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Has anyone used the 35mm f/2 IS? I'm looking at a used one on CL for $350. The internet says it is "L" image quality at a prosumer price.
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mrlego posted:Has anyone used the 35mm f/2 IS? I'm looking at a used one on CL for $350.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:11
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mrlego posted:Has anyone used the 35mm f/2 IS? I'm looking at a used one on CL for $350. It's better than the L IMO, but I'm a video user so my use case is a bit different. Sharp as gently caress.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:11
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I had one paired with my 5DIII before I abandoned the Canon ship and really liked it. It was the only lens I took on a week long trip to Ireland last Spring, and at least on full-frame I found it to be a fantastic travel lens: small, good focal length, and excellent IQ. What'd you trade your gear for? Nikon?
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Feb 3, 2016 03:37
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Odette posted:What'd you trade your gear for? Nikon?
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Feb 3, 2016 03:44
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So is this Canon's first dslr with on-chip ADC? I wonder if it will bring the high-ISO performance up to more in line with Nikony. I think I've always valued the reliability and pleasant color profiles of Canon over the spec sheet dickwaving fodder, but that's still exciting news. What I'm really curious to see, though, is if the dual-pixel AF's performance is going to be comparable to the on-sensor PDAF of mirrorless cameras like Sony's. If it is, then you've basically got the core proficiency of mirrorless FF (plus the raison d'etre of the latest 4k-capable Lumix) shoved inside a full-featured DSLR, which actually sounds really cool to me. I wonder if someone might even hack together an EVF that runs off the HDMI output or something. Not that I could ever afford any of it, but... y'know.
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Feb 3, 2016 04:37
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SMERSH Mouth posted:So is this Canon's first dslr with on-chip ADC? I wonder if it will bring the high-ISO performance up to more in line with Nikony. I think I've always valued the reliability and pleasant color profiles of Canon over the spec sheet dickwaving fodder, but that's still exciting news. Canons FF sensors high ISO SNR was already comparable to the sonikon sensors. Look at the 6D vs D750 SNR graphs (almost neck and neck ) or a7r2 vs 5ds (a7r2 on top, but not by a huge amount) This will close that small gap , but the bigger difference will be the lack of read noise at low ISOs. Right now there's loads of it from the analogue signal traveling too far in the cameras circuitry. This ought to fix that. As far as dual pixel - it's great. Fast stills and video af works a treat - but still no stills servo even on this new camera. I suspect it has to chunk through too much data for canon to trust it for the kind of speed stills servo would be expected to track vs video.
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Feb 3, 2016 05:05
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I am firmly entrenched in Fujifilm mirrorless land now. I remember you selling off your gear awhile back. How is fuji-land treating you? I keep thinking about switching to mirrorless but I feel like I'm going to miss full frame.
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Feb 3, 2016 05:38
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Haggins posted:I remember you selling off your gear awhile back. How is fuji-land treating you? I keep thinking about switching to mirrorless but I feel like I'm going to miss full frame. Ultimately I'd say it really depends on how and what you like to shoot. Every system sacrifices something. I dabbled in every focal range, different subjects, etc. with my Canon stuff, and eventually settled into a rather methodical shooting style that usually saw me shooting landscapes with my TS-E 24. Otherwise my 35 f/2 IS lived on the body the rest of the time just because I liked the size, focal range, and IQ for a walk-around. Downsizing was nice. I really enjoy the methodical approach to shooting (you don't have to shoot that way) with the X-T1, while still having the digital assists and AF quick enough for the random events that I want to take it to. Sorry for word-vommiting about Fuji mirrorless in the Canon thread! Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Feb 3, 2016 06:05
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mrlego posted:Has anyone used the 35mm f/2 IS? I'm looking at a used one on CL for $350. I have one and the only thing not L about this lens is the plastic barrel and lack of weather sealing. Takes great sharp photos, even on a buddy's 5Ds R.
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Feb 3, 2016 06:40
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There's a dynamic range comparison between the 1DX and 1DXII on this page: http://www.fotosidan.se/cldoc/vi-har-provat-canon-1d-x.htm?page=-1 It's some crazy language, but I had Chrome translate it and it says the images were pushed 5 stops. It looks like there's significant improvement in the shadows. Almost looks Sony-esque. It was also done with .jpgs, so the raw files should be better I would think.
