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I thought I would put together another video of yet another 5D MK3 function. Hopefully its informative to those that care Canon 5D MKIII: In Camera HDR

Any chance you could borrow another sync cord? I'm wondering if it might be a loose connection for the 5dm3 even through it works on your 2d.

I have an ETTL cable for using my flash, but I don't have a sync cord that I can try this with. Sorry.

Hope you find an answer.

There is also a nice little iphone app called gps4cam. It will take snapshots of your location on a regular basis and then you photograph the iphone screen to capture some data which additional software will process and add GPS data to the photos. It works well with JPG, but I keep forgetting to try it with RAW photos.

What it doesn't capture is compass direction. Not generally a big deal, but something I would love to see when trying to decipher lighting in other peoples photos. Knowing direction, location, and time, you could know exactly where the sun was in relation to the subject.

I'll see if I can get that taken care of.

dilbert, if the costs were even over $10, or if it couldn't be disabled, I wouldn't want it included. Unlike many of the software only features many complain about existing or not existing, this would be a tangible cost on every camera body. But then again, you can find this feature in "very" cheap cameras.

One option with the antenna, since that seems to be a concern to many, is to layer it just outside of the metal body. We are only talking about a thin laminate that doesn't have to be larger than a postage stamp. Another option is an external antenna (I don't like that idea either)

Or we could go in a different direction with integrated bluetooth which could allow various accessories including 3rd party GPS, phones/tablets as screens/controllers, cellular network access, and 3rd party network devices. I'm not holding my breath on this one either.

I'd like Canon to release a 5D MK3 E

Either there is a major difference in IQ and quality control, or the reviewing website I most often use (you know the one) is somehow biased toward Canon (and maybe Nikon, but I don't read that part of the site). Every review I read of a Tamron or Sigma lens reads like a death sentence. "My 2nd copy was better than the 1st, but my 3rd copy was so bad I wished I had the 1st copy back..." and so on. Or "I really wanted to like this lens, but..." I think I have read every Sigma or Tamron review on the site and none of them reccomend any of the lenses. In fact, they they kind of discourage you from buying non-Canon.

That said, I went to the one old-school camera store in my PA city today and tried out the Canon 70-200 2.8 IS II, (and also the non-IS f4 version) and compared them to the Tamron 2.8 equivalent. Have to say, even just tracking the stuff on the store shelves, both the Canons were much faster to focus, and way smoother/quieter.

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EF 14-24 2.8L

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+10 count me in! i don't really want this for myself, but hope you guys get what you want

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+11 ... sounds awesome ... whatever it is

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+12. Not really interested. I just want to see how far we can go before the internet breaks.

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It's like a crazy mat job!

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+13 When it's gets to +20 I'm going to take a picture

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+14 Actually this is probably not the best way that Canon should be gaining market info from ;D

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+14.5 She can't take it! She's breaking up!

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+15 or I'm buying the Nikon one + the 16-9 converter!

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+16 I would rather this than a new body.

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+17 I have never hoped that Canon reps read this board as much as I do right now.

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+18 On a 7D - fantastic

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+19 What lens were we talkin' bout again?

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I see scrollbars! I think the INTERNET is breaking! (We need one more for +20!!)

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Looks like a tunnel. Who would have thought a photography forum would have creative people. Quick someone take a photo of this and push shadows +100

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As the originator of the post... CANON here US mere mortals! And release the fabled unicorn that we can know as the EF 14-24mm 2.8L. I would buy one right now and so would 19 other shooters.

Must have lenses for cheap.

Canon 50mm EF f1.8 or f1.4.

Canon 85mm f1.8

Canon 100mm EF f2.0.

If the budget permits...

135mm f2L

24mm f1.4L II or 35mm 1.4L


Your 17-55 will cover most of these focal lengths but a solid fast prime will give you a foot up in portraits and low light.

If you are not a professional photographer, and have no reason to use two cameras simultaneously, or have no critical reason to keep the 60D as an emergency backup (IE, expensive paying client!) Then I would totally suggest you sell that camera and pickup another nice lens for your 5DIII!!! Really I think this might be the way for you if your not actively shooting professionally. Investing in good L series glass is a better investment in the long run than holding onto a body you will rarely use. The only reason some of us professional photographers keep extra camera bodies is in the event of a camera emergency. Ive had cameras go down on me before. Rather than troubleshoot, I grab a backup body and worry about it later.

Ive got 2x5D3's, a 5D2, 7D, and even a 40D crammed in the back of my camera bag somewhere. The 5D2's and 7D are video cameras, the 5D3's my primary cameras. I always carry 2 bodies with different lenses for wedding photography.

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Unfortunately marketers didn't learn much maths in high-school.

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... but reading "AF detection up to f/8" as "not including f/8" would be just misleading and only worthy of Canon marketing

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But anyone, who does not posses some advanced knowledge about AD converters, Fourier transform, digital imaging and such things should not care them. You only fool yourself, when you compare numbers without knowing their meanings. Worse, when you argue about numbers without knowing their meaning, you fool others too.

