http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/04/05/samsung-patents-contact-lenses-with-built-in-camera/

NWPhil: thanks for the Hartblei [= German for "solid lead" as in the chemical symbol Pb] lens link. Medium format is not something I keep taps on. Still interesting.
The in-camera level certainly is helpful. Tripod also has a bubble level, so covered form all angles there. I do understand Scheimpflug.
LDS: well understood. The question is, is IQ so disappointing that I would not use the TS-E. There's also the lens baby for similar effects, but IQ is a whole other topic. From what I gather, IQ is quite good and the added TS-feature make it a very worth-while lens.

I'll see whether there may be some deals at the Los Angeles Photoexpo on May. Otherwise, I'll just get it and have some fun with it.

Thanks again everybody for input and thoughts.

Re: Canon U.S.A. Exhibits Its Latest Digital Imaging Solutions And 8k Technology At The 2016 NAB Sho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgvR3y5JCXg

Matt seems to be optimistic. Just got his. Let's see what he is going to say once finishing testing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9PBgGMuyiQ

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Refurb7 said:

For the cost of exactly $0 every photographer already has the solution to those problems... It is stopping down the aperture.

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The promise of the Lytro was that it was not necessary to stop down the aperture to place everything in focus, but rather to shift the focus from one subject to another without changing the overall depth of field, so that subject "A" would be in focus under choice "A" and subject "B" could be in focus under choice "B."

Plus, stopping down the aperture doesn't work in many real life situations, such as birds in flight or sports, where you need a high shutter speed to stop the action and you are limited by the high ISO capability of your camera. And, frankly if you are shooting with a long telephoto lens, even stopping down to f32 may not give you sufficient depth of field to keep a rapidly moving subject in focus.

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unfocused said:

Refurb7 said:

...you only had to think about it for 30 more seconds to realize that almost no one wants to actually do post-exposure focus selection....

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Really? So you've never shot a bird in flight where the focus was on the wing instead of the eye? Never shot a sporting event where the focus was on the ball instead of the player's face? Never shot a portrait where the right eye was in focus, but the left eye was not?

I think almost everyone would like to "actually do post-exposure focus" tweaking. The problem was that the technology was not sufficiently developed to really achieve its promise. I suspect someone else will pursue this eventually. If it is ever perfected, it will revolutionize photography in a way that would make digital seem insignificant. Imagine never again needing sophisticated autofocus systems or worrying about autofocus adjustment.

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If only it worked that way. The ability to focus these cameras comes only in discrete steps. The marketing hype suggested it worked the way you wish it would have, but the reality of the math was less forgiving.

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Yes, of course, the technology was nowhere near where it needed to be to be really useful. Indeed, I suspect that was one of the problems – the cameras were released prematurely. I would hesitate to even say they were "beta" versions.

But, that doesn't mean it did not have tremendous potential if it were fully developed (assuming that is even possible).

I just take issue with the idea that "no one" would want to do post-exposure focus correction, when in reality the ability to do so (if it could be perfected) would be far more disruptive and significant than the digital revolution in photography.

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I don't see how post-exposure focus correction could be more disruptive and significant than the digital revolution. The digital revolution solves much bigger problems and offers vastly more utility than any focus invention.

Stu_bert said:

Thanks for sharing

"Under Phase V of its Excellent Global Corporation Plan, a five-year initiative launched in 2016, Canon aims to embrace the challenge of new growth through a grand strategic transformation"

Indicates to me that this is the first of many such acquisitions, and although the photographic segment may shrink and receive less funding in future, a healthy Canon should ensure long-term prescence in the photo industry.

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No, not the first, they have already done a huge deal that you might have missed. Approximately $9 billion USD purchases in the past year! I expect that they will wait for another year or two before spending another bunch of cash.

For example: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-axis-canon-idUSKBN0LE0KK20150210

My aging but still useful S95 works well in every way except it has a hot pixel. Whereas in Canon's dSLRs there are ways to 'eliminate' hot pixels, I have not been able to find a way to eliminate (in camera) S95 hot pixels.

I've downloaded the User Guide for the Canon G9X, in an effort to find out whether its in-camera capabilities include the ability to eliminate hot pixels.

I am unable to find any mention of this feature in the Canon G9X manual.

Any CR forum readers have any knowledge to bear on this one...?

I remain interested in the G9X and would be more interested in it to find that this feature does exist for this tiny 1" sensor camera.

Thanks.

Re: Sony Bolsters Full-Frame FE Lens Lineup with New 70-300mm High-Resolution Zoom and 50mm F1.8 Pri

Sony introduces a couple lens and the Canon fanboy brigade comes out and and s***s on everything. At least you're consistent. If you don't like or use Sony cameras, how about you just ignore the thread next time? You provide nothing of value here.

I for one am glad to see Sony offering some low-cost options in addition to the expensive G-master and Zeiss ones. Will make a good pairing for the A7ii and the upcoming A7iii.

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An upgrade: Four emails sent, no reaction except the automatic patellar "Dear Customer" -thing.
So I called and explained that there really was one item that was delivered which is very nice but two are still missing. It's been two weeks until this idea penetrated.