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Feb 4, 2016 05:44
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windex posted:I have one and the only thing not L about this lens is the plastic barrel and lack of weather sealing. Takes great sharp photos, even on a buddy's 5Ds R. Any opinions on the canon 35mm f2 IS vs the Sigma Art? The Sigma seems to come with some big practical tradeoffs for some nice optics (flaky AF, double the weight and no IS, not to mention $300). Base Emitter fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 05:52
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Hey guys, because I did pricing and found out that the 6d and (older) L series glass is shockingly cheap, anyone in here use the 24-105 F/4 l ior the last gen 28-70 lens, and how is the 6D vs say a 5d mark II/III, just for idle curiosity.
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Feb 4, 2016 06:41
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Base Emitter posted:Any opinions on the canon 35mm f2 IS vs the Sigma Art? The Sigma seems to come with some big practical tradeoffs for some nice optics (flaky AF, double the weight and no IS, not to mention $300). I have the Sigma 24 and 50 f/1.4 Art, but the Canon 35 f/2 IS. The Sigma is better at being fast (with the optical advantages intact) but the Canon 35mm was better for me in actual use. If the Sigma's had IS, I'd have a Sigma 35. The 24 is only usable indoors at very shallow depths of field and the 35, especially with a speedlite, is great in low light.
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Feb 4, 2016 06:52
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Ryand-Smith posted:Hey guys, because I did pricing and found out that the 6d and (older) L series glass is shockingly cheap, anyone in here use the 24-105 F/4 l ior the last gen 28-70 lens, and how is the 6D vs say a 5d mark II/III, just for idle curiosity. I've used the 24-105 IS L for about 7 years and its very useful when there is enough light. If you primarily shoot people/documentary in low light and need a general purpose zoom I'd choose the 24-70 2.8 over the 24-105. The IS did make a difference in shooting video handheld. As bodies improve their low light performance, that 1 f/stop difference between f/4 and f/2.8 maybe become negligible. Photos from the 6D are pretty fantastic, but I have not used a mk III so can't compare. 6D video is a bit underwhelming, I've read the mk III does better video. mrlego fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 07:07
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The 6D + 24-105 kit is an insanely good value. I bought the kit new (if you buy new the free printer is awesome too) for a good deal a couple years ago. I upgraded from crop (50D) and I was fully intent on selling off the 24-105 for a 24-70 2.8. That was until I tried it out. The range was great and the image quality seemed to be match my 70-200 2.8 is ii. The only thing I was worried about was the how shallow f/4 could be. I was accustomed to 2.8 on crop and thought f/4 wouldn't be shallow enough. However, shooting with it I found out that f/4 on a full frame is basically the same dof you have with 2.8 on a crop. Knowing that now, I have no need or desire for the 24-70 2.8. I prefer the range. If I need/want anything shallower/better in low light I'll just use primes for that.
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Feb 4, 2016 07:42
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Base Emitter posted:Any opinions on the canon 35mm f2 IS vs the Sigma Art? The Sigma seems to come with some big practical tradeoffs for some nice optics (flaky AF, double the weight and no IS, not to mention $300).
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Feb 4, 2016 07:58
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I've got a 6d with the 24-105L and it's just fantastic. I was worried that f4 wouldn't be good enough for low light but the 6d is really amazing at high iso. I've used it for shooting theatre productions where there's low light and fast movement and set it to auto iso with a limit of 6400, and even when it's pushed that high, the photos still look great and the noise is nowhere near as noticeable as you think it would be.
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Ryand-Smith posted:Hey guys, because I did pricing and found out that the 6d and (older) L series glass is shockingly cheap, anyone in here use the 24-105 F/4 l ior the last gen 28-70 lens, and how is the 6D vs say a 5d mark II/III, just for idle curiosity. If you can get a good deal on the 28-70, it's certainly worth checking out. Pretty much all of the photos in this album I just painstakingly created on Flickr are shot with the 28-70. Please note, I am not a spectacular photographer, but it should still give you some idea. Edit: Also, having owned a 6D prior to my 5DIII, the 5DIII is better in nearly every single way. The 6D focuses better in lovely light if you use the center point, but other than that, I just couldn't live with it. Coming from a 7D, the ergonomics and the autofocus performance were just terrible. Sneeze Party fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 15:29
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Sneeze Party posted:Edit: Also, having owned a 6D prior to my 5DIII, the 5DIII is better in nearly every single way. The 6D focuses better in lovely light if you use the center point, but other than that, I just couldn't live with it. Coming from a 7D, the ergonomics and the autofocus performance were just terrible. I own a 5D3, but even I wish it didn't start to look like poo poo around ISO 3200. You can push a 6D past that. Also your photos are pretty fine for framing. I do not shoot weddings but I shoot a lot of people at events both indoors and out. Two things stood out. One, it looked bright outside during that wedding, but fill flash technique would've helped bring forward your subject on a number of those photos in the shade, and would not have influenced the shade much. When outdoors like that in the shade I would have probably tried to shoot at ISO400 f/8 to f/16, down as low as 1/100 if required. If you have a 5D3, learning how to use a 600EX-RT or equivalent Yongnuo flash would basically extend your photography skills a lot, preferably in manual mode, preferably in manual flash mode but even with ETTL and flash exposure compensation -0.6 to -1 EV you would go far being lazy. Two, when taking photos of a man and a woman in virtually any setting as joint subjects, either insure you have a ton of DOF (stop down) to get the entirety of your foreground subjects in focus or focus on the woman's eyes. This is really just sexism but for serious, gender bias heavily influences people's perception of a shot, and people will totally disregard out of focus manface.
