i have just re-size the picture in photoshop.

brad-man said:

Yes. Once again, it's all about the money. The three IS primes are indeed fine lenses. But they are/were overpriced for anyone who does not have a definite need for a lens with those characteristics. Does that sound a little like the saga of the EOS M? For casual amature photographers they are simply too expensive. For most enthusiasts and pros, they are too slow (again, for the money). Personally, I would love to have the 24 and the 35 for the sake of convenience, but I have those ranges competently covered. If these new prices are indeed "permanent", then when a sale/rebates come around, or they start showing up as refurbs, I will take another look. I suspect I'm not alone here...

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Have to disagree. These lenses are for FF users -- so you can't compare them to EF-S primes (there is only that one macro EF-S prime, after all). Further, they are not 'way more pricey than the versions they are replacing', they are 'way cheaper than the corresponding L versions'.

For the extra money for the 24L ($1749) and 35L ($1479) -- both great lenses -- you get that extra bit of build quality and two stops... of relatively soft performance. And in my hands, I never shoot wider than F/2 at those lengths, so half that upside is unnecessary with my 28mm. I'll take the 3-4 stops of IS over one faster stop (F/2, again, just what I do) any day.

I'm not saying that they are the best lenses on the market, but for the apertures I shoot, they are just as sharp as the L glass at less than half the price. That's a great value proposition to me.

I would expect the rumored 50 F/1.8 IS to similarly start high (guess $800) and walk down to $600 after a year.

- A

neuroanatomist said:

If you can get a high enough shutter speed with the 400/5.6, that's sharper than the 300/4. Both are very slightly sharper than the 100-400, but there is copy variation to consider, so you may find some 100-400s that best the 400/5.6. The 70-300L is sharper than all three.

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Wide open, yes. But at 300mm f/5.6 (the best both zooms can do at that focal length), the ISO 12233 test chart appears to show the prime being sharpest, followed by the 70-300L and then the 100-400.

AcutancePhotography said:

What settings would yall suggest for a new born in a hospital?

I think putting the camera on green box automatic. It is not reasonable to expect a newborn to be able to manually adjust aperature or shutter speed. The newborn is going to have enough problems just holding the camera.

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funny. if I wasn't at work I would have laughed aloud.

colinu said:

I also wonder if the touch screen "interacts" with the user's nose when they are looking through the viewfinder.

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Once you half press the shutter button it disables the touch screen except for one area, Q.

alexturton said:

whatever you do don't buy the sigma 24-70. The AF is wildly inaccurate and the bokeh is very 'crunchy' (for want of a better word

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I agree Alex, but I am referring to the new teased 2.0 version coming out next year.

get the sigma 10 20. Its a fabulous lens for the price

I personally wouldn't get either. I would go with the 40mm pancake which is a fantastic lens

24
50 (AF speed better than 40, low light prime if needed)
70-200
TC

So glad you asked. I made a little apparatus for a similar need. Mine was intended to avoid damage during a cross-country move, but it should do fine for your needs.

Get PVC -- the large diameter, thick-walled stuff and a pair of rubber end-caps. A local hardware store might not have it, you might have to go to a big box like Home Depot, Lowe's or Menard's. It'll be in the plumbing section.

Top tip: bring your tripod (with head attached) into the store for a trial fitting.

See pics for the one I made. It will rattle around in there, so you may want to wrap it with a towel. Also, though I didn't make one, you can easily imagine a simple fabric loop you could attach for a carrying handle. And, in your application, don't forget to put a name/address tag on it!

Total cost ran me about $15 if memory serves.

Have at it!

- A

I took a trip with my family and overnighted a Canon 70D to my hotel. I thought I'd share the results with yall.

http://youtu.be/Vy7atdGpMFM

Sporgon said:

I'd like a 50mm pancake f2.

Although they never called it a pancake the Nikkor 50mm f2 from 1977 to about 1979 was pretty well a pancake lens fitted (deep) into a normal 50mm 1.4 body. By far the best 50mm I have ever used.

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Yes!
An extra stop of light on the Pancake would do wonders, and 40mm is a little short for my taste, though being the widest lens I own at the moment means it gets used for a lot for landscape pictures.
If they could keep the close MFD that would be great too.

Hi,

Have been lurking for a few weeks, and joined specifically to ask about battery life. I'm an enthusiast, graduated from EOS 1000 to 60 last year, and have just inherited my Dad's 5Dii. It has seen under 5k actuations, and he got it as a retirement present 2.5 years ago (upgrading from a 20D).

The batteries in my 60D typically lasted 700+ - I rarely had to worry about charge status. The first thing I did when I got the 5Dii last week was install magic lantern - have never used it before, but thought that a clean slate would be a better learning experience. Might have been wrong on that.

I noticed that his batteries seemed to be draining very quickly the last couple of days as I was getting used to it and setting things up. Took it out today and took one of mine out as a spare, as the first battery was at about 30% - after less than 150 shots total, I had to replace the first one and the second is now at 69%. This seems horrendous - even with plenty of chimping as I'm checking things out.

