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Thanks for all the info, sorry for living under a rock (aka on a boat) while all this happened. I shoot sports from time to time and the requirements are no post processing, no crappy pictures, no time to delete. So shooting burst is just not an option, I have to time the shot so I get the...

Hi, long time member but I've been busy with http://mcvoy.com/lm/boat and not really paying attention to photography. I mostly don't care because I have pretty much all the EF glass I want, but what is up with all the EF lenses being discontinued? I get that RF is all the rage (I don't get why...

I wouldn't blame the Sigma for that, I'd blame the photographer who had had some drinks :) If I had been paid for those shots, well first, I'd want better shots, but second I would have been sober and shooting single focus point. Or at least watching the screen to see where it grabbed focus and...

I have the Sigma 85mm f1.4 art (which is very different than the EX). I also have the Canon 200mm f2, which is my favorite lens (I've got a shit ton of Canon glass). I'm not a pro, just a guy with a wife that understands. The Canon 200mm is $6000, the Sigma 85mm is $1200. I fricking love the...

That was, well, marketing. I'll wait to see what Bryan at the digital picture has to say, he actually does thoughtful reviews. It's gonna be interesting to see how this stacks up against the Sigma 85mm art. I own that lens and it's becoming a favorite. It's big and heavy and the Canon looks...

Sounds like a possibility but at the bottom of what? The glass at the top of the opening? I don't get "bottom of the well", forgive my ignorance.

It's set to "On". I haven't had problems with these lenses either until now.

I have never been that excited about the 7D2, it just hasn't given me as many keepers as the 5DIII. So I would pay $3-4K for a 7D<anything> that was basically a 5DIII (or 5DIV I guess, haven't used one) in a crop factor. What I mean by that is I want a 5DIII that has 1.6X the reach with no...

I've got a 5DIII firmware 1.2.1 that I took to Europe with me. 2nd day in I noticed when I use all the AF points with a 24-105 mark I it is hunting, to the point that AF is basically useless. This was in bright light at the beach in Holland, so light should not be an issue. Here's the weird...

Yeah, it's weird. I wouldn't consider myself good, my eye for composition sucks, but I think I've taken better pictures, in fact I know I have. Granted, I take way more with the 200mm f2 than I do with the 135 f2, but you would think that an f1.8 135 would get closer to the 200mm f2 in terms of...

My pleasure, I liked the little critter as well, glad it brought back some memories.

As an example of a subject that would oh-so-love post processing, check this one out: http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/fog.jpg That, if it were shot in raw and post processed, would be easier to get. But it's not, that's a jpeg straight off the 1dx, no post processing. I struggle like crazy to get a...

For starters, I shoot sports a lot. Vastly prefer full frame. I don't know what it is about the 7D II (which I have), it just doesn't do as good of a job for me. For seconders, my experience with the 7D doesn't match your comments. It's "OK". It is not at all what I had hoped for, which was...

I'm well aware that you can take something that looks like this: http://mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain/37.html and make it look like this: http://www.trbimg.com/img-58e6cac9/turbine/la-1491520291-grvsb2z6r1-snap-image/750/750x422 but that's not my thing. At all. I like my pictures to look...

One of the reasons I splurged on the 1dx ii was that Canon claimed that they worked on the quality of the jpegs it delivers. And yes, yes, they did, oh, my did they ever. Check this out: http://mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain/23.html nothing special, right? Now go look at the original size...

Yeah, you are right about last menu access. For reasons I can't explain well I don't like leaving the cropped as the last menu access, I want that to be the folder selection. The pros want each game in its own folder and if I don't leave the menu on that I forget to create a new folder...

Hi, just getting back to this. So "keeper" is in focus, ideally you can see the kids face, ideally it's a somewhat interesting shot (stick flex is cool, kid hustling is cool) but even boring shots are considered keepers. Shots of the kids back, chopped off head, etc, not so much. There is...

Screaming hawk, 7D Mark II, EF600mm f/4L II http://mcvoy.com/lm/hawk-scream.jpg Wren in brush pile, 7D Mark II, EF400mm f/4 DO IS USM +1.4x III (I love that DO but I love the mark II better) http://mcvoy.com/lm/wren.jpg Lesser goldfinch, this picture isn't interesting other than if you look...

And the 16-35 f/2.8 III is sharper. I don't see why anyone would buy this lens over the 16-35, it's less sharp, it's manual focus, it's 18 vs 16-35. Truth in advertising, I bought the 16-35 f/2.8 III and like it.

So one feature the 5D IV has that the 5D III does not, is a feature also found in the 1DX II (not sure if it was there in I), which is the ability to crop a picture, raw or jpeg, in the body. For low rent sports photography like I do, that's a killer feature. It seems like that is software so...