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justaCanonuser · Nov 27, 2019

Jack Douglas said:
Sure, it's great fun if you can entice an editor to show up in a thread for debate!

Jack

Sorry for the delayed reply, I was extremely busy: editing a Canon thread on DPR is the ideal setting for a masochist looking for THE ultimative kick

Ozarker · Nov 27, 2019

Sporgon said:
Back in 2015 when the 5Ds was introduced I posted a thread titled "Dawn of a new era for primes" as this 50mp camera would allow much more cropping and increase the versatility of primes. Nobody seemed interested at the time but I think I was proved right; there has been an explosion of new prime lenses since then.

5Ds : dawn of a new era for primes ?

My photographic career goes back well into the days of 35mm film, and with that medium cropping was generally very undesirable. You will occasionally find people on internet forums who claim that their 35mm film is about 20 mp because it scans at around 20 meg of information, but much of that...

www.canonrumors.com

I took my own advice and moved to the 5Ds, now I only own one zoom.

If you want to stay light and cheap I'd say go for the venerable EF 100/2. Fast focusing and excellent quality ~~as good as the 135L~~. (I apologise for the blasphemy. No warning please mods). If you want prime but heavier I'd recommend the Tamron 85/1.8 VS. Very good portrait lens with IS but AF not as snappy as the 100.

I'd think long and hard before losing the EF 70-300L though. I did.

The jump in mega pixels from my 5D Mark III to the 30mp of the R has made primes more appealing to me than they were for exactly the same reason; more latitude for crops. The 5Ds must be a dream for that. A high resolution R is on my wish list for the future for precisely that reason. I wouldn't care if it only shot 2 fps for what I do.

ronaldbyram · Nov 26, 2019

YEAH!! the firmware updates are avail on canonusa.com

Michael Clark · Nov 26, 2019

unfocused said:
FYI, The Black Friday deals are now posted at Canon Price Watch.

B&H is currently giving anyone the same price as CPW on the 90D + 18-55mm kit lens ($1199). They're slightly higher than CPW on the Body only (+ $100) and Body + 18-135 kit (+ $50).

But the B&H deals include a couple of extra third party batteries, an extra third party charger, a Sandisk 64GB Extreme Pro SD card, and Luminar 4.

I've bought that same third party 2 battery + charger from B&H. The charger includes a 12V cord so it can be used in the car while driving from one shoot to another. The batteries last about 80-90% compared to a Canon EP-L6n that came with the camera I bought at the same time. They're better than my 4-7 years old Canon EP-L6 batteries, which are beginning to show their age.

YuengLinger · Nov 26, 2019

Mt Spokane Photography said:
Year old news? I guess a year + after it came out, people have forgotten that there are limitations. I did some tests on mine when I first received it in mid October 2018. It was known then that it used the on camera AF light and not the one on the Flash.

The good news is that it focuses in low light that is too low for me to see the subject unless I wait for 15 minutes for my eyes to fully adjust.

One cannot forget what one never knew.

koenkooi · Nov 26, 2019

Normalnorm said:
They will release such lenses only if they see money. I have zero idea how large the astro market is but they did intro the Ra so there's that.

Someone pointed out that the Ra is aimed at 'deep sky' astro, not the wide angle star scapes that Canon lenses tend to suck at due to coma.

Maximilian · Nov 26, 2019

Aussie shooter said:
If I could only afford 1 L-prime I would get an L-zoom

In addition to the prime...

Jack Douglas · Nov 25, 2019

What we need is some more news to quibble about.

Jack

Viggo · Nov 25, 2019

Turn off Exposure Simulation when using flash.
It’s not the shutter that is electronic, but the viewfinder that is electronic that causes this. Because your exif yields a pitch dark picture and it of course can’t simulate your flash.

unfocused · Nov 24, 2019

sanj said:
Sold out. :-(

Click on the link at CPW and you will get a form that you can send to Gordon to be on the waitlist. He will notify you by email if it become available again.

tron · Nov 24, 2019

A friend's friend told me that Canon has a video camera that shoots at very dark places. Oh wait:

A Closer Look at the $30,000 Canon Camera That Shoots ISO 4,500,000

Back in July 2015, Canon announced the Canon ME20F-SH, a multi-purpose camera with a $30,000 price tag and a max ISO of 4.5 million. This 11-minute video

petapixel.com

I believe Nikon and Sony are doomed!

YuengLinger · Nov 23, 2019

One disgruntled employee, from summer of this year. The faithful aren't just backing up photos, but their whole freakin' systems.

Capital One says it was hit with data breach, affecting tens of millions of credit card applications

Capital One says the breach it affected an estimated 100 million US individuals and approximately 6 million in Canada.

www.businessinsider.com

Natalie777 · Nov 23, 2019

Great photos! Thanks for sharing, guys! Unfortunately, my dog died last month. I'm not ready to adopt a new dog, I need time. But I still have a cat, she is about 13 years old. I should say, after my dog passed away, I started thinking more about taking care of my pets (of course, I took them to a vet regularly and gave all necessary vitamins and supplements), but now I realize that my cat is also old, and maybe I should do more for her. I read a lot on the topic. By the way, I found Pet Express pharmacy that allows to read the descriptions of all meds for pets that are sold there (it is convenient as you can always check side effects, contraindications, etc.). So, do you do anything special for your pets when they get older?
P.S. Sorry, if this is a wrong place to ask.

