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Which to buy: 16-35 f/2.8 vs. 17-40 f/4...

Hi All,

I'm at the point of researching and saving for my next lens. It's either going to be the 35 f/1.4 or one of the following option: 16-35 or 17-40. But my question is on the 16-35 or 17-40 option, I'm debating which one of these two to get. Main usage is for:

1) Wedding (primary)
2) Landscape (secondary)

I'm shooting w/the 5D Mark II (w/430EX)
Please provide your reasons for choosing one over the other. Thanks again!

Walking up Hamburger Hill

Youtube link from last week when me and a friend visited Hamburger Hill, Ap Bia mountain in western central Vietnam close to the Lao border. A major battle took place here during the American War in Vietnam in May 1969.

Walk up Hamburger Hill September 2012

I shot this with 5D Mkiii with 24-105L. It was raining and was very humid, at this point we were very tired because we had walked up the other side of the mountain where the NVA retreated (about 1km) then down this way another 6-700 m. I carried the Flipside 400 AW on my back, completely soaked motorcycle jacket and a rain poncho so I have to apologize for the heavy breathing.

Video quality, any feedback of course is welcome as I pretty much don't know anything about shooting video. But this is most to share a very unique moment shot with my Canon gear. The lens and camera was soaked, the lens apparently got very wet as it didn't worked properly the next few days, apparently moist inside it. Any tips on what to do about it is appreciated. 5D seems OK.

Hope you enjoy watching the video.

A skyline to remember.

I will never forget the sky on this night when I was on a walk. I almost missed this scene as I was fiddling with my camera. Then all of a sudden I looked up and was rocked with this scene. I took about 200 photos and HD video of this once in a lifetime display of colors. I was stunned at the beauty and the color.

Have you ever been stunned by a vista of the sky? I sure have.

I welcome all of my Canon Rumors friends to learn more about me at my blog. www.solargravity.com

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New Zeiss 55mm Lens

Isn't anyone jazzed about this? Everyone is talking about the 135mm just announced. The 50mm has been the middle-child to the 35mm & 85mm. The 50mm is a perfect focal length for me for many reasons, but There is a visual difference. Maybe the new 55mm will surpass it's two brothers...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/07/Carl-Zeiss-preparing-Distagon-55mm-F1-4-for-Canon-Nikon-lenses-for-mirrorless-system-cameras

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1DX Color Noise

Hello Everyone,

First time post. I recently purchased the 1DX and have been doing some very basic test shots. Although I love the higher ISO images, I am seeing what I believe is excessive red color noise in images shot within the lower range (100-400). In the photo I've posted, you can see splotchy red 'noise' above the horizon to the left of the surfers and along the cloud line between the sun and the buildings. I understand these are darker areas of the image but at ISO 200, this is quite surprising. Image quality was set to large Jpeg. I've also seen this in the RAW images as well. Am I expecting too much or has anyone else experienced this phenomena? Does this look normal to you? Any insights are much appreciated.

Thanks!

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First Canon EOS C100 Short Hits the Web

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<strong>From Planet5D


</strong><a href="http://blog.planet5d.com/2012/09/hot-first-canon-eos-c100-short-hits-the-web-just-c-it/" target="_blank">Mitch from Planet5D</a> has informed us of the first short from the upcoming Canon EOS C100.</p>
<p>The Canon EOS C100 is almost “affordable”, and we should see lots of content from it. I’ll be buying one for my rental business, and hopefully I’ll learn something about shooting video. :)</p>
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/49083326" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></p>
<p><strong>Film Information (By Sebastien DEVAUD)


</strong><em>“Earlier this year, i was contacted by Canon Inc to create a new exclusive film for the worldwide launch of the new EOS Cinema camera : The EOS C100</em></p>
<p><em>Given the difficult task awaiting me, I decided to call upon and challenge the C’brothers to highlight and validate the strenghts of this new technology…</em></p>
<p><em>Join the new C generation !</em></p>
<p><em>Just C it ! was shot with three C100 bodies and 12 EF lenses. AVCHD compress recorded on SD Card”</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/889545-REG/Canon_EOS_C100_EF_Cinema.html/bi/2466/kbid/3296" target="_blank">Canon EOS C100 at B&H Photo (Available November 2012)</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Source: [<a href="http://blog.planet5d.com/2012/09/hot-first-canon-eos-c100-short-hits-the-web-just-c-it/" target="_blank">P5D</a>]</strong></p>
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5d2 with 24-105 kit up 100$ since last week what does that mean?

