Is there any way to get more than what seems to be 11 minutes of 1080p video out of my mk ii? I realize the mk iii has a 29 minutes limit as well. Is there any magic lantern hack or anything relatively magical that can extend the video recording time (I've read it's due to overheating?)?

thanks

Ok here is a question i have for you guys
i use to have the 500mm is and the 300mm f/2.8 is but i never use them as much, I sold them and i got other lens for my work,the longest lens i have now is the 70-200 MKII some times for fun shooting i wish to have at list 300mm on my bag for maybe a wildlife shot I had the 300mm F/4 and i was very happy with the lens, but i have see lots of nice pictures with the 100-400 also
I want to know what lens are sharper the 300mm with a 1.4x converter or the 100-400mm
Thanks again

I have a shoot in two weeks shooting vintage drag racing. This is going to be a challenge and would love some advice on best practices.

I have a shoulder mounted rig I will be shooting with. I am trying to figure out what eye piece/diopter to use. I haven't been able to find one that will work with the larger LCD screen. If you know of any let me know. Lenses will be the 17-40, 24-70 and 70-200. I have an external mic as well I will be running.

My main concern is keeping focus. I was thinking of running at f22 and trying my best to adjust by hand to keep it all in check. Plan was to shoot at 24fps, I am looking for a cinematic look. Shutter speed at 50. ISO at whatever I need it to be shooting at f22. I did some tests tonight and it looks like I need to be two stops over to get good exposure.

Next step is to shoot some test footage and bring in to the computer to check it out.

Thanks,

Lance

If Canon really wants to bounce back from this whole low ISO IQ and DR thing, couldn't they try to develop a new CCD sensor instead of CMOS?

Correct me if I'm wrong, and I very well might be, but doesn't CCD have a higher potential image quality? Hence why most MF cameras use them? Why doesn't canon make a low ISO monster with huge DR and MP using a CCD sensor. If they are suffering from being blocked by sony patents on how to add all that DR into a CMOS, maybe going back to CCD would help them get around that?

Am I correct in thinking that the only advantage CMOS has over CCD is that it is cheaper and more economical to produce? And current CMOS are so good only because that is what the R&D department has focused on? If they put as much effort into CCD what would have happened?

If I'm crazy suggesting this, feel free to let me know, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to throw that suggestion out there! I'm a photographer, not an engineer. So what do I know. (I first went to school for engineering, then switched over to photography cause photography makes me happy.) You guys on here seem to know your stuff, so, thoughts?

I just came across this link some of you may find interesting

The title of it is:

The Canon 5D Mark III, Canon C300, and RED SCARLET Shoot a Nighttime Bike Race Side-by-Side

http://nofilmschool.com/2012/05/canon-5d-mark-iii-canon-c300-red-scarlet/


unfortunately, altho they're all shooting the same night event, they're used in different locations so you don't get to compare them all on the same scene.

they are all still impressive however, web-served low BW files with overcompression artifacts excluded.


Here's another link on 48fps shooting with Red as well, on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT.
sounds like people aren't liking the non-film look. I haven't seen it at 48fps, would love to. I don't like the 24fps cinema flicker; i guess my eyes are just a little too fast responding.

http://nofilmschool.com/2011/12/the-hobbit-continues-terrific-behind-the-scenes/

I attempted to purchase the 50 1.2 and the 70-200 is ii from crutchfield but they are both out of stock! (they were in stock a couple weeks ago) ton of people must be taking advantage of the rebates. does anyone know how fast lens stock gets replenished? i assume its quicker than a new camera because canon probably has stock sitting around.

Clearing out some old stuff, I came across a bunch of 8x10s I made in the late 80s when I worked in the Photo Retail trade. It reminded me clearly exactly why I left that particular career.

We had a customer who wanted a comparison set of shots done on a Contax RTSII wish Zeiss T* Glass and a Nikon F3 with specific Nikon Lenses.

My records show Zeiss 25/2.8, 35/2, 50/1.4, 85/1.4, 180/2.8 and Nikon 24/2 35/2 50/1.4 85/1.4 and 180/2.8 ED-IF (All AIS).

I did the B&W shots on Ilford PAN F processed in ID-11 and then made the 8x10 on Ilforbrome (I remember it being the last time I used a non RC Paper).

I also shot a roll of Kodachrome 25 and then sent these out and had Cibachromes made of them.

It was an insane job because there were about 100 8x10s of each lens (Edge, Center, Full Frame, wide open, one stop down, two stops, four stops).

