I was pondering whether or not to bring along my 70-200 for an upcoming trip to Vegas and the Grand Canyon via helicopter that will land at the bottom of the Canyon for roughly 30-40 minutes.

Here is my lineup:
5D Mk.3
Canon 17-40
Canon 24-105
Canon 50 1.4
85 1.8
100L
135L
Canon 70-200/F4/IS
Canon 1.4 TC

I was thinking the following for sure:
5D Mk.3
Canon 17-40
Canon 24-105

**Optional**
70-200
1.4 TC
50 or 85 prime

I have a Benro travel angel carbon tripod too but obviously trying to keep the size of the kit down for this trip.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Hey guys,

as my Timelapse showreel was well received I thought I'd share my actual showreel.

Which you can find on here: https://vimeo.com/76289417

Most shots done with a 5D mark III, a few bird close ups with the 600D.
Generally L lenses used, ranging from 16-35mm, 50mm f/1.2, 24-105mm, 100-400mm, 300mm f/4.
I often use a Glidecam, a lot of shots handheld or on tripod.

Any feedback is appreciated.

SJTstudios said:

Zooms: 18-55, 75-300

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Step 1: Bludgeon both those zoom lenses with a sledgehammer.

Step 2: Buy just about anything else.

For example, even the old 17-85 massively outperforms the 18-55, at least in my experience, and the 15-85 will eat it for breakfast, from what I've read.

My 15mm fisheye does not work in live view either but it is still fine using the viewfinder.

100L is sharp, but 135L is incredibly sharp.

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pinnaclephotography said:

......or would if the House of Representatives hadn't thrown a temper tantrum and closed the National Parks...which is a real pity...hopefully that situation will be resolved by late October/early November (best times for Zion).

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Fixed that for you.

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Given the amount of vitriol and ugliness going on, I hope ths thread dooes not get into that discussion, but thanks for correcting the mis-statement.

And. The photos posted are great. Cannot comment on the conditions of he road and canyon today, but a few years back had the opportunity to visit and it was amazing. Can porbably check with the Arizona DOT to get the latest about the road. I know they were rebuilding the portion that was so heavily damaged but created a "bypass" to allow traffic through.

Thank you very much, Mt. Spokane.

Again, my nerves are a bit calmer now. It's stressful to worry about a recently purchased $2000 lens damaged by user stupidity.

extremeinstability said:

Around 1200 1 second shutters behind the tornadic storms in northwest Iowa last night.... https://vimeo.com/76230613

Canon 6D Sigma 50 F1.4 at F2, 1 second, 200 ISO.

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Nice!!

Don Haines said:

We know from the 70D that canon can put 40Mpixels onto an APS-C sized sensor.. all you need to do is read the two halves separately and there's your high megapixel sensor

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We already know Canon can put 120MP on an APS-H sensor, which is 519mm^2.

APS-C is 332mm^2, so for the same pixel size you'd get 76MP. FF is 864mm^2, so for the same pixel size you'd get 200MP.

Question is how many EF lenses can resolve 76MP on an APS-C sensor, that is the center of the lens?

Hi
I have noticed that on my bodies when I take the card out I get the no CF Card message, this seems to stay, ignoring the camera sleep time on occasions. I have got in the habit of a press of the AF ON button, any button that will normally wake the camera should suffice. This will clear the message and allow the camera to sleep.
I hope this might help sort out your battery drain condition, or perhaps when you take the card for post processing take the battery for a charge, that should stop the camera draining it! ;D

Cheers. Graham.

A real good idea,thank you for the pictures.
And it gives an answer too how to fix the CP E4s without harming their cables.

Dylan777 said:

SJTstudios said:

Hey guys, I'm looking to buy a new prime or two before I upgrade to a pro level body. I'm looking to get a 5d/ 6d or 70d/7d. I have a 28mm 1.8, 50mm 1.8, the 100mm l macro, and some lensbaby stuff. Anybody have some advice on primes that work well on both formats?

