Recent content by gnirtS

Ive never found a blower that effective on any of my cameras. At best it shifts a few spots, at worst it moves existing ones round slightly. Usually it does nothing. Im about to do my 70D for the first time (had it since march) and im dreading it as the process normally takes me several hours...

So put up some RAWs people can use to judge or quantify.

Agree with that one. I can see the logic to the 2 dial system but i think its slower than a constant spin going through all.

Double post. Can't delete.

Bald Eagle by WhitcombeRD, on Flickr f/2.8 on 70-200L, centre point focus European Eagle Owl in flight by WhitcombeRD, on Flickr f/4 using centre point AI server tracking focus. I had a lot of "misses" during the day but in reality im certain those were me not the camera.

Im looking at doing a photo day and maybe 1 more at a few bird of prey centres (so flying and static) and looking at renting lenses for the telephoto end of things. Im undecided between the 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L and the 70-200 f/2.8 IS L with teleconverter. Ive used the 70-200 before and its a...

With scheduled airlines at least you seem to get some leeway with hand luggage. Even if its overweight i've shown the camera and they've allowed it on. Security often want to search the bag which is understandable given how strange it looks on x-rays with cables, batteries and other things...

Unfortunately appears to be no Win8 support at all even from MS for viewing RAWs in explorer. It is a useful feature i miss to quickly skim through from explorer without having to load software.

I do for underwater. The JPG is available instantly for customers to buy as soon as they're out of the water and the RAW is available for me for stock purposes to fine tune at a later date.

This might be one of the very rare times you want to put a UV filter over the front of the lens. If that gets smashed or covered in paint you can just bin it. It's not just the paint in the things, they *hurt* and can break glass with the force too. ...and yes you can guarantee you'll be shot...

Lightning stuff ive done is long(ish) exposure of 4-10 seconds, mid iso and aperture but it varies. Too long and the lightning burns out completely. Also if there's any ambient light you'll get blur as trees etc move with wind. It's trial and error depending on the storm distance and so on...

Example photos with full EXIF might help. Also, have you tried it on other camera bodies?

You can set a minimum for auto ISO but its 1/160th at the fastest which is still too slow. Personally i'd have liked an "anything you want" option here. The only near workaround ive found is manual exposure where you dial in a shutterspeed and aperture but leave it on auto ISO. The downside...

Ive recently upgraded from a 550D to a 70D and the difference is night and day. Every single thing about the 70D from ergonomics (2 dials, buttons in right place) to focus speed and accuracy to burst rate to image quality is far superior. For me a very good upgrade. It might be out of your...

Proper cloth will get covered in grease quickly as well, you need to be careful holding them and wash them regularly. I generally use kitchen roll now as its one use and if it does leave any tiny bits of paper a rocket blower will remove. A greasy cloth is worse than useless.