Welcome to the club of those who had an old, lower-end camera and jumped up to the higher-end models.

I had the 1000D and within the last six months bought the 5D3 with 24-105 L f/4 and the grip. It was a big hit to my pocketbook, but I don't regret it at all.

actually the silcone skins are WORSE because dust etc gets trapped between the body and the skin and so it becomes more like encasing your camera in sandpaper.
A much better ligthweight protection i have found are the lenscoat body bags
http://www.lenscoat.com/bodybag-black-p-478.html

they are well made tough, light weight, reasonably priced and provide very good protection
My wife has one on her 5Dmk3 and 24-70 and I have one on the EOS-M (The PS large fits this really well)

LuigiHodges said:

If cash and size is no concern, I seriously do not see any reason not to get the 300 f/2.8.

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Well, cost is a concern. I intend to get the 600mm no matter what. I'm just wondering if there is a decent alternative to the 300mm f/2.8, since the 600mm alone is beyond my budget, but I kind of need it to do what I want to do. I don't absolutely need a 300mm lens, however it is a more useful focal length for things like BIF and wildlife (and more hand-holdable). The question is not "Should I get the 300mm f/2.8 instead of the 600mm f/4"...it is "Is there anything other than the 300mm f/2.8 to get in conjunction with the 600mm f/4". I can't really afford $13000, however I'll find a way to make it fit...but $21000? Don't think I could pull that off. I bought a whole entire car for that much money.

Plainsman said:

lordsn said:

Why someone would talk about Nikon products on a Canon forum?

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As soon as anyone mentions the opposition Canon fan boys jump in - sad really.

Read what the poster has to say and you might learn something.

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well... that is just nature though. i guess you should know about that right? if not, try to get to nikon forum and ask them to buy canon and see how it goes.

note: i will now let you know why i am not buying nikon. because i had experienced crappy nikon pns prior to make purchase my dslr since i lost my trust in nikon.

"As soon as anyone mentions the opposition Canon fan boys jump in -" NIKON IS SO PATHETIC REALLY

The other bit that helps, is when scaling down from full size you tend to eliminate more and more of the noise that exists. So full res might not be as kind at such high ISOs, but for web or small print (5x7, maybe 8x10) you often get quite usable shots even at what seems like really high ISO.

I'm actually considering if maybe I want to rally crank my ISO up on my 5d3 past 6400 (I try and not go higher) to get faster shutter speed when I know I'm shooting mostly just for web. Just a bit of de-noising in LR4, and then scale to 1200px long edge eliminates a lot more noise that I realize at the time of shooting.

Great Nephew




Great Niece




Great Niece as a Bridesmaid for her mother


Eldest Niece


Bridegroom and Best Man


Youngest Niece as Bridesmaid with Boyfriend


Great Niece and her Aunty


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Where and when?

This is a lens which has impressed me more and more I use one. On paper, it's a sharp but over priced lens. But in real world use, it's a fantastic performer. My only gripe is the lack of a tripod collar and it's low magnification at closer focus distances. Other than that, it's superb.
It's also a lens which came in for some really harsh objections when it was first launched. Sure it was expensive, considering most 70-300 lenses were consumer grade zooms. This lens was cut from different cloth, it's a profressional lens and a pretty goon one too. Now it's a few years after it's launch, it's new price has come way down to a far more realistic level. It's still not a cheap lens per-say, but it's good value considering it's strong performance. It's relatively small, light and it's a great range to have.
Personally, I'm holding out for a new 100-400 instead....which is going to be over priced and heavily maligned in the various forums on it's launch....but after a year....it'll come down in price somewhat.

Totally not relevant, but when I saw the name of your forum topic, I had no idea what I was going to read when I clicked on the link

jrista said:

Marsu42 said:

Pitbullo said:

The 5D3 does not have an articulated screen. 60D does.

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That's correct, I've got a 60d (see my equipment list).

What I tried to convey was that because even the video-king 5d3 hasn't got a swivel screen Canon didn't want to add it on the 60d-like 6d - because the 6d is obviously designed to have lower specs in any area save the center af light sensitivity as the "joker" against the Nikon 600d.

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Articulating screens are the bane of weather sealing. The 5D line, being Canon's second-highest professional-grade line of cameras, is expected to have some of the best weather sealing that can be found in a camera. The addition of an articulating screen would make that nearly impossible to achieve to the degree it needs to be, difficult to achieve by any means.

If you look at the 1D line, it doesn't even use a rotating knob for the primary mode control...it uses buttons. It uses buttons because they are much easier to weather seal, and the seals are more effective than the seal for something that turns or rotates.

When it comes to professional grade cameras, even those that support video, an articulating screen is probably the last thing on any serious professional's mind.

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Interesting. The Panasonic GH3 (a micro 4/3 camra) can be considered a pro or semi-pro camera. It has an articulated screen and is fully weather sealed (dust and splash proof).

You understand Canon often lies about things like this. Don't trust everything they tell you . Just like how Canon said that clean hdmi out is not possible on the 5D mark iii but now, somehow by magic, its possible and coming in April? Canon is full of crap.