I've been thinking about the 135mm f2.

I like the 28 on my rebel

I like the 35mm and 50mm on ff.

But I'm lost at this point

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50mm f1.4 is great lens. I had this lens for years before jumping over to 50L. The copy I had was great @ f1.8 - smaller. 50mm on FF is easy to shoot.

135L is a super lens. It's sharp and AF is fast. Huge benefit for both crop and FF. Just keep the shutter speed @ 1/125 or faster.

I had bad experience with 28mm. Soft - soft and more soft

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+1 on the 28mm. It's soft until you stopped down a little. From 2.2 to 2.8, it just keeps on getting sharper. @2.5 or 2.8, it's IQ is very good already and much better than the 18-55 kit lens @5.6. In my experience, it's sharper than the 17-55mm head-to-head, same camera, same focal length and same aperture.

Here's the comparison from the-digital-picture lens tool.

17-55mm and 28mm @ F2.8, 60D.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=398&Camera=736&Sample=0&FLI=0&API=0&LensComp=253&CameraComp=736&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=2

It's even close to the 24-70II though the CA degrades its quality. If you reduce the CA in PP, it'll be a little bit closer though of course, 24-70II is still better especially if you pixel peep.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=787&Camera=453&Sample=0&FLI=1&API=0&LensComp=253&CameraComp=453&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=2

In the US, CPS offers similar service. I am okay shipping my equipment back and forth (though I often insure a $1,000 or 1,500 when shipping bodies to be cleaned) - since I believe my all risk rider would cover this. I guess I should call my agent to be sure.

Of greater concern is when I borrow equipment, then (the few times I have done this) I insure the lens or body for replacement cost. WHich according to CPS is much above the street price.

Probably because it wouldn't sell.
Ricoh has had a wonderful camera on the market for the last several years where you buy the "body"
and a "lens/sensor" combination that is interchangeable. Ever seen one? That's why!

You are welcome, dear friend , Pedro.
Here more Photos of The beautiful SIN CITY , in USA, Las Vegas in the night time.
Enjoy
Surapon

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Dukinald said:

Vivid Color said:

I just ordered Canon's 100L Macro lens at Best Buy for $899.99 plus tax. Assuming I get the rebate, the effective price will be $803. So, at the time of my order, 2:15pm Eastern Time in the U.S., the price mistake had not been fixed.

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I also ordered a 100L but I made it as store pick up. Now I'm thinking I should have let them ship it direct to me so they won't have time to rescind the price (crossing my fingers).

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I had my order shipped to the store as well. I have a receipt with the order price and I assume you do too. I think it would be very bad faith if they try to raise a price on an existing order they accepted and I really don't think they will do this. That said, it's pretty easy to return an item to Best Buy, especially when you are already in the store to pick it up!

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I already received my 100L and presubmitted the rebate in canon's website. So all is good so far and it would seem I can really double dip.

btw the price at bestbuy site shows the correct price for this lens now ($1049).

neuroanatomist said:

105mm is the 'total' optical length of the lens (physical length plus backfocus distance), not a 35-105 zoom.

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Got it. Thanks

This is a followup to my initial posting.
So I got another brand new 600-ex-rt and tested it again versus my old 580exii.
Same problem... i.e. 600 recycles slightly faster with freshly charged batteries.
This seemed good at the beginning but when I repeated the test with batteries charged 2 days ago,
the 580exii became slightly faster.

This is a bit puzzling so I checked out the spec of the eneloop AA battery. It said 0.025ohms for internal resistance.
Then I tested my 2-3 years old eneloop AA's; surely enough, they have degraded to a range of 0.080-0.120ohms.

Ah... my eneloop AA batteries are old and have higher internal resistance!

So this seems to be telling me that for recycling time alone, the 600ex-rt works well with batteries with low internal resistance but
it doesn't work so well compared to the 580ex-ii with older batteries with increased internal resistance.

Is anyone seeing the same thing? I start questioning if 600ex-rt beats 580exii hands down in all categories.

