true: A 0.5x TC gains 2 stops.

Those are usually sold as speed boosters to use a full frame lens on a crop camera. If i recall correctly, some lens designs with a wide angle and a large aperture have such an element built in.

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In astronomy terms, I think these gadgets are called "telecompressors". I used one on my Celestron 8-inch to reduce the EFL from 2000/11 to 1000/5.6, or something like that.

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In astrophotography, they are called focal reducers. Focal reducers do exactly that, reduce the focal ratio by a certain factor. So, if you have a 0.71x FR, your and you start with an f/8 f-ratio, then you end up with an f/5.68 f-ratio. Your aperture remains the same, so your focal length drops. If you have an 11" f/10 SCT, and apply a 0.71x reducer, you end up with an 11" f/7.1 SCT. As far as astrophotography goes, those two numbers are more important...physical aperture and f-ratio (we don't usually talk about focal length, not nearly as much as we do with normal photography.)


It's just common knowledge that an f/7.1 scope is shorter than an f/10 scope when the aperture is the same. What the exact FoV is usually doesn't matter all that much. One of the primary reasons we use focal reducers is to get a proper image scale. We generally try to oversample by 2-3x for best results. If your oversampling by 4-5x, then adding a focal reducer brings the sampling ratio to a more useful level where stars are well sampled, round, but still bright (oversampling too much, and you end up having a tougher time actually getting any exposure on dim nebula...focal reducers can GREATLY help get more light onto each pixel in a given exposure time.)

I came here to buy a 70-200 f2.8!! and i'm disappointed haha :'(

Update:

Thought the LaCie bonus was 'in addition to' the pre-order bundle Canon Canada initially offered...but not so! Canon had previously advertised that pre-order bundles would be available if a 7D Mark II was pre-ordered by Nov. 15th.
Without notice...pre-orders offering these bundles ended,prematurely,on Oct. 29th. The LaCie bonus kicked in on Oct. 30th.
Although the link I initially posted does not indicate these offers are mutually exclusive, apparently, it's either pre- order bundle OR LaCie,but not both.

The following from a retailer's site ( and other retailers report similar):


"CANON EOS 7D Mark II
FREE BONUS OFFER
The introductory Canon Canada free bonus offer (with an estimated value of $139.99) is available to consumers who purchase an EOS 7D Mark II between October 30 - December 23, 2014
(Offer only to Canadian Residents and while quantities last)
Included BONUS is:
LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0 1TB Hard Drive
This bonus offer cannot be combined with the EOS 7D Mark II pre-order bundle promotion offer."

AFAIK, the in-camera JPG engine doesn't do unsharp mask (just standard sharpening), so you'll need to apply that in DPP.

The golden eagle was back yesterday when we arrived at the house on the Pawnee Grassland in CO. I got some static shots of him perched that were sharp, but once he took flight there were no keepers. I grabbed the 60D this time since it was handy in the car, as my wife had used it the day before. Previous weeks I had always chosen the 6D, so it was a good test to try the 60D again, which I have owned longer. By the way, the raptors are usually perched 200 feet away on one of my ham radio towers. They weren't around this summer, as they must have migrated further north. I haven't noticed any front focus or back focus issues with either the 400mm f/5.6 or the 300mm f/4. Of course I am not shooting at f/2.8 with less room for error. Before I purchased these two longer lenses I used my 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II with a 2X TC III. That worked ok for static shots but was a disaster with the hawks or eagles in flight. The slow AF and getting totally lost in the blue sky didn't work with any of the four bodies I own. Maybe the 5D Mk III or 1DX would work with the zoom / TC combination. I sold the TC III since it wasn't getting any use anymore. I do use the 1.4X TC III on my three lenses that are compatible. I have not done well with the 300mm on a 5D classic or 40D for BIF, though antelope in my yard and waterfowl in a lake have been quite satisfactory.

jhwsfla said:

They only thing that sorta turns me off is the size of the 600 being it is huge to truck around with on a tripod.

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For birds you generally need the longest lens you can get. Technically that's the 800/5.6, but the 600 II + 1.4xIII delivers better IQ in a lighter package. For birds, I usually use the 600 II with the 1.4x, sometimes with the 2x, rarely bare. 600mm can be too long for wildlife, but with the 300 II and extenders your covered.

I often handhold my 600 II or use it with a monopod, I hike/walk with it frequently. I use a tripod/gimbal mainly in winter when I'm setting up in one spot waiting for raptors. The 600 II weighs the same as the older MkI 500/4, which most considered a handholdable lens.

Yeah, I'd call and ask. There was one time that I would have had to send it overnight to get there before a holiday, but the shipping would have been REALLY high (like $150). So I just sent it regular FedEx (2-day from FL), and it got there the day after the holiday. I never had a problem.

