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videopublicitat spain · Oct 10, 2013

luciolepri said:
The video you uploaded is very compressed and 720p, so it's hard to judge.

As far as I'm concerned, I choose to get a 5DMKII as a second body instead of a 6D because I didn't find the 6D to be better at all, as far as video mode is concerned. HI ISO performances excluded, of course. I also found the 6D ergonomy and build quality a step back, compared to the 5DMKII, so I really wouldn't suggest this camera to shoot videos.

For me, the 6D is better than the 5D II for all.

KKCFamilyman · Oct 9, 2013

Thanks everyone. I did get a brand new 5d 3 from canon today. They sent me a center pinch cap for my 24-70 ii which was a nice bonus. I did sell enough gear to get a 5d3 2nd camera but am still on the fence since the 6d seems nice for a backup and gives some lens money but unsure since all the canon gear seems at fuul price or near. Any suggestions on who has deals?

Ryan708 · Oct 9, 2013

I liked the First one of with the model on the left and the train going by behind her alot, Neat work!(IMG_2961)

jm · Oct 9, 2013

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/indepth/photography/hands-reviews/zeiss-otus-55mm-f14-apo-distagon?BI=2466&KBID=3296

Botts · Oct 9, 2013

Skirball said:
Having prices drop from the original introductory price isn't exactly a theory, that can be supported by heaps of data. The claim here was the price it was going to hit, and it was done with a fair amount of chest thumping. I'd say it was way the hell off.

My favorite line from the whole thing:

"People who claim this pricing could never happen would have conveniently "forgotten" by then or remain mum when that day does come..."

Heh.

I was trying to be friendly and diplomatic!

vmk · Oct 9, 2013

around $1000

Hector1970 · Oct 9, 2013

Hahnel are a very good and reputable company. Their batteries are good. Ive found them amongst the best. Opteka are good too. Their wireless trigger equipment is excellent.
I'm very confident in buying their gear. It's never let me down. Their HQ is in Ireland but they are a German family firm I believe. It's a good combination. German engineering with Irish ingenuity.

vlim · Oct 9, 2013

I think this book took him something like two months to write, many of the things you buy everyday didn't require that much work. But it's really up to you to look at this way. I was just sharing something that i think could be really useful for many photographers out there, didn't want to start a polemic

TrabimanUK · Oct 9, 2013

It's for charity...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24458783

and people are saying $4K for a lens is a lot! ;-)

Marsu42 · Oct 9, 2013

neuroanatomist said:
Marsu42 said:

...they *might* some day come up with a affordable finger print detector that cannot be easily fooled

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They already have...the iPhone 5S.

That's what I was thinking about - one day after release the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone was fooled by the very same method that worked for years (text in German, but there's a video with English subtitles: http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Der-iPhone-Fingerabdruck-Hack-1965783.html)

Btw there is a nice Mythbusters episode about this, they try to fool a "never circumented before, ever, really" commercial sensor on a door with an even less elaborate method. And they discover that you just hold a bed sheet in front of you to beat a motion detector

Mythbusters: Holy Sheet

Explanation here: http://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/mythbusters-are-busted-1

DWimages · Oct 9, 2013

Yes Sonoma County.

Mike
Doran Creatives
www.dorancreatives.net

Mt Spokane Photography · Oct 8, 2013

ahsanford said:
hpmuc said:

This has already been discussed ....

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=12416.0

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Good forward, thanks! Looks like my lenses are not in the 'partial sealing' camp (besides the front element).

But I still would like a read on the viability of this concept for just dust and sand. Again, moisture isn't a concern for me.

- A

There are going to be those who swear by it, and there will be skeptics like Neuro and I.

The fact is that there is no reliable data, so if it makes you feel safe, get it. Its not likely to cause any problems other than a loss of your money.

Zv · Oct 8, 2013

thedman said:
mrsfotografie said:

7enderbender said:

dilbert said:

7enderbender said:

It would change the way they provide such high mechanical quality. Dare I say that for me it's really the other way round: why doesn't Canon provide any digital full frame body that works reliably as a full time manual focus camera only? Answer: very few people would be buying something like this in this day and age. But I'd still prefer it.

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You don't use live view for manual focus?

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No. Never. I can't stand it. If live view was gone I wouldn't know it.

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As a landscape shooter I use live view/MF almost exclusively. I even set my autofocus lenses to manual and use them just as I use my Zeiss. I want absolute precision. Can't just hear a beep and hope it's correct.

What's wrong with Live View? Why wouldn't you use it with the x5 & x10 zoom view? You must have immaculate eyesight if you can get focus bang on with viewfinder alone.

