Can't you get about 210 shot on an 8gb card?

A bit more, I get 238 out of mine on RAW and the smallest JPEG setting. I like having the video option which I use a bit here and there, enough to make 8 GB feel not enough.
I get 499 shots from the 16 GB. Much more like it.

Hello!
I am a new 5D mark II owner and noticed that there is an issue with the LCD display, it turns off randomly when in the menu mode. is it a known issue with this camera?

elrafo wrote:
Hello!
I am a new 5D mark II owner and noticed that there is an issue with the LCD display, it turns off randomly when in the menu mode. is it a known issue with this camera?

Make sure you're not accidentally hitting the depth of field preview. It's easy to do that inadvertently, and it only takes a touch.

I didn't realize ACR maps out hot pixels. It was after checking three different exposures, and getting 0 hot and 0 dead on all of the converted tiff files using DeadpixelTest that I went back and reread some threads on DPR.

When I used DPP to convert the same RAW images to tiffs, the dead pixels weres still 0, but the hot pixel count was 25 on the 30 sec exposure. Most had luminence values of 50 - 75. Only four were over 100.

At 5 seconds there 4 hot pixels, all with lumenince values less than 100.

At 1 sec and 1/30th of a second the count was 0.

I'm going to check my 5D just for curosity - I'll bet the result will be similar and I never knew they were there.

I'm contemplating trying Silkypix as a RAW converter, based on a review by a
gentlemen from pBase that I read recently. I am curious if it will map the hot pixels out like ACR does.

I may try the option I read about in another thread for having the camera map out the hot pixels. But since most of my exposures are well less than 5 seconds, I'm probably going to try and put the geek back in the box, stop the pixel peeping and go back to learning to enjoy the new camera - .

Rich

Andi Dietrich wrote:
I agree with Richard, the 16-35ii is really a dog when it comes to corner sharpness. I dont have yet a 5Dii, but we can see the poor performance already on a 5D. Here is a sample I shot recently

full image, well this seems ok

1st test shot i'm gonna love this tool 5D MKII does macro

Wow! I didn't know that that was how human hair on a scalp looked like. Thanks for sharing!

i guess it does if you are a potato head

It is reminding me of when I shot 4X5 and 6X7 except I won't have to carry a backpack to load my 4X5 into. Very nice. The colors are what also catch my attention.

Well it looks like the thread has been released. It was kind of nice where it was as there is much information that is helpful. Well I guess time "marches" on.

Hey, I had to finally post in this thread that I got my MKII.

Man does it take some time to totally load the raw image to view at 100 percent. I guess I need at least a dual core and more ram. Well it will have to do.

Nice camera, great detail. thanks all.

jamato8 wrote:
Hey, I had to finally post in this thread that I got my MKII.

Man does it take some time to totally load the raw image to view at 100 percent. I guess I need at least a dual core and more ram.

I have a Mac Pro Xeon Quad for sale. Shame you're in the States.

21 megapixel files are a serious bottleneck on most computers. Anyone contemplating upgrading to 5D2 for 21 megapixel use should bear in mind that she may well need to upgrade her computer too.

brainiac wrote:

21 megapixel files are a serious bottleneck on most computers. Anyone contemplating upgrading to 5D2 for 21 megapixel use should bear in mind that she may well need to upgrade her computer too.


Well, I also had to do a lot of darkroom equipment upgrading when I moved from 35mm to medium format, and then again when I added 4x5.

Moving to larger format digital without upgrading "darkroom" equipment doesn't mean "impossible," it just means "slower." But you just can't enlarge a 4x5 negative on a 35mm enlarger.

"Anyone contemplating upgrading to 5D2 for 21 megapixel use should bear in mind that she may well need to upgrade her computer too."

does this apply to males as well?

Well I have to keep it on a laptop and do all my work from thee as I did in China. Now I may be going to Papua New Guinea for a year or two and still have to keep it small. I will do the best I can. Gee I really look forward to working with 100mb's of a TIFF.

