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INTJ Mastermind posted:Buy it used on CL and
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May 22, 2013 16:21
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HookShot posted:Yup, this. 18 is the bare minimum I would consider for max wideness in Europe. DigitalRev recently did a nice illustration of choosing poorly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfFwCA5tCFY&t=450s
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May 22, 2013 17:16
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Printer chat: we bought a pixma printer a few months ago to replace a dying i6000d. I hated the old printer with a passion, but the new one is pretty darn badass. It just works where the old one constantly required babysitting.
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May 25, 2013 01:53
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Strolling tourist areas with my DSLR around my neck gets me lots of those "hey can you take our picture" requests. I guess, even though I have one of the shittiest cameras in Canon's lineup, that carrying around a big camera means I'm trustworthy and/or good at taking pictures? At any rate, I have a lot more problems with the random P&S deals that people hand over than anything else. It seems like every single camera has a completely different interface method and it takes me a moment to get comfortable enough to take a shot. I guess that's the nice thing about DSLR's.. even though each brand has its own take on the theme, they're all similar enough that you can figure out where the important stuff is in just a few seconds.
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Jun 11, 2013 17:48
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INTJ Mastermind posted:I always look for another DSLR (is that D.S.L.R. or "dizzler"?) user to take my picture. Seem to get slightly better results that way. You mean you don't lug a remote trigger and tripod with you everywhere you go? Poser. 
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Jun 11, 2013 20:02
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BetterLekNextTime posted:The T1i allows back-button focus, right? Yep! All the options are described in the appendices in the manual.
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Jun 14, 2013 19:31
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Mightaswell posted:haha it's so true. Even Japanese software companies have difficulty producing functional software. This is true for every company regardless of nationality. Bad code isn't dependent on skin color. I could probably count the number of organizations that consistently produce quality software on one hand. And even the ones I could name have had crippling bugs on a few occasions.
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Jun 19, 2013 17:13
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Goddamn dude, you should rewind a little bit and read what you're typing.
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Jun 19, 2013 18:51
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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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Jul 1, 2013 16:02
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feigning interest posted:How much to just paint the red rings on the L lenses? pm me tia Just get a red rubber band, then you can swap it onto a new lens instead of wasting valuable money on all that paint.
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Jul 3, 2013 03:55
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rcman50166 posted:Does anyone here actually purchase broken lenses? If so, what the hell do you do with them and why do you pay so much? I'd guess they part them out and try to assemble a complete lens from a bunch of broken ones.
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Jul 14, 2013 23:57
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They're held together with screws and retaining rings just like any other lens. I have no illusions that the resulting product would be a good one, but there's a non-zero chance there's someone out there with enough knowhow to get something working.
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Jul 15, 2013 00:35
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mAlfunkti0n posted:OF COURSE RIGHT AFTER I BUY MY CAMERA THEY DO THIS CANON I SWEAR I HATE YOU. It's the law of internet deals, before anything can go on sale a goon has to buy it at full price.
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Jul 17, 2013 16:04
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Wario In Real Life posted:Get the 55-250 I just linked to. It's basically half price for a very capable telephoto. That you'll outgrow in about a year if you shoot any kind of action.
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Jul 25, 2013 14:16
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I really liked the push-pull once I got used to it. If you know you won't be adjusting the focal length you can crank down on the tension ring and the lens stays put. If you're changing distances constantly, you can freewheel it. If you want just a little tension, you can do that too!
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Jul 29, 2013 15:54
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joelcamefalling posted:I wish someone had been this harsh with me. Then I probably wouldn't have spent $1300 on a 150-500 that has had a total usage of...three weeks in Africa, then to the zoo one time. Just sell it then, you'll probably get most of that back.
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Jul 30, 2013 02:57
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Or they hired a shipping manager who used to work at a computer manufacturer. Doesn't matter which one, they all do the same dumb poo poo with packaging.
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Aug 3, 2013 16:43
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Canon is pretty much that Kenny Rodgers song, except none of us figured out when to fold.
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Aug 7, 2013 03:58
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sildargod posted:There is an ad floating around the various classifieds here for a Canon Xs with kit lens and bag for $500. How do I respond? Kit lens? You gotta buy it, so you can post in the kit lens thread. $500 is cheap for that kind of privilege.
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Aug 22, 2013 16:15
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Yeehaw, I'm gonna go film me a movie at 250mm.
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Aug 22, 2013 18:03
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Hardware companies requiring registration for their software is just dumb in general. Who the gently caress is going to steal Canon software? People with counterfeit Canon gear?
