Minnesota Nice said:

scotthillphoto said:

Now if only the iPhone5 will incorporate this....

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I was so displeased with the quality of my phones camera that I just taped it to my DSLR.

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Now you just need the 5d3, put in a Eye-Fi card into the SD slot, jailbreak and set it up as a WiFi hotspot. Instant post to Flikr from your dSLR!

Carny said:

I know this thread is a little old, but it seemed more appropriate to resurrect it than to start another.

What other Canon camera would you say the 5Dii's AF is closest to? I've used a few different rebels and a 50D, how does it compare to those?

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In practice the 50D is not far off

another vote here for the 50 f1.4 especially for chasing that toddler around,

it's really small and light weight so makes the whole setup a little more responsive than the much bigger lenses

you can get a ebay copy hood for a couple of buck for them to project the lens from any knocks and keep any flare away

Larger sensors also provide shallower DOF...

Edit: Jamesy's pics above show a good example.

scottkinfw said:

Hey Neuro

So as of today, which way are you leaning- 5DIII or 1DX?

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Leaning towards the 1D X, but it's still too early to say. I'm certainly going to wait for detailed specs to make a decision. But I do like the idea of an integrated grip, and the customization (upper and lower shutter speed and aperture settings, etc.). If it were a choice between an 18 MP 1D X and a 36 MP 5DIII which still delivered ~5 fps, that would be hard. BUt I see no real difference between 22 MP and 18 MP.

+1 on using the AAs as a back-up.

The big problem with LP-E6 is whether to go for genuine Canon @ US$120 each in my local store (see link below)

http://www.connscameras.ie/canon-lpe6-lithium-ion-battery/4960999627472pd.html

...or go for cheap Chinese knock-off clones that may or may not be good (are they really 1.2V 1800 mAh??)

...or opt for extremely reliable well known brand of AA Nickel-Metal Hydrides for a fraction of the cost?

I use the Sanyo Eneloops in my flashgun + my TD-381 battery pack and they're simply unbeatable, plus I've lots of them in little easy-to-carry slim plastic cases (4 x AA per case) that slot into side pockets of my camera bag.

If price is not an issue then by all means get more LP-E6 packs, but if you're shooting documentary videos you will burn through 2 x LP-E6s after 2 hours continuous shooting. I tried 8 hours of shooting in a hotel conference room that I'd booked for the day and my 5 x LP-E6s ran out (couldn't charge them fast enough). A dozen AA Alkalines got me across the line.

Bottom line: I now use AA Ni-mh in my camera grip (LP-E6 as back-ups) as well as my Zoom H4n audio recorder, my Sony mics, my flashgun, my flash battery pack, my emergency pack for my iPhone etc. All are interchangeable - the LP-E6 packs only work in my camera.

I feel they are top notch for sure, i just bought LR3 from them when it was $69.99 and the site listed them as being backordered and expected more the following day. I purchased, and went back to their site less than an hour later and the expected ship date was like 2 weeks out already. I just assumed that i wouldn't see my LR3 for a week or two, only to get an email confirmation the next day saying it shipped out. They are great to buy from.

Well, I picked up Ec-B and Ec-L screens through focusingscreen.com.

They do not line up *exactly* out of the box, and I suppose that is to be expected.

Self-adhesive shims are supplied, along with directions for installation. The directions have pictures explaining where to put the shims. I was able to move the screen about in the holder and get it "close enough".

So far, I prefer the Ec-L with the split cross in the middle instead of the single horizontal line (Ec-B). The microprism version was not in stock when I ordered.

Both have the grid lines, which will be useful.

The viewfinder does appear to be a bit darker than the stock screen or Ec-S.

Compared to the other suppliers of similar items, the price was reasonable and I received it within a week from Taiwan.

Was that the sum total of the 27/28th Feb Canon "event" prior to the 2nd March 5D Mark III event?

Mt Spokane Photography said:

The link says wide release on president's day. This was a indie film picked up for a mere 13 million.

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Perhaps the lower budget was partially due to the Navy "lending" hardware to the film for promotional purposes.

I'd imagine the rental, insurance, & operation of all the military hardware in the movie (planes, guns, vehicles, etc) to a normal Hollywood production would come pretty close to 13 mil by itsself.

Apparently the acting budget wasn't too high either, judging from the reviews...

Re: KuaDDro.com says they confirm the rumored 5D successor is called 5D X

So KuaDDro.com is unreliable after all...

Updated Feb 27, 2012:

"...We apologize to all readers. Our information about the name of the next 5D, have not been good, although our informant has great prestige in the world film industry. Anyway, we can not lay the blame on the sources. The blame belongs to him who breaks the news (us) not to the source. We assume our error...."

I said it before and will say it again, this is a good move by canon for all of us. the mkii is a very good camera, but no way is it still $2500 good, not in the face of the mkiii and the d800. And yes, it does correct the used market too. used mkii's will be able to drop to a more reasonable price ($1400-1800). I believe the used market was artificially high do to the combination of the new price going up, and people holding onto their bodies (scarcity = supply low and demand high).

In a way too, it may not lead to current mkii owners getting as much as they thought they'd get on their mkii (again, artificially high resale prices of $1900-2200) - but - it will lead to a quicker sale!

