WHAT TO EXPECT FROM CANON AT NAB 2014??

Pretty similar to the Canon 24-105 L, but with better centre resolution...

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to post the link -how rude of me!

http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/864-sigma24105f4eos

WHAT WILL CANON ANNOUNCE AT OR BEFORE NAB 2014??http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=20&ved=0CIABEBYwCTgK&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redsharknews.com%2Ftechnology%2Fitem%2F976-20-new-4k-cameras-to-arrive-before-nab-2014&ei=Z3DuUtzSDIS9ygPk34H4Cw&usg=AFQjCNFrlPNlMTGHuSGAYk_RbXBpztdeGg&sig2=ry6zBBiQamI8m66GyurVXw&bvm=bv.60444564,d.bGQ
One of the predictions was that 20 new 4k cameras would be announced before NAB 2014…will CANON be one of them??

Ever see those posts about people complaining that they "have a bad copy" of a lens? Or have you bought a lens that everyone raves about but you are not quite as excited about your "copy"?

AFMA! I'm a believer! Adjust your body to your lens. You might be pleasantly surprised I knew that adjustment was available on my camera but adjusting it seemed more complicated than my mind could wrap around. A few days ago, I took the plunge and purchased Reikan's Focal and was shocked to find out my nifty fifty, which I am learning to love, was off by +16 on my 6D! All my lenses needed some adjustment (the 50mm needed the most).

You Pros already know this, but if you are anything like me, go through the AFMA exercise. I think Focal does an amazing job, it is fully automated, easy to use, but certainly not free. The good news is that there are several free options out there that are probably just as effective but maybe not as easy. Pick one, and do it. You might find a lens in your collection that you were happy with but are now happier with

Can anyone advise on a suitable type (ie NOT the prism right angle type that Canon make)?

Any recommendations for the ones on ebay?

Magnification of 1.3 to 1.5X would be fine.

Nikon make a good one but doubtful whether it would fit Canon.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

This new viewfinder comes with a strategicaly positioned lip that can be used to open bottles.
Canon wants to attract the Beer Drinkers segment of the DSLR market,

Hype, megapixel, stopped down, aperture, DSLR jargon, yada yada yada

Hello everyone,

I have been shooting with the Mk3 for a few months now, but have recently started seeing some grain in my images. I'm not really sure if it is something on my end causing this, or if it is within the camera. The attached image is a screen grab from a clip I shot wide open at f4 (24-105mm L) with an ISO of 800. The footage gets incredibly grainy when I sharpen in post and I'm not sure why. Could it be that the sky is out of focus? Should I have shot it at a much smaller fstop to avoid this? Any help would be very much appreciated. I'm still pretty new to videography, but I feel I should be getting much cleaner images than I have been. Thanks!

We have been having discussions about stacking 1.4xTC III and 2xTC III on telephotos. I have done some testing using a 70D, and here are some brief conclusions, incorporating what others have already written and discovered.
1. Stacking requires a 12mm extension tube placed between the two TC III extenders.
2. The 2xTC III must be attached to the lens and the 1.4xTC to the camera.
3. The camera exif records only the effect of the 2xTC - the pair attached to a wide open f/2.8 records as f/5.6.
4. The 300/2.8 focusses manually at all the usual distances, and the same is reported for other telephotos.
What I found from the 70D today is:
5. AF works only at intermediate distances (approx 30-80m, give or take) and not closer or at infinity in both live view and phase detect. (The 5DIII also didn't AF).
6. IQ is quite good.

Here are two shots of Egyptian geese at about 20-30m. The stacked TCs required manual focus which I did through the viewfinder, rather quickly, resting the lens on the ledge of a hide. The full shots are reduced to 1200x800, the crops of the heads are 100%. The goose standing is done with just the 2xTC attached. The sitting goose with the 1.4x + 2x.

Both are wide open (f/5.6 with 2x, f/8 with 1.4x+2x), iso 640 and 1/3200 or 1/1000s.

I am so much on the fence between the Canon 24-70/2.8L II and the Tamron 24-70/2.8 VC. Would love to hear why you chose one over the other and if you are still happy with your decision. I am very aware of the physical differences between the two and the various test reports out there, but I am more interested in "how they feel and taste", if you know what I mean ... Comments?

