The end of the rebates has to be music to the ears of 3rd Party Mfg's. I can now see myself seriously considering a Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC over the Canon 2.8 ISii, especially at 1499.

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Enabled-Digital-Wide-Angle/dp/B00B5HE3UU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1359673912&sr=8-3&keywords=PowerShot+ELPH+330+HS

The first one is an f/3.0-f/6.9, but it does have faster AF than my old camera.



http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Digital-Wide-Angle-Recording/dp/B00B5HE32I/ref=br_lf_m_1001006271_1_4_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=photo&pf_rd_p=1478487822&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1001006271&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=13E1WRTPWW5XCJAAHMFN

f/3.2-f/6.9


http://www.amazon.com/PowerShot-Digital-Camera-Optical-Recording/dp/B00B5HE1SY/ref=br_lf_m_1001006271_1_8_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=photo&pf_rd_p=1478487822&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1001006271&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=13E1WRTPWW5XCJAAHMFN

And the cheapest one is f/2.8-f/6.9

It is nice that they fit in your pocket, which comes in very handy sometimes. But, still I would like to see them work on the lens a little more. And when it gets set to portrait mode, it should go to 85mm and then let people change it from there.

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My own take is that the ef-s line up is pretty well covered, between the EF-s and EF lenses, especially given the likely budgets and aspirations of the aps-c market. Canons kit zooms between the 18-55 and 55-250 combo are pretty good, compact, light, cheap, the uwa could be faster, but how much R&D for how many units?

Canon have upgraded their ef short primes, which make great standard lenses on aps-c.

I think a wider cheap pancake, in ef mount to keep volume up and costs down.

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Yep, Canon has the standard kit (18-55), standard tele (55-250), medium zoom (18-135, 15-85), faster (17-55 f/2.8), ultra-wide (10-22), and ultrazoom (18-200) covered, and that's not counting the 17-85. All at pretty reasonable prices relative to quality; and the ones that could stand to be better (17-85, 18-200) probably wouldn't be appealing at the resulting higher prices. An updated 17-85 would cost the same as a 15-85, so why not just get that already. And an updated 18-200 would rival the price of the 24-105, etc...it'd have to get a pretty major IQ upgrade to be worth the price.

The travel superzoom segment is already well covered by sigma and tamron, who can sell to many more potential users of different systems.

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And then there is this. Making an 18-270/18-300 that is good is not easy, it's usually heavy and bulky and not as desired as people think. So, if you can make one for 3-4 mounts, maybe you can make money...but just making it for EF, that's a tougher sell. Better to release a bunch of decent travel-zoom P+S cameras instead.

I'd much rather see Canon release an EF-S 30mm or EF-S 12-14mm prime before I'd want them going super-zoom. Nikon and Sigma show that the 30/35mm aps-c specific lens can sell; and Samyang seems poised to show that a 10mm prime can sell as well

Used to be a 550d with 70-200 f/4L( nice and inconspicuous), but I've recently purchased an x100 for street work.

@Sarka23, yes you're quite right about the 54mm height of recorded image on 120 film, it's a long time since I've used it now ! But my point really is that digital MF doesn't have the advantage of greatly increased size of recorded image that 6x7 had over 35mm. And 645 was always a little "ho-hum" against 35mm: a great loss of flexibility for a relatively marginal image gain.

Also MF lenses are not necessarily better than FF, the larger the format the more forgiving of the lens.

Your other points accepted, but you don't half have to pay for it.

cayenne said:

Drizzt321 said:

Don't forget to do manual white balance, and you also can use some gels to get all the lighting to be more or less close to the same color temp, which will make it a lot easier to get good looking footage. Don't forget you can use just about anything to flag (block) to get the lighting right where you want it, or use some poster board to reflect light to fill in the side or bottom or your face, or somewhere else. There's a ton you can do with lighting. And use gaffer's tape, a lot easier to work with than duct tape for anything you may not need to permanently tape together.

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I have tried to look for some kind of meter to read color temperature of a room, but man, those things are $$$$$$$$!!

How does one manually 'read' the color temperature of the room? I'm trying to figure the best way to get my kitchen all ONE color temp. It is lit with U10 type halogen lights on track lighting (I'm renting so can't change too many things drastically).

The clamp lights, I bought all CFLs for them...they are all 5000K, and I think the halogens are all about 2700K. I can't find replacements for the halogens any higher than 3000K.

So, not sure what to do, I kinda wanted to shoot things in the sunlight range, but not sure how to compromise this. I'm limited on plugs and outlets, so can't light the whole thing with clamp lights, not to mention, it is a b!tch as it is, trying to keep plugs and cords and lights OUT of frame when shooting.



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Take a fairly neutral white object, regular printer paper is OK, not great, but OK, and put it in the lighting, and zoom in to make it take up the vast, vast majority of the frame, especially the center, and take a photo of it. Go into the camera menus and set the custom white balance, and use that photo as the image to take the white balance from. Then you change your camera White Balance mode to use Custom. That's it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5HaRTmbozc is probably a decent enough introduction to it, although I haven't watched it all the way through.

RT can control 5 flash groups instead of just 3, and it supports autoflash (Metering via the sensor integrated in the flash instead by the camera. I.E. it gives me a certain LV regardless of flash/subject distance as if every unit were a independent ETTL group but without the randomness ETTL introduces because of framing and in focus detection).

