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harperdc posted:Just be sure you buy stuff that's fast. Class 10 is the fastest you can get SD cards (...right?) so look for the circular logo on the front/label of the card. A cheap 64 gig card is nice until you realize it's class 4 and won't handle video or a large buffer of photos terribly well. I think UHS is faster if the camera supports it.
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tliil posted:You're putting a lot of data into a very physically small space, it's really amazing that you don't hear a lot of stories of SD cards failing. In the 3 years I've been shooting (video mostly) on SD cards I've had exactly one card failure, and that was a physical failure on a cheapo card due to the write lock tab breaking off. OTOH, SD cards are so cheap that I just swap them for fresh ones every year. You can get 32gb SanDisk 95mb/s cards for like $60 nowadays.
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harperdc posted:Just be sure you buy stuff that's fast. Class 10 is the fastest you can get SD cards (...right?) so look for the circular logo on the front/label of the card. A cheap 64 gig card is nice until you realize it's class 4 and won't handle video or a large buffer of photos terribly well. And buy your cards from reputable sources. No ebay, no craigslist. Buy it brand new, from a well-reviewed retailer, lest you get stuck with some hacked Chinese poo poo.
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pseudonordic posted:I think UHS is faster if the camera supports it. I think Class 10 and UHS-1 are just some industry performance standards, but there's an enormous amount of variation within them. There's a significant difference between a "class 10" card that writes at 30MB/s and a "class 10" card that writes at 90MB/s. Similarly within "UHS-1" cards. I was having problems with my 6D stumbling during bursts with the lovely Transcend Class 10 cards I was using before. There was a tremendous improvement switching to a Sandisk Extreme Pro (90 read, 95MB/s write) card for timelapse stuff. I'm able to shoot at 3fps in raw indefinitely whereas the Transcend would start dropping frames every 10-15 images.
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Inf posted:I think Class 10 and UHS-1 are just some industry performance standards, but there's an enormous amount of variation within them. There's a significant difference between a "class 10" card that writes at 30MB/s and a "class 10" card that writes at 90MB/s. Similarly within "UHS-1" cards. I bought some Sony 32GB class 10 UHS-1 (40MB/sec) cards recently .. man I hope they aren't junk. I got them for $14 on sale .. so, no huge loss if they suck. I didn't even know the Sandisk Extreme Pro existed.
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I've had my SD card go corrupt on my Raspberry Pi several times.. apparently due to the way SD cards write their data if they lose power midway through a write there's an elevated risk of the whole filesystem going bad. Before I learned this I had a habit of yanking the power on my RPI to reboot it. 
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OK now as far as I know there's no way of doing this but I thought I'd ask: Say I shoot with a picture style on my 600D. Is there any way of opening the RAW file with the Picture Style Settings in Photoshop's Camera Raw? Or anyway of converting Canon Picture Styles to something Photoshop can work with?
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I believe Lightroom applies the picture style to the tone controls.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:OK now as far as I know there's no way of doing this but I thought I'd ask: Both Lightroom and ACR (Photoshop's Camera Raw) will do it under the "Camera Calibration" tab
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1st AD posted:I believe Lightroom applies the picture style to the tone controls. OK, I've used Lightroom in the past but never really needed it that much, I might give it another look. Hotwax Residue posted:ACR (Photoshop's Camera Raw) will do it under the "Camera Calibration" tab I have a lot of custom settings installed but I'd like to be able to use the exact ones I shot with on the camera but I can't figure out how to install the Picture Profiles to ACR
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I have a lot of custom settings installed but I'd like to be able to use the exact ones I shot with on the camera but I can't figure out how to install the Picture Profiles to ACR I don't think that's possible. You would have to use Canon's own raw converter to apply the same picture styles I think.
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70D is officially announced. wifi, 7fps, flippy touch screen, 20mp. 19 pt AF, all cross-type, fancy new live-view AF, AMFA. Apparently did not get: Definitely seems like an upgrade from the underwhelming aps-c advances of the past 2-3 years, and I'm actually surprised at how cheap it is (I was guessing $1400 to start). Of course we'll have to wait to see how the sensor actually performs. This also leaves plenty of room for a 7DmkII or 8D or whatever the high-end crop camera will be called. e: just glanced at the dpreview preview and it says it got AMFA- cool! They were also pretty positive on the live view AF from my quick readthrough BetterLekNextTime fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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BetterLekNextTime posted:70D is officially announced. Looks pretty sweet to me. I sincerely hope they continue to bring the variable angle touch screen LCDs to more bodies, I really do love it on my T4i. Speaking of which, I really am wishing my T4i was a 70D. This seems to be a 6D/7D mix with a crop sensor, feature wise. Minus the GPS which is a bummer but I hear it also eats the battery so eh. Definitely looking forward to fondling one at a store soon
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BetterLekNextTime posted:70D is officially announced. I'm pretty sure it's AFMA, for autofocus microadjustment. Not AMFA, which is the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association. Just guessing.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Based on what it's lacking and the price point, they definitely seem to be making room for a new prosumer crop-body like a 7D II. I wonder if we'll see it before the year is over. Sounds like an ideal second 'pro' body for a longer lens if you're dual-wielding for weddings and similar... The 70-200 matched up with my old 50d has a nice reach.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Based on what it's lacking and the price point, they definitely seem to be making room for a new prosumer crop-body like a 7D II. I wonder if we'll see it before the year is over. I hope we do - it will drive the prices of the 7D even lower! If I can pick up a second-hand 7D for $600, life would sure be grand!
