I'm a little surprised the 15-35mm doesn't get more love, but I imagine the early reviews emphasizing its heavy vignetting wide-open play a part. Personally, I admit to not using it much, as events have sort of fallen by the wayside for me. But, anticipating the arrival of the new 10-20mm, I've started using the 15-35mm more at the wide end to start seeing and thinking in terms of UWA again.

This initial shot is not the best, most representative image I've managed to capture, but it does show that having a fresh attitude with older gear can lead to some happy accidents. Plus it is a bit Halloweeny here a few days before October 31st.

This was taken at our local museum in a traveling exhibit about paleontology finds in Antarctica, where, many of you might remember, John Carpenter's The Thing was set.

The glare coming from the face was just reflection from the overhead lighting on snow-goggles. I didn't think to do that when I knelt for a UWA shot, but once I saw it, I did shift a little bit to try to center and maximize the brightness of the glare. In LR Classic, all I did was convert to B&W, add some blue color-grading, and selectively applied texture to the jacket.

Note that the included comparison movie poster was copied from an Amazon product page.

ISO 3200, f/2.8, 1/400th, 15mm

Hi Cannonites, I'm having a couple of issues with my auto focus when shooting sports. Heres the stats
5d Mk4
70-200 f2.8 IS
F4.5 (for depth of field)
ISO 6400 or higher
1/1000th second
AI Servo single point
Back button focus
High speed drive mode
The majority of the images are fine but every now and then I get a few different issues.
Sometimes the focus point locks on and registers (using light room plugin to confirm in post) but yet the subject is not in focus, in fact nothing in the image is in focus, yet the camera registers a focus point has been achieved.
Other times the subjects face is wildly out of focus and their legs are in focus, when they're in the same focal plane.
Any tips on trying to resolve or am I always going to have to consign a % of images as waste?
Thanks

Canon has released their financial reports for Q3 of 2023. Things are looking pretty good for Canon, the camera segment saw growth of 4.9% over the same period in 2022. Canon also projects a year-over-year increase of 8.2% with an aggressive Q4 of 2023. We expect 3 more lenses to be announced on November 2,

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Back in August, we spent a bit of time reading between the lines about a “retro” influences Canon camera from comments made by a Canon executive. This topic was brought up in response to the hype around Nikon’s Zf retro camera body. Now it appears Canon is actively asking customers which of their most iconic

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We just went into a long discussion over why reducing heat from IBIS units is a good and absolutely necessary thing for Canon to be looking at, so I think if you need some background, have a go with this patent application here. Briefly, a good overall point when it comes to image sensors is

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Canon will have their final round of lens announcements of 2023 on November 2. We can expect three new lenses to be announced that day. This follows this month’s announcement of the RF 10-20mm f/4L IS STM, which has seen some good preorder demand. Upcoming Lenses (November 2, 2023) The third lens is one of

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I know it's technically considered autumn but we had our first snowfall of the year yesterday so I thought I'd create this thread and post my first "winter" picture of the year here. My R is in the shop with an inactive shutter button so this was taken on a Fujifilm X-T5.

It looks like Canon is going to continue with their affordable super-telephoto lenses. This time we’re getting an RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS, which will be announced on November 2, 2023. We’re not sure if the already reported on RF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM will be announced on the same day or not. Rumored pricing according

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The SIGMA 200-500mm f/2.8 EX DG was a very niche lens that SIGMA released in 2007. I had a chance to hold one back when Lensrentals.com had a copy of the behemoth. It’s big and heavy, but who was it made for? I have been told that law enforcement and military were the main customers

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The Kübler-Ross model applied to cameras:
Denial of equivalency
Anger at Canon or other companies
Bargaining with buying/selling photography supplies/equipment/work
Depression about spending money or something not turning out the way we expected
Acceptance

I am looking for a 35 mm lens for astrophotography. I've been looking at RF 35/1.8, but the sticking point is coma/astigmatism which is severe wide-open.
But ... does this problem go away when the lens is stopped down? For example, here is an aperture sweep of my RF 24/1.8 which has bad astigmatism wide open but produces nice results from f/3.5 and up.