I don't recall how much it cost the customer but the color lab work cost quite a few thousand and I remember thinking that even I could do better Cibachromes than the lab who did it.


What was interesting ( I felt ) that for all the big talk of various vendors and photographers I could not SEE a definitively better lens optic for optic.

I managed to (sneak) some Leica glass into the tests, and there I did see some difference wide open on about two lenses, mostly with better contrast. I also took a selection of second tier Nikon lenses (or rather older cheaper designs) and even then I can see (and my notes tell me, that the only real discernible difference was their wide open performance at the edge (and some minor barrel distortion issues with the 24/3.5).

Anyhow this project took about two weeks and the customer was quite happy to pay a huge amount of money. He explained to me that he was a plastic surgeon and time was money (never forgot that one).

Anyway he took away all the 8x10s and my notes, gave me a $100 buck tip and said he would consider what he would buy.

My boss who was the definition of an assh**e kept complaining that he had not bought anything, and we had had to use all this expensive new equipment. Even when I showed him that he had made money on the deal.

Since I thought the guy was nuts and having me on when he asked me how much it would cost to find out the best camera system to buy I calculated a price that covered all the photo processing costs plus 20%. Then figured out it would take me 30 hours in time - and I was close - took what I was paid per hour and multiplied by three, and as a final kicker added 66% of the selling price of the equipment - this was the normal way of figuring out what to pay for mint equipment in a store in NY at the time. I remember quoting the guy this ridiculous figure, somewhere near $10,000, and he pulled out an AMEX. I remember having to persuade my manager to let me do this and showing him the figures (and knowing he liked me, coz I could answer those tricky questions that some customers had, about things like depth of field) he told me he would get me the the equipment as long as I would ask my girlfriend if I could use her darkroom for the Black and Whites). When I twigged that this way he had figured that there was a lot of extra money to be made that I had missed so I got my girlfriend a new Rodenstock enlarging lens as part of the deal). He argued with me a long time about that afterwards because I had only met my girlfriend by selling her a Leica lens in the store.

Anyway we did not see the Surgeon for a month, and my boss (the SOB who owned the company) would complain every week when I got paid how much money he had "lost" forgetting the thousands he actually made.

Now this was just before Canon introduced the EOS system, and about four weeks later in comes the customer with an EOS brochure. After passing the time of day and generally setting the world to rights, I made the offhand comment about more testing?

He said not he had not really had enough time to do justice to the pictures and analysis and then gave me am order for two EOS-620s and one of every lens canon first introduced and four flashes. For the next year or so every time Canon introduced a new L lens he would be in with his AMEX. The ting I found amazing is he insisted on paying MSRP (unheard of in New York) as he explained some complex issue with how his accountant wanted to depreciate it (I never had the guts to ask him what a 300/2.8L had to do with plastic surgery).

Anyway, after giving me this huge order (it was a lot of stuff and it was all at MSRP) he gave me his AMEX to pay for it all.
I mentioned that some of what he wanted would not be available yet, and he just said to messenger it over to his office when it did, and charge a messenger fee to his Amex when we did this... (Just getting this one past my manager was fun)

I thing we were well into five figures here. I thought nothing more of it, he was a nice guy and a pleasure to deal with, and I went back to selling Minolta Maxxum's and Nikon F3s (not forgetting all those filters).

At the end of the week I was told to go see the boss and got a 15minute pasting on how no good and totally useless I was. Not only had I lost him all that money on all that fancy equipment (which I sold in the ensuing six weeks as demonstrator equipment at almost regular price meaning that the good Dr has already paid him 2/3 of its selling price). Well he then harangued me on why I took an AMEX on a huge order (AMex used to charge about 1.5% more as a processing fee). I think I lost it then and started screaming back at him and sprawling on his wall with a magic marker the actual figures calculating how much money I had made the SOB.

After five minutes I stopped and realized what I had done but I was so A N G R Y at the abuse for making this SOB money (I was young, foolish, and just like photography....... SO glaring at me he said I suppose you want me to say thank you, I glared back and said NO I just want a ***** raise.

Silence........ Nobody swore at this guy or usually argued back at him....

He picked up the phone hit an extension and said "how much is ***** making........, OK well give him 25% more, but only after you have deducted $500 for redecorating". I smiled and said thank you.........

As ever a postscript....

