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Shmoogy posted:The "busy" message means that the buffer is still clearing itself, so technically it's both a camera performance issue, and SD card write speed issue. I'm not familiar with the T2i, but there is a number somewhere when you look in the viewfinder that will tell you how many pictures the buffer can store (Probably something like 3-20 depending on RAW/JPEG, I honestly don't know what the T2i can store) Manual for my T1i says it can do 170 jpegs in burst mode, which is effectively unlimited. When shooting raw it caps out at 9. The T2i is probably similar.. maybe a little bit smaller, because it has more pixels to write out.
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| # ¿ Sep 2, 2010 17:56 |
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bleyblue posted:I recently put my T2i in a bag, while it was still 'on', and left it under the sun. End result was some weird traces on the LCD screen that eventually disappeared, and a very hot camera that didn't work anymore Had a similar thing happen to a T1i this summer. Was out in the morning driving around, snapping pictures. Put camera on the back seat when I was done, and drove home. Got back to the house.. camera wouldn't turn on. All I could think that happened is it was sitting in the sun when it was on the back seat. It wasn't back there for more than 45 minutes. No AC, I had the windows open. Swapping batteries didn't work, LCD didn't work.. it was 100% dead. I think the lower end models just don't have the environmental protection the beefier cameras do. So I either put it back into the bag every time now, or carry around a towel that I drape over the camera if I set it down for any length of time.
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| # ¿ Sep 3, 2010 13:30 |
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I have sent it back to Canon Japan for repairs, I just hope it's covered by the warranty. The whole episode really freaked me out.
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Maverique posted:Yeah, what I mean is, more pixels, more margin to uh... zoom it out? Because you have more pixels. Again, I'm not sure what I'm saying makes any sense. Don't think it would work.. the noise comes from the sensor. So instead of a single red pixel, you're gonna have four. You'll have to shrink it back down to half resolution to get rid of it.
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| # ¿ Sep 4, 2010 02:22 |
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Casu Marzu posted:
I used my mother's when my T1i croaked on vacation a couple months back. I was pretty pleased with it, other than the mode dial. It was ridiculously loose.. a stray bump with a finger would turn it. I had to train myself to make sure it was on the right setting every time I went to take a picture.
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| # ¿ Sep 8, 2010 16:01 |
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Just ordered the XSi with 18-55 IS from Canon Loyalty. This should be fun.
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Went to a motor race with some friends, we coined the term "the indy pan" to describe a situation where we wanted to snap a shot of some bikini-clad hottie without being obvious. So we'd point vaguely towards the race action, focus on the real target, take the picture, and then sweep the camera as something zoomed past. Not sure it really matters, there are so many cameras at a race that no one really pays attention to them, but the term has stuck.
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| # ¿ Sep 9, 2010 15:35 |
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ease posted:Ill be using this term/technique from now on. Congratulations. The results speak for themselves. http://sfdenverlv.smugmug.com/Other...992131094_QRnRh (not my photo, sadly) Shame about the guy with the inner tube around his waste infringing on the shot.
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| # ¿ Sep 11, 2010 00:34 |
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ease posted:DP review says it has a aluminum and polycarbonate body. Does that mean its got an aluminum frame and plastic body panels? Yeah, same as the T2i. It doesn't feel cheaply built, though I suppose people who've used more expensive cameras would disagree.
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2010 01:09 |
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Worst case, you can get UFRaw and edit your raws that way. It's not the greatest program in the world but it's functional. It'll let you write the mount as jpeg/png/tiff/whatever which photoshop can load just fine.
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| # ¿ Sep 17, 2010 03:58 |
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I shot jpeg for a weekend when it turned out I was 200 miles away from home and had somehow left all my SD cards behind except the one that was in the camera.. a 4GB dealie. I tried to pick up a spare, but Best Buy only sells class 10 SDHC these days and they put ridiculous prices on it. So I soldiered on, everything turned out okay.
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2010 22:51 |
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The only downside with KEH is you need a manual just to navigate the site. Their search system is technically functional, but that's about all that be said positively about it.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2010 17:55 |
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That is such a hilariously terrible airbrush of bruce willis.. he didn't even look that young in the first Die Hard.
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| # ¿ Sep 30, 2010 23:05 |
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Found this on Reddit. It's a rundown on how Canon makes lenses. Pretty cool. I'll never question why lenses are so expensive ever again.
