RLPhoto said:

The real question I want to ask...

Can you explain why the Insurance company didn't cover your equipment? This would be very useful to know.

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I'm from Canada, and I was in the US. It's professional gear and not covered under my home policy, which wouldn't matter, since I sold my house and had no official residence at the time. I had coverage for inside Canada only. I would have needed production insurance for the various countries I would have visited on the trip. Since I was only stopping in the US long enough to buy a boat, then rig it and leave, it didn't make sense to pay $3500 for the US. Took a chance and lost.

As mentioned earlier you cannot stack two Canon 1.4x extenders. I have recently stacked the following: Canon 1DX + Canon 500mm F4L version I + Canon 2x II + Canon 1.4x II. This shot was at ISO 5000, 1/400, +2 EV at effective 1400mm on tripod. Full overcast about an hour from sunset. The camera showed F8 and 1000mm. Auto-focus did work with center point focus.

I'm adding the photo to this post. Not an award winning capture. I was just trying it out to see what it would do with branches, low light, etc. This is about a 60% crop into the photo.

Why an amount per month?? When you are shooting X amount per event, you need enough GB to safely cover that. I found that a 64GB card will cover a event for me as of know.

Hi again,

I checked to see what the extender I used at work was.

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4505

It is a wireless USB extender and normally works up to 100 or so meters... I replaced the toy antennas with a pair of 28db gain dishes and have a rock-solid link to some instruments about a kilometer away. It works fine, but there is definitly delay. Even on a short link there is a noticeable delay over the straight USB cable.

afaik, over here (Swtzerland) you cannot send your DSLR to another than an official Canon Rep. Even though you take it to your brick and mortar shop where you bought it. They'll do that anyway due to guarantee reasons...

brad goda said:

I think more important to consider is what rig you are using for your set up... focus pulling... T adjust (...) yes any or most lenses will be good... but what kind of mechanics will your film making require. there will be many adaptations you will have to make to make EF lenses fit matte boxes and rigs...

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I understand this and I realize that my post was very vague.
To begin with, we're doing a very crude setup for the pilot (its just a 2-3 day shoot), I will mostly be doing landscape beauty-shots (big panoramas and star-timelapse), so I think we might do the first shoot without any real rig. Probably a nice tripod, a merlin glide and a simple slider. Maybe a very simple follow-focus, but this is not even certain. In future shoots, (if all goes well) we'd be going much more cinematic, eg. more narrative shots, more characters and much more focus pulling.
Maybe I should distinguish between questions that have to with optical qualities and questions pertaining to ergonomics and other non optical considerations.

brad goda said:

the EF and ZF lenses are good.. but NOT cinema lenses... focus racking and seamless T adjustments are made way different on Canon cinema and Zeiss CP.2

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I don't understand what you mean by this?

From what it looks like today, we might start off with one or two zooms and a few primes. I assume that eg. 24-70II+70-200 2.8II is a sturdy combo, but what if we want to go wider than that?
From an optical standpoint, are there any L-glass that you would NOT recommend using for 4K?

Tokina 16-28 f/2.8

Already discussed here on forums and elsewhere.

Thanks gentlemen for the advice.

Meanwhile my used 17-35 L has arrived and I'm shocked. The Tokina 11-16 2.8 blows this lens out of the water in any discipline. Sharpness over all, Sharpness of corners, felt stability and even with the accu drill sound the AF seems on par with the Canon USM.

So I know that it will be the Tokina to cover the lower end and I will invest in the Chinese second hand market for a used 70-200. That leaves the question between the 28-70 L and the Sigma 17-50 2.8 which has failed me once already in regards to build quality but which is small and light and is stabilized.

I am shooting a 5D3 since last August. And it was a big step up for me in low light, coming from a 30D. The 1Dx is definitely not my expenditure league. But If you do birding, although I am not into that, I guess the 1Dx surely has a stellar AF and is a lot more forgiving at higher ISOs relating to what I've heard so far. It has a 0.5 to 1 stop advantage in RAW over the 5D3 according to neuro. How many f-stops do you lose with a 1.4 converter and the 100-400? Anyway you'd have at least a 560mm on the long end. If I were you I'd go for the body...Because neither the 1Dx nor the 5D3 will see an upgrade within the next year. But, that's my 2 cents.

with zeiss and the canon 1.2L on your list its obvious budget is not a problem
but check out the canon 50 2.5 macro... it has a noisy slow non USM motor and a thin plastic manual focus ring BUT its a underdog performer... all my Japanese studio friends swear by this lens and I do to... check out this review.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=403&Camera=453&Sample=0&FLI=0&API=6&LensComp=287&CameraComp=453&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=2

ha! a fun look. and scary comparison.

Hey thanks for the comments, sorry I forgot to reply it gets lost in the vast amounts of posts on this site, the indoor group shot was just 2 580ex ii's and the outdoor shots were just natural light.

sorry I checked and the actual policy is with Vero AON are just the brokers

Wireless control for shooting video.

