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Sabaki · Oct 24, 2016

7Dii+MR-14EX

Oct 24, 2016

Glad you like the case. Enjoy!

crashpc · Oct 24, 2016

Hello. Even after years, I found it useful. Or Google did. Got my EOS M today, and couldn´t get rid of those horizontal tripes in the image preview.
Thanks!

ahsanford · Oct 24, 2016

GMCPhotographics said:
I also find that Simga launch prices are quite laughable. They tend to settle down after a year or so.

You sure about that? Since the 'Art Prime Era', price has been steady as a rock. Both the 35 and 50 Art remain at their original asking price.

- A

1400700226 · Oct 24, 2016

Northstar said:
I’ve had mine since March 2013 and it did make the clicking noise at first, but slowly went away.
I’ve been using it for 2.5 years now and it’s a fantastic lens. I use it primarily for indoor sports action and it focuses quickly and accurately and the IQ is fantastic.
I had forgot that my copy initially had this issue so I got my but off the couch and just went and checked it...nothing nada zilch. No clicking sound and it works perfect.
north

The sound went away?! You are pretty lucky!
Some people says after a years of use the sound become louder or not change.

privatebydesign · Oct 24, 2016

Jack Douglas said:
rrcphoto said:

John2016 said:

Actually YES.
Pointing to problems in this forum is called WHINING!

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when it's all you do? yes it's whining.

this was your first of 47 posts.. you have basically "said" the same thing the other 40 some odd:

"From my 20 colleagues 16 went to Sony. Canon had a huge chance to innovate the market but this is a DEAD HORSE. I invested over 20k in Canon glass and I own Canon EOS-1D X Mark II.
Without the correct LUT and 4:4:4 output this is just a nice Z camera. We all been waiting for Canon to give us some innovation but in 2016 a touch screen and WIFI is simple not enough...
Fact is Sony is taking over and Canon with this strange marketing strategy is not going anywhere.
Protecting the C line is a very bad mistake..."

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So pathetic it's funny.

Jack

True.

When you realize these clowns are just pulling numbers out their butt it makes for a smile or two.

Even the almighty A7S II is 4:2:2, so why Canon should be putting out a 4:4:4 to be competitive I don't know. Logic, it trips me up every time.

privatebydesign · Oct 23, 2016

I'll be interested in peoples results and impressions from these papers. Canon seem to be upping their printing game, which is great news.

Does anybody know of a good paper review site? I have been sticking to Epson Premium Lustre but know I can do better for some prints.

greger · Oct 23, 2016

100L You will fall in love with it! You want a macro for shooting insects and flowers. It is a fantastic lens for these kind of shots. IS is great.

meywd · Oct 23, 2016

Mancubus said:
Mt Spokane Photography said:

Mancubus said:

. Was blaming myself, changing shooting techniques, trying all types of AF adjustments and nothing helped.

It sucks that such a high end product comes out of the box in need of adjustments that will leave you without your gear for over a month!

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Unfortunately, in between the factory and the customer, there are the shipping companies. They are not kind to lenses, and sometimes there is some incredible stress when a forklift drops a pallet of packages 12 feet. You should always return a lens if it does not meet your expectations, shipping damages is a huge factor, its not something easy to control. Roger Cicala of lens rentals has discussed the shipping issue. They check every lens before its rented, and know that some are damaged in shipping because renters complain and return them with problems that were not there when it was shipped. My wife worked for a shipping company, and when the boss was away, they played football with packages at random, drop kicking them across the room into the containers. If they missed, they had to try again and again - you get the idea.

So, if you think a lens is not sharp, return it or send it for repair. Don't live with it and blam the manufacturer when it may have just been used in a game of football

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It took me weeks to start noticing that something was wrong. And here in Thailand the return policies are not as friendly as in the US or Europe, especially when you are a foreigner. At the best scenario they would ask me to send in my camera and lens for calibration (which I did after almost a year), but at the time I had an incoming trip and no way I would stay a month without my gear.

Anyway, for months I was blaming myself for my poor technique - because on online forums like this, the reason for poor shots is ALWAYS stupidity from the user, never the equipment.

I am glad you got the issue solved, the problem with blaming the gear is that its not the issue most of the time, however sometime it is to blame, and as with every other problem you may face in life, reducing the probabilities by checking common issues can help solve the problem faster, make a test that reduces human error, check all the common reasons, and when you are sure its not you, then send the gear to get fixed, this way you don't waste a month of your life with an issue that can be solved at home.

haggie · Oct 23, 2016

Does anybody know when we could expect the first reliable review of the Upcoming EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS II USM?

I understood that the lens will be available in November this year, so are reviews due because Canon makes lenses available to test and review sites, or do we have to wait until the lens is "out"?

pokerz · Oct 22, 2016

why don't you compare 5dsr with A7s? ;D

san man · Oct 22, 2016

http://www.cameraegg.org/ef-16-35mm-f2-8l-iii-usm-lens-reviews-roundup/

nc0b · Oct 21, 2016

When I was in Alaska last year, a fellow and his wife from the UK had the Sigma Sport. He let me play with it a bit, but I felt it too heavy and bulky for me. On the other hand he later sent me some sample photos that were spectacular. He is less than half my age and obviously could handle the beast. I was using the 400mm f/5.6, which was before I added the 100-400mm II to my kit. My whale photos were sharp enough, but he captured much better breaching whale shots that I never even saw!

nc0b · Oct 21, 2016

I think I read that Nikon will no longer sell parts to third party service centers. While I was a happy Nikon owner between 1970 and 1990, I am so pleased I switched to Canon when I went digital about 15 years ago.