I spoke english. With my Spanish...I did not try.
He promised to get the issue settled in five working days. Whatever it may mean.

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An upgrade. I picked up Skype and called them. A person answered the phone, looked up my emails and said "oops, I have to do something about this". And he did and I finally got the items that the French Post had failed to deliver.

"Tombées du camion" they say about the things that get sto... you know, that vanish into another dimension where we mortals have no access. Only 'fonctionaires' do.

There is even a FB page by that name: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/TombeesDuCamion

I am currently travelling in the Far East with five Canons, each having its different role: 5DS R for me and 7DII for my wife with telephotos for bird photography; a small Ixus for her handbag; the G3 X for additional travel photos; and the EOS-M + 22mm for general high quality discreet photography.

I don't care how "handsome" the Samyang-Rokinon lens is, it's not for me. The little f/2 22mm pancake is near perfection as far as I am concerned in comparison with that large MF clunker. The EOS-M with the f/2 is small enough to handle discreetly yet provide excellent quality. This evening, for example, I took my M + 22mm f/2 to a dinner reception, took several photos and then handed it to a member of staff to take a group photo - imagine doing that with a manual focus lens. I also frequently use the touch screen to simultaneously touch-focus and shoot.

I'm sure he'll take some great photos and videos with it.

I would say this is a massive fail.

The connection to Nik and "On Photography" is less than tenuous. There is much that could be contemplated about the future of photography in a mobile world, but this article barely brushes the surface (one can't even say it scratches the surface).

Sontag was incredibly prescient when she wrote "On Photography." More than 40 years later it remains nearly as current as when it was first published and is well worth reading and re-reading on a regular basis. But, I am hard-pressed to see any significant connection between her observations and the decision by Google to (possibly) discontinue upgrading a piece of software.

extide said:

So, I currently have a T2i/550D, and just for curiosities sake decided to look at the noise sample images back to back vs my cam. http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Camera-Noise.aspx?Camera=1044&Test=0&ISO=1600&CameraComp=688&TestComp=0&ISOComp=1600
I am really surprised that they are so similar. I mean, in most of the samples, besides the higher resolution, it's hard to really tell which is which. The T2i has one of the very earliest 18mp sensors, I would have thought in the several years since there would be a more notable difference!

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Me too. I find his reviews are very detailed and extremely helpful in making purchasing decisions.

So 3 different levels.

T6i Equivalent
80D Equivalent
Sony ARII Killer

I wonder if one of those will come branded or designed similar to an AE-1 Program just for kicks?

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I'm glad to see you back again, serendipidy.

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I'm glad to see everyone back again posting.

I'm still missing my German fellow Marsu42 :-[
(last post from Oct. 2015 but seeing him active at March 18th )

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Marsu42 also used to be an active member of the Magic Lantern Forum, but it's months I don't see him there, too. I miss him, too, he was the Magic Lantern guy of CR. I hope he's well.

I think a rule does not exist. Look at me, I'm sort of a CR addict, yet I rarely post. If you view the member list and click on "date registered" to order the list by date, you don't even need to scroll down the first page to find me. This is the first and last website I visit on my smatrphone when I wake up and go to sleep. At work, I've got 2 PCs on CR for 8-10 hrs a day (sssh, don't let my employer know...). Yet, I barely have 200 posts. There have been periods I haven't been posting for 3 months, though reading as much as I could, others like the last few days in which I posted more frequently thanks to some 5D4 rumors and the lens giveaway (BTW, congratulations to all the winners! I can't wait to know who among the CR regulars is going to receive his/her toy).

This is just to say that members, unless they cancel, or get canceled, their registration, sooner or later come back as active posters. Among some others who seem to have forever disappeared, unless they're still here with another identity, the first who come to my mind are scalesusa, M.ST, briansquibb, Erwin Herdman, crasher... I remember those few who have been banned, but these ones have not been as long as I recall, just wonder why they vanished... Pros who have retired? Enthusiasts who went enthusiastic about doing something else? Seduced by the Dark Side? Oh, well...

When I retire I'll have more time to post. When my son grows up enough, he'll spend more time with his friends and less with me during the weekend (it's happening right now) and I'll be a more participating member.

Greetings to all my CR friends (and teachers)!

JohanCruyff said:

[email protected] said:

JohanCruyff said:

Thank you for sharing your impressions!
When you decided to replace the EF 35mm F/1.4 II L, did you consider the EF 35mm F/2.0 IS, which share many features with the Tammy (weight, cost, IS etc.)?

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I did think about it, but was looking for something significantly sharper. I haven't played with a copy myself, but I did look at test images online. I got spoiled by the Sigma 18-35 on my crop body. I even used it on my 5D3, and it worked pretty well at 35 and was deadly sharp. To justify buying a lens for the full frame kit, it needed to be a sharpness equal or superior to the Sigma. That's why I started with the new Cannon 1.4 II.

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I see: The Digital Picture confirms the sharpness of the Tamron: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=122&Sample=0&FLI=0&API=0&LensComp=1003&CameraComp=453&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=0

It seems that Canon 35mm's corners reach the Tamron ones when both are stopped down to F/5.6.