Hill Benson said:

I wonder if a digital medium format camera has been considered by this photographer?

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They probably wanted to leak the dslr spec the president was shot with and make him a man of the people (you can also afford a 85L!) rather than a leader whose picture is taken with a medium format camera worth the price of a porsche racecar - the man is a democrat after all

thanks for your reaction.So should I sell the Samyang and use the 15 mm fisheye instead(lens corrected)?
It's much smaller and lighter.As far as I can see the quality is quite good,and the only disadvantage is you have to guess how much will loose of the frame after software correction.

By the way,what I would like most is Canon making a small fixed 16 mm/f4 lens...

All,
The wild card in these discussions is what appears to be some variability in the 5Dmk3 copies'AF abilities. I feel I got a flawed body and it seems slower than it "should". Unscientific, absolutely, and I should work up a test here that Canon Service can replicate. These discussions are helpful for establishing what the limits should be. My comparison is my 5Dmk2. For any of the tests described the next level is bringing a lot of 5Dmk3 bodies into the same setup and looking for variations in "lock" time. I bought my body in May last year.

I didn't figure this out in time to exchange it. My bad! Canon has already looked at this body once.

I need to find an acquaintance with a 5Dmk3 and time to compare. That would be interesting.

Aaaaarg. <anger>

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Jim Saunders said:

Thanks for posting this, it looks like a good companion to the manual.

Jim

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Thanks. I thought it would be a a good compliment to that great review Mark Webb did.

http://markwebbphoto.com/blog/2012/6/canon-600ex-rt-review

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=7431.0

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distant.star said:

RLPhoto said:

I don't use in camera NR but I do keep long expo NR on standard.

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My "solution" also.

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I have this disabled as I believe that NR was best taken care of in PP.

What are the benefits of this?

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It takes a dark frame at the same exposure settings, which ends up being a frame of noise. It then subtracts that noise from the original exposure. I believe that the biggest non-random noise is thermal noise from the amplifier. I was looking for an old comparison of thermal noise among cameras of the 20D-era, but can't find it offhand.

*UPDATE* Here are the articles: http://ghonis2.ho8.com/DSLRcomparison.html
Specifically, look at the bottom of this one: http://ghonis2.ho8.com/rebelmod500d/rebelmod500dcompare.html
These are now "ancient" cameras, so likely this type of thermal noise has been fixed in newer cameras.

Dave

Marsu42 said:

neuroanatomist said:

I would not expect them to change their minds any time soon.

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I would guess that the st-e4 arrives once rt flash master mode is available in the camera bodies, i.e. 5d4 or maybe 7d2 - imho this would have been a real valuable addition to the 6d: They can add 2.4ghz wifi, but not rt?!

If the st-e3 is obsoleted then Canon needs a new reason for customers to buy additional equipment, i.e. the version with af beam and maybe e-ttl3 with remote 2nd curtain sync for the upcoming 660rt flash

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+1 ... that is exactly how I see it. But unfortunately for Canon I will now play that way!

AprilForever said:

Efka76 said:

IMHO Canon should follow similar strategy as Apple (created by S. Jobs) - to get rid of many models in DSLR area and produce only few and apply the top technology.

Also, i think that application of APS-C sensors can not be justified in 2013 as they initially were created due to significant costs of FF sensors. During few years sensor production technology had to become much cheaper. Also, Canon is not making any efforts in distinguishing themselves in the current market. Many consumers are not able to change firm as they already invested in expensive lenses. However, if the same trend will happen for few more years many people might switch to other manufacturers. Now it seems that Canon is sleeping and tries to follow Nikon.

I can not understand why Canon is not mowing to Medium Format cameras? Also, it is very obvious that in mirrorless camera area they are off-competition. It seems that they strategy guys are too old and not able even to follow market trends (from Canon I would expect to be market maker). Currently they are trying to squeeze all possible money from loyal customers and thinking how NOT to produce good camera in order to protect big line of camers. If they put FF sensor, they cripple autofocus, produce good camera 1Dx C however as for it too significant premium compared to almost the same camera 1Dx.

oh, i forgot that strange P&S camera, which they recently introduced. It seems that they do not understand words "customer expectations" (where is Canon 7D Mark II and etc.). Few more years and people will talk about Sony, Tamron, Sigma.... when Canon guys will try to catch up.

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Medium format would require an entirely new array of lenses. Also, worse still, an entirely new array of techniques.

APS-C has piles of applications. APS-C and FF are two different tools for two different purposes. APS-C is very valid.

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I can see the need for APS-C SLR's diminishing in the future. The crop sensor line up is starting to get eaten into at both ends - cheaper FF SLR's are being introduced, and we'll no doubt see even cheaper FF bodies introduced in the future - and the cheaper end of crop SLR's has mirrorless cameras to compete with, including Canon's own EOS M.