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Feb 4, 2016 16:34
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Learning on a Rebel Xti and later a 50D, the autofocus on the 6D never bothered me. Using the center point and recomposing is second nature to me. I get the allure for some people, but for me it has never been an issue and I rarely miss focus. One other thing that is nice about the 6D is the wifi. I didn't think it was going to be a big deal, but it's actually very useful. I like it because when I'm out shooting, if I want to put a photo on my phone/iPad for Facebook or Instagram, I can easily do so. Before I'd have to wait until I got home and on the computer.
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Feb 4, 2016 20:06
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windex posted:I own a 5D3, but even I wish it didn't start to look like poo poo around ISO 3200. You can push a 6D past that. Also, I disagree about the ISO quality. Maybe it's just that I came from a 7D, but to me, the 5D3 looks great at 3200. Past 3200... well, it's salvageable to about 6400. And to the gentleman who mentioned the wifi on the 6D -- yeah, that's the one feature that I truly miss.
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Sneeze Party posted:Thanks for the tips. I go back and forth between wanting everybody to be in focus, and wanting a kind of dreamy feel and bokeehhhh. But hey, I'm still learning. I had a flash with me, actually, but I really needed to be better versed in how exactly to pull off the fill effect that I wanted. Also yeah, I came from APS-C cameras, but the best one I own for ISO performance is the M3 (lol EOS-M) and it shits out at ISO 800. So the expansion 2 more stops to ISO3200 for roughly the same quality is nice on the 5D3, but looks about the same as ISO6400 on the 6D. My 70D starts to poo poo the bed with excess grain after ISO400 and I hear/see samples the 7D2 is about the same as the M3. The AF issues on the 6D notwithstanding, I just compensate for this by using fast lenses. When doing event shooting with no flash, I usually use aperture priority mode with Auto ISO to ISO3200. When shooting with a flash, I just use manual mode with a fixed ISO of 400 or 800 and make the flash do the work, usually with high speed sync.
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Haggins posted:One other thing that is nice about the 6D is the wifi. I didn't think it was going to be a big deal, but it's actually very useful. I like it because when I'm out shooting, if I want to put a photo on my phone/iPad for Facebook or Instagram, I can easily do so. Before I'd have to wait until I got home and on the computer. Is the wi-fi on the 6D a different implementation to the way it's done on the 70D? On the 70D, you can't connect to the camera with a phone or tablet unless you are both on the same wireless network - so if you are out and about, you need to have your phone running as a wireless hotspot (which murders the battery). I was excited about the opportunity to connect to my camera when I bought my 70D but, in practice I found it's an almost useless feature unless you only shoot at home. Also connecting the camera to wi-fi is super fiddly, so switching around between different networks is a royal pain.
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Feb 5, 2016 11:41
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Helen Highwater posted:Is the wi-fi on the 6D a different implementation to the way it's done on the 70D? On the 70D, you can't connect to the camera with a phone or tablet unless you are both on the same wireless network - so if you are out and about, you need to have your phone running as a wireless hotspot (which murders the battery). I was excited about the opportunity to connect to my camera when I bought my 70D but, in practice I found it's an almost useless feature unless you only shoot at home. Also connecting the camera to wi-fi is super fiddly, so switching around between different networks is a royal pain. The 6D has several modes - the one I use makes the 6D appear as an access point to the phone - so you just set the priority on your phone's wifi to have the 6d network at the top. Most phones have an avoid bad wifi setting - you need to turn this off because obviously you can't get to the internet through the 6D. I have used it with an iPhone, an android tablet, a Microsoft Surface Pro and my current Android phone. It works fine without a real wifi network. I use it a lot.
