distant.star said:

My commendations on what is a one-in-a-million forum response.

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Thanks ;-). Plenty of other good posts here too; specifically the suggestion to have a look at your back catalog of photos shot with the zoom & see what kind of focal lengths one tends to use.

Viggo said:

Is there one?

I'm trying to see it on the canon web-site, but can't find good enough info.

I'm looking for the same focusing screen as the the EG-S I had for the 5d2 to see true dof with fast lenses.

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Did you find the answer to this yet? I'm curious myself.

thanks,
Michael

Hey Canon, you can transfer your production to Philippines. Filipinos are hard-worker. It may lower the prices down in Philippines so I can buy one there. I'm buying most of my stuffs here in Malaysia since I'm staying here but would want more Canon presence in the Philippines. Most of my friends there are Nikonians.

Kumakun said:

Ahahaha! I love that movie!

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"Since the invention of the Internet argument, there have been five Internet arguments that were rated the most passionate, the most pure... This one isn't one of them."

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Drizzt321 said:

Out of ignorance since I haven't shot 1D bodies before, what's a registered focus point?

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You can register a custom point on the camera and assign a button to it. So, you can quickly pull that point up to have focus ready when need be. The problem with the 1DX set up is it stays illuminated when you're selecting a manual point and it can be annoying to say the least.

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Ah, ok. Nice feature Maybe they'll get around to adding a firmware option for those that don't like that behavior?

RLPhoto said:

Its still overwhelmingly one sided for canon lenses but Nikon bodies are still superior.

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I find Nikon bodies too small and there's something weird with the ergonomics/grip. It was more apparent to me when I held the D800.

Unfortunately, lenses can be damaged during handling and shipping, and can, of course, be improperly assembled.
QC inspection went away years ago for most Japanese companies, its a obsolete process. It was replaced by Total Quality Management which goes far beyond just inspecting finished products like they did 20 years ago.

What are you trying to say?? You come accross like a troll, but maybe you have something specific to say??

They started doing this almost two years ago, eventually, all of them will go that way.

I'm agreeable with going Rebel for now, because I'm sure it won't hurt as bad as when you finally will outgrow the 60D and want something better. However if I were to choose, there is a big difference between the pentaprism of the 60D (larger, brighter, clearer) and the pentamirror viewfinder of the Rebels (smaller, less framing accuracy) so it's not only all about the sensor. That was a big influence for my choice of DSLR, including my late father's old mantra to buy the best in a product line-up that you can afford (up to 2nd best).

Fellow 5DII owners....

... This is a historic camera. It has not only wowed photographers, but it ushered in the era of DSLR video for the big screen.

This camera may be a collectors item many years from now, and who knows what a good working copy will be worth?

Remember the first Apple portable computers (if you accept the premise that a 20lb suitcase is "portable")?
Good copies have fetched over $25000 from collectors.

The 5DII is an iconic camera. Owning one is owning a piece of cinema history.

Thanks for the great exposure Craig, its much appreciated.

I'm Ed Mika and I developed these adapters (and continue to do so). My conversion kits are not like the traditional adapters that just screw on apart from my original low profile FD-EOS adapter. That adapter is the thinnest on the market and with my lens focus calibration instructions makes all the white super telephoto FD mount lenses focus to infinity and most importantly without corrective light robbing and distortion adding glass elements.

All of these other adapters are mount swaps that take the old FL FD and FDn mounts off and put EF/EOS mounts on. We machine them out of solid chunks of brass on a pair of computer controlled mills in our garage in Ontario Canada. It takes over an hour of machining and assembly work on each adapter before it is ready to be shipped out.

I can honestly say that these are the best EOS adapters on the market in terms of performance and craftsmanship. Feel free to look through my eBay feedback profile to see this fact reinforced over and over by my clearly happy customers.

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Whew!!!!

Scared me to death! You can't imagine how much time I put into getting my Kelvins just where they all need to be for shooting those polka-dotted possums. It's not as easy as you might think, nature lovers!

7D2 if it happens will be Sep 2013 (Photokina again). Seriously think that the 1D4 is too much money, when for the same price you can get a 5D3, unless of course you desperately need 10fps.

Waiting is a mugs game, get what you want now, you can always trade later (despite the whining on price, Canon gear retains a decent residual value).

Put the battery in, put a lens on, throw in a memory card, and start shooting! Try out some of the different AF modes, use some different subjects to test the AF points, and see that things are working fine.

Am I the only one who doesn't appreciate the 600EX-RT flash? Sure it's nice, and the build quality and extras are great. But for someone who documents weddings and uses the Canon on camera flash as a fill light / Qflash off camera as main, the extra features are kind of useless. Sure, for portraits or other shoots having two of these flashes or even three would be killer.