For the first two years of the 7D's life, there were no FF cameras in Canon's line up that could really be seen as an alternative for sports or wildlife - the 1Ds III was much more expensive and was only 5fps, the 5D II had under 4fps with much worse AF, leaving just the 1.3x crop 1D IV. Now we have the 1D X and 5D III - the 1D X is better in every single way except cost, and the 5D III is cheaper, has a faster frame rate and has better AF than the 1Ds III, so it is a viable upgrade for 7D users.

When FF bodies can be made for comparable prices to today's rebels (not impossible - when the sensor becomes as cheap to make as today's APS-C sensors, just package it in a plastic body with a pentamirror), the only need anyone would have for a crop body SLR and not a crop body mirrorless is to get a small camera with a real OVF. That can be covered with just two models - a high end crop camera for birders who only want to carry around a 500/4 instead of an 800/5.6, and something for people that don't want to lug around a big DSLR, but they still want an optical viewfinder.

Having said that, birders can get very good results cropping with FF, or simply throw on a 1.4x TC (or use a 2x instead of a 1.4x). And for the people that want a small normal zoom camera with an OVF, the body could be made very light with plastic construction and a pentamirror, and there's no reason why they couldn't release a lens much like the old 28-90 lens - it weighed in at just 190g - 10g less than the EF-S 18-55.

So, why carry on with crop SLR's at all if full frame sensors drop in price sufficiently? The only real place where it makes sense is mirrorless cameras, and there's still an argument for FF there.

Calumet is the obvious one that springs to mind, but it looks like they don't open Sundays.

http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/eng/storeLocator/redirect.cfm?sectionID=b2c/storeLocator/storeDetails.cfm&storeId=31&locationId=9154&var=d&ckey=UK

Interesting, and thanks for sharing that. At least one of the problems with the RX1 has been solved. Charging in camera is just a ridiculous idea for those on full day assignments.

Personally, I would shoot in one-shot AF mode instead of Ai Servo with 5D III. With the AF speed of 70-200 II, one-shot mode is plenty fast for situations like this, and Ai Servo may end up giving you unpredictable results IME.

Re: Canon 1dx Portrait orientation exposure problem

Well i feel like a dope- it appears that this is exactly what was happening- I changed it back to center and now it seems to be meterign fine- I tested by focusing on a light bulb, in both orientations- works liek it should- I wasn't even aware that spot meterign could be changed- I had posted htis in another forum too, but noone suggested what you two folks did- This indeed fixed the issue- will try again tomorrow on direct sun on snow- see if everythign is fine- it should be fine- the light tests work liek htey should

Many thanks- Not used to my camera yet- lots to learn I guess-

Mikael Risedal said:

yes , if you want that the ears looks bigger on a child than they are, you shall continue with 200mm lens instead of a shorter lens as 135mm , 85mm or 50mm

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A head/shoulder shot of a young child using a full frame and 50mm lens needs about a 3 foot subject to camera distance to fill the frame. For me, it's much more probable to photogragh a kid substantially further away. At 12 feet, a particular perspective and subject proportions are observed by the human eye. If I shot it with a 50mm lens, which is considered very close to what a human eye sees, I've captured these perspective and proportions observed at 12 feet distance. If I then crop the shot to end up with a head/shoulder shot, I have not changed anything I observed with the naked eye or what I photographed, and I end up with exactly the same perspective and proportions as if using the same 12 foot subject to camera distance and using a 200mm lens so it fills the frame with a head/shoulder shot. No? Isn't the magnification of a 200mm on a full frame 4X and 3 feet times 4 equals 12 feet?

Sure you can argue you don't like what it looks like with the 12 foot distance/perspective, or that a kids ears are too big in your opinion, or a girl is too fat in your judgement, and even argue that both could benefit asthetically from the skewed and inaccurate proportions that shorter pespectives and focal lengths afford in order to mask a reality, but it doesn't make sense to me to claim that longer focal lengths make for disproportion, when in fact the opposite is true.

Chris I ordered one last night from Park Cameras in the UK, £35 inc postage. To be honest it was on my mind to get in touch with Canon given that the camera came back less than perfect from them. It went in with a dirty sensor as described in the post link above and came back with something in the middle of the viewfinder which wasn't there when it went away to them. However I thought it would be easy to clean and I ended up making things worse. Because of that I don't know if the dirt that is now on my sensor, 5 or 6 distinct spots, was there before I mucked around with the blower, so I'm a bit hacked off. I've owned 4 DSLR's before I bought the 1Dx and never had a problem with dirt on the sensor, the total cost of those cameras was way less than that of the 1Dx so taking that into consideration its pretty damn poor on Canon's part that I had to send it away in the first place.

Welcome apop! You should find that this forum is a positive place with a smaller than usual amount of malarkey and a lot of solid advice and frequent posts. Enjoy the ride and have fun!

2400 euro for a 5D Mark III new or a 1 year old 1Ds Mark III, 1400 euro for a 5D Mark II... tough choice but I am gravitating towards the 1Ds III. I prefer the ergonomics and it will be meant for low ISO work, for the high ISO work miss 1DX performs just... purrfect.