My girl friend at the time was doing photography at FIT and was doing a project taking pictures of people in Big Warehouse Stores, trying to capture the loneliness of modern retail or some such..... A few days later she came back from college and gave me a beautiful 4x5 B&W which she had shot with Her Leica M4-P and 90/1.4 Summilux on pushed Tri-X. What can I say, she had a rich Grandmother! Anyway it showed my boss buying a Gallon of cheap pain on sale at $3 at a Pergament (that will date me). I should have married her for that picture alone, because I slipped it into and envelope with a Note....... I think this picture is worth $497).

I never had that $500 deducted.

Oh to be young and look innocent!

Hello,

I am considering to to buy 5d3 but there is one thing that I am not sure of. Is 5d3 pixel count good enough to print large size prints? When I say large size i mean something along the size of 4 by 2 feet. As you probably guessed i am between d800 and 5d3.
I am not sure what else comes to play when printing large size prints but I believe ISO has to do with it. Can somebody give me some guidelines when it comes to that.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Please forgive my lack of understanding, but what exactly is the significance of shutter speed during manual video shooting on a dSLR (5DII)? Can anyone provide or point me to a thorough explanation? I've got the roles of aperture and ISO in video understood, but not shutter speed. How does it factor in/differentiate from video format selection (24/30fps, etc)?

Thanks for the assistance.

I am about to buy a 85mm, and the 1.2 is out of the question due to the price, and also out of the question are the manual focus only lenses. The Photozone.de rates the Canon very highly, and the Sigma low, while the digital picture gives the Sigma a high score. Buying the Canon is much cheaper.

Has anyone tried both these lenses, and which would you go for?

My use will mainly be portrait on a 5D II.

Anyone know if theirs any new rumors about the mystical Eos 3D camera?

The rumors have been around for a very long time, and i was wondering maybe it will fit the gap for canon 5D mark iii and the canon 1Dx ?

Any thoughts anyone?

Maybe it will be the next APS-H camera

By the way if you guys have a twitter, i have one for personal/anything about photography. If you guys want to follow me, that would be great. Www.twitter.com/rafaelgoesskii

I don't think Canon planned to release the 5D MkIII as it exists today. I think Canon intended to put a much higher MP, lower noise sensor with greater DR in it, but it wasn't ready in time. This is all pure conjecture.

I think Canon was fully aware of the Sony sensor and Nikon's plans, and physics and electronics being what they are, was able to produce a sensor equal to the one in the D800 using Canon technology. There's nothing revolutionary about the Sony/D800 sensor. But I don't think Canon could get it produced in the quantities they needed.

I suspect there was a quality control/yield issue. Yes, the sensor worked, but not enough of them were coming off the production line that met their standards - too many rejects in each batch.

This left Cannon with some choices:
- Release no update to the 5D MkII, already 3+ years old until the sensor was ready, and in so doing, appear to cede that market segment to Nikon.
- Put the top of the line 1D series sensor in the MkIII - an improvement, but the only way to maintain the price point would be to take a loss/break even on every body.
- Put a slightly tweaked MkII sensor back into the MkIII along with the other planned feature upgrades and basically mark time until the new sensor was ready.

I think they took the last option - issuing a minor upgrade so as not to be seen abandoning the market segment to Nikon.

Nikon took advantage of the situation by knocking down the price, and I think that, more than anything else caught Canon off guard. Canon would do well to take a price cut on the MkIII.

Why did Sony and Nikon succeed with the new sensor where Canon did not?

I'm not so sure they did. First, I think Nikon may be creaming the sensor production - paying a premium to Sony for the very best of each run. They don't need that many, since the D800 is a relatively expensive, low volume camera.

A company Sony's size may be able to afford production runs 100x or 1000x larger than Canon. Their yield of the very best sensors may be no better than Canon, but they may have buyers for the lesser sensors - other camera makers and other Sony models that may be happy with fewer pixels, more noise, lower DR or even, via trimming, smaller sensors.

Or Sony can afford to take a loss on initial production runs, knowing everything will work out in the near future. Sony did this with the PS 1 and PS 2 gaming processors.

It could also be that Canon's sensor production facilities for this model were in Thailand, were flooded out, and the replacement factories are not fully on line yet or tweaked for higher yields.

I think Canon's next full frame camera will be very informative. If it is in the 18-24 MP range, but retails near the 7D, then I would bet that these are based on the same sensor that was originally planned for the 5DMkIII, but represent the lesser quality production yields. (18-24 usable low noise, high DR pixels vs 36-45)

I bet that within a year, Canon updates the 5D MkIII type camera with a much higher MP count, lower noise, higher DR sensor. They may not call it the 5D, but it will be what they had originally planned for the MkIII.