Is the 5Dii battery hunggry? Surely not...
Does Magic Lantern hoover up charge? Can't think why...
Is there some setting I've missed likely to have caused this? Possible, but it must be pretty power hungry...

Any input gratefully received!

Really loving FF + 24-105 btw.

Andy

pedro said:

some additional news over at NL
18th We're told (thanks) that nothing will appear in any Canon branded MF range until there are enough items to introduce it as a 'system'. This will include 'Canon designed' [sic.] lenses with a new larger version of the EF mount (tentatively called EF-L) and, as with the EOS-M EF->EF-M adapter, a way to allow them to be used seamlessly as very high quality lenses on the current EF mount.
The lens development is being influenced by the new range of 'Cinema' lenses (I note their prices!)
The aim is a 'show stealing' announcement at Photokina next year, but no details on when any cameras might be offered for sale.
I've seen other related comments (thanks) which emphasise that this is still at a relatively early stage and the business relevance has not been established.
My own thoughts are that with the recent decline in DSLR sales, this might be a tricky one to get a good return on the necessary investment?
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/canon_medium_format_2ff.html

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"EF-L" seems like a terribly choice of name, given the likely confusion with "L" lenses, unless all MF lenses will be "L".

Perhaps "EF-66" would be a better choice, assuming they retain the 6x6 format for the notional MF camera.

cschwartzy said:

I didn't find much. I took out both batteries and even did a software update. The only mode that buttons actually work in (Menu, play back etc.) is Full Auto.!

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sounds to me like you sinned against the CR 10 commandments and are stuck on green square mode. ;D

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=16246.45

Don Haines said:

Didn't someone from Canon say that the 7D2 would be groundbreaking? A bit better than the 70D is not.... I am hoping for some significant improvements.

The 70D is the first try with dual-pixels.... but they could do so much more... In the P/S world we have face tracking and even recognition... DSLR focus, with less than 100 points on the best of cameras, is crude by comparison in terms of granularity... what if they combined dual pixels into the af sensor and gave us the ability to track an object in much finer steps?

Whatever it is, it will have to be significantly better than the 70D to meet the "groundbreaking" hype..

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Very true. I don't think they can afford to release a 70D+ after waiting so long for a 7D2.

I did some comparisons myself between the 24-70 II and the 70-200 II at 70mm using a high detailed target and compared the IQ between them on my 5D3...

Just like the Canon MTF charts confirm, the 24-70 II is sharper at 70mm... While close, there is just a higher level of detail compared to the 70-200 II, which is already very good.

neuroanatomist said:

Well, I guess that answers your question. As always, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is...

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Yes, but it comes with a Nikon bag ;D

The problem with the whole "The best camera is the one in your hand" thing is that it encourages you to take lots of pictures that you otherwise would not have bothered to take. Probably 98% of the photos that I take with my iPhone are quick shots of absurd stuff just to amuse my friends on Facebook. Taking a good picture isn't exactly a high priority.

But under the right conditions, you can get halfway decent shots with phones. Here are a few of my iPhone 5 shots.






Okay, so that last one was just an absurd picture to amuse my friends on Facebook....

neuroanatomist said:

AFMA is engaged during focusing. If you've set up back button AF, and aren't holding down AF-ON, the camera is not actively focusing (which, in fact, is one of the main reasons to use back button AF). In that case, the AFMA isn't recorded in the EXIF as shown by DPP, nor is the selected/used AF point(s). So, for AFMA testing you need to either hold down the AF-ON button, or reassign AF to the shutter button (since a half-press precedes a full release, with AF on the shutter button, the camera will always be focusing when the shot is taken).

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That makes sense. Thanks. I guess in One Shot, once focus is achieved, there is no use for the microAF data (it was already used during active focusing).

tpatana said:

Mostly copying from other people ideas:

-more than 1 axis movement

-rotate / tilt

-individual parameters / programmable curves for each freedom of movement. E.g. rotate camera 1° every 1 minute towards left, same time move with curve x= 0.5t^2 - 0.3t + 5, y = 0.15t

-should support all common mathematical items, sin, cos, ln, log, e, ..etc...

-fast movement preview to verify movement. Hate to see the planned track to fail after hours of shooting (great idea Paul!)

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Not quite sure why I would want to include mathematical logic like that; to be honest. If I had to guess I would say > 1% of the end user would even know what that logic meant, lead alone how to be able to use it effectively. Sure, it is very simple to incorporate mathematical logic like that in programming language but I don't see how it would be a positive contribution to an end product.

In the past I have had issues with Canon Printers using dye based inks giving very soft results on Moab Entrada Rag papers. I was wondering if anyone out there has used the Pro-100 with any of the 2 sided Rag Papers.
Now that they are on special I am thinking about getting one.

here's one from last week..


Oedemera Nobilis Feeding by lastcoyote, on Flickr

Yes. As my old granny used to say, "given enough time and money, any fool can do anything!"

Yeah, that's not good.. Seems they spilled when filling up. Only one thing to do when it's all over. Send it back in.