I shoot with a star tracker so f/4 is not a big deal.
I know that there are other lenses out there that have well-controlled astigmatism wide open: EF 35/1.4 L mk2, Tamron 35/1.4 di USD, Sigma 28/1.4 Art. But these are big and heavy lenses, and I'd love to have a small, nimble little lens, particularly for other uses. RF 35/1.8 has a lot going for it: nice bokeh, close focusing, sharp, lightweight, punchy colors, small, great price. There is just the astigmatism problem. Does RF 35/1.8's astigmatism problem go away when stopped down? Is there an aperture sweep out there that anyone can point me to? Usually I look at Lenstip for that, but they don't have a complete review of this lens.
One more thing. Does RF 35/1.8 have field curvature? Field curvature and astro don't go together very well. I've been burned by that before with other lenses.
Thanks.

As sensors get more complicated, faster, and also more stacked there is more heat generated from the sensor itself. As fabrication design rules get smaller, for normal chips that reduces the size of the chip which reduces the resistance to electric current, and usually heat – which is why as design rules get smaller, chips

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To reach the full limit of Apple’s new impressive Pro camera system, SmallRig has created a video cage ecosystem that helps you master your mobile filmmaking. Mobile Video Kit for iPhone 15 Pro Max Co-Design Edition was co-designed with Brandon Li, a world-renowned filmmaker known for his minimalist travel cinematography style. This new Mobile Video

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In this Canon Patent Application (2023-153460) Canon discusses both the need and the method of changing focusing during shift or tilt operations. As with the other patent applications in this series, I should first mention that the tilting and shifting discussed seem to be internal and done by moving optical elements. That question has been

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One of the largest and longest running photography forum communities is shutting down by the end of 2023. Photography-on-the-net has decided to shut down by the end of 2023. The industry has definitely changed, and every time we see one of these long-running web sites ceasing operations it’s sad, but outside factors have definitely made

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10 years ago Canon announced they had purchased Austin Texas’s Molecular Imprints Inc, and this was a purchase that I who is always looking at the tech side of Canon was excited about. I was very interested in seeing if Canon could make something with this technology. It had an insane amount of promise at

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We have reported recently that an ultra-wide RF-S zoom lens was coming this year, and it looks like Canon will be bringing the RF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM to fill that need in the RF-S lineup. You can see that this lens has a tiny 48mm filter thread. Unfortunately we don’t have any other specifications

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The long rumored Canon EOS R1 is finally getting closer to be reality. It’s not a question of if the EOS R1 comes, as Canon themselves have stated numerous times that the EOS R3 is “not our flagship”. It’s just a question of when. We have been told by two sources to expect “some kind”

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RF 24-70, @35mm, 1/80, f20, ISO 200

We were hoping that Canon was past issues with initial supply of new lenses and cameras, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Canon has now added the RF 10-20mm f/4L IS STM to the list. A lot of lenses have dropped off the list over the last few months, but it’s not like

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Canon announced the RF 10-20mm f/4L IS STM this week. While we knew such a lens was coming, the announcement time was a surprise, which does add a bit of fun to new gear. We don’t believe Canon is done with new lenses in 2023. We have been told that Canon will likely announce at

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This patent application (2023-149130)shows some interesting and fairly simplistic optics for 70, 75, and 85mm primes. The 85mm primes are unlikely since we already have the Canon RF 85mm F2.0 IS STM. It should be noted that the element designs in this patent application are far simpler than the 85mm F2.0. Most likely because of

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Yesterday when the news broke about the Canon RF 10-20mm, I immediately did our comparison of the Canon RF 10-20mm and the Canon EF 11-24mm. Let’s just say the preliminary look of this lens makes it look like a home run for Canon if you shoot super-ultra-wide frequently. As I mentioned in that article, if

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One of the issues with a totally silent camera is the fact that we have very little in the way of feedback when an operation occurs. If you don’t want that incessant beep and are using an electronic shutter, it’s easy to miss that an image has been taken, or that another operation has occurred.

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Yesterday, October 10th, the Natural History Museum, London, announced the "Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023".

Grand title winner: Laurent Ballesta, France

Equipment:
Nikon D5, 13mm f2.8 lens, 1/25 at f22, ISO 800, Seacam housing, 2x Seacam strobes

Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Grand title winner: Carmel Bechler, Israel

Equipment:
Nikon D7500, Tamron 18–200mm f3.5–6.3 lens, 1.3 sec at f4.8, ISO 4000


Explore the gallery. Once again, a lot of great pictures there, no matter what gear was used.