Ok....think I found it...but just from clicking around everything.

I went into the menu...and clicked around to where I found you could switch the card...and it appeared to work.
It switched to the new CF card I put in and formatted.

But, is there an easier way...something with a quick option on the external buttons...to switch back and forth between the cards as to which one your replaying off of?

TIA,

cayenne

Easy, 4K is plenty.

100mm F/2 - 500$

24mm 1.4L II - 1500$

5DC - 700$ (or the mkII if you can afford it.)

1x 580 EX II - 500$

Total - 3200$ more or less.

Ditch the 18-135MM, Kinda slow for weddings.

KreutzerPhotography said:

I love my 16-35 II... I am fairly new to shooting WA so it is uncomfterble shooting with it but the IQ is amazing. I tend to shoot at 2.8 almost entirely (for weddings and such) so it was a no brainer for me. But the IQ (from reviews I have read) is comparable to the 17-40. The real question is what f. you are looking at shooting with.

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Kreutzer,

Whilst I really would like the 16-35 I think I might go for the 17-40 as f4 isn't too much of a problem for me. Plus I think I've looked at every picture on the net taken with the 17-40 and it appears to be pretty decent quality for the money - Canon are currently running a Cash Back offer so I'll take advantage of that.

Ta,

Guy.

You have to remember that RAW is the fully unprocessed image. Even mRAW files are slightly processed.

My tuppence:

The lens won't be wide angle enough to vignette with a regular filter (very wide lens barrel relative to sensor size) so I wouldn't go nuts on the most expensive slim ones.

I am in the habit of using skylight 1A's. Just an old photo habit. UV kills mould. I want UV in my lens. Skylight offers same protection and very limited artefacts, but lets the UV get in when you are using the camera outside.

Oh and get a polariser.

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FunPhotons said:

Putting all that together, I guess I don't have a good option without the updated 100-400, Gah ...

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... at first, I thought about waiting for the 100-400ii, too, but then people explained to me that it'll likely cost double of the mk1, so that's out of the question for me. *If* there ever is a mk2. From what I understand, maybe the Sigma 120-300/2.8 sounds the best choice for you - as always, it's a tradeoff between weight, cost & iq.

NA - I'll consider the existing 100-400 some more. OTOH, if they were to update it next year I know I'll be kicking myself
Concerning tc and f8 af: You can always get a Kenko tc (dgx) which somehow manages to fool the camera into af'ing though exif data etc. is correct. However, on my 60d the single point af really suffers w/ f8, and for multi-point af there are too usually few af points, I guess it'll be the same for your old Rebel.

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Sure it'll cost more, but what does that Sigma cost, around $3,000? Not cheap and only 300mm. For a wildlife lens, especially since it may be with a FF body, I need 400mm at least. Also I'm sure they'll update it, it's too popular a lens to let it languish forever. If recent trends are any indication I'd expect it in the next few years, they've already updated the 70-200 2.8, the 24-70, 16-35, etc. If nothing else they want an excuse to jack the price up! Anyhow the 100-400 wins in the versatility department besides.

Kenko sounds good but like I said I'm sticking with Canon Brand I think.

I had to send mine in last Monday because it failed to power up most of the time. I found removing the battery & reinstalling it temporarily fixed the problem, but that was a pain in the axx. I also asked them to correct the light leakage problem & to check out why it consistently underexposes raw images by at least a full stop in both Lightroom 4.1 & Aperture 3.2.4. I had to pay $66 for UPS to ship it from Illinois to Virginia, half the cost to cover the insurance. Not happy about that & I plan on fighting them to get it back. They said it would take 5 to 7 business days to repair it.

I got the Sigma earlier this year, with the intention of it giving me more reach when the 100-400L doesn't cut it. Primarily used on 7D, the AF is reasonable but not super fast. IS is strong. f/2.8 is a bit softer than stopped down where it perks up and remains great. That can make it a little challenging hand holding 600mm f/8 balancing ISO and shutter speed if I want the best quality. I can feel my arms getting stronger already. It is easily usable hand held, but the question is more for how long?

On focal length, an ideal 300mm f/2.8 would have an aperture of 107mm. The Sigma uses 105mm filters so they had to... do a bit of number rounding somewhere. But all the lens manufacturers do that to some degree, including Canon.

To me, I don't care if the range doesn't tie in with others in my collection. I pick them for coverage of the task at hand, so outdoors I usually pair it with a 15-85 on 2nd body in case I need much wider angle.

The only other lens I can compare it with is the Canon 300mm f/2.8 (no IS) which from memory the AF speed was similar. The Canon had far worse vignetting though, sharpness comparable for a given aperture setting.

ELK said:

Can you recommend where in Canada to buy photography equipment least expensively?

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http://www.google.ca/search?q=camera+gear+canada&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

If your not going to full frame check out the sigma 10-20mm f/3.5. Also I recently picked up the tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 and am really impressed with the results.

When i had the 7d I had the sigma mentioned above and the canon 24-70mm but on a crop wanted a little wider, the 17-55 is a great lens on crop body. I figured if your sticking with 1.6x than the 24-70mm probably wont be something you will swap for the 17-55mm but figured i would put it out there.

Great lens lineup your gearing towards.

Great! Thanks for posting it!

AKCalixto said:

Another option is to get one of these:

Giga T Pro II 2.4GHz Wireless Timer Remote for Canon Cameras

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/852088-REG

I have one and it works very well

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+1 to this.

I also have a Giga Wireless Timer / Remote - which works flawlessly on both my Canon 7D and Canon 350D DSLRs. My Hahnel Giga Pro (bought for less than AUD$100 a while ago) came with 2 different mini-cables to connect the 'receiver' part that sits on the hotshoe mount - with the camera body. 1 cable compatible on the 7D, and another that is compatible for my 350D.

