At Murphy's above I got a camera and battery. At the Allen store once it was posted they had cameras and batteries they sold out in a couple of days they told me. I called them first about a camera and the woman I spoke with said someone posted they had cameras and batteries and they got hit with a huge number of orders for both.
I know I posted this before but I have had problems with some cards and not with others.
In the 8gb cards what ones are working out and reliable?
Thanks for any suggestions. I have used Ridata and used them extensibly in my 1.5 years in China but I am also looking for what is best now. Oh, and what fire wire 800 readers do you guys like?
I agree with that but I bet the price will stay up for a while. Also when compared to my 5D and the price I paid, the cost of the 5D II seems pretty good. I think Canon had this all in mind and may have had a narrower mark-up.
jamato8 wrote:
I know I posted this before but I have had problems with some cards and not with others.
In the 8gb cards what ones are working out and reliable?
Thanks for any suggestions. I have used Ridata and used them extensibly in my 1.5 years in China but I am also looking for what is best now. Oh, and what fire wire 800 readers do you guys like?
I've been using SanDisk Extreme III's. 30 mb/s, solid performer, it includes a rescue package CD.
No issues except I decided to get a couple of the 16GB cards while they are on sale at Canadian Best Buy for $99.
8GB fills up very quickly with the 5D2.
I also just invested in a SanDisk CF card reader which is way quicker than the one I had. Unfortunately by lap top only has a 4 pin firewire port.
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 - .
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
but at 100% its already clear that this lens cant give us the performance we really need urgently, as we all know, the most precious things in our images are always in the extreme corners http://www.andidietrich.com/elements/fm3/1x.jpg
Some nice, dark vignetting will take care of that corner sharpness issue!
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.
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.
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