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Thanks from me too - did not know about this until I saw your post, and since my Adobe subscription runs out in 2 weeks, very glad you took the time to mention this!

Zenith E & 58mm Helios lens - was a cracking 13th birthday present, and I still miss it!!

Hi Guy, I've had my 24-105 for probably about 5 years and have shot around 10,000 pictures with it - have never seen an error message because of it, and very happy with the overall performance. It is fair to say that it is not as sharp as a prime (my 100L Macro is definitely sharper) but...

Same here - was my most used lens on my 7D, and has taken on a new lease of life on the 5D3 (24mm is back to actually being properly wide again when on FF!)

Hi Nick, If you look in the 4th AF (purple) menu and go into 'Select AF area selec. mode' then you can enable the zone AF from there (believe it is not selected as default). For what it's worth, I'm using 64GB and 32GB SD cards for backup - like the idea of being able to just leave the...

I've just tried this for you - using a 60MB/s Sandisk Extreme CF and a 45MB/s Sandisk SD card, 5D3 set on full RAW record to multiple, I got 14-15 shots before the buffer filled. It went down to something around 1 fps after that, and cleared the whole buffer within 20 seconds (was probably less...

I've basically done the same thing using some paracord - attached it to the strap point on the base of the grip, and then attach the other end to either high up on the camera strap or a belt using a carabiner. Just made sure that I had enough length to raise the camera comfortably, without too...

The SD card speed is fairly crucial to the write speed - the images are written concurrently, so a slow SD card will slow up the camera once the buffer is full, plus take longer to flush the cache. The camera does not record the images to the backup card during a lull in operation. There are...

Looks like Canon might have slightly over-reacted with their competitor to the D800.....

Haven't had mine all that long, however my findings are below: 1. Haven't really noticed (although I guess I will now be looking for that!) 2. Have a slight trend of images to be either slightly underexposed (about 1/3 to 1/2 stop) or correctly exposed. Have seen hardly any overexposed shots...

Nice idea, however it was a Christmas present, plus I'm an internal optimist so reckon I'd best keep hold of mine:thumbs: Got mine from here..... It is the "large dome hide" model, and seems very nicely thought out and designed. Unfortunately it is also popular with my cats, who have...

This is the one I got from Wildlife Watching Supplies - if only I could find the time to use it! I've got a comfy camping chair in there, but would not really want anything smaller, since once I've got the chair and a tripod set up (even with the front leg of it out through the hole)...

Managed to get one from Jessops - ordered it when I bought the 5D3 about 2 weeks ago, and it was in the shop within 4 days. They also had some to order on their website last week, but think it is back to pre-order now. P.s. The BG-E11 is VERY nice - much more sculpted than that on the 7D and...

That was one of the things that was nice about getting the 5D3 for me - I tried it in the shop with a 24-105 on it, and remembered what it was like before crop cameras, when 24mm was actually properly wide! Using my 24-105 on the 5D3 is almost like having a new lens now (bit obvious just looking...

I did similar last year in Austria - I already had some Lee filters (ND Grads + Big Stopper), and ended up buying a lightweight Manfrotto travel tripod that would go in my case - worked fine for my 7D + 10-22 + filters. Also used a Hoya CPL for some of the lakes and sky shots, which was well...