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| # ¿ Oct 1, 2010 15:00 |
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Is it within the realm of possibility for a camera to have an alignment issue with the viewfinder? Like the mirror is crooked or something? I've been noticing that no matter how straight the image appears in the eyepiece on my T1i, when I get it into my image editor it's a degree or two off straight, and it's always in the same direction. I've been using the leftmost and rightmost focus points on the viewfinder to align the horizon, but even when I'm super cautious the picture comes out crooked. Maybe my head is slightly tilted? Bad grip? The error is easy enough to fix in post but it would be nice to get it right when I open the shutter. Is there some test I can do at home to figure this out? Like get the camera perfectly level and take a picture of a grid? Isolate whether it's me or the gear?
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2010 19:59 |
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TheLastManStanding posted:First, how far off is it? If it is less than 1* then I wouldn't worry. If it is more than 2* then panic. It's two to three pixels of the "straighten" slider in Picasa, and always in the counter-clockwise direction. I'd say in the 2 degree range, but that's just eyeballing it. I guess it could be the button.. if my grip is bad when I push down on the release it rotates the camera slightly clockwise, meaning I'd need a counter-clockwise adjustment in post. I suppose I'll come up with some kind of test to isolate me as the cause.
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| # ¿ Oct 20, 2010 02:06 |
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Aeka 2.0 posted:^^ i noticed with a rebel you can show a healthy "full" and you think you are good to go, then you find out mere minutes later that your battery is in fact on the dead side of things. I think that's just a display issue. They decided it was more valuable to state whether the battery is "good" or "bad", so it shows "full" until around 75%, and then starts flashing at you indicating it's time to swap the battery. The remaining two indicators are just to let you know you're even closer to running out of power.
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| # ¿ Nov 5, 2010 21:24 |
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Gary2863 posted:From online research, I'm pretty sure they are compatible with digital Rebel cameras, as they are EF lenses, but is there anything else I should know about old lenses? quote:Also, do you think I should get the T1i or some other camera in a similar price range? Do you guys have anything good or bad to say about the T1i for someone about to buy it? I plan on using it for closeup photos of bugs and small stuff like that, and also for photos taken under low light conditions. I bought a T1i as my first DSLR last spring, and have zero complaints with it. If it suits your budget and you don't have a good reason to get something more expensive.. get the T1i. (but take a look at the T2i, it's a newer option, which means it has improved bells and whistles)
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| # ¿ Nov 7, 2010 04:23 |
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Hypnolobster posted:Ok, this is actually pretty intriguing. I was planning on getting a new body only, or a used body, so it's more around the 700-750 range, but now my decision just got ridiculously difficult. I'd say get a refurb T2i through the loyalty program and use the bed of money you just saved to buy all that other gear you probably want. Googling around, it sounds like people have recently gotten both the 7D and the T2i through the loyalty program, so ring Canon up and see what they say.
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| # ¿ Nov 8, 2010 19:13 |
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Hypnolobster posted:I just called the canon loyalty number, and since it's a new camera, they're not offering it on the T2i (or maybe they were offering it, but they're not right now). Makes me pretty curious how the loyalty program works, because they certainly have refurb T2i's available: http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wc..._10051_-1_29252 Guess it's just a money thing? The T2i is new enough that they don't want to be giving huge discounts on it? It's not a huge deal, but it's a mystery, and I can't not be curious.
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| # ¿ Nov 8, 2010 19:37 |
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Panasonic has been running commercials along those lines, stating that their gear is so great every single picture is gonna be a work of art. Makes me want to choke something.
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| # ¿ Nov 19, 2010 15:20 |
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Yeah, that does happen to me occasionally, but I don't know if it happens enough to pay for the upgrade. A piece of tape will prevent most incidents anyway.
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| # ¿ Dec 3, 2010 05:12 |
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Jiblet posted:With an 8-16? I suppose it could work.. with a 1000 megapixel sensor. Fix it with a crop!
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| # ¿ Dec 15, 2010 14:52 |
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I used my T1i in a "light rain" a ways back and it survived just fine. I'd tuck the body into my coat when not in use, pull it out when I saw a shot I wanted, and tuck it away when done. It got plenty of raindrops on it but I used a towel to soak the water up before anything could seep into the cracks. As with most things the poison is the dosage. Maybe a little bit of luck is involved but for the most part if you limit the exposure the camera will be fine. If you can't do that, get the camera insured. :)
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| # ¿ Dec 17, 2010 19:22 |
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ease posted:I love my tamron but the AF sounds like it's driven by jet engines. Isn't that a reason to love it more? "Oh, your L lens is powered by mere electric motors? Heh.  "
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| # ¿ Dec 26, 2010 16:16 |
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FasterThanLight posted:Focus and recompose technique literally stopped working when multiple AF point cameras were invented. Except for cameras where the center point is more sensitive than the others. Or you have to disable automatic point selection because the camera keeps choosing to focus on a twig or wire. 
