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Thoughts on the 40D? How about a 40D vs a T2i?
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T2i AF accuracy,trumps 40D AF accuracy and I think the T2i meters better on the average.
My 40D has served well,but the 1D2n made me hate it's guts..............
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The Canon 100-400mm shipped today.If anyone is in the market Canon Has some pretty good rebates in place now.
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Lenses are like stereos, pickups, and motor cycles. One never wishes he had a smaller one. I think you'll be happy.
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I totally agree. I just hope I win the lottery so I can move to a 600 or 800mm someday.
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Yep. That is darned near cosigner stuff.
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I totally agree. I just hope I win the lottery so I can move to a 600 or 800mm someday. A (well-off!) friend has the Canon 800mm f 5.6 L series lens, and this is the Whimberley tripod head he uses with it. It allows the lens/camera to hang perfectly balanced and thus permits smooth tracking of flying birds, etc. My friend has about 6 or 8 very expensive tripod heads, and after buying this one, he says he will never buy another. And a picture of the lens and a human for scale: He is a serious photographer, but does not like computers so I download and archive his pictures for him. This means I get to see all the images that he actually took, not just one or two of the best pictures or pictures already fixed up in Photoshop. I am always impressed at the extremely high ratio of damn-near perfect pictures! It has more advanced image-stabilization than the Canon 600 mm L lens... (another that I can not afford myself!) The lens is awesome (see the review at this site, or one of many others. Camera buffs love to read reviews -- especially of equipment that they can only fantasize about! My friend was a big fan on Nikon, but switched to Canon because of their "L" series lenses. Bad news is that this lens is about $US 12,000 in the 'States. John
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The Big L Primes are in a II version now,which should nip Version 1 pricing.
Tough flying all that stuff around. My camera bag I tote to work,averages 46 pounds.................
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The Big L Primes are in a II version now,which should nip Version 1 pricing. I ordered the 70-200mm MkII a few weeks back, and it's waiting for me in the 'Stan. Gonna leave the MkI version home for the wife. It still works though...
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I love the 70-200 2.8,but find that as per usual,I'm either at a shorter or longer focal length and shoot it very little as compared to other glass.
Seriously considering a Siggy 50 1.4,for Hero Pics...just for the bokeh................
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BW those are seriously good pics. :-)
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Prolly my favorite 70-200L 2.8 pic of All Time and curiously enough...ala 1Ds Dinosaur. Ordered the Siggy 50mm F1.4 a coupla days ago and hope to air it out directly on Chrome...........
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Tons of nice shots on this thread. Unlike BigStick, the 70-200 2.8 fits my needed range pretty well and gets heavy usage. I think this was shot at f4.0 even though the bokeh makes me suspect otherwise. Where' that dang exif? ETA: Crap...photobucket DOES down shift the detail!
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Photobucket does compress a bit, and images are resized here to keep the whole forum visible on most monitors/resolutions. If you are using firefox, right click the image, and select "view image" to see what photobucket gives you normally.
Your exif shows F4.
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Thanks cwh2! "view image" allowed me to view the "larger" image as hosted at Photobucket, but even that is degraded somewhat compared to the image that was originally uploaded. I've noticed that some other photosharing sites such as shutterfly and flickr don't do this.
Yes, I pulled the original image and read the exif; f4.0. Is there a way to read exif's directly from my browser (FF or IE?)
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Upgrade to a Pro 'bucket account.
Hint...............
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...you mean actually "pay" to share something?... hmmmm...I'll have to think about that one...
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"Free" will only getcha' so far. Should you feel compelled that your offerings trump those particulars,the modest fiscal upgrade,may well be worth your while.
Only you can decide that..............
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When I went shopping for a photo hosting site, I didn't find one that didn't compress, at least a bit. I'm pretty far from the point where a little compression is the weakest link in my photography, but your mileage is likely to vary... Here's the exif viewer... Link
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Thanks cwh2, I've been playing with that FF plug-in and been helpful.
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