Big step up cash wise, fancied the samyang for a while.

Bit stung by my recent sigma experience tbh.

Here are some 100% crops top 2 are 300 +2x TC on 5dmk3 wide open then 1 stop down
second 2 are the eos M with 70-200 +2x TC wide open and 1 stop down

To my eye the 17-40 appeared a bit sharper in the centre with only marginal corner improvements found in the Zeiss 18. All my tests were at f8. I rarely shoot UWAs wider.

(And colour, contrast etc were not much different to my eyes).

As for the reference to corner sharpness in the 16-35 and by recognized extension, the 17-40, there is some general sponginess at F8 in the corners/edges vs the results I've seen from the TS lenses and the Zeiss 21.

Aglet said:

but still no 5d2 samples for me to compare.. from anyone?...

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Exactly.

Since none of us bother trying to recover images where the flash didn't fire, none of us have ever had problems with noise in Zone -2 shadows. And none of us care what kinds of noise may or may not lurk in Zone -2 shadows.

You're the guy claiming that brand X car is complete junk because it can only do 45 MPH in first gear, while brand Y car is totally awesome because it can do 50 MPH in first gear. All the rest of us are telling you you're an idiot for waiting so long to shift gears, and that we're not at all interested in seeing how fast we can drive in first gear.

And then you have the nerve to insult us for not bothering to test-drive our cars way past redline for you to see just how fast we can get them to go in first gear.

(Of course, the car analogy breaks down at this point, as there's no danger from exposing images in a pointless manner. But why bother wasting our time on something as stupidly pointless as seeing what kind of noise there is in a lenscap-on shot with enough digital gain to put it in Zone III?)

Cheers,

b&

So any sx160is successor rumored or announced ?

Set the render disks to the fastest available non systems disk, there will be audio and video render, put both in same place.

Set the capture disk to the slower USB disk, and copy your camera files here, and take them into premiere from here.

The main thing is that premiere is pointing the renders to the fast drive.

64gb isn't an awful lot of space. If your system is running happily from the 64gb then let it be, use the new bigger one for renders. They pile up when you start making changes, adding colour correction, text, tweaking audio etc.

You can always trash renders once your project is completed and you have a high quality finished version.

NANPA (North American Nature Photographers Association) is holding their annual Summit in Jacksonville, FL, Feb 28 - Mar 3, 2013. Canon Professional Services will be there. I'll be there, too, and was wondering if any other CR Forum members are planning to attend.

wickidwombat said:

Rienzphotoz said:

wickidwombat said:

Rienzphotoz said:

wickidwombat said:

this lens cap works well
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/82mm-82-White-Balance-Lens-Cap-WB-Custom-Filter-Mount-/320912060671?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item4ab7d970ff

see in the pic there is a seperate ring? that is supposed to screw into the filter thread and the cap is a snug pop on or off fit its snug enough that by not bothering with their supplied ring the cap will fit tightly over the outside diameter of the filter.

they actually also work quite well for custom white balance too even in mixed lighting and are much more convenient than a grey card

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If it fits snugly without falling off on a 82mm slim filter, I'd rather get this than a expensive XS-Pro ... but I didn't quite understand the concept of this cap ... do you use this? how does it work?

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yeah its easty to use
with the cap on the lens flick it over to mf
point camera at scene you are going to shoot with AWB enabled
take a pic
set that pic as custom white balance pic
flick AF switch back to AF (annoying when you forget this part)
carry on shooting

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Sorry, I think I didn't ask the question correctly ... I am not talking about the WB ... what I wanted to know was how does the cap fit, because you said:
"see in the pic there is a seperate ring? that is supposed to screw into the filter thread and the cap is a snug pop on or off fit its snug enough that by not bothering with their supplied ring the cap will fit tightly over the outside diameter of the filter"

I am a bit confused, do I need to attach the separate ring in order to fit the cap snugly on to my 82mm slim filter?
I am not interested int the custom WB part as I already have a Rogue ExpoDisc and a WhiBal ... I am only interested in the cap for my 82mm slim filter.

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oh it fits because you just forget about the mounting ring it comes with and it snuggly fits over the filter itself
ie the inside diameter of the cap = the outside diameter of the filter

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OK, thanks.

dr croubie said:

You'd seriously hand over $6k of camera plus lens to a random guy on the street?

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At least check he don't look like sprinter body build type, or wear running shoes

If you don't mind going refurb, you can pick it up for $1036+tax during one of the 20% off Canon refurb sales. You have to be quick to catch it in stock, though.

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Viggo said:

Does that mean I should turn it off if I never use zone and all 61?

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No need to turn it off, but if left on it's not doing anything for you...

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Thanks a lot! I was a bit surprised by this, lol. Oh well, the 1dx hardly ever misses anything for me anyway ;D