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Digital SLR / DSLR Camera Question / DSLR Thread 2

Rambeezi said:
Well after a few weeks of shooting I will report that the Bowers brand of LP-E6 works just as good as the Flashpoints from Adorama....but still not as good as Canon's. With the 5D MKII I was able to get ~1000 photos with one bar left on battery life gauge. This is all photos (no video) shooting RAW1 (about 1/2 with 580EXII flash). So I'm still seeing 2/3 performance vs. Canon's.

So I would probably not hesitate to pick up a set of Bower's batteries if I happen to need replacements.
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Whatsup folks! :cool Just wanted to check in and report in with a longer term report of the Bowers LP-E6 battery. It failed to hold a charge today. No warning sign or anything...just failure. It never did perform as well as the OEM or my Flashpoints as a matter of fact. My Flashpoints are still going strong. I guess the good thing is I never jumped and got a second Bowers battery but to be honest for $40 and the situation I was in then I wouldn't hesitate to get a Bowers again...but for absolute emergencies only now.
 
Rambeezi said:
Whatsup folks! :cool Just wanted to check in and report in with a longer term report of the Bowers LP-E6 battery. It failed to hold a charge today. No warning sign or anything...just failure. It never did perform as well as the OEM or my Flashpoints as a matter of fact. My Flashpoints are still going strong. I guess the good thing is I never jumped and got a second Bowers battery but to be honest for $40 and the situation I was in then I wouldn't hesitate to get a Bowers again...but for absolute emergencies only now.
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Yeah, I didn't see this earlier, but my friends experience was similar to yours, except that he shoots mostly video with his 7D, doing documentaries - and he went and bought like 8 of the Bowers, which worked great, then after a few months of heavy use, just DUMPED.

The price point of the Canon's is now $60 from Amazon (or was a few months back when I got mine) so given the 2/3's difference in performance, I went for OEM, even before I was told of the short life issue.

Just beware there are some vendor's through Amazon selling fakes, BHP has originals for $65. Mine appear to be original.

Also, I seem to get more than double the life when I use them in pairs in the grip, which is odd and makes no sense, but maybe halfing the peak current does something non-intuitive?

And, FINALLY got myself (actually, the missus did, ahem) the 17-40 L lens, which I fell in love with after Alex let me borrow his for an extended period. Thanks again Alex!

Now all I need is the 24-70 and I'm pretty much set for zooms. :teeth
 
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You have 70-200 right? Why bother with a 24-70 then? I say just keep a 50mm in bag to cover missing range as well as a useful low light lens.
 
BrassPremier said:
You have 70-200 right? Why bother with a 24-70 then? I say just keep a 50mm in bag to cover missing range as well as a useful low light lens.
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Yes I do, but because:

A. It takes epically gorgeous images
B. The range is what I actually use for 90% of my pictures, so for most shoots, it's the only lens I'd need
C. It's an F2.8 that still goes pretty wide, and still goes long enough for great portraits
D. It takes epically gorgeous images

And again, thanks to Alex for letting me do a side-to-side comparison with the 24-105 'kit' lens, which it blows into the weeds, frankly.

The only reason I didn't buy it first, is because it costs more than the 17-40 and the 70-200 added together (!). Unless something spectacularly great happens on my financial horizon, I'll be saving my beans until probably next year. Maybe Santa will be generous, be he's been pretty tapped the last coupla years...

Not sure if it offers better image quality than my 85mm FF, and of course it won't go to F1.8, so there's always a place in my bag for that.

The nifty-fifty comes with me everywhere already :)

The downsides to the 24-70 are that it's fucking heavy and huge, so in some ways, a lousy 'walkaround' lens. I'm hoping that the 17-40 will be long enough for most walkaround situations until I get enough money/muscle for the 24-70. :teeth

So far I'm really liking it. Will post up when I have something worthy, and when Yahoo has finalized my domain transfer. :| 72 hours my ass...
 
Anyone want a low-pay gig late tonight? An acquaintance of mine wants some shots while he's DJ'ing.

Details:
16 July at 23:00 - 17 July at 01:00
3411 Macarthur @ 35 Ave.
Oaklamd

Compensation: $20-ish, may be negotiable in one way or another.

I'd do it if my gear hadn't been stolen. His name is Don Crisp, I don't know the name of the club.
 
Who's got room for a huge printer for free? (Not from me, from CL)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/zip/2531503174.html

Free working Epson 10600 Large format printer. (potrero hill)

Date: 2011-08-05, 10:11AM PDT
Reply to: sale-rh9xt-2531503174@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

Hello,

My company just upgraded our 44" printer and we no longer need this 44"printer.
Machine had low usage and works fine.

First to respond will be awarded.
You will need to pick it up, it comes on a wheeled stand.

We are near 3rd and Cesar Chavez St.

Thanks,
Peter
 
i think im slowly starting to get better :laughing can you guys critique these from this last weekend in Lake Tahoe.

my mom wanted me to blow this one up so she could hang on the wall....she liked it before i told her it was mine

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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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rusted chain by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Blacksmith by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Lake Tahoe Forest by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr

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old chain by Kyyo24, on Flickr
 
kyles here said:
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Lake Tahoe by Kyyo24, on Flickr
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I like this one the best. Good spot and good framing. It woulda been awesome if you woulda waited a few hours and took the pic at dusk or got up early and took it at dawn.