All:
Before I send this off to the mothership... Do you 24-70 owners also see a LOT of curve to horizontal lines?

Lately my 24-70 2.8Lv2 has not seemed as sharp and looking at recent ocean horizons there is a lot of curvature seen before the Lightroom 5 correction kicks in or is invoked. I try to avoid getting too obsessed with sharpness at a pixel-peeping level, and I should open up a frame or two from the first months I had this lens. Other than some back focus (-4 correction) it was wonderful. Did I just get jaded and want more?

I am going to ask CPS for a loaner before this goes in and in the day overlap with both lenses here I will do some kind of res test on both. Funny joke is that are no brick walls here in my rural Hawaii area so it's hard to find the right flat big target in the natural world. Yeah, I know those of you living in the northern states on the mainland or Norway are rolling your eyes right now... sorry for complaining.

Anyway, I wonder if this took a knock and whacked something inside. Did a search on CR forums (fora?) and didn't find any other discussions of barrel/pincushion expectations. ...just seems more pronounced...

I saw this ad on craigslist and thought it was amusing enough to share... ;D

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/pho/4313342024.html

I am not sure if this is the right spot for this post. Moderators please feel free to move it if it is not in the right spot.

I am wanting to get a trigger before the spring storm season and I need some advice. I am tired of putting 100s of clicks on my camera just to catch 2 or 3 daytime bolts.

Does anyone here use a lightning trigger? If so what brand do you have? Any tips for usage?

This is the one that I am looking at now:

http://www.lightningtrigger.com/ < the version IV.

Does anyone have this model?

Thanks,

Chris

I upgraded from the Rebel XTi to the 6D about a year ago, primarily because I outgrew the XTi and needed a camera that could do more. A few months after upgrading, my XTi got wet and died during a trip to Iceland so I've been looking for a 2nd camera body for my wife.

A little about my shooting style, I mostly shoot landscapes, night photography and portraits (also macro but not as much). My wife and I travel a lot, so street photography (and low light) is also part of our shooting style. I do events every now and then, but it's not my focus and is usually done at the request of family/friends. I can't say I don't like shooting fast action (sports)/wildlife because I've never really tried (I'm sure if I did I would like doing that as well). If you're interested to see photos, click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97429425@N05/

A little about my gear, I have a 35L, 17-40L, 100L macro, and the 24-105L (which I'm going to sell to help pay for this new body). The 35L was the last lens I bought, and I realized I liked shooting with primes over zooms. My wife is the opposite, she likes the versatility of zooms.

Anyway, I'm down to 3 different cameras, the 70d, 5D Mark iii, or another 6d. Price is definitely a consideration, but I'd rather spend a little more (or a lot) to get the right camera. I've looked at enough spec reviews and sample photos to know the difference among all 3 cameras. My shooting style screams 6d (and the fact that I really love my current 6d), however my wife's shooting style is suited more for the 70d. She really wants the rotating screen, and I think the new touch screen focus system of the 70d is a major advantage. Also, she isn't into learning the technical side of photography as I am, so having a 70d that has a few advanced features but is simple to use is also a plus. I think the 7fps of the 70d would only get used every once in a great while. For me the 5diii is still under consideration (in that case, my wife would use my 6d), but it does cost an arm and a leg. I'm not going to get into the 5diii specs, but there are times when I'm shooting where I could benefit from some of the 5diii's capabilities.

That being said, I was interested in getting user opinions on real world shooting, not a spec comparison. Thanks ahead of time for your thoughts!

Hi All:

I've been lurking here for quite a while but this is my first post. I recently acquired a lightly used Canon 300mm f/4 L IS from Lens Authority (great folks there, by the way). It is my first "big glass". I'm using it on a 7D with the Canon 1.4X Extender III. So far, I'm loving this combo. It is an economical way to get 420mm f/5.6 L glass in a compact, light, easy-to-carry package.