Then you press (or use) the 'wireless transmitter' part which can be up to 100 metres away. I use it for tripod mounted macro photos (to avoid camera shake), advanced timing (eg interval timing, time-lapse, etc) - and it has many great features built in that I've discovered and used since buying it.

Eg, if I want to do a self-portrait, or group shot - it's much easier to use (and can be configured to by in-camera functions about AF) whether to activate AF or just the shutter release. It is just so much better than a shutter release cable or most of what I've seen from Canon in the way of wireless remote camera accessories.

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jabbott said:

Here is a compilation of eclipse photos I took:

In Albuquerque it was really interesting because the eclipse was still happening during sunset. Because of that, the sun set in a shark fin shape. We were about a mile away from the center path of the annular eclipse, so we were able to get the moon centered nicely in the sun. There was cloud cover earlier in the day but it all went away for the eclipse... we couldn't have asked for better viewing conditions. For these photos I used a Canon Rebel T2i with a 70-200mm f/2.8L II with a 2X extender @ 400mm and two stacked neutral density filters with a combined optical density of 3.9.

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Nice! Facebook timeline photo haha? I wish it wasn't cloudy where we were

KacperP said:

Press Q (on the back, above wheel), navigate to exposure correction bar, enter with "Set".

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I'm always finding it annoying that I cannot change AEB with the screen turned but have to use the display menu. Hint: use magic lantern, it takes more than 3 aeb shots and even figures automatically out how many you need!

Its entirely up to you, and depends a lot on how you shoot. I found a almost new 1D MK IV locally for the same price, and sent mine back because the issue with lighting the focus point was a big issue for me. I also am trying a D800. Its better so far in many areas, but the large file sizes make it slow to process them. AF is good, but not as good as the 5D MK III, at least not with the 1000 images I've taken so far. AF on the D800 is absolutely unforgiving if you want pixel sharp images.

thure1982 said:

Tcapp said:

my conclusion is shoot raw and it doesn't matter.

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And if you shoot party-pictures for eample at a club.
Then there is no need for RAW since there only going on a website.

Is there then any reason to use the high/medium/low sharpening?

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For small images, its not going to be noticible, but I'd still use RAW. The in camera NR for jpegs wipes out a lot of detail, trying to bring it back with sharpening is kinda futile.

However, different people have different tolerances for this type of thing, so I'd do what looks good to you and you will be happy.

twdi said:

A 24 is not wide enough for great landscapes I think.

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I think we were suggesting the 24-105 as a Standard Zoom

For landscapes it rather depends on the individual needs.

For the occasional landscape you could take several shots and stitch them together for a high resolution panorama (with more mps than a D800 in a single shot)

Here is a 24mm landscape I took yesterday

For just portraits go 85 or 135. If you think you might want to do macros also, then get the 100. It's a very good portrait lens, almost great, but the 85 and 135 are amazing portrait lenses.

HurtinMinorKey said:

So the 5D3 should be able to rock it at 250Mbs. Thanks for the correction on the lack of Raw on 1DC.

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5D3 uses H264 compression, it's a bit different from Motion JPEG, I prefer Motion JPEG

iso79 said:

Basically people who don't know how to shoot and have shakey hands.

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Auto ISO + automatic lighting optimization! Dont forget!

Did not work fine with me:
1) Live view appears on focal window but is slow sync and stops in few seconds.
2) I believe focal is worth it when they develop full automatic support to 5DM3 (which I believe is in development). Doing the manual procedures is, at least to me, is harder than available free manual procedures available on the net.

So my suggestion, don't buy until they confirm full 5DM3 support. The SDK is out, so they should be on it right now.

scottkinfw said:

Ditto.

Make sure to go to devices>usb, and be sure that the camera is recognized.

Worked like a charm

sek

neuroanatomist said:

Not that I've heard. In the meantime, I run it on my MBP via a Parallels virtual machine.

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Last Christmas prices dropped as Canon dumped surplus inventory to shore up sales due to a poor quarter and to make sales for 2011 look good.

It was discussed back then, that prices would go back up to MSRP, and they have. Canon is also now requiring resellers to sell at MSRP, unless its a Canon authorized sale.

You might find something for less on ebay, but goods purchased at auction are specifically excluded from the Canon Warranty.

I don't think there are any shots I could take with a D800 that I couldn't take with a 5D3, whereas there are situations where a 5D3 will get a shot that a D800 can't. Therefore, for me at least, the 5D3 is a better all-round camera. And because I don't specialise in any one area of photography, that's what really matters.

It's sad to see DP Review go down as hard as it has. I've used it a lot over the years and must say that it doesn't even really feature on my list of good review sites anymore. I only use it when I want to view camera specifications.

My GF loves it, it is a womans series. Lots of domestic gossip. I like the style, I'm a modernist at heart, so it's right in that rich seam of design and consumption but without irony. And Christina Hendricks captivates any screen she's on.

It's not apatch on anything else we've discussed, but I want to watch Pacific as a couple so mad men has to be watched first.

Had a look at magic lantern, not all that mac friendly, also I format my cards after each dump, so impractical.
Glad the guys are doing good things. I shoot with qp cards at head of reel. So have visual greyscale and colour balance when shooting, and a greyscale balance that color likes for grading. I shoot ENG, I shoot HDV, I shoot DSLR, I'm not picking a DSLR because it behaves like an ENG.. ML is almost too complex and would distract me, I'm a GUI rather than a BASIC kind of guy when it comes to interfaces, ML wouldn't add anything to a T3i that I feel I miss, and won't run on my 7D anyway..

As I say, I'm glad theres folk hacking it and pushing it. Just not for me.