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bobfather posted:I hope we do - it will drive the prices of the 7D even lower! If I can pick up a second-hand 7D for $600, life would sure be grand! And you only have to wait until a few days ago! Just gotta find the deals: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-EOS-7...=item5657813681
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Definitely seems like an upgrade from the underwhelming aps-c advances of the past 2-3 years, and I'm actually surprised at how cheap it is (I was guessing $1400 to start). Of course we'll have to wait to see how the sensor actually performs. It will be interesting to see how the sensor performs. Apparently it's a 40mp sensor with almost every pixel masked one way or the other for their new phase-detect AF system. I find it a little bit odd that their APSC technology strategy seems to revolve so strongly around video.
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mclifford82 posted:And you only have to wait until a few days ago! Just gotta find the deals: I saw that a couple days ago, but it was live for no more than a couple hours and it never got posted to any of the deal sites I frequent. I'm talking about a second-hand, non-refurbished body via Craigslist or something. I hate white-box refurbs because they kill the resale value down the line.
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Spime Wrangler posted:It will be interesting to see how the sensor performs. Apparently it's a 40mp sensor with almost every pixel masked one way or the other for their new phase-detect AF system. I find it a little bit odd that their APSC technology strategy seems to revolve so strongly around video. Not at all, it's one of the major ways they can differentiate themselves from Nikon. Since the 5DmkII video revolution there are a lot of shooters locked into the Canon system, it makes total sense to keep them happy.
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All camera reviews should be this amazing Edit: 70D looks like the loving bomb for video if the new AF in Live works as promised. I wonder if my Tamron lenses will be compatible. 
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Boneitis posted:Are all videos from Japan this insane? NMA isn't from japan, what the hell man.
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Chitin posted:Not at all, it's one of the major ways they can differentiate themselves from Nikon. Since the 5DmkII video revolution there are a lot of shooters locked into the Canon system, it makes total sense to keep them happy. That's clearly what they're doing in terms of differentiation, I guess I was just a little surprised that they've put four years of R&D into what looks like video autofocus technologies for their consumer level systems (isn't manual focus basically a must for anything serious? or is that just because it's always sucked in the past? I dont know video.). Seems like they're trying to bring back the camcorder for home movies rather than keep existing pro/semipro DSLR videographers happy. However, since they've got a 40mp APSC sensor behind this system and a rumored high resolution FF system in the works, I bet this is actually just one application of a new generation of small-pixel-based sensor technologies that'll roll out across the board soon. Canon must have put a lot of effort into small-pixel performance, and probably have some novel analog or digital processing wizardry to go with it. What will a RAW look like from this system? How far does averaging the values of two half-size pixels go towards reducing random noise? I guess it could be cool. Or just a bunch of crap to make sure they really run their last fluke success into the ground.
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bobfather posted:I saw that a couple days ago, but it was live for no more than a couple hours and it never got posted to any of the deal sites I frequent. Good thing I have a retail box 60D purchased new. I'll be lucky to get $450 for it by the time I can afford a 5dIII though  just kidding, I only paid like $600 for it 2 years ago 
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I don't know why chasing video autofocus is such a big priority for manufacturers. Every time I've used it on any system it's awful and does a bad job of actually tracking moving things. On a small sensor camcorder you can kind of deal with it since the depth of field is so deep, but on even m4/3 it looks really clunky. People using a DSLR as a video camera are going to want lenses with a smooth focus ring with a long throw. And they're probably not going to want to drop the kind of money Canon wants on those cine-primes 
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1st AD posted:People using a DSLR as a video camera are going to want lenses with a smooth focus ring with a long throw. Parents are using DSLRs as video cameras like crazy now. It's understandable that Canon would want to focus on AF for what are ultimately consumer bodies now; not entry-level, but absolutely mainstream.
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1st AD posted:I don't know why chasing video autofocus is such a big priority for manufacturers. Every time I've used it on any system it's awful and does a bad job of actually tracking moving things. On a small sensor camcorder you can kind of deal with it since the depth of field is so deep, but on even m4/3 it looks really clunky. It's almost like they're trying to improve the bits of the camera that suck!
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1st AD posted:I don't know why chasing video autofocus is such a big priority for manufacturers. Every time I've used it on any system it's awful and does a bad job of actually tracking moving things. On a small sensor camcorder you can kind of deal with it since the depth of field is so deep, but on even m4/3 it looks really clunky. If you're doing something professional sure but people buying cameras just to record photos/video for family are probably very happy with a super simple "press face to focus" and getting some mediocre (instead of brutally awful) tracking. Edit: think of it a "P for professional" mode for video
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Spime Wrangler posted:It will be interesting to see how the sensor performs. Apparently it's a 40mp sensor with almost every pixel masked one way or the other for their new phase-detect AF system. I find it a little bit odd that their APSC technology strategy seems to revolve so strongly around video.
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I've been holding off on a new camera knowing this was coming out. Hooray! What are the chances that a 60d battery grip will work on it? Did the 50d grip work on the 60d?
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Erwin posted:I've been holding off on a new camera knowing this was coming out. Hooray! What are the chances that a 60d battery grip will work on it? Did the 50d grip work on the 60d? Physically it is a different size so I'd say none for the grip. It uses the same batteries though so at least you can reuse those from you 60D.
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mclifford82 posted:And you only have to wait until a few days ago! Just gotta find the deals: Just to clear this one up since I've seen it posted roughly three times now, it was a pricing error that was not honored, as it was supposed to be priced at $899.98. I should know since I ordered one and this was the email I received the next day: quote:Dear Valued Customer,
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MrBlandAverage posted:Is there an SLR out there aside from the 60D and 70D that has a top LCD that isn't a rectangle? Have a nice comparison tool: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Camera-Top-Comparison.aspx
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