Do you have some kind of quick release system for your glidecam/camera combo?

privatebydesign said:

bseitz234 said:

Northstar said:

I had a 5d3 now I'm back to a 7D...bummer. ;D

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Hey now, don't be hatin'. I like this 3-years-old piece of fast-burst tech.

Similarly unrelated, I've been contemplating picking up a film camera, never had one, but I figure I have the lenses, and there's something so... tactile about film, I kind of want to experiment. Sounds like folks like the AE-1? ;-)

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What lenses do you have? Your EOS EF ones won't work on the AE-1! If you want a cool film camera that will work with your lenses get a 3, or better yet a 1V.

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Excellent point, thank you! Think b&h has both of those available... will have to have a gander.

chasinglight, the 7D is an awesome camera, set correctly. Note coreyhkh's comment about setting his AI Servo to 'slow'. If you buy a 7D, pay close attention to the Custom Functions (CF) of the camera and the focus & drive settings within. They are key to the killer AF capabilities that the 7D has and, if needed, refer online for further info as the owners manual is not complete in it's explanation of the CF settings.
Great shots by the way and corey, your shots are excellent, too!

mfumbesi said:

TLN said:

Hello.

I got this lens, and we got quite a big topic on this on a russian board: http://club.foto.ru/forum/11/371438,47

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I actually followed your link, and of course it is all in Russian. I ;D

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Obviously. Did you expect different language on russian board? )
It's a bit harder to understand, but you can still check out all the images out there.

Mikael Risedal said:

Have I said anything else? from the crop 1,5 =15.3 Mp from the Nikon D800 compare to Canon 7d the pixels in the Nikon has higher QE compare to 7d APS

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Repeat: this thread is about resolution, not your all-time-favorite topic on dynamic range and SNR.

I could see a hotshoe bubble level coming in handy whichever head you buy.

the ones you have are fine....

You may be interested to know that the 60D has a 640 by 400 cropped video mode.

I shoot on a 60D.

For a project at work we tried out a 400f5.6 and the 100-400 lens. The 400 took better pictures.

At home, I have a Sigma 120-400, it sits between the 400 and 100-400 for quality. Most of the time that I am using it it is at the 400mm end, and qui often I am lusting over the 600, but it is beyond my camera budget and more weight than I am willing to carry hiking or canoeing.

If I were to start again I would get the 400f5.6. If canon ever comes out with a 500f6.3 I will probably be lining up to get it..... A bit more reach but still light enough to pack...

Welcome!
I love this place. I'm a working professional, but I've not been doing this so long. I learn so much here, it's always refreshing.

x-vision said:

Fantastic news ... for the total of five buyers worldwide who bought the 1DC.
(Uhm, is there actually even one buyer??? )

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They are probably busy making money and haven't got the time to post complaints on CR

But I also think that the latest "news" considering 1dx and 1dc firmwares are not exactly what the assembled community had expected from Canon's advancement in the dslr segment...

Thanks for the great info....... decisions.. decisions.........

Here are a couple photos taken with a 14mm F2.8:
These are reduced in size for Flickr. I can send you the raw files if you would like.


Untitled by Live By The Night, on Flickr


IMG_1510-1 by Live By The Night, on Flickr

This next one is just for the purposes of illustrating how wide (on a full frame) this lens really is. I was in 15-20mph wind and given that it was a 30 second photo, I think it tuned out pretty good:

IMG_1843-1 by Live By The Night, on Flickr

wayno said:

Whilst the IQ is a treat, the thing I find most noticeably pleasing is the handling/weight. The old one was heavy and felt not as 'balanced'.

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+1 and the old one with the narrow zoomring that, on both my copies, was seriously uneven in how much resistance the zoom ring had across the range. First time I picked up up a mk2 and stuffed it infront of my 5d2 it just felt soo much nicer.

There are many mixed experiences with this lens,

The first version and the second one(with os), mixed experiences from users who either love it or hate,
Sending them back for failing os/auto focus..
Some find it amazingly sharp, others unacceptable(especially with TC's)

Yet there are a lot of reviews who see this as a serieus alternative to a 300 f2.8 from canon/nikon,
Or an extended 70-200 2.8

Photozone.de was quite positive, especially on center performence (and on crop factor bodies.)


I have also read about thedigitalpicture mid frame and corner results being a bit colored, by the fact that it should perform better when used at a different distance then it was tested.
Anyone that can confirm this?,




If they keep their word at sigma about the quality control, this lens would be a great alternative to the canon 70-200 when used on a crop factor body

Hope to see some thorough reviews when the lens gets released, with real world (high res) examples and crops

'somebody posted while you were typing'
+2 I like and use that too

Glad to hear you got the Canon 70-200 v2.

I have owned several copies of the v1 and one copy of the v2. One of my v1 lenses was sharp and the other just wasn't that great (both calibrated to the bodies via FoCal). My v2 lens is night and day better than either of my v1. I would agree that you have to be sure to get a good copy of the v1 lens but so far I have not heard people complain about quality copies of the v2.

Any ideas as to when we may expect this Firmware upgrade? I am very exited about this news. I would also
be ecstatic if we get 60p 1080.