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That, right there, pretty much sums up the problem with DXO quite perfectly: The exact meaning of their numbers are not fully known!! Thats my entire complaint about Print DR...we don't know what the hell it really is, exactly how it is derived, and exactly what mathematical and procedural algorithms are applied to images when scaling to their 8x12 print size. Worse yet, we don't know if they use a consistent approach to that process, and with the results of the D800, whether DXO uses a "consistent approach" is exactly why they are in the crosshairs.

Now, I personally do understand how ADC's, fourier transforms, digital imaging, color processing and color spaces, color fidelity and color space conversions, spatial frequencies/MTF, and the physical nature of light work, and I know it pretty damn well. I may not be a DXO Labs "scientist", but I do understand how those things work. Despite that, I STILL find the numbers DXO produces to be useful ONLY WITHIN the context of DXO. Without explicit details about how every one of their tests is done (we only have vague details and rolled up mathematical formulas, etc.), DXO numbers don't really mean anything in the real world.

So yeah, no one is really truly qualified to use DXO numbers in any meaningful context...and that is also exactly the problem, especially when people put too much weight on their results. They may be consistent, but if D800 Print DR is telling to any degree, they are seeming more and more to be consistently useless.

Found this video testing diff cards out. The video is quite informative, seems 600x is best bang for your buck.
Canon 5D Mark III buffer Test CF & SD RAW

Canon 5D Mark III buffer Test CF & SD RAW

firmware 1.0.7
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1000x Lexar Professional CompactFlash Card 150MB/s UDMA 7
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600x SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash Cards 90MB/s UDMA 6
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300x Transcend SLC CompactFlash Card 45MB/s UDMA 5
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SD Test
633x Delkin Elite 633 SDHC memory card 80MB/s write UHS-I
average 15 frames

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Are you saying you did a similar pano at the same place??
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I haven't had a chance to check it out or try it. I'm accustomed to 1-D MK ll's where I programed the little AF box to biefly light up and go out which I like a lot.
Will the feature described above work for servo AF and not just one-shot ?

I sure am glad the 9 permanent focusing screen boxes found in the 5D MK ll are gone.

Canon's Rudy Winston has an overview tutorial on the new MKlll / 1-Dx metering system online.
Looking at the manual, and camera menus for the AF system options makes my head hurt.

I wish the options were more simple, Football, Basketball, Track, Auto Racing.....etc

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It's all there in the manual but for the head hurting prob just go to your menu on the 5DM3 and go to the "AF" section. On the first section it has those presets for diff sports or activities for focus tracking. It's there my friend.

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Also, if you hold down the INFO button while on one of the AF cases and scroll down it will give you a lot of detailed info and then at the bottom, actual examples, just like you are asking for. In fact the info button is extremely helpful in all the menus, it basically has the whole manual for on the go access...

When will be Canon 650D announce? before summer 2012,or not?

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LOL your mirror could use a good cleaning, but the pictures seem very good indeed.

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Yeah Bosman I agree. Natural for me too!

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Please suggest options for SD and Flash cards for new 5D3.

I am sure you lucky ones who got your hands on this beast can suggest and give some direction.

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Ive been eying the Lexar line lately, they have a 1000x (150mb/s) speed card and a 600x card that are made to play nice with video if needed.
Ive been testing with my sandisk cards at 30mb/s speed rating and it works fine, if i am using burst mode it will be mostly due to shooting sports in which case a small fine jpeg is the file size ive always used so no buffer issues. I am sure since i held the shutter down and got 126 consecutive large fine jpegs in burst mode that I can use the cards i have now. For weddings 6fps should be plenty good but i may want more at times so the speed bumped cards are something to think about.
I strongly advise against using Kingston, i have bought 4 - 32 gig cards and two ended up being corrupted pretty early on in their use like i mean 2nd or 3rd use. They charge a lot less for their brand because the grade of memory they use is bottom barrel.

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Yes, RAW. Those are huge files! My 5D3 files run 24-30mb, 240 images on an 8 gig card, approximately.

I would have preferred the option to get the 50mm F/1.2L or 35mm F/1.4L.
I'm not a fan of the 24-105 F/4, at least not the one I received with my MK3.
Maybe it needs micro-adjustment?

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This dude is so humorous, i kept trying to remember some of the funny things he said so i could quote it but i gave up because he kept coming up with other funny stuff.
I am curious what he uses the cameras for when he doesn't understand the lockout feature it kinda makes me wonder what he even uses his cameras for.
The model, well cute as a button to use old phraseology but she can't run for anything on the two videos of i have seen with her in it haha. Its prob just his girlfriend and he is getting some exposure for her by having her in his videos.

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Does anyone know why Canon hasn't produced one yet? I could see that they wouldn't want too many ulta wide zooms in their line, but I don't see why they couldn't replace the existing ones with a 14-24 when they are ready to be upgraded. I'm sure they could address the filter issue in development if they decided to go ahead with one.

I recently went to a concert and the box office website said no "professional camera gear" so I brought my point and shoot with 36x zoom. I left my 7d at home. I brought the canon sx30is, but was prevented from taking that in, too. So, g1x may be a no go. Might as well just use your cellphone.