However, like the 580EXII before it, the 600 is just too slow when it comes to recycle times. I know the whole thermal protection stuff that's built in. I guess I've just grown accustom to firing away my 580's and not missing a frame. The 600 sits in my bag unused after a couple of trials Much like the 580EXII before it. I found that even shooting a procession and trying to grap three nice shots of each wedding party member coming down the aisle (at this point it's my main and only light) can be risky. The flash will tell me it's getting too warm then shut down if I have to push it just in time for the bride! Then I'm forced to kick it up to 10000ISO which is doable but not always ideal.

And yes, I'm using the Canon battery pack as my source of power for the flash.

its only software, so i will ignore this like everything new until its finalized there we can say for sure, but the pic at the bend its very low to the bottom where a 4 will fit in perfectly. Either way its a new product and im happy to see canon doing some updating.

Louis said:

Thanks! so what on earth does Auto bracketing Cancel and enable do?

thanks for your reply!

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Now, I could be wrong about this, since I forgot to bring my camera with me today (sigh), so I can't test it out. BUT, normally when you set an AEB sequence, it will stick until you turn the camera off or reset the AEB sequence to zero. If you want the AEB to stick even after you turn the camera off/on, you can toggle this function. And if you didn't complete the AEB sequence the camera may retain that info as well when powered off/on. But I would definitely double check this before taking my word on it.

This is useful for those that do a lot of HDR photography, or simply a lot of AEBing. Personally, I have one of my custom modes set to a fixed f/8 aperture with AEB at -2EV, 0EV, +2EV and ISO at 100 as my default "HDR Mode". Way easier than modifying those settings in Av each time I want to get an HDR shot.

Hope this helps!

I think 24-105 is fine on my 60D but it really depends on your style of shooting. I find it to be a bit tight (and slow) indoors, but outside it's fine, for the most part.

Hassy have never used their own sensors, and as they used Kodak made sensors in the past and don't have the size or the budget to make their own, they have to use someone else's sensors, and I guess, right now, Sony was the best they could find.
Canon isn't interested in selling their sensors to anyone else, so Sony was it.

Although I do find it a bit strange that Hassy went to Sony, as they already have an alliance with Fuji, who make the Hassy lenses for their large format cameras (and they are very good too), and Fuji also make reasonable sensors too.

I think it is very brave of Hassy to go into new markets, as in their 70 odd year history, they have only ever made large format cameras, but I guess as this market is now being eaten into so savagely by FF DSLR's as well as the Leaf products and even the Pentax 645, they have to do something to stay bouyant.
They are obviously looking at how Leica can make digital cameras that are well behind the best current technology and still get high prices for them and Hassy are going to do something similar, as they believe they still have a very good name with pros and rich amateurs and offer leading edge tech with cameras made from luxurious materials to appeal those people with money, who want something good, different, luxurious and expensive - but still offering better value for money than Leica.

Personally, I hope they are successful as they are using a slightly different approach to other manufacturers.

Not everyone wants a plain black camera, and I'm sure there are many people who would like to say they have a Hasselblad as it does add some credibility to their photographic prowess, even if they are lousy photographers.

i think about buying this monitor.. but i read very mixed customer reviews.

some praise it as the best 27 ISP you can buy for the money.

some say it has problems with color accuracy over the screen area or suffers from backlight bleeding.

i have a colorimeter and i don´t care so much about if a display has great deltaE out of the box.
but when the upper right corner shows some red cast and the lower left a green cast im a bit worried.

so to those who own this monitor... are you happy with it?

The 6D is going cheaper than the D600 on Japan amazon, at over ¥20,000 off from what they're asking for the D600.
But, convert their prices to dollars and both are still above $2100 :-\

Freelancer said:

good luck with your 70D. be prepared for a dissapointment.

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This is why I said maybe, and only if clearly better than Nikon's offer

Actually I could even do with a used D7000.

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ecka said:

Not that anyone needs IS for sports, but I may trade my 5D2 for EOS-M with Foveon X3 sensor in it (which is only good at ISO100-200).

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depends on the sport if IS is usefull or not.

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Sure. Actually, I find it to be very useful for accurate framing when using tele lenses, even in perfect lighting conditions.

cliffwang said:

Hopefully EOS Remote will support 5D3 + Eye-Fi.

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I've got that combination and it would be great if it did, but close to no chance in my opinion. The Eye-Fi is only functioning as a normal SD card that also happens to be able to transmit them remotely. While technically you could use the memory bus to transfer live-view images and start a capture etc it would need extensive cooperation between Canon and Eye-Fi to work, if they'd done that already I'd expect they would have also written software to be able to use the capability from at least a PC.

Most third-party apps seem to need the camera connected over USB to a laptop / PC with Wi-Fi as victorwol said. If you're talking about the official Canon app I think it's only for the 6D, you probably need a 7D Mk 2 .

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/eos_remote.aspx