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Is there a reason why you're linking the comparison to the original 35 f/2 as opposed to the much better 35 f/2 IS?

https://retrorerefractions.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/out-of-depth-with-depth-of-field/

80D is also now in stock in India and compared to US prices are way cheaper. With 18-55 kit price of the camera is 74995 Rs(~1150 US$).

Bdube said:

jrista said:

Pieter said:

epsiloneri said:

Actually, surveying for nearby supernova remnants in H-alpha might be a pretty interesting project scientifically in itself for this Dragonfly.

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Yes - the problem is that we'd have to get different detectors, with much lower read noise. With narrow band filters the read noise is no longer smaller than the noise from the sky background, and the setup is no longer competitive.

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Any chance you guys have some forward knowledge of larger ultra-low-noise sensors coming out? Sony's newer ICX line are pretty nice, with very low dark current, and pretty low read noise (~5e-?). But the sensors are tiny. Really tiny, as in 1/3" or maybe 1/2", which is about half the size of a KAF-8300 and about 1/5th the size of a full-frame/KAF-11002 sized sensor. Would be really nice to know that Sony has some larger sensors based on their new low-noise technology coming out...

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We are considering other projects to augment what we're doing now - particularly when the moon is up and our main science is on hold. We're also hoping to build a bigger array at some point in the future - with 50 lenses we'd effectively have a 400 mm f/0.4 lens, with a 1m aperture.

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f/0.4 @ 1m...now that would really start to surpass, just in specs, some of the really large earth-based telescopes for sensitivity.

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The gains from lens arrays are not so perfect; for example, the large binocular telescope uses 2 large telescopes and achieved only about a 40% gain.

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That is because the gain is relative to the square root of the number of lenses used. With 2 telescopes, you gain SQRT(2) or ~1.4x...or ~40%. With 50 lenses, the gain would be ~7.1x, or 610%. Even at full retail cost, arraying 50 400mm f/2.8 L II lenses is significantly cheaper than building a gigantic telescope on top of a mountain. With over a seven fold gain in final SNR for the cost of around $500,000, I'd say that's a steal.

I think you give them a credit card in Advance in case you want to buy it They would probably be annoyed if it was not back, since another person would be waiting for the equipment. They probably expect it to be a day late, but they might cancel your loan permissions if it was habitual.

Canon usually sends by 2 day, and you can return the same way. That leaves at least 5 or 6 days to check it out.

tpatana said:

weixing said:

Hi,
Saw someone post an image taken using the in-camera 4K video grab from a clip shot with the 1DXmk2 in the facebook. May be some already have it??

Have a nice day.

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Not sure if you noticed, but the link you provided to the video is missing from your post.

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Don't have any link to any video... since it's just an image from a post in the facebook. Anyway, he did mention that it'll be available to the public soon...

Have a nice day.

I got a 430EX III-RT for my birthday on thursday last week. I had a wedding saturday so i was excited to use it. I use a 5D Mark III along with another 430EX II. I had both on light stands triggered with my phottix odin at about 1/4 power I wasn't doing any burst shooting. simple shots of guests interacting before the reception began then all of a sudden the ex III-RT stopped firing or was really slow to recharge. I checked it and it was overheating my EX II was perfectly fine the entire time. then after a while the LCD started blinking and it wouldn't let me fire any more shots. the only way around would be to turn it on and off then i'd get more shots out of it.

I decided to take it off the stand and try it on camera bounced up at the sealing at 1/16 power while everyone was dancing I was using a lot of ambient light shooting at iso 1250 and about 1/80 shutter speed. same thing happened all of a sudden it started overheating again. operating at 1/16th power in an air conditioned room it should never do this.. I'm contemplating contacting customer support to see if i can get an exchange.

backcountrygirl said:

I found this image on the FotoDiox Facebook page. It was posted on March 8th. It shows that huge 186mm filter holder. I think they're probably still waiting for the filters themselves to show up. It looks like a damn dinner plate, but that's what it's going to take for the Canon 11-24mm lens.

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How many channels do you get with a dish like that?

The osprey that has been perching on one of my ham radio towers was back today twice. I had a chance to shoot with the 400mm f/5.6 and the 100-400mm II using a 6D. The raptor takes off, and is flying around the acreage within a range of about 200 to 500 feet. The focus limiter is set to 8.5m on the prime and 3 meters on the zoom. The 8.5m minimum focus distance is an amazing advantage if I lose focus. With the prime I can still see the raptor, even if blurry, but with the zoom, if it hunts towards 3 meters, I cannot see my target. I got only three shots with the zoom today and 31 with the prime in under 2 minutes. Some with the prime were too far away to be useful, and the lighting angle was poor on other shots, but being able to lock focus was easy with the prime. I had the same problem some years ago with the 70-200mm f/2.8 II and a 2X TC III. Focus limiter is 2.5m, and once the focus got lost in the sky, I was done for. When the osprey was just taking off from its perch, the zoom had the focus nailed.

I think more 85 users would be willing to jump ship to a Sigma Art than 135L owners. Remember, the 135 is 'magical'.

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And what is a 85mm1.2L? If magic exists it's in the Canonball!