The dock allows you to adjust focus at four predetermined distances. Since I posted about my initial experience with the dock, I've actually made an adjustment to the furthermost focus distance on the 35mm, as I found it was slightly front-focusing at distance. The dock enabled me to change only the furthermost setting, leaving the closer settings as they are, because they were already fine.

But yes, I know what you mean. My decision was to use the dock to make relative adjustments as above, plus global adjustments to all the distance settings only if the lens was clearly out of step with the rest of my lenses. As it happens, my copy is not out of step with my other lenses. It requires no AFMA on my 5D MkII, in line with most of my other lenses. On my 7D, I settled on -3 AFMA, which didn't surprise me as more of my lenses seem to require a little correction on my 7D compared with my 5D MkII.

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privatebydesign said:

Why doesn't somebody over at Fred Miranda mention the Fotodiox solution. There is no limitation to tilt and or shift. I am not a member there so can't.

As for an expensive never arriving Lee "solution" with limited usability, it is a joke. Go on Amazon and just buy a ready made high quality solution, I just did and the Fotodiox Wonderpana just works.

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privatebydesign would you have sample images of the fotodiox setup on your 17mm at max -12/+12 shift? at f/8 and/or f/16? I am curious to see if there is any vignetting with the fotodiox setup+filter attached.

I am also curious to your opinion on the fotodiox 145mm filters in particular the full ND as there aren't many reviews on it. Comparing prices on Amazon I see a regular photodiox nd8 for $80 and a Lee ProGlass 0.9 for $180! Almost 2x the price, not sure if there is a significant difference in quality between the two brands?

Thanks.

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Sorry it took so long to follow up on this.

First image is an overlay five shot (not blend) with the Fotodiox Wonderpana and CPL in place, shot on 1Ds MkIII TS-E 17 @ f16. Unshifted is the red rectangle and the four ears are 12mm shift in each direction. The shadowing on the extreme corners is the effect of the light falloff, not vignetting, it is apparent in the set I took without the Wonderpana in place as well, the second image.

Even reverse tilt can be used at 12mm shift up to about 4º, or if you need the 6º tilt then 8mm shift is where you start to get vignetting. But these are very extreme uses, with 4º of tilt you are looking at a J point less than 12" below the camera.

All in all I am very happy with the performance of the Wonderpana and I wish somebody would post about it on Fred Miranda board.

GuyF said:

adebrophy said:

Legend! thanks for posting that - you're a scholar and a gentleman (and a menace to my bank balance).

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Glad to be a menace, wotcha bought?

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Nothing on the 600RTs - looks like I dodged that bullet!

mwh1964 said:

Buy now if you need it. Whatever few bucks you may say is not worth the wait, if you really want best possible IQ in your images now.

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I agree. I don't need it though. I want it!

Thanks for the support.

jdramirez said:

wickidwombat said:

look at a canon ex90 it will master control your other flash
give full ettl and hss is cheap and does have enough power to give that extra fill you are chasing
they are also tiny weight next to nothing and take up little space in the bag

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I thought about that, but I didn't want to go back to triggering my off camera flash with another speedlite like I did with my 60D. Actually, the yongnuo's weren't that bad, when they worked.

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i thought you wanted the fill flash too? or did you mean additional off camera fill flash?

kirillica said:

jdramirez said:

I used the 100L for sports as well, tracking football players at all distances... and the lens is a champ when it comes to ai servo. I had significantly more keepers than not. I've since sold it... but indoor and our... works like a champ.

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It's not I think 100L is not capable to do that, but it's not aimed to do that. IQ from 70-200F2.8IS m2 I love significantly more for this (again, except portraits and macros).

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Over the time I had the 100L, it outperformed the 70-200mm f/4L usm and the f2.8L usm, though the latter has some front focusing issues. But the 100L was a beast with how impressive it really was. I used it indoors and out... it is a surprisingly versitile lens.

Thank you.



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