Click · Nov 23, 2019

Beautiful shots. Nicely done, Dockland.

Dockland · Nov 23, 2019

You guys are phenomenal. Me, not so. But it's fun. Here's my contribution for this amazing macro lens.

Ozarker · Nov 23, 2019

navastronia said:
I shoot portraits and events with the Sigma 35/1.4 and the Canon 85/1.8. For architecture/landscape and some extreme portraits, I just last month added the Samyang 14/2.8 to my kit. I would like to have the Canon 200/2.8 for use shooting outdoor theatre performances, but it isn't a priority at this time (though I probably couldn't say no if I found one in good shape for less than $450).

To be honest, I think (hope) shooting with the 35 and 85 is slowly improving my photography. It makes me extremely uncomfortable in some situations to not have a 50 in the middle or be able to go wider (down to 24), but being that uncomfortable makes me work very hard to see shots more clearly and then hustle to get them.

I got an RP the week before last and am now enjoying a host of bewildering shooting options (ISO above 3200! Yowza!). I don't expect I will buy an RF glass for a long while since the RP doesn't necessitate it, IMO. I'll certainly replace any of my gear if it breaks, but I'm satisfied with my mid/low end equipment for now. I could really use more lights and lighting gear for OCF, something I know just enough about to feel that I actually know relatively nothing

Cat photo (of course) from a walk I went on this evening around dusk, getting used to the RP + 35/1.4 combo.

EDIT: to answer your question (ha!)

RF 35 1.2 and RF 85 1.2, assuming those focal lengths haven't totally worn out my patience by the time I can afford them.

View attachment 187587

Great shot! It looks to me like your lens/camera combo are fantastic.

Kit Lens Jockey · Nov 22, 2019

Viggo said:
I’m not ever going back to a mirror camera, but what I want to see in a R upgrade is:

Proper weather sealing
Proper weather sealing

The R has proper weather sealing. Unless you plan to stand outside in heavy rain with it for well over an hour, you're set.

Canon EOS R Review - Weather Testing - Imaging Resource

Canon EOS R Review - EOS R Weather Testing

www.imaging-resource.com

Click · Nov 22, 2019

Beautiful. Nicely done, Dockland.

Viggo · Nov 22, 2019

From the limited samples I’ve seen, I think the bokeh looks better now, and it’s not as flat looking. I think they might have done everything right this time.

Dockland · Nov 22, 2019

So it's finally released. Is it full frame?

navastronia · Nov 21, 2019

Joules said:
To be fair though, it is not just the people who have a hand in this. Reviewers could go through the trouble of finding the focus distance for points away from the center and measure the edge sharpness with subjects at these distances. Than they could publish edge sharpness and curvature measurements that are comparable... But at much higher effort. And is that effort worth it?

If I have subjects that stretch across the frame, like a tree or a group of people, there tends to be a single plane of focus that I would like to be sharp. I wouldn't want the tell the people that they have to align in some half circle, making some of the appear bigger and more important, just so that they don't get blurry.

Do we have an idea of how big the compromise between blur quality and focus flatness is?

Great points, all of them.

privatebydesign · Nov 21, 2019

I'm very glad you found it helpful CFB, to be sure there are more efficient ways of getting the same result but the way I outlined retains edibility to a great degree, working with Smart Objects is very useful if you think you might want to change edits with zero IQ impact.

The simplest way that comes to mind is to do a LR edit to taste for just the subject, then open in PS, then do the Select - Subject, and refine that selection, then make a Hue and Saturation layer and the selection will automatically be a mask, if it is the wrong way round just invert the layer mask. Then adjust that Hue Saturation layer for the grass using the Yellows slider and adjusting the color range scale with the eyedropper to get all the different grass tones included.

Here are the settings I used to get these colors, but obviously it is entirely to taste.

Punio · Nov 21, 2019

Steven_nl said:
2 cardslots, joystick, around 40mp, great dynamic range and low light all packed in a solid body. Paired with the RF 24-70 that would be amazing. They have their AF and eye AF sorted out so how hard can it be.

I got the gist that Canon don't believe their sensor tech is up to par with their expectations for a Pro mirrorless. Hence why Canon could not reduce the huge 1.7x crop in 4K on the EOS R. Canon is a hardware company first I guess. I hope they figure it out soon, the specs you mentioned are the least of which are required in the next Canon mirrorless.

Nov 21, 2019

Indeed you can - however, be aware that there will remain a split-second lag in the viewfinder after the shutter trips, even with IP disabled. (This is one of the primary reasons I passed on the R)

Mt Spokane Photography · Nov 19, 2019

There are a number of posts from people with the same issue on Rokinon lenses, its not confined to just one model.

My experience with Rokinon has not been good, I got one with awful optics. Check the optics out carefully to make sure the image is good. I expect that there will be lots of Black Friday deals on Rokinon, so depending on what you paid, if its not right, return it. With Rokinon, having a warranty is a good idea.

Taking it apart to try and fix it can result in losing the tiny ball bearing that gives it its click.

Just return it is my advice. They are $400 new and likely to go lower next week.

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