I currently have a 50 1.8. I think it takes sharp pics for the price however the concern over the build is becoming reality. I know of people who swear by the 1.8 over the 1.4, say it's sharper. I was wondering what people who have used both feel in regards to this. I need to replace it, was thinking of going to the 1.4 but I've heard mixed reviews. Opinions please!!

anyone have a shipping date confirmation or email on receiving the 5dm3 from amazon yet? I hope to get it soon.

I ordered on April 30 and just check my order status: Phase #1: Packed May 02, 2012

I am so excited! ;D

Biggest full moon of the year this Saturday, May 5, 2012:

http://www.space.com/15474-supermoon-full-moon-2012.html

Who will get the best picture?

I see the price of the 5DMk3 with the 24-105 kit lens is roughly £900 cheaper in the US compared with the UK. Anyone know what the justification for that might be. It is not all explained by differential tax rates.

Any idea when/if the Mark iv will ever make it back across to the States ? Several of the larger retailers have it "back ordered" as opposed to "discontinued". I am finally in the market for one. I certainly hope the DX is not going to completely swallow up the iv market. :-[

Nice...

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/05/the-fix-is-in

Hello guys, I dont normally post here, but knowing you are all experts makes me want too,

Ive been having a problem with my new lens, I didn't think I had this problem so bad until recently, now it's maybe my own paranoia, or I do have a problem, i'm not sure what to think really, I own a 5D Mark2 and my lens a Canon 24 1.4 II L Lens, I'm finding at 1.4 I have to take 5 or 6 images to achieve focus that in the hope 1 will have achieved good focus, I understand 1.4 is so shallow its going to be tough anyway and on a poor AF camera as the 5D2 i'm going to have problems, but I think this is just 2 soft, and allot of the time, the camera misses completely, I just don't get it, after spending so much money, i'm getting a but sick of Canon, and I maybe to blame, Now I use a center spot focus and lock and recompose, and this may be a problem, or not, I do think the camera used to lock focus better, is it possible a camera over time, lose focus, I have tried front and back focus tests on a tape measure, and the focus seems fine, I know I should stop down the lens slightly, but I don't see why I can get a semi sharp image at the right distance on 1.4, for that money I think you should be able too, last week, I took a picture of a friend at the side of his hair just on a grey bit above his ear, and it missed so much and I achieved focus on his forehead, I did more tests and the camera could not focus on hair, even though it was a good contrast for the camera, so I though maybe there's certain things canon sensors have trouble with, so today, I went for a walk with mum, to a forest to see the bluebells, it was a bad day, and nothing great to photograph, so I took some pretty crappy shots of a bluebell and noticed a ladybird on it, so i though ok this could be nice, anyway, this ladybird was moving very slowly and I have 1/1250 shutter, the first 2 where so bad, I could hardly believe my eyes, you can see the images here,

http://louis-amore.smugmug.com/Other/Test1/22755782_HxNbF7#!i=1825217841&k=WqLhrhB


you can hit a large size to see close enough,

what are your thoughts, you can see 2 pictures out of the 4 that are slightly okish, and 2 so badly off,


please visit my website, to understand this isn't user error , or in fact it maybe I have no idea

www.louisamore.com

what do you guys think,

for nearly 3500 pounds worth of kit, should I be getting results like this, Im so deeply unhappy, do i send my camera lens to canon to have a look, i'm not sure, or is this what u get for your money, I believe I would get a better result with a much cheaper micro 4/3rds camera,?

thanks for your time to any one who replies

Kindest regards

Louis


PS sorry for the typos im terrible at spelling

Other than sporting a FF sensor, and now double the price, the 5DmkIII seems to have more in common with a 7D than a 5DmkII. By that, I mean increased shooting speed, improved AF sensors, etc... It just seems to appeal more to the 7D crowd than it does the 5DmkII crowd. I look at my 5DmkII as fitting in perfectly with my shooting style, more slow and deliberate than fast and from the hip. Thoughts?

according to kenrockwell D800 '' Video only uses a central 32.8 x 18.4mm section of the sensor, at most.''
but 5D utilizes 36X20.3mm.

why haven't nikon tell this before....?

Since upgrading to a 5dm2, my 350d has been pretty bored sitting there with nothing to do.

Does anyone have any suggestions with what I can do with it?