Menace · Oct 8, 2013

That's a normal cafe waiting line in Melbourne - every cafe has customers like this

Wiki Tango · Oct 8, 2013

ykn123 says it right, I second that!

When I do indoor shootings of Judo, Aikido, Tai Chi or Dancing I often use my 7D with the EF 85 f/1.8.
I shoot RAW and do the white balance in Lightroom, works great with a grey card, worked also with a grey element near the athletes

Example
7D | 1/500sec | f/2.0 | EF 85 mm ISO 125

Barbara Bandel | -70kg by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

The nifty fifty f/1.4 does it, too - just sometimes the AF USM isn't fast enough

Aikido | Keiko-Dojo Niederrhein by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

The 24-105 f/4 works, but is not the best recommendation for indoor sports

Ole Bischof | IPPON! by Ingo Kwiat, on Flickr

Regarding high ISO... the 7D can go up to 6400 and Lightroom 5 can help to smooth even these high settings,
if a 1DX does not fit into the budget - have you thought about getting a used 7D?

R1-7D · Oct 8, 2013

Waiting sucks... :-\

surapon · Oct 8, 2013

Policar said:
surapon said:

Policar said:

It's up to you! For many reasons this lens seems to be far and away the best normal lens available for FF digital cameras (apparently exceeding Leica's expensive options), however if you need autofocus (this seems to be more of a studio lens) I would skip it.

For astophotography I can see it being amazing and the apochromatic correction means that colors are much purer in out of focus areas. If you have the money and want the best image quality I think this is a no-brainer, but if you're happy with your Sigma (I have one, too, and like it for what it is), why upgrade unless you feel you're missing something?

I find the longitudinal chromatic abberation on other fast 50mms very ugly, whereas I find the sample photos from this lens to be flawless and have a look I associate with medium and large format photography.

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Thank you, Sir, Dear Mr. Policar
Sorry, I do not understand what you talking about " For astophotography I can see it being amazing and the apochromatic correction means that colors are much purer in out of focus areas."----I do not try to get involve of Astophotography yet, Just try to shoot the Moon and the comet( Comet Panstarrs) in past 5-6 years---Just Try.
Have a great day, Sir.
Surapon

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The moon isn't the best example of astrophotography since it's so bright. For photos of stars you want to shoot wide open to minimize the time your shutter is open and most fast lenses have coma and soft corners:

http://intothenightphoto.blogspot.com/2013/02/overcoming-coma-aberration-part-2.html

50mm is a little long for astrophotography, but this could still be really great for that.

Apochromatic correction eliminates "bokeh fringing." In these photos (with the excellent 35mm f1.4 G Nikon lens) you can see that the out of focus areas take on green/magenta fringes:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/images1/35mm-f14-afs/bokeh/D3R_3745-14.jpg
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/images1/35mm-f14-afs/D7K_6803-crop-0600.jpg

This is most apparent in the second photo (white against black), but it makes all colors look cloudy and muddy.

If you look at photos taken with the Zeiss lens, they do not have this aberration:

http://diglloyd.com/articles/ZeissZ/ZeissZ-Otus-55f1_4.html

To me this is a really big deal. The 70-200mm f2.8 II IS is also near-apochromatic by most accounts and people praise it for its beautiful color rendering. Current fast 50mm lenses have lots of bokeh fringing, which I find very distracting and ugly in color.

Thank you, Sir, Dear Mr. Policar.
Wow, I have learned form you again to day.----Beautiful / New Knowledge for my future Hobby too.
Thanks again
Surapon

Jim Saunders · Oct 8, 2013

I'll probably miss it; I sold mine recently to get a wide angle. I was impressed with it though, small and light, good IS and AF that was usefully fast.

Jim

TommyLee · Oct 8, 2013

sdsr said:
As someone else has suggested, unless 2.8 isn't fast enough you may want to consider the 100L instead of an 85 - the Canon 85s, whatever other virtues they plainly have, suffer horribly from blueish fringing (different from the standard purple CA) wide open around pale objects that aren't quite in focus. I've never seen that (or any other visible flaw for that matter) with my 100L, whose only flaw is one all macro lenses have - it doesn't focus fast if you switch suddenly from a close subject to a distant one (or vice versa). And, thanks to its greater focal length and very short minimal focus distance, you can conjure up marvelous background blur that gives the 85L and 135L a run for their money (for all I know all this is true of the non-L 100mm macro too). Its advantage over the the Sigma 85mm lens (which is otherwise excellent - or at least the copy I rented was) is greater mechanical consistency - i.e. you will be less likely to need to return it. The 100L's advantage over all the 85mm and other 100mm lenses for Canon is that it has IS, which can be useful.

