ankorwatt said:

well you reduce the fill factor with at least 15% if I remember correct and the fil factor is already small in a cmos , 30% of the surface

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I suppose that's why there is an array of gapless microlenses over the photosites...

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=16433.0

Actually I'm kinda surprised Sigma didn't pick up anything, something like EUROPEAN lens adjusting gismo of the year (2013-2014 incase your unsure what year we're talking about)

I think Mpeg Streamclip is pretty much the defacto free transcoder for DSLR video. Compressor also works if you're on a mac.

http://www.squared5.com/

You can mount it on a 5D, but the image won't cover the sensor until zoomed in to 35mm, at which point there will still be much more dropoff than is generally acceptable until stopped down to f5.6 or so.

Short answer: it mounts, but isn't useful. But it's technically EF mount.

look at a "moose" filter.

One of my very favorite lenses is the Leica Summicron 75mm f2.0. Paired with the 35mm Summilux there is very little that I would "miss" on a photo shoot. The canon 24/50/85 L trio might be interesting but I'm not sure I'd
like to carry it for extended distance or time.

Apop said:

So it's not even new gear? but just different(used) gear ?

It's like when people say I bought a new car ( second hand ), that is a different car!

But seriously , I really appreciate you posting this

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I guess getting a 1Dc for that price is absolutely stellar, even if it is used.

But it is pretty much your description. If the car is has been bought and owned for a few months, and has mileage on it, it's still used

But that is an absolute bargain for a 1Dc. now I see the point

Just like schools sports day... everyone's a winner

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/8599640731/panasonic-gx7-first-impressions-review/2

Well done. I hope they add those shots to all "good" cams they tested.

By the way: There is an old bank note in the lower part of the picture. It let me smile when I recognised, that this old bank note came from Austria in the mid of Europe. I wonder, how this came to the USA and jonied dpreview´s chart. ;-)

Their latest lenses are IQ competitive with the best OEM and the performance/cost ratio is very good too.

I've never experienced tardy service from Canon Canada but if Tamron's trying to make 3 day turn-around service on their lenses that's gonna be a bit irksome to the likes of Canon and Nikon who will only expedite service for their paid-up pro members.

story found on I-R

www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/08/14/tamron-puts-an-end-to-the-warranty-repair-blues-with-speedy-turnaround-pled

Has anyone else seen this announced anywhere?

I am happy with the 6D as it is, I have found it to be superior to the 7D in picture quality and all round better than the 5D MkII. It may well be dumbed down so that people who pay extra for a Mk III certainly see some difference for the money.

The Wi-Fi functionality is also very useful an innovative, certainly was one of the factors I looked at when upgrading from the 'top of the line' 7D.

It may be a budget FF but it is a Canon FF none the less and takes wonderful pictures and has low light perfomance yet to be equalled!!

Hi folks, some of the best are not gps enabled, just the farcebook postings, this is where I live, this is me getting on the plane for a fortnights holiday in x!
Wasn't there a furore a couple of years ago someone did a please burgle me to highlight the excess info people give out no need for gps when you post your full address and holiday dates!

Privacy settings people?!

Cheers Graham.

pwp said:

TexPhoto said:

I just bought a 1D Mark IV on eBay, and got a pretty good deal. I paid $2925 and $30 for shipping. Looks flawless, and only has 7500 shutter clicks (according to the listing) Problem is the camera has 26,996...

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The counters reset to zero every 10,000 shots. The seller may have been reading the current shutter count. In any case, 26,996 is absolutely nothing to a 1D4. Barely run in. I'll frequently run up 25,000 frames in a month on my 1D4 which must be up over 500,000 clicks by now. My old 1D MkIIn must have had over 750,000 clicks when I gave it to an assistant who has added a couple of hundred thousand more....all on the original shutter.

I have run with 1-Series Canons since the 1D. The only one I've missed was the flawed 1D3. They all have run up into the several hundreds of thousands on original shutters without blinking. There are plenty of 1-Series Canons with well over a million clicks still in robust daily use.

Even if your 1D4 had over 100,000 clicks on it you still got a good buy. Just forget it and enjoy your fantastic new camera. The 1D4 is a gem.

-PW

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Great point, and that is some impressive shutter life!

It's ugly.

RobertG. said:

Hi,
use the lens you already have for the landscape pictures. The 16-35 is a pretty good lens for this job. More important than the lens is patience and a good composition. Patience is needed to find the right location and wait for good light.

BTW, some grad ND filters and a pol filter are much more helpful in landscape photography than the best lens. Really useful is also a tripod with a ball head and maybe a panorama plate on top. It slows you down but helps a lot to fine tune the composition of your photo.

If you are really serious about landscape photography, get the TS-E 24 L II. It's a great lens and probably the best 24mm lens for a Canon camera available. The difference to the 16-35 is easily noticeable in the corners. But the pol filter, grad nd filters, tripod and ball head are much more useful and should be bought first. The lens alone doesn't make great pictures.

Best regards,
Robert

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Yes, I agree wit Mr. RobertG 250% " If you are really serious about landscape photography, get the TS-E 24 L II. It's a great lens and probably the best 24mm lens for a Canon camera available. "---Yes, I have The Lenses from 8mm. to 600 mm, And this Baby is on one of my Full frame camera all the times.
Thanks , Dear RobertG.
Surapon

Sporgon said:

One other thing to bear in mind when shooting head 'n shoulder portraits with 35mm is to keep out of slapping distance when you show the model the pictures.