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Helen Highwater posted:Is the wi-fi on the 6D a different implementation to the way it's done on the 70D? On the 70D, you can't connect to the camera with a phone or tablet unless you are both on the same wireless network - so if you are out and about, you need to have your phone running as a wireless hotspot (which murders the battery). I was excited about the opportunity to connect to my camera when I bought my 70D but, in practice I found it's an almost useless feature unless you only shoot at home. Also connecting the camera to wi-fi is super fiddly, so switching around between different networks is a royal pain. It murders the battery if you leave it on constantly - just turn it on when you want to send some photos over, then shut it off afterwards. For you 5d3 toting peoples, you can get an 8gb eyefi card for like 30$. Copy a handful of jpegs over to the second card slot, turn it on, and they will blast to your phone. Easy peasy if you miss being able to grab some quick jpegs off the camera.
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I have actually used the 6d's wifi feature to shoot remote wildlife photos through my phone and it's pretty awesome. You can leave your tripod at a watering hole, go sit with your phone at the campfire and watch the action through your phone. You can then adjust the focus, aperture, shutterspeed etc. and snap away Canon is releasing a wifi module for the new 1dxii, which I assume is their workaround for the high end bodies not being able to transmit a wifi signal. It'll probably also work for the new 5div? KinkyJohn fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Feb 5, 2016 21:09
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I don't really have battery issues with wifi on either my phone or camera. The only thing that sucks battery for me is GPS on the 6D. I keep it off all the time.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:56
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Haggins posted:I don't really have battery issues with wifi on either my phone or camera. The only thing that sucks battery for me is GPS on the 6D. I keep it off all the time. To be clear, the thing that murders the battery on the phone is running a wi-fi hotspot. Generally you can see your battery percentage dropping in realtime unless your phone is plugged in to a charger.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:41
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I've used the 6D with WiFi with an iPad 3 mini and noticed no significant battery drainage. The app worked very well and it's a cool feature. The thing that put me off the wifi/app shooting was the 6D losing the wifi setup randomly and it took a long time for me to reconfigure the wifi info on both devices. Maybe I've been doing something wrong? The wifi menu is a painful slog. mrlego fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Feb 5, 2016 23:56
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mrlego posted:I've used the 6D with WiFi with an iPad 3 mini and noticed no significant battery drainage.
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mrlego posted:I've used the 6D with WiFi with an iPad 3 mini and noticed no significant battery drainage. The app worked very well and it's a cool feature. Yeah interface for it is very confusing and it can be a pain setting it for 2 devices.
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Helen Highwater posted:That's because turning wi-fi on is not the same thing as running a wi-fi hotspot. Turn on the hotspot option on your phone and watch the battery indicator. So the 6D is not suppose to be the access point, but rather the device that is connecting to the phone via the phone's hotspot? I had not used the canon remote shooting app on a phone.
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mrlego posted:So the 6D is not suppose to be the access point, but rather the device that is connecting to the phone via the phone's hotspot? I had not used the canon remote shooting app on a phone. The camera can act as the hotspot and the phone connects to it. Never tried the other way round
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I use the 6D as a remote at basketball games -- putting it up 10 feet in the air and then wirelessly controlling the focus and exposure on my phone over the course of a triple-header is bananas and I love it.
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Now that I've had it, from now on, I'm not buying any camera without wifi.
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Does anyone do the Canon Professional Services Gold or Platinum? I found I qualify and am tempted, as it would work as a mild maintenance plan with an added benefit of a flat yearly rate to test gear before I buy. Not sure how generous they are on loaning stuff to gold level but just curious about other people's experience with it.
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Anubis posted:Does anyone do the Canon Professional Services Gold or Platinum? I found I qualify and am tempted, as it would work as a mild maintenance plan with an added benefit of a flat yearly rate to test gear before I buy. Not sure how generous they are on loaning stuff to gold level but just curious about other people's experience with it. I haven't taken advantage of the loaner program however, so can't help you there.
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What would the gear discounts look like on a new body, or is it older gear? Canadian here, although I'm one body short of the gold threshold for the moment.
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Piquai Souban posted:What would the gear discounts look like on a new body, or is it older gear? Canadian here, although I'm one body short of the gold threshold for the moment. If you were going to purchase something significant (like a big telephoto) then it's well worth it to grab a used 7D or something for the second body requirement. The crazy thing is that this discount isn't documented anywhere, even when you sign up for CPS membership. The only reason I found out about it was because I saw someone make an offhand comment about "CPS pricing" and I messaged them to ask what they meant.
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