400+1.4 extender? Heck, i would love for my 7D to autofocus to F/8 so i could get a 600 F/4 and a 2X to give me 1920mm.

Hi, everyone!
Just thought I would let you know what I got, where and for how much. I managed to pick up a Canon 60D + 17-85mm IS 4-5.6 Refurbished from Canon for £640, it is like new and only had 2,090 shutter actuations. I am very happy with my purchase and thanks for all the help

I'm gonna direct you to the third page of a thread i started.

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=6033.30

This was when a milestone for amateur shooters was mentioned, the original 5D full frame and then they went in to detailed explanations to why it was good and what it was phenomenal for.

CHEERS MATE!

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Daniel Flather said:

I always use the hood, even just for the physical protection.

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+1 (lt's start another +1 pyramide ;D)

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I almost always do, unless my hoods aren't on me for some reason.

That's the maximum aperture of the lens, which is the same no matter what aperture you shoot at.
f/3.625 is a calculation, it will probably get rounded to f/3.5 of f/3.7 by the camera...

Hope reviews and feedback start soon.

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What do you mean "people"? I generally try not to follow what "people" say or think ???

Again you have the premise that issue = major flaw and that is where I don't agree.

The much bigger issue is the terrible PR Canon has received from this issue

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We will have to agree to disagree on the use of english language then 8) 8)

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I agree ;D

they're replacing it so therefore it's probably too thin

Prices tend to go up in the spring. Thats when demand is high, and people are buying new equipment for upcoming vacations. They are usually lowest at Christmas time.

Adobe has released Lightroom 4.1 Release Canidate 2 (RC2). It's available at: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/lightroom4-1.html

Does anyone have knowledge of an Android photo slideshow (or organization) app that will recognize photos that have been "rated" by the 5D III?

Here is the scenario... Shooting weddings/events, I would like to be able to hit the rate button on the 5D to identify a limited number of good shots taken during the early parts of event. At the reception, I would like to take the microSD card (in an adapter and recording JPEGs) out of the camera, insert it into my Transformer Prime Android tablet and quickly call up just those rated photos into a slideshow program to be displayed on the tablet for guests. I have accomplished this in the past but it has required a laptop in the middle to sort the photos and write to a microSD card. I would like to make this a seamless and quick move which should be able to be accomplished with the GREAT addition of the dual card slots!

I see a couple of ways to do this where the android photo app could read the rating and automatically sort the photos for view. Another option would be an Android file browser that could recognize the rating and I could copy the files from the microSD card that have ratings to the tablet or a different directory and play from there.

Does anyone have experience trying to do this?

Thanks in advance!

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Which begs the question, are the new 24 and 28 IS lenses for video specifically? I don't see them being useful for stills...

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Yes, that's pretty much the only excuse for making them so slow. Also, 50mm is one of the primes that is in a normal cinematographers bag, so, I'd be you'll see a 50mm IS prime at some point. 35mm and 85mm would be the others.

Nice resource. I've never heard of compsource before and they have the first published discount I've seen. Solid reviews at resellerratings.com. Anybody use them?

In real­ity, the leak will change about 1/3 of a stop from what the cam­era con­sid­ers the “proper” expo­sure. With the high dynamic range that RAW files deliver nowa­days I believe the issue is being push a bit too far. Of course I’d be pissed pay­ing $3,500 for a cam­era with issues, but tech­ni­cally speak­ing, I would not stop using it if I had it.
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Find out more details from this article by photographer/educator Eduardo Angel:
http://eduardoangel.com/2012/04/25/canons-light-leak-issue/

http://www.EduardoAngel.com

PixelReaper said:

Hey everyone!

Any advice on gear or general pointers for shooting my first wedding tomorow? Luckily, the bride was on a super low budget so she is not expecting much from me as I am working pro bono (it's her wedding gift). I am an enthusiastic amateur photographer (not my main line of work), but I have started to get a couple of of jobs in the last month.

I have listed my gear below and I won't be buying anything new since the event is tomorrow.

5D II
35 1.4 L
24-105 L
70-200 2.8 II L
430exII
Tripod


I use LR4, Photoshop 6 beta, and DxO 7 for post work. I plan on using blurb to put a book together for the couple at the end.

I really appreciate and calue any advice from the CR community and thank everyone in advance! I really take pride in my pictures and hope to capture the day well for my friend.

Cheers!

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GET A SECOND BODY! Borrow, buy, or plead someone but have a backup! Plus its great to have two lenses on seperate bodies.

If that is also true, this is going to piss me off.

2012 was the year I planned to do major upgrades on my gear and be set for the next 5 years, now it's become a joke of a waiting game to see when stuff actually appears.