Try going from 35mm to 8X10, which I did years ago. At least I was only contact printing the 8X10's. Now that is nice.

abam wrote:
"Anyone contemplating upgrading to 5D2 for 21 megapixel use should bear in mind that she may well need to upgrade her computer too."

does this apply to males as well?

;-) in this feminist age I sometimes use 'she' and 'her' to refer to womankind in general, including the men, and even the men with wombs. I'm sorry if it sounds odd to you, but it's a trivial concession to gender obssessives. We used to say 'he' and 'his' meaning both genders, so I see no problem using 'she' and 'hers'.

Fine with me. Besides, in general men have screwed up many things long enough. uh oh, derailing . . .

So I haven't even figured out how to use the video yet. Guess I better dive into the manual.

jamato8 wrote:
Fine with me. Besides, in general men have screwed up many things long enough.

...you think this is bad? This is nothing compared to where we'd be if the girls had been in charge. (That was a joke, feminists, please don't get upset.)

;-) in this feminist age I sometimes use 'she' and 'her' to refer to womankind in general, including the men, and even the men with wombs. I'm sorry if it sounds odd to you, but it's a trivial concession to gender obssessives. We used to say 'he' and 'his' meaning both genders, so I see no problem using 'she' and 'hers'.

That's better than abusing verb/pronoun number agreement (using "their" or "them" to avoid "her" or "his," for example, when the antecedent and verb are clearly singular).

What really annoys me is when that's done in a context that purely and obviously pertains to a single gender. An actual example from a television newscast: "Every mother knows their own child."

That--coming from a person whose profession is communication--tells me this wasn't a matter of political correctness, but simply not knowing the basics of grammar.

RDKirk wrote:
That's better than abusing verb/pronoun number agreement (using "their" or "them" to avoid "her" or "his," for example, when the antecedent and verb are clearly singular).

What really annoys me is when that's done in a context that purely and obviously pertains to a single gender. An actual example from a television newscast: "Every mother knows their own child."

That--coming from a person whose profession is communication--tells me this wasn't a matter of political correctness, but simply not knowing the basics of grammar.

Ha-ha, yes, I hear you! German is worse though. It can be "every mother knows his own child". A baby seal dies every time somebody gets their grammar wrong.

That's better than abusing verb/pronoun number agreement (using "their" or "them" to avoid "her" or "his," for example, when the antecedent and verb are clearly singular).

What really annoys me is when that's done in a context that purely and obviously pertains to a single gender. An actual example from a television newscast: "Every mother knows their own child."

That--coming from a person whose profession is communication--tells me this wasn't a matter of political correctness, but simply not knowing the basics of grammar.

Well, since we're on an OT binge here, and the topic seems to be grammatical(or non-) peeves, ... my current pet is, is the redundant use of "is".

Everyone is doing it. The President, news-anchors, etc., etc., ...all presumably educated, particularly in the use of English, being that they are professional communicators using that medium.

"The trouble with that is,...is (so-and-so)."

"My opinion on this is, ...is(so-and-so)."

"What we should do in Irag is,...is (so-and-so)."

"The point is,...is (so-and-so)."

It's incessant.

"The Dumbing of America" progresses apace.

How long before the answer to "what is your name?" becomes "My name is, is Joe." ??

[ "Boner" just did it again as I type this (On "Meet the Press"). ]

Grrrrr!

L. H. Smith wrote:
Everyone is doing it. The President, news-anchors, etc., etc., ...all presumably educated, particularly in the use of English, being that they are professional communicators using that medium.
"The point is,...is (so-and-so)."
It's incessant.
"The Dumbing of America" progresses apace.
Grrrrr!

I agrrrrrrree! I can not tell you how heartening it is to know that I am not alone in this obssession. I am going to show my wife your post. She does it a thousand times a day, and it drives me mad. I think it happens because people speak not in words which they mean, but instead in a series of figures of speech or clichés (e.g. the execrable 'worst case scenario'). They think "the point is" is a phrase on its own which can be made the subject of a sentence.

So your point is?

My point is, is that...