That's kinda why I gave up on scenic pics. I don't like waiting around for the perfect light.
 
Yea I'm not a huge fan of nature/landscape stuff. It has to be some crazy amazing photo to really wow me now.

I also agree that I think 6 is the best. I'd have tried to compose it about the same way, except I'd try to keep that bit of green brush at the very bottom center out of it. Either that, or include more of it, right now it's sorta just sticking in there only half way
 
Now its not too flat...
 

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Ordering from B&H..

Well , I went ahead and bought a new camera, mail order this time, from B&H.

The original MFR box arrived with the camera inside but the box didn't have a MFR label/tape around it... so should I be suspicious that the product delivered is somehow sub-par quality ? (e.g. exchanged, used etc).
It was just your typical cardboard box, e/z open-fold.
Everything inside was in the bubble wraps for the corresponding parts of course. No other obvious signs.

Then the box appeared damaged--probably by UPS; the external cardboard box was severely dented (like 2-3 inch) at the corner , I would guess from a hard fall. I didn't think of it much but later ofter unpacking I noticed the inside MFR box was also dented slightly on a corner.
Could that ^^^ have damaged the camera?

Can I display a pic here with (what?) quality so that you judge if the sensor/lens is fine? Any suggestions on what to compose as a sample scene; also flash/no flash?
Just wanted to judge the quality . :) In case I am actually itching for a return and go for a more-Q camera. ;)

Thanks.
 
AbsolutEnduser said:
Well , I went ahead and bought a new camera, mail order this time, from B&H.

The original MFR box arrived with the camera inside but the box didn't have a MFR label/tape around it... so should I be suspicious that the product delivered is somehow sub-par quality ? (e.g. exchanged, used etc).
It was just your typical cardboard box, e/z open-fold.
Everything inside was in the bubble wraps for the corresponding parts of course. No other obvious signs.

Then the box appeared damaged--probably by UPS; the external cardboard box was severely dented (like 2-3 inch) at the corner , I would guess from a hard fall. I didn't think of it much but later ofter unpacking I noticed the inside MFR box was also dented slightly on a corner.
Could that ^^^ have damaged the camera?

Can I display a pic here with (what?) quality so that you judge if the sensor/lens is fine? Any suggestions on what to compose as a sample scene; also flash/no flash?
Just wanted to judge the quality . :) In case I am actually itching for a return and go for a more-Q camera. ;)

Thanks.
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workin for fedex , we kicked boxes on the daily.
for a dent like your must of dropped pretty high or smashed by a bigger box.
 
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@1m46s ....and here's the kick....and it's GOOD!!

Storm Shadow said:
workin for fedex , we kicked boxes on the daily.
for a dent like your must of dropped pretty high or smashed by a bigger box.
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Me and my Missus will be taking a vacay in Philadelphia and NY. I'm bringing a D5000 +kit lens +nifty fifty. I was thinking of renting (from Lensrental.com) a tokina 11-16 f/2.8 Taking pics of landmarks and portraits. Is this a good choice? Or does anyone have another suggestion. I know it's a wide lens. I use Lightroom 3 to edit my photos. Lr3 has a lens correction where it will correct for the fisheye effect.

Just wanted your inputs photo-barfers.
 
Alpine600 said:
[youtube]Z1mhz1-biEY#t=01m46s[/youtube]

@1m46s ....and here's the kick....and it's GOOD!!




Me and my Missus will be taking a vacay in Philadelphia and NY. I'm bringing a D5000 +kit lens +nifty fifty. I was thinking of renting (from Lensrental.com) a tokina 11-16 f/2.8 Taking pics of landmarks and portraits. Is this a good choice? Or does anyone have another suggestion. I know it's a wide lens. I use Lightroom 3 to edit my photos. Lr3 has a lens correction where it will correct for the fisheye effect.

Just wanted your inputs photo-barfers.
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sometimes the managers would encourage us so he wouldnt get in trouble for any flight delays... :|
 
Alpine600 said:
Me and my Missus will be taking a vacay in Philadelphia and NY. I'm bringing a D5000 +kit lens +nifty fifty. I was thinking of renting (from Lensrental.com) a tokina 11-16 f/2.8 Taking pics of landmarks and portraits. Is this a good choice? Or does anyone have another suggestion. I know it's a wide lens. I use Lightroom 3 to edit my photos. Lr3 has a lens correction where it will correct for the fisheye effect.

Just wanted your inputs photo-barfers.
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I have the tokina and it's great. Not sure if it will autofocus on the d5000 believe it needs camera body motor. Course, it's really easy to manual focus super wide angles.

It does have distortion but it's not a fisheye. I never bother to correct it in LR3
 
wow, how did I not find this thread sooner... some great info, look forward to joining in and asking questions.... oohhhh so many questions. but want to read the thread for awhile and see if I can find them answered
 
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