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LOL thats a good point.

tron said:

sagittariansrock said:

tron said:

And if one does decide to take gear, again, the respectful thing to do would be ask the paid professional.

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Quite wrong! The respectful thing to do would be ask the paying couple!

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Why, I think one should ask both the couple and the pro. For the couple, it is their show; for the pro, it is his/her workplace.

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The last time I checked the couple hires and pays the pro. As you said it is their show so they have the final word. Pro has a workplace only because the couple decided so...

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As i said before, as a working pro, in my contract and in most of my competitors contracts, we stipulate that we are to be the only photographers there. We ask the wedding party to inform the guests... I dont get bothered about the guests taking cell phone pics, but I do get bothered if it interferes and or degrades the quality of my work or previewed value of my work. That being said, the wedding party would have signed the contract, they would know, to some extent, what's allowed and whats not. If all else fails, find the photographer and ask.

jhpeterson said:

I think you've explained yourself quite well.
From what you've said, the two lenses I mentioned appear to be excellent choices. Not having a 300, you would want to carry that 1.4 as well, for those times you'd want some extra reach. It still produces excellent image quality on the 70-200.
A number of people have suggested bringing along the 24-105, but, if it's at the expense of the 70-200, I'd talk you out of it. It's too much of an overlap with the 16-35 for the sacrifice of longer lengths, as well as the use of the 1.4. I took one with me on my trip, but used it even less than the 300. I didn't seem to miss the gap between 35 and 70, but perhaps that's because I seldom see things normally! Besides, you can always get those with your compact camera.

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I've sold my 24-70/2.8 (first version) since I didn't use that focal lengths that often. When I shoot weddings I'm only using my 16-35 aswell as my 70-200. Then I have all the wide angle I need aswell as portrait and full body shots

I guess that when I will be shooting abroad, I will be using both wide angle in landscape, macro on flowers and small wildlife.. aswell as tele for portraits / panoramic shots etc.

The 24-105 is a nice lens,but it might be a better "go around-tourist"-lens and shooting lots of pictures

As you say, I can get "tourist"-shots in the 24-100 with my compact camera aswell.

mwh1964 said:

Complement your 24-105 with the 70-300L and you are all set.

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+1 great combo for general purpose travel photography. If you need low light or shallow DOF capability, you might consider buying or renting a fast prime like a 35 1.4, 50 1.4 or 85 1.8.

chauncey said:

I take a lot of Egret images waiting for them to fly...I want the BIF series to photo-merge. Anyway, I'm sitting there waiting and clicking...getting this



He then has a moment of indiscretion, he takes a dump and I start to laugh, losing him in the viewfinder and my series shot is gone.
Moral of story...if they take a dump, they are gonna take off.

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That is a well known indication of a bird getting ready to fly. You will be prepared next time.

Not sure specifically, but I would hope that there's at least a certain amount of factory testing that goes on before any one of those leaves the factory. And if there's an issue that needs re-adjustment, it then needs to be re-tested which could bump up the total hours shot.

During the summer, my career as a photographer blossomed. I'm seventeen years old, shot two magazine covers, sold some very large (over six feet) prints, had one of my photos go viral and photographed a wedding. In all I earned a couple of grand but most of that I would like to put into savings for during and after college. I shoot on a Canon 5D MKII and do a lot of landscapes. For my landscape lens, I use a 17-40mm F/4 L and sometimes my 50mm, 105mm and 200mm for high quality panoramas. I haven't been using my 17-40 very much do to the fact it is extremely soft and has huge amounts of CA in the corners. Below I will include a shot from the middle edge at F/8. I have been considering upgrading to a new lens as most of my work is landscapes and my 17-40 is most definitely my weakest lens with a slow aperture and soft corners even stopped way down. I need a lens that is sharp through out the image stopped down, I'm fine with soft edges wide open, I'm not shooting landscapes at F/4 and would not be shooting them at F/2.8. I would like there to be as little amount of coma as possible so that I could use the lens for astrophotography instead of my 50mm 1.8.
Canon only really has the 16-35mm which is very expensive and sounds like it is not much sharper then the 17-40mm in the corners. Tokina's 16-28 sounds like a great lens for a great price but i would like to hear what others think of it. I have heard that Tokina doesn't have the best quality control.

http://petapixel.com/2013/07/07/4th-of-july-fireworks-captured-together-with-lightning/

ankorwatt said:

MLfan3 said:

but how many copies do you guys have to buy to get a good one?

thanks.

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One was enough

but I have tested 4 Canon 24-70 before I got one good

sigma 35/1,4 at F-1,4

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Nice shot of the bee, but why are you buying a Canon 24-70? I didn't think you owned a Canon body??

paul13walnut5 said:

If the 7D sensor has an impossibly large pixel pitch and base ISO of 320 then the source may well be correct.

I think it's boll@cks though

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The total surface area is about the same though and that is what really matters the most.

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syder said:

Visually a C100 is a lot closer to an Alexa than an EX1 was to a Red One a few years back.

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For the blue moon occassions where we'll need an alexia, we'll hire one. You make good points and I'm pointing generally to the c100.

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I wish I could say that I needed an Alexa even once in a Blue Moon... I almost forget that my previous place of work had a Scarlet - I shot some tests with it, but never ended up using it for anything because of the extra crew and post requirements it demanded.

Hope your accountant comes back with a thumbs up