I ordered my R5 + 24-70mmf2.8L at 5AM this morning PST. Does anyone know if there is a way to find out where you are on the preorder list?
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Actually price is a very important consideration for most of us. Why is the camera so much more expensive in Europe than it is in the USA? Doesn't that seem unfair to you? The difference is far to great to be explained by VAT. The price for the body only in USA is $3,899 and the price for the body only in the UK is £4,199. At today's exchange rate the US price of $3,899 should be around £3,091. Add on the 20% VAT and the total price should be around £3,709, so why is it nearly £500 more than that? It is a huge difference.
Cropping does not give the same effect. As someone who started years ago with 35mm and then transitioned to 2-1/4 x 2-1/4, the difference was amazing. When you crop you are blowing up a smaller number of pixels which does not return the sharpness of a long lens. The image may be the same size but the sharpness is completely different.Cropping gives the same effect as having a longer lens.
I agree. But pushing the video specs so boldly led me to believe Canon came up with some solution to handle this either via heat pipes or perhaps a vapor chamber. 10 mins of cooling gets another 3 mins of shooting in 8K. That gives you an idea on what not having any cooling solution leads too...
I absolutely cannot have the camera shut down on me in the middle of certain types of shoot. I'm sure others are in the same boat. While I have the same 29:59 limits on my A7III/RIII and A9 (which I don't shoot much video on), I have done 60mins (2 segments) of speeches in the evening after shooting 2 hours of pre-event b-roll without even seeing the overheat warning.
Maybe Canon will come up with something in a firmware to help with this after the camera is released.
I wonder what the allocations are and if we know what time B&H, Adorama etc filled their quotas? I guess the camera shops won't tell you that you missed the 30Jul shipment in case you cancel?You can always cancel a preorder before it ships. In this case you'll have about three weeks to decide. Not that it makes any difference now, as you'd be near the bottom of the list.
I agree with most of what you say, but I disagree with your use of the adverb "completely". The more pixels you start with the better the crop. So, all else equal, similar crops in good light from a 60MP sensor (say, 26MP) will appear not to be as noticeably less sharp as the same size crop from a 20MP sensor (around 8MP). Both crops lose acuity and neither will perfectly match the image from a longer lens from cameras using the same sensors, but the higher MP crop will be less noticeably different.Cropping does not give the same effect. As someone who started years ago with 35mm and then transitioned to 2-1/4 x 2-1/4, the difference was amazing. When you crop you are blowing up a smaller number of pixels which does not return the sharpness of a long lens. The image may be the same size but the sharpness is completely different.
Cropping gives the same effect as having a longer lens. I don't want to turn this into a back-and-forth sideshow, but use Google to pull up some expert write-ups about this online.
I thought about it, and you are right... I don't want this to go back-and-forth. I'm just gonna agree with you.
Setting aside the issue of pixel level quality to keep things more straightforward, cropping does indeed give the same effect as using a longer lens provided you're standing the same distance away from your subject. Your example actually shows this. The photographer changes their distance from the subject using each lens to get the subject's head to fill the frame to the same degree with each lens.No it doesn't. Maybe use Bing next time?
Edit: good example: https://annawu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/focal-length-comparison.jpg
Ok fine... The people working the sub-$30K jobs will not shop as much at the business owned by the person who would be hiring a photographer for their wedding, family reunion, whatever.
Any way you slice it, less money moving through the economy means less people ultimately shelling out for a new camera.
I asked the same question. If you know what time you received a confirmation email, the shop should know if you were going to get a shipment by 30Jul. On the other hand, they probably won't tell us that we missed the cut because you would cancel. They like having your money in their bank account.I ordered my R5 + 24-70mmf2.8L at 5AM this morning PST. Does anyone know if there is a way to find out where you are on the preorder list?
Nope.Cropping gives the same effect as having a longer lens. I don't want to turn this into a back-and-forth sideshow, but use Google to pull up some expert write-ups about this online.
No it doesn't. Maybe use Bing next time?
Edit: good example: https://annawu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/focal-length-comparison.jpg
I wonder what the allocations are and if we know what time B&H, Adorama etc filled their quotas? I guess the camera shops won't tell you that you missed the 30Jul shipment in case you cancel?
Fair enough.Any way you slice it, it takes ten workers making $30K to push as much money through the economy as one person earning $300K. And those 10 lower earning workers need more food and other essentials than that one high earning worker does.
Yes, economic slowdowns will affect the number of jobs pros can get, but nowhere near the degree that SARS-CoV-2 has done due to the cancellations of almost all gatherings of any size larger than a few dozens of people.
Pro photogs aren't working very much right now primarily due to the virus, not due to the economic fallout from the virus.
Yep depth of field changes, perspective does not, as my illustration here demonstrates.Setting aside the issue of pixel level quality to keep things more straightforward, cropping does indeed give the same effect as using a longer lens provided you're standing the same distance away from your subject. Your example actually shows this. The photographer changes their distance from the subject using each lens to get the subject's head to fill the frame to the same degree with each lens.
If the photographer would have stood as far away as they did with the 200mm lens with all the other lenses and then cropped each photo down to show the same field of view as with the 200mm, all the photos would look more or less the same, except for possibly depth of field, I'm not sure on that one.
However, obviously shooting with a very wide lens and then cropping down to what a telephoto would have seen gives you a huge loss in resolution, hence the reason for having different lenses.
In the context of where this stems from, I was referring to the inability to simulate telephoto effects from the same spot using only a wide angle lens. I gave the scenario of setting up a wide angle shot and using that for all your field of views. This means there are no variables. I'm not moving closer to the subject, not moving farther away. I'm not changing the focal length, not adjusting depth of field. The only variable is cropping with a single lens and a single camera. And no matter how much I crop, it will not look like a lens of a longer focal length.You're comparing apple to oranges. Your link shows the same framing using different focal lengths from different shooting distances. The original discussion here was about using the same focal length lens from the same distance and cropping.
It doesn't matter what focal length you are using. If you are shooting the same scene from the same camera position, you'll get the same perspective.
See: https://www.australianlight.com.au/blog/post/myth_busting_focal_length_and_perspective/