GEAR GRINDING - or, what bug's you about your equipment
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Aglet said:
It doesn't look unpleasant to me .... I really don't get this 'bokeh' stuff. I agree in the picture of the berry the out of focus bits detract ... but it's ok
I think it's another internet photography meme ... bokeh, sharpness, megapixels ...
Still, you've got to be happy with your own photos. But I'd suggest no one would care too much about your fuzzy bits ;-)
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J.R. said:
Yes it does (in special circumstances only: shallow DOF with objects just OOF). Consider the location of the IS group inside your lens and imagine what happens when you tilt the camera body by a single degree or less during the exposure. Think about location of the sensor, location of the IS group, location of the photographed object (which remains focussed) and the location of the object(s) slightly out of focus. A sketch might help
Corollary: If you happen to shake your lens around the nodal point, no "multi-outline-bokeh" will occur
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Another thing that grinds my gears is when you shoot video without an external microphone... if you forget to turn image stabilization off, you get a wonderful soundtrack of the IS motors... Now that's grinding gears!
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SwissBear said:
These 70-200 zooms have produced plenty of similar effects while mounted on a tripod so IS is not the cause, even if it can contribute a similar effect when it's quite active.
There are also plenty of non-IS lenses also capable of similarly busy, outlined bokeh. In fact it's become a bit of a fad to create as much using certain old Helios lenses. The 44M in a 50-some mm focal length come to mind.
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Trevor said:
Well, the photo of those berries (crabapples, actually) is only a test shot of sorts, altho I've got similar shots which have much greater visual appeal. What it does is show that if you are counting on this lens to provide a smoothly burred out of focus area it may not always be able to provide it.
Sometimes we want or need to have the busy, finely structured portion of a composition deliberately blurred by the lens in such a way that it becomes part of the overall composition, and as such, you may want more control over how it will look. This is just one of the reasons for using fast, large aperture lenses.
I wish I had my old 200mm prime with me at the same time for the same shot.
I can describe how it would have rendered the same scene. Using the same shallow focus zone, the prime would have been slightly softer. Foreground and background elements, as you move farther away from the focal plane, would progressively and smoothly get more blurred until they disappeared into each other and the backlight, adding only a hint of tone or shading.
That would have left the cluster of apples almost floating in space in appearance. Which was the effect I was hoping the EF 70-200 2.8 L IS 2 would have provided. The lens renders the focus area with tremendous accuity, but I am not satisfied with the out of focus part of the image.
Unfortunately, i need to be satisfied with the whole image to find it useful. This is actually something that older lenses are often better at; what they lack in sharpness is offset by often smoother bokeh.
Actually, some cheaper lenses will also do this in a more balanced way too. There are a lot of variables.
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The 5D3's flash sync limitation of 1/200th bugs me a lot. It's irrelevant when I'm shooting with my Yongnuo HSS flash, but when I'm using my studio strobes, 1/200th just isn't fast enough - and it limits the DOF I can achieve. I realise I could add ND filters to my lenses, but that only does so much and isn't always practical. I could post several images with the DOF I want, but overexposed, but you can imagine them can't you?
And I really dislike the fact that when I remove and reinsert the CF card in my 5D3, it switches over to the SD card and I have to manually select CF storage again to get it saving to the correct card. I want it to have a persistent setting that always chooses the CF card if it sees that it is inserted and has free space. Surely it can't be that difficult to program. It doesn't stop me from taking a photo, but if I'm in a hurry and need to photograph long bursts of action with high FPS, having the camera save to the SD card produces slower frame rates.
And I really dislike the fact that when I remove and reinsert the CF card in my 5D3, it switches over to the SD card and I have to manually select CF storage again to get it saving to the correct card. I want it to have a persistent setting that always chooses the CF card if it sees that it is inserted and has free space. Surely it can't be that difficult to program. It doesn't stop me from taking a photo, but if I'm in a hurry and need to photograph long bursts of action with high FPS, having the camera save to the SD card produces slower frame rates.
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The lady sitting beside me in the plane..... As we are passing over Winnipeg, at night, at 35000 feet, the pilot announces "and if you look out of the windows on the right side of the plane you can see the lights of Winnipeg". She whips out a DSLR and starts taking flash pictures of Winnipeg.
Why isn't my flash bright enough to light up a city from 35,000 feet? Why won't my camera magicaly cancel out the reflection of the flash off of the window? Does this mean I have to upgrade to FF and the new magic super sensor?
Why isn't my flash bright enough to light up a city from 35,000 feet? Why won't my camera magicaly cancel out the reflection of the flash off of the window? Does this mean I have to upgrade to FF and the new magic super sensor?
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Don Haines said:
reminds me of the days when I used to give / attend lectures with a projector onto a White screen. People would try to take pictures of the image on the screen with flash and were later dumfounded to find they had a picture of a White screen ! ;DBiggest grip I have with gear is the dreadful build quality of an otherwise great lens like the 50 mm 1.4. The manual focus on it really winds me up when I have to use it. :'(
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