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Aug 31, 2013 19:22
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Kaninrail posted:Ugh. I was strongly considering the 70-300 as a tax return purchase next spring. I was planning on getting one for Christmas. Why the hell would the price increase as a product ages? I've never seen that happen anywhere else.
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mdtyson posted:Awesome thanks y'all. Randomly got paranoid that I was loving up the motors on my lenses. So what's the point of having an AF / MF slider on the lens? It means the camera won't try to refocus when you half-press the shutter. It also disengages the focus mechanism, so you don't have to fight the resistance.
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Sep 10, 2013 17:05
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MrBlandAverage posted:Surely it isn't as if this is a manufacturer-specific thread...?!? Just ignore him if it bugs you, he treats the entire forum like it's some kind of Pentax holy ground.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:16
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Wouldn't any experienced photographer know anyways? The vanilla paint and red ring really only call out to the initiates.
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The things they're saying aren't totally wrong, actual counterfeits that get passed off as Canon products are going to be extremely dubious by nature. These kinds of counterfeits cut corners to push manufacturing cost as low as possible, to the point that safety features any "legit" battery contains will be missing. However, the argument breaks down when you start to look at third party batteries. You know, the ones we all actually use.. not made by Canon, not sold as if they were made by Canon, just a good quality battery made by some other company that doesn't include Canon's dumb markup. Canon considers these counterfeits as well, even if they're not.
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I think the lens is the biggest factor in panning cars. I've had good results from a T1i with a great lens, and lovely results on a T1i with a poo poo lens. That's not to say that higher FPS or better focusing isn't a good thing to seek, but like most things with photography you first need good glass.
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emotive posted:I've been borrowing a 70-200 f4 when I go to the track but it's the non-IS version so that's pretty tough to pan with at 200mm. I'll be buying the F4 IS before I step up to a new body, I'm just trying to weigh my options. I don't know what track events you go to, but if they're FIA sanctioned type events, you're going to outgrow 200mm really quickly because most spots you get to shoot from are going to have a ton of runoff areas in between you and the cars. In the long run I think you'll find that 400mm is the gold standard. You should still buy a 70-200 though because it's a super lens. 
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I went to a MotoGP race with a guy that brought a 70-200 and 2x extender.. he tried to use it for about 30 minutes and then put it away for the whole weekend. It made everything too slow to get any kind of results. To date my favorite lens as a race photographing hobbyist has been the 300mm F4. It was just a joy to use, everything that came out of it seemed perfect. A longer prime with a bigger aperture would probably be even more fun but there are limits to what I can afford. The 100-400 push pull came in a close second, for the same reasons anyone uses a zoom lens over a prime.
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Oct 7, 2013 23:28
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Even a professional can gently caress it up, I've had a friend get a free body upgrade because the shop he gave his camera to hosed it up to the point the repair bill was bigger than the worth of the camera. So yeah, be careful.
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Bob Mundon posted:That sounds like a plus to me. Not if you gently caress up your own sensor. If someone else does, yep, great.
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Oct 20, 2013 19:44
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The specs are probably legit because the word "innovative" made it in there. Corporations love that word almost as much as they do money.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:EF-S 10-22mm for $442 Yep, bought. Price is pretty ridiculous. (don't ask why I didn't have one already, because the story is stupid)
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feigning interest posted:Just in case anyone glossed over this: Canon and Nikon are actively making your third party batteries nonfunctional in some of their bodies. My wallet is furiously shaking its fist Maybe. There's some evidence that it's a communication error with circuity in some 3rd party batteries that aren't fully compliant with the protocol. When the battery maker fixed the chip in their battery, the problems went away. It's reasonable to fault Canon for not issuing a new firmware to fix compatibility with the wayward batteries but at the rate they release firmware it doesn't surprise me too much.
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SanDisk has the best warranty by far, so buy their stuff.
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The one downside to keep in mind on that lens is you can't put filters on the front.
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Alternative power is useful if you're going to be away from the grid for any period. In my case a dc-to-ac converter that plugs into a cigarette lighter has always been sufficient as I always have a vehicle available, but that may not work for everyone. If you hunt around you can also get Canon battery chargers that plug into the cigarette lighter directly, just in case the dc-ac-dc conversion offends your inner nerd.
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Solar chargers are a thing these days for backpackers, mostly geared for smartphones. I don't know what kind of juice a Canon battery needs to get charged but if it's comparable to what a smartphone needs they might work for you if you could get all the adapters sorted out. http://www.rei.com/category/40004198
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I just hope the lens doesn't become impossible to find over the next few months while I scrape together my pennies.
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