East Wind Photography · Oct 21, 2016

East Wind Photography said:
ahsanford said:

East Wind Photography said:

You cant control the tamron vignetting in camera but you can with the canon lens for both stills and video. If you shoot raw all the time, you can still correct it in post with nearly any pp software. Further with the newer cameras you can also correct for diffraction in camera. Something that you abolutely need with the tamron at smaller apertures...higher f-stop.

The nonsense about vignetting being an issue is no reason to not purchase this lens. Price and weight are bigger issues and once you can get over that, you will discover that it will pay for itself with higher quality photographs for which you can charge your clients more for.

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If you are one of the landscape astro kinds of guys, the in camera correction wont bother you. If you are a serious astro enthusiast, you are going to take many shots, dark frames and flat frames and do the noise reduction with stacking software anyway. Yes, even with wide angle shots.

The other take from this is that with most lenses, the stars at the periphery are junk anyway and most will use wider than needed and crop to the center 2/3. With this lens you can use it all..at least at 16mm..so the benfits far outweigh any extra work one might need to do process the noise. In camera does an exceptional job at both but you end up with a jpg in the end and not able to do much with it after the fact.

With a non canon lens, you have to do everything in post.

It doesn't affect what I shoot (I don't shoot astro or video), but it may discourage some shooters.

Doesn't correcting lens vignetting -- either in-camera or in ACR / Lightroom -- effectively boost the signal and generate noise? Astro people probably don't want to boost anything by 4 stops, do they?

Please educate me here -- this is not something that's keeping me up at night and I've not done much reading on it.

- A

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Sorry quoting got messed up. My reponse is in there....

[email protected] · Oct 21, 2016

Thanks, each and all, for the error 70 suggestions.
I called CPS this morning and got excellent advice:
Since the error 70 message is triggered by an image defect, he suggested trying the cards one at a time, alone in the camera. So:
1. I took both cards out, turned camera on; the menu said it would not shoot without a card (which is of course how I set up the menu.) So far, so good.
2. I put in a different CF card. It worked.
3. I put in the same CF card. It worked.
4. I put in the SD card (alone); error 70. Camera unusable.
5. I put in a different SD card. It worked.
6. I put in new SD card and CF card. It worked.
So I think it is the original SD card.

A round of applause for Mill's Method of Concomitant Variation (and CPS!!)

The SD card is a Lexar Professional 64G 633X card, which, curiously, I have used for 3-4 months without any problems. So it all of a sudden got the vapors. I will have a chat with them.

Has anyone else experienced this with that type of Lexar card?

Thanks all, again.

LesC · Oct 21, 2016

Amazon UK & WEX had expected arrival dates of October here in the UK but both have removed those dates so looks like it won't be here soon either.

GMCPhotographics · Oct 21, 2016

The thing is about the Tamron...if it's the only tamron in your kit bag and all your other lenses are Canon L's then you will see colour and contrast differences. The other thing is that I've not had a Tamron lens that has lasted in a professional context for more than a few years. I went through two Tamron 17-35mm dii lenses before I bought a 16-35IIL. The latter is now really old and a little tatty looking, but it's still performing well and it's well outlasted any 3rd party lens that I've bought. Ironically....even in it's current state, it is still worth more s/h than when I paid for it. I guess that's lens inflation and resale values for you! If I bought the Tamron, I would be concerned over long term reliability and I'd know that I could only sell it for a fraction of the price of the Canon...plus there's that whole front filter issue with it.

Eldar · Oct 20, 2016

In number of images, over the last two years, the 200-400 f4L IS 1.4x wins, with the 600 f4L IS II (with or without extenders) on a clear second. Third is 24-70 f2.8L II. This is primarily due to the fact that I use max fps a lot with the longer lenses.

In number of scenes the 24-70 is a clear winner.

arthurbikemad · Oct 20, 2016

Will do, will give them a call in a week or so and find out what's happening.

Refurb7 · Oct 20, 2016

I predict a new thread on the forum:

NASA Reveals 5D4 Sensor Defect Because 5D4 Can't Photograph Rocket Motor Tests!

Refurb7 · Oct 20, 2016

This lens seems like style over substance. As far as I can tell, it's all about 1950's style and 1950's performance.

j-nord · Oct 20, 2016

GP.Masserano said:
Mikehit said:

I think the first two shots typify the problem I have had in the few times I have tried in-camera HDR where the high contrast edges show a halo at the border.
Whether this is because the images I took were too wide a range of exposures I don't know but it is similar to trying to re-saturate the sky when I have applied exposure compensation to a bird in flight.

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...also happened to me...

I did HDR with my previous camera (bracketing + photomatix pro) and continued to do so when I first got my 6D. It wasn't that long before I realized, in most circumstances, it's easier/faster/better to just drop the highlights and raise the shadows on a single RAW file via Lightroom. If you want you can push it to a point that is comparable to a typical HDR or you stay a little below that point and get a better image IMO. The 6D sensor/dynamic range is at a point that I find HDR is almost obsolete for general shooting. I still bracket occasionally and reserve the ability to create an HDR later but usually just pick the the best exposure and edit it in Lightroom. You also avoid the majority of haloing when you use highlights/shadows on a single RAW edit.

AvTvM · Oct 20, 2016

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/kodak-ektra-price-specs-release-date/

Kodak Ektra packs in a Mediatek SoC and decidedly drab camera tech.

Even the "leatherette" is fake.

And here's some more for true RETRO idiots:

Canon Rumors · Oct 20, 2016

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