I've been on the fence about buying a 5d2 kit and watching the prices but I just checked tonight and it's up 100 dollars matching my local vendors and last week everyone online had it for 2699. Does this mean something new might show up or stock is dwindling down and so price goes up? It's starting to not seem like a good deal to me anymore.

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24-70 II Shipped from B&H

I just saw the post on the front page that B&H expected to ship the first batch of 24-70 II lenses tomorrow. I hadn't received a shipping notification, but I checked, just to see if there was any update, and my lens shipped out today at 3:23pm. It's coming ground, and I'm in Boston, so it's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I had a very early pre-order -- I ordered on February 7 (which was I think announcement day?). If you ordered from B&H, you should check your order status...

Anybody want to buy a very good 24-70 f/2.8 L version 1?

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In Camera Nosie/Sharpen, etc - JPEG Only?

I've always been a straight RAW shooter. The only time I've shot to JPEG is on a couple of events where I wasn't going to do any post processing and needed to hand the memory card off to someone else at the end of the day. But I've got something coming up where I want to shoot RAW primarily but use the second card slot in my 5D3 to capture JPEGs just for a little extra insurance.

Right now have all of the in-camera processing turned off like noise reduction and sharpening. I do that all in post processing for my RAW images. I'm thinking I'd like to have these applied to the JPEGs I'm capturing to the second card.

I know this sounds like a dumb question and I really should know the answer, but can someone confirm for me that these in-camera processing settings are only applied to JPEG and not RAW images? If some are applied to RAW, which ones are they?

Thanks.

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1DX Autofocus Test: Tennis

I was able to actually focus-track a tennis ball in flight. Yes. To illustrate this absolutely extraordinary feature of the 1DX, I tracked the ball with single point in Case 6 I believe, and it ignored the closer girl in my foreground. I cropped a bit here, but just did a quick jpeg save.

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The 50mm f/1.4: Conclusion

So I had to send my 50mm f/1.4 up to the lens hospital in Spokane. It was a DIY fix that went awry. It's being discharged now and is on it's way back home to me. How much did all of this cost? Not as much as a new lens. Not quite, anyway. But it sure feels like it. But it's my own fault, and ended up costing me more because of the botched fix-it job.

If you own this lens: Store it in the middle of the focus range, like around the 3 foot mark, and NOT at the infinity point like a lot of people recommend on the internets. I got this advice from the guy who worked on it, a factory-authorized lens tech.

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Canada - USA cross border warranty service

I've browsed a ton of warranty related posts but was unable to find a straight answer to my question.

As Canadian - if I buy a body (5DMKIII) in the US and i need warranty repair/service (in Canada) - would Canon Canada take it for service or i will need to send it to the US? I know the card says US/Canada warranty, but it i could not find a clear indication that a cross-border purchase will be serviced in a country of residence.

Any experience?

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Which Camera & Lens - Aviation + Animals

I was about to upgrade to the 5D iii (currently have 50D) but just before I do I want to check with the many Pros and Arm Chair Pros on here if it would be right for me.

I want to shoot Aviation and animals, some landscape and Family (non portrait, just nice shots)

I can spend up to £8000 ($12000), however saving money always helps.

I have currently 70-200 L IS 2.8 and 24-105 IS L 4.0

The options then FF or not to FF. 600mm f4 or will the 400m F5.6 do it's a lot cheaper? Which Body? Which Lens? Extenders? (I had one 2x mk ii on a 70-200 and did not like the quality)

Any other combos you guys can think of????