As for 35mm, I've not used the 35mm L. The 35mm IS is excellent, as is the Sigma. both of which I rented when they were new. The advantage of the former is its IS; the advantage of the latter, aside from the obvious speed factor, is its superior performance with regard to coma - which matters if you do much shooting in low light where there are small, bright points of light; this is nicely shown in the respective reviews at lenstip. (Unable to decide which one's relative advantages mattered to me more, I procrastinated until the ridiculous short-lived Adorama price reduction on the 28mm IS occurred and bought one of those instead - it's excellent too.)

yes...I agree..............
by the way...the non-L macro performs pretty similar to the L - I.S. version

my DO-ALL kit is a 14mm II, sigma 35 f1.4 (one of the best performing lenses I have owned) and the 100L because it does so much...
MAYBE the 135 f2 or maybe the 85L II ... but these are specialized and yes they are great..

but to go for a walk in Portland, Paris or Chicago... I want ultra wide (14), ultra-fast normal(35 sig) and maybe a bit of telephoto from the 100L macro... for a close up museum or flower shot
these do most of what I need....and have nearly flawless delivery

14L II has removable fringing but NO distortion, Sigma has NO ISSUES IMO, 100 macro is not as fast aperture as ...say ....85L or 135L but ...as stated here ...can get close and MAYBE derive more back-blur than the other two teles... 100L is plenty fast to focus... if you dont ask it to go from 8" to 100 feet in an instant..and back again

the kit is small...
but
if really small is wanted try 14L II, 35 I.S. and 85/100 non-L(but they have fringing wide open..)

I.S. becomes very useful on the 100mm length... with no optical issues IMO
nothing touches the 35 sigma ...that has autofocus...

I await Canon's re-attempt at a re-release ...another try...with a 35mm L II ....
of course the price will be 2-3 times the sigma....

Marsu42 · Oct 8, 2013

pensive tomato said:
Thanks for your work with Magic Lantern! This also brings to mind the silly limitations on the behavior of the Set button that I thought you tackled as well.

Yes, SET has the option to quickly set the af to the center, and it's easier to reach the points with the multicontroller. This feature is already merged into the ml 6d dev builds...

... unfortunately the "focus patterns" feature is one of the cases of broken Canon firmware, you can only select one af point at the time and not for example the three right ones (like 60d and all other 9pt) which would have been great since on the 6d they're not cross. On the other hand, crippling this could have been deliberate on Canon's part.

Oct 7, 2013

I also have the Fuji X-E1 and XF35, XF55-200, XF18-55 and Samyang Lens, great for travel due lower weight. Now with hand luggage allowance getting less, it's becoming a more viable system for me.

For the quality, the Fuji system is not that far off my Canon equipment and for a lot less money. Future wise, I will use the Canon system for mainly action and sports and where weight isn't a restriction. Mostly my camera equipment is used for travel so my future is looking Fuji. My Fuji next lens are the XF14, XF10-24 and the XF23. Also waiting on the next Fuji X-E2 or Pro2.

I can see my future not upgrading my 5DMKlll like l did the 5D and the 5DMKll. I like the size of the 6D and also GPS, which I hope will happen in the Fuji cameras in the future.

I think when a full frame mirrorless system comes out, I think it might change a lot of peoples choices.

Just my thoughts :-\

My Nikon D600 is used for work, which in fairness earns me the money to buy the other systems, so I can't knock this camera ;D

Mt Spokane Photography · Oct 7, 2013

Kenko and Tamron are both excellent, and are the same basic lenses. Sigma does not have a good reputation, maybe they will up the quality at some point.

PhotoCat · Oct 7, 2013

Hello all,

Can u store more than 3 user defined picture styles in 5D mk ii?
Read from Magic Lantern forum somewhere that this is not possible/dangerous for now.
Any workaround other than carrying a laptop to upload the picture style files to camera?
I suppose I can do it in post with raw capture but if I can get the effect I want in jpg, I save a lot of
post processing time

PS: I shoot raw+jpg all the time.
Thanks! John

zlatko · Oct 7, 2013

Dylan777 said:
You will never see a lens cap in my camera bag. All lenses are protected with BW Clear Filter, including X100s. Ready to shoot at all times.

I do the same. No need for lens caps. The B+W filters do a great job and are easy to clean.

Random Orbits · Oct 7, 2013

J.R. said:
Well ... I returned the 16-35 yet again (didn't get third time lucky). This was the third copy I checked and didn't like it wide open - stopping down to f/8 or so was better but I can get the 17-40 if that was my main purpose.

Maybe I need to look elsewhere ... the 17mm TSE perhaps ... this just seems to go on forever.

The TS-E 17 is a great lens. Biggest drawback is lack of AF. If you can get around that and its cost, it's a winner!

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