Chaitanya said:

finally a Canon camera that beats equivalent Sony camera.

http://www.dxomark.com/Reviews/Canon-PowerShot-G7-X-review-Has-it-got-that-X-tra-something

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Take a look at the G7 Dynamic Range..

Beats ALL other canon cameras.. by the best part of a stop.

Maybe Canon really have a DR solution.

http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Ratings/Landscape

msatter said:

It can manage three zones exactly as the AC3. If you want 15 speedlites you could go Godox/Cheetah/Neewer flashes and that has a basic controler but totally no support for Sekonic. ;-)

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I only said 15 because the Paul C Buff Cyber Commander can control 16 lights individually, it has a flash meter in it too....

The Canon RT system does up to 16 flashes and or controllers in up to five groups. As can a variety of third party Chinese speelite and radio trigger systems. The Phottix Odin II's now have full five group mode, and several firms also have Profoto B1 style crossovers now that integrate with group radio systems too.

It is an exciting time for lighting, like the cowboy early days of digital cameras where a new or heavily improved function comes out nearly every week. To get the best advice for a particular user it really helps to get as much feedback on use and expectations as possible, the combinations of available gear are nearly limitless.

I have the Canon RT and PCB Einsteins but they don't play particularly well together, though I do use them both at the same time often. It seems the Odin II's are the leader in general functionality and radio control.

Spare batteries (LP-E6N) now showing a "In Stock/Shipping Only" at B & H.

rs said:

Nice idea, but Sony's SLT system is a far cry from an SLR. All the drawbacks of an EVF, coupled with a stop gap workaround before on sensor phase detect AF was mainstream, resulting in a significant reduction in light transmission.

A bolt on SLT mount adapter makes no sense with current mirror less tech, and a bolt on SLR mount adapter would be much more complicated.

An interchangeable EVF/OVF with a conventional EF mount and mirror box built into the body makes more sense, but I see no reason why a true hybrid EVF/OVF cannot be done - after all Fuji have had a rangefinder style version of this in production models for some time.

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We can question the merits of an EVF vs an OVF but Sony's system does offer superior performance with SLR lenses to a standard mirrorless adapter.

Its also worth considering that whilst as you say it is of questionable use on a system that's sold on small size the same need not be true of a future Canon system. I would argue when/if mirrorless really starts to replace SLR we will probably see larger bodies with more controls and better grips(with larger batteries), such a camera would work a lot better with that kind of adapter compared to the small A7 system.

Canon made their new product announcements for PhotoPlus already. The C100 Mark II. It will be on display.

Canon makes their new Camera announcements a week or more ahead of a event like PhotoPlus. That announcement was all I'd expect.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5563281944/canon-announces-eos-c100-mark-ii

Since PhotoPlus started yesterday, there will be no more major announcements.

http://www.canonrumors.com/2014/10/canon-u-s-a-brings-its-digital-imaging-solutions-to-photoplus-expo-2014/

If there were to be any announcements about new bodies, lenses, et al at PhotoPlus, would we have heard about them by now?

Sorry it's not oriented properly. the software i use to view images takes care of that for me, and sometimes i forget that. like this time.

all good answers, but Cervantes wins.
thanks for playing!

punk kids!

Doesn't seem like it...
Until now, digicame-info should have gotten some info... They always do

12000 to 25000ISO is no longer an option in my everydays photos. It's a MUST...... :

I'm with expatinasia & Neuro. I love the ergonomics and overall quality of the 1D X. It feels right when shooting with larger lenses.

wyldeguy said:

where do I get the CR2 codec that allows me to see the 7D2 raw files? I can't seem to get one that works. Not even from the disc the camera came with.

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If you cannot track this down, you can view 7D2 RAW files in Irfanview. It's free. Link: http://www.irfanview.com/

Jim Saunders said:

I found with a battery grip, when hanging on a Carryspeed strap, that it would alter the setting. That is admittedly an odd configuration and I wouldn't carry it like that again even if I still owned it.

Jim

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I never figured out why mine would alter the setting and I had the modification done. But it was when I had the grip on and a BR strap. Maybe that was the answer all along.

Thanks for sharing - the first two I've looked at are very helpful. Is it Monday yet?

Jim Saunders said:

I do, nearly always.

Jim

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Same here, almost always.

HurtinMinorKey said:

One good thing about Canon's history of modest upgrades is that you can be relatively assured a 1DX mk II won't completely obsolete a mk I. It's one of the reasons Canon bodies have a pretty solid resale value.

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According to those pro's who tested it, the 7D2 gives the 1DX a run for the money.
The big drawback on the 1DX is the lack of a good silent shutter at both single shot and higher speeds. Other than the obvious build quality advantage, bigger battery and the fact you can use it in portrait mode more easily I can't see the need to move from the 5D111 unless you want those high fps which is useful on occasion. I think I'd check out the 7D2 first.
If you have invested in lots of SD cards you won't be able to use them in a 1DX either.