Thanks for your time!

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Lens case for 70-200 f/2.8 II

Hi All, just a simple question but I'd like to know for those who owns this lens, do you use the Canon - LZ1326 Lens Case that came along w/the lens purchase or did you get something like the Lowepro S&F Lens Exchange Case 200AW?

By reading these two items, it looks like the Lowepro is more on the 'heavy duty' side? What's the pro/con of each in your opinion?

My main usage w/this will be for walking around the city, assisting with weddings, on a Lowepro S&F Light Utility Belt

Thanks again for your input!!

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Samyang 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-Shift Announced

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<strong>Press Release</strong>


Samyang Optics is about to release a new lens with the perspective control function — Samyang T-S 24mm 1:3.5 ED AS UMC. The official product presentation will take place on September 18th 2012, during international photographic Photokina fairs held in Cologne.</p>
<p>New Samyang T-S 24mm 1:3.5 ED AS UMC is a wide-angle, full-frame lens fitted with the perspective control and tilt-shift functions. Its unique optical and mechanical construction makes it an ideal tool for architecture and landscape photography. The product will be also extremely useful when convergence of the lines in the frame is required. Owing to the mechanism of optical axis tilt, focus depth operation brings utterly new quality and possibilities, enabling photographers to shape the image according to their individual needs, both on digital and nalog carriers.</p>
<p><!--more-->Optical design of Samyang T-S 24mm 1:3.5 ED AS UMC comprises of sixteen lenses arranged in eleven groups, including two aspherical lens and two lens made of ED glass with low dispersion factor. Thanks to this solution, the lens perfectly reproduces detailed elements and gives splendid image plasticity, also with the T-S function on. Each optical component of the product was covered with multi-layered, anti-reflective UMC coatings, which provide great light transmission factor, high contrasts and render only natural colors of the photographed scene. With sophisticated optics and developed T-S function, Samyang T-S 24mm 1:3.5 ED AS UMC is currently the most advanced lens produced by Samyang Optics and may compete with similar lenses of other brands.</p>
<p><strong>Tilt-Shift function


</strong>Tilt-Shift function in Samyang T-S 24mm 1:3.5 ED AS UMC allows for smooth and individual adjustment of the focus plane angle by +/-8.5 and enables parallel shift of the optical axis by +/-12 millimeters. To make Tilt-Shift function even more seamless, both the lens mount as well as Tilt-Shift section may be rotated on the optical axis. The Tilt-Shift section may be rotated left by 90 degrees (with 30 degree adjustment), while mount of the lens may be rotated both in left and right direction by 90 degrees, also with 30 degree adjustment.</p>
<p>Samyang T-S 24mm 1:3.5 ED AS UMC will be available with mounts for Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K and Sony A. We welcome everyone to visit us at Photokina at our booth A025 in the hall 2.1.</p>
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40 2.8 with extension tubes

I was just wondering if anybody has tried out the 40 2.8 with extension tubes. Given its very small design, I would think this would give a greater minimum working distance since even with the extension tubes it wouldn't stick out as far as some other lenses.

I'm shooting a wedding in a couple weeks and am not planning to rent a macro for it. I just shot a wedding on Saturday and only used the 100 IS L for a few shots of the ring so I can't really justify renting a macro just for that little. I have the 24 105 and am renting the tamron 24 70 as well in case anybody has any input on if those would work better with extension tubes (I would think not). I also have been wanting to try out the canon 35 1.4 and own the canon 35 2.0 if anybody has tried it on those as well. Thanks.

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Remote (infrared)Trigger for the 1DX

Last weekend I tried to make some nightshoots with my 1DX and tripod and I found out that my Canon RC-1 is not working with the 1DX. I read somewhere that all 1-Series have no built-in infrared controller!

How do I shoot group fotos with myself on it? 10sec timer. ok. but only ONE picture will be shoot then. with my old 5D2 I took my RC-1 and I did 10-20 pictures. Always at least one was good of them.
How do you solve that?

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