I'm sure there are many out there in a similar place as me, on a 7d and looking to move to FF but watching the market and waiting for the right time. I came close to pulling the trigger on a used mkii a few times these past 2 months, but just couldn't bring myself to spend 2K on a used body with who knows how many shutter actuation on it. At that point, manswell just wait and save and get the mkiii. So while you may be like, oh crap, there goes the resale value, once the market is flooded with mkii's, only the highest quality used bodies will be tagged at $1900 - and sorry, if you've had your mkii for 3 years and used it heavily, its not worth $1900...

Now things may change though, with the new price being corrected down to $2100, and the mkiii about to be released - we should see more mkii's used for a reasonable price

KeithR said:

psolberg said:

IMO, it is simple.

Canon failed to predict nikon completely.

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I don't believe for a second that Canon even tries to second-guess Nikon.

Canon has its own strategy (which most people are very happy to buy into - the whiners on the internet don't represent the great majority of Canon users out there) and carries on regardless, secure in the knowledge that even cameras the whiners insist are the worst things ever to come out of a camera-maker's doors, will sell like hot cakes.

And they do.

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The internet is now becoming a much larger representation of the market than was 15 years back. Unless organizations adapt, they will relegate themselves to the dustbins of corporate history. Look what Amazon did to companies that ignored the reality of the internet.

Every company does an opportunity and threat analysis, it HAS to, in order to survive. The most common threat is a strong competitor. I agree though that organizations cannot survive on only listening to what you have described as "whiners" since some people are seldom pleased perhaps, but if either Canon or Nikon ignore the other, the gap between the 2 would grow.... no one wants to lose out.

In the good old days Consumer market research was done on word of mouth and asking the "sales person" and reading some reviews on mags. Now, people do all that on the internet (infact some zealots band together and try and predict new products too ;D ) ...

If I am not completely wrong the 1DX has the ability to trigger other cameras. This communication canal can also be used to trigger or control flashes (in theory).

@Radiating

Thanks for the analyses. What do you think of this thought?

- your analyses is roughly spoken a multiplication of two limitations (sensor and lens) which are applied to a picture with infinite contents (if i understand you correctly)

- Each picture has its own limitation due to discrete caracter of light with minimunm light quantity of one photon. The randomized distribution of the photons gives another limitation of resolution, given the amount of available light and observation time. That means a "perfect" lens/sensor combination can deliver the reals distribution of all photons.

- This limitation of the real would ad another multiplication of a similar curve like the ones you already multiplikated to the picture. In reality the physical limitation of the available information would flatten your curve even more and reducing the benefit of additionsal pixels even faster.

Thanks a lot for the very illustrative picture underjamer.

I actually didn't give it too much thought to focal length before now. I saw a concert picture-gallery from a venue close to me, which was very good, and all the pictures were taken with a 85mm 1.4 (I think it was Nikkon though). So I just thought that I needed a 85mm.

The venue which I normally visit is a bit special because I can get as close as 1,5 meters to the musicians, so my 30 & 50mm work very nicely in terms of distance. But I want to be able to shoot at other venues and also festivals, where you cannot count on getting so close to the subjects.

So the dilemma know is to find out if 85mm is enough, or I should go for 100 or 135mm...

Thank you all for your imput

I am happy to hear this My wife just borrowed this lens this very weekend to use on her 600D. I can't use it on my 5D MKII, but I tried on her 600 and a friends (the one who owns the lens) 7D and it looked excellent. Also very happy to hear that it works well as a all purpose lens, given that she is just learning to use a DSLR camera, so I guess that this will be her walkaround lens.

I started a discussion thread a week ago called What is your favorite Canon lens and why, but nobody has mentioned that lens there, so I am happy I happende to stumble upon this thread.

We use a Lastolite 5 in 1 (the biggest one, I think it's 1.2 metres?). It's nice when you can use it. The big one is good too because you can use it as a scrim to create soft shade if you're just doing a headshot. I'll often use it to bounce a flash, or shoot through it as a quick off-camera softbox.

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Hell And Back Again loses the Oscar .... :-[

The film and more importantly its subject matter certainly deserved it.

I doubt it, but the two cameras are so close I thought maybe the limitation was actually only in the software and not the hardware. Am I dreaming?

Hey, just duct tape a magical flash like this onto a Lytro "light field" camera, when they arrive, and you could throw all your other gear away.

EF 18 f 1.4 L IS

Marsu42 said:

Mt Spokane Photography said:

Marsu42 said:

The "af" built into current eos bodies like my 60D is just a bad joke and imho simply made to put "af on video" in the tech specs, but no one in his right mind would dare to actually use it except on a still object.

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Apparently, all the professionals who do use it, making commercials, TV shows, and movies are not in their right mind? Its just that they know how to use manual focus, because professional film makers have always used manual focus.

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Please do read again, will you? This was exactly what I was saying - you need manual focus when shooting video, the current contrast af at least on my 60D won't help. Concerning usb on lenses: Please note the "" ...

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Sorry if i misunderstood your comment. Continuous AF is indeed unusable on current bodies as I noted.

Doesn't the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 also have low distortion?

For me, 35mm + focal range is better covered by primes, where I want the ability to shoot at < f/2.

I would gladly sacrifice some focal length range for that amazing sharpness, high IQ, and low distortion.

+5 for the 14-24mm f/2.8 being one lens that makes me want a Nikon FF body. (Not that I have the $$$$ for it ;-)

Looks like we now know the answer to this question!

The world of rumors can be so heartbreaking.