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| # ¿ Dec 31, 2010 19:33 |
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HungryMedusa posted:a Tamron 70-300 VC which has faster autofocus and full time manual, which I missed a lot with the 55-250 when it missed focus. Is the faster focus a gut feeling or a measured quantity? Because I was at a bike race over the summer where I was able to use both the Canon 55-250 and the Tamron 70-300, and wasn't able to distinguish any difference between the two in focusing.. the bikes were too drat fast for either lens to deal with, pre-focusing was the only thing that worked. The only lens among my group of friends that could keep up was the 70-200 2.8L.. which is another class of gear entirely.
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2011 04:21 |
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keyframe posted:I cant seem to find my rebel t2i's manual, can someone tell me how to set the self timer countdown to something other than 2 seconds? Just for the record, Canon puts up pdf manuals for all their cameras online. A google search usually finds them. Which is good, because I lost my manual within about a week of buying my camera.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2011 04:50 |
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I've used a free hand to blot out the sun for stuff like that. Pick the center AF point, use hand to block out light, compose and focus, remove hand.. take picture.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2011 19:34 |
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rorty posted:I am literally about to leave the house to buy a 550D. Am I going to regret this? Yes, buying a great camera will always end in tears. It's science.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2011 16:41 |
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rorty posted:Great camera but it's going to depreciate within months of me buying it. Eh, a common theme on this subforum is that camera deprecation doesn't really exist. Yeah, the money value for resale will drop over time, but a great camera will always be a great camera. All the value comes from the skills of the person opening the shutter.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2011 19:48 |
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moron posted:Haha it's literally the same as the 60D except for the ever-so-slightly slower burst speed. It's poo poo.  I'm not happy unless my camera shoots like a minigun.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2011 18:59 |
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poopinmymouth posted:Why would anything that type of person say get to you? Because they opened their mouth.
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2011 15:41 |
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My LCD spends about 50% of its life fogged up by my breathing. The drat thing needs some kind of fan blowing on it to prevent this. It's the sort of thing that seems like it's begging for a redesign of the SLR camera, though I have no real idea how it could be done.. putting it on the top is one option, but that causes problems too, especially if you want to use the hotshoe. How about a bluetooth LCD, that you strap on your wrist and isn't even attached to the camera? That would be suitably geeky I think.
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2011 22:08 |
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meatpimp posted:Probably a long-building thing. I bought it from eBay about 8 months ago. I started getting images like the one below, seemingly at random (3 shots good, 3-6 shots like this). As time went on, autofocus with all lenses started to go to poo poo and there was a grinding sound from inside the body. Finally, yesterday there was a big electric flash followed by a burning smell and a dead body, hopefully it didn't take the lens out that was attached to it. We'll see once I get the replacement body. Sell that poo poo to a ghost hunter. They'll be all over it.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2011 20:29 |
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keyframe posted:Kit lens is ok. It is not a great lens by any means but it is a good beginners lens. The 18-35 focal length makes it pretty flexible too. Is a great way to get your feet wet and decide what sort of pictures you want to be taking.. which leads straight into spending every penny you earn on new lenses.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2011 22:32 |
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ThisQuietReverie posted:You're moving up from a G9, right? Congrats! Musicians call it GAS = gear acquisition syndrome.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2011 00:07 |
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Life's too short to not buy all the stuff you want.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2011 03:01 |
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Greybone posted:What if what you want is big stuff like a house that requires savings! Accept that you're going to live in debt for the rest of your life. It's the American way! But at least you'll have a 500mm lens to show for it. Convince the repo men it's a bazooka and they'll leave you alone.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2011 15:13 |
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Every time that image gets posted, I have to go to amazon and read the reviews again. The customer submitted shots are hilarious, every single time.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2011 16:23 |
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FlashGordonRamsay posted:I like that after viewing that lens, 21% of people buy a nifty fifty. "Yeah, 500mm seems pretty impressive, but I think for what I'm doing, 50mm is good enough. I can crop out the dead space."
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Ouhei posted:Slap the 1000mm extender on it with a 2x tele-converter, then mount to crop body. Proceed to take pictures of new planets. It actually comes with its own 2x converter in the box. The lens is drat near a camera all by itself.. it has its own battery and its own lcd screen. I'm not sure why they didn't slap a sensor on the back of it and sell it as a spy satellite.
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