The lens has a retractable attached hood, a great idea, but it leads to the one issue I have with the lens. I normally carry the camera on a Black Rapid strap so it hangs at my waist, lens pointed down. When the lens hood is extended, a quick twist locks it in place in the extended position. Twisting the hood back in the opposite direction unlocks the hood and allows it to be retracted to the stowed position. Problem is, no amount of twisting in either direction will lock the hood in the retracted position and when retracted, the hood is very loose. Consequently, when I am hiking and bushwhacking with the camera at my waist and the hood retracted, the hood "creeps" (sometimes "falls") out to the extended position. This is a nuisance.

Anybody that has this lens (or the similar 400mm L f/5.6) ... is the hood supposed to be lockable in the retracted position or does it simply "float" around loosely when retracted? If it is supposed to lock when retracted, I'll have to get mine fixed.

Thanks for your help and for all the great information I get from this forum.

I was thinking of a full-frame lens for possible future compatability, but I don't have a full-frame camera now so maybe not. My almost everything lens is a 35 2.0 IS which is pretty perfect most of the time on my 70D (and a 100 and 200 prime for sports). For the ultimate landscape lens I was thinking of just keeping that and making it work despite an occasional limitation or maybe complementing it with a Canon 10-22 or 15-85.
Thanks for any thoughts.

How could I possibly, and I acknowledge that I may not be able to, build a wireless setup such as the example in the RRS banner below, yet on the cheap?Well, Cheap is relative and great Macro flash setups are never cheap unless you want them to be MacGuyver-esque! And I want wireless and very clean. I'm looking for under $1k

I would think my starting point would be a 600 and a pair of 270's plus hardware. Am I correct?

Thanks!

Just curious! A little bit of fun (but honest answers please!)

I own one two.

Lens filters

Sometime soon I am going to be buying the Tamron 24-70 f/2.8, with that I was going to by a UV Filter for it, just like I have on my 2 L lenses. Do UV filters have an impact on the sharpness of pictures; if so is it better to avoid filters?

Thanks

Perhaps this only pertains 6D and 70D users but I'd like to see some discussion on using EOS remote. There is considerable potential especially for shooting birds or animals that don't like a human nearby. From my digging the documentation seems minimal and I'm learning by trial and error.

I have the app on my desktop computer and today installed it on an android phone. They seem fairly different with the phone having fewer features - it seems to me.

So, I'd love to hear advice and hints on using it.

Today, shot from my desktop about 25 feet from the camera which was on the deck about 6 feet from the Downy. -20 C or -4 F made this pretty appealing today!

Jack

Apart from

TS-E 17/4
TS-E 24/3.5L
TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II
TS-E 45mm f/2.8
TS-E 90mm /2.8

are there any more TS lenses from Canon? Are all of these optically great, or are there differences? How do they compare with third-party lenses? There isn't a huge difference in prices compared with third-party lenses, but is there a huge difference in quality either way? I know this is a CANON forum, but I'm hoping for a neutral opinion!

So, I am relatively new to photography, but not quite a beginner. I have a canon 60d with a 18-135 and a 70-300 lens, I am wanting to buy a wide angle and money isn't an issue, I've been, thinking about the 16-35 since they are supposed to work well with full fram censors and I'm planning on upgrading to a 5D mark III in about a 2 years, but would I be better off with a differeant lens for my 60d. Thanks.

Hello everyone,

I've noticed that several lenses, especially macro lenses, are said to possess "floating optical systems" in their design. I have read before that this is related in some way to maintaining the lenses optical quality over the entire range from minimum focusing distance to infinity, but I am unclear what exactly such a design is. How does a floating optical system differ from a non-floating optical system? And how does such a design improve the optical quality over the focus range of the lens? Can anyone explain this to me, or point me in the right direction to finding out?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Canonites!
I have the Canon 70D since it was released last sept 2013. I have enjoyed it greatly and have put approx 8,500 on the camera to date. But over the last month or so I have started to notice a issue in the SD card slot where there appears to be a slight obstruction (metal housing sticking out more sometimes not allowing you to insert the SD card properly. I have the Canon warranty plus extended one from Big box store. Just wondering anyone else having a issue or notice the metal in the slot?? ANY OTHER NOTED PROBLEMS WITH THE 70d i NEED TO LOOK FOR? Ive called canon and no reported issues from engineering.