First, the 1Dx on pre-order get pushed back all the way to June, so the 7D remains my sports workhorse for now. Then the 5D3 comes out and I have about 5-6 hot pixels staring me in the face which I have never seen in any Canon I've owned before, hence the surprise when I saw that. Thank god for manual sensor cleaning to at least map them out. I seriously thought about returning the camera if I had not promised the sale of my 5D2 to my assistant and needed the 5D3 for a couple of weddings on the calendar (more assistant waiting for my second-hand gear notes below in the 24-70 delay).

Next, we get the 24-70 f/2.8 L II shoved back to July...so I'm sticking with the 24-105 f/4 IS L for that range of work for now and telling my assistant that wants to buy it that he just has to wait a bit longer. Judging by the product graphs, it looks to be a great lens, even better than the 70-200 f/2.8 IS L II, but right now it's just vaporware.

We've had lots of super-tele lenses announced and they don't appear for 18+ months, a flagship camera delayed over half a year (so far), a light leak (minor, yes, but still come on!), and a stack of Cinema-style cameras and lenses that as far as I know, no one can actually buy yet.

But we got a 1Gx and a 60Da astro camera.....whoo-hoo.....

Next we'll see a delay on the Wifi module......I'm still looking at that thing and wondering --> why did they make it plug into the freaking USB port and hang off the camera???? It defeats the weather protection so you can't shoot Wifi tethered outdoors in dicey weather!!!

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However, what i'm more interested in this graph is not the DR on high ISO…it proves one thing that i've always believed in, the 5D3 (or any Canon camera for that matter), performs at it's best at ISO160! Just look at the results..ISO50 and 100 wasn't as good at 160…unlike Nikons that perform well at ISO50…
It's surprising how close the 5D3 is to the D4…

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Iso 50 and 160 (and other iso's other than 100, 200, etc) are "derived" ISOs'. Your best results are obtained by shooting at "full" ISO's and using the principles of ETTR.

JOHN

CR guy is now saying late May. It sucks that just about everything Canon is releasing this year is getting delayed, but I'm sure glad one particular product was right on time.

Okay, I think I've worked it out...

Yes, assist beam won't work on Servo mode, I did mention this to start with. As for why only one side lights up, I believe that the right side of the assist beam (when looking at the flash straight on) is for the centre AF point, the left assist beam for the peripheral AF points. As I always shoot with centre point only, this would explain the issue at hand.

I just wanted to share this in case anyone else notices similar things with their assist beam.

I got a reply from Canon Austria stating that they are ONLY shipping out the newly fixed batches.

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tron said:

May I assume that you bought the 600 and 200mm lenses to keep company to other similar lenses, so that they will not feel ... lonely? ;D ;D

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The 400 f/2.8 didn't give enough reach on the 1Ds3 and the 200 f/2 I got for a walkabout/portrait lens on the 1Ds3.

I only want the 14mm and the ts-e17 now, but there is no rush for those.

I am really pleased with the 200 f/2 - took a bunch of goat portraits with it yesterday (which is why you need a 200) and the background blur is fabulous. I was also surprised how (relatively) light it is as well. Got some dog portraits to do tonight I will give it a try with that too.

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Well if I could I would get either a 400mm f/4 DO or a 500mm f/4L. But the prices are so high (the 500mm f/4L II will be even more expensive) so I got a 100-400L as a compromise.

Next is probably the TS-E 17 (or the hartblei colar for TS-E lenses to use it on my TS-E 24mm II)

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81>79 No worries... ;D

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With d900, when they reach their up scale limit, they will have to reevaluate all the numbers so it will fall down, most probably

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Now you ruined my calculations
I was thinking: 3.5 years 2 point increase => 31.5 more years: 18 points increase which means 99!

So by the year 2044 Canon would have an excellent camera and we would stop complaining... ;D

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I'm afraid that year after year it's more difficult to increase by a single point. But don't worry - no matter what silicon d900 will have it certainly would go beyond 100, so no chance for Canon. Sorry.

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Wait till they really get good at growing diamond in labs. Diamond will replace silicon, and when that happens 100k iso will look like 100 iso. Diamond is the most conductive material known to man!

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I thought they are semiconductors or insulators? Especially those clean.

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I will bring the following camera gear with me:
5D III
16-35 II
70-200 f2.8 IS II
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I would definitely suggest SOME kind of normal lens or mid-zoom.
And macro ability is a plus in case you find something cool really close up.

This is what Mr. KR chooses as the first winner for his competition
http://www.adorama.com/ALC/BlogArticle.aspx?googleid=0013686&alias=Ken-Rockwell-Photo-Contest-Winners

Hmmmm..

(Admin: I did not know where to post this so put it in here... You please move it where you think is should be..)

I also have my depth of field button remapped so that when pressed and held, the AF switches from One Shot to AI Servo.

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excellent idea - I think I will restructure mine the same way