carstenw wrote:
Ugh, 200GB! Is that really necessary? At 16MB per shot for the 5DII that is around 1 photo every two minutes, 16 hours a day, 7 days per week, 4 weeks. A bit nuts. If you could cut that in 3, you could use the iPad. Until that time, you will need lots of CF cards and a harddrive.
Try between 25-35 megabyte per shot and a bit less for the 7D (20-25 MB). These are not Nikon webcam resolution photos
Add to that wild life photography with the 7D @ 8 fps and add to that video at 500MB/minute. So yes, 200 GB is necessary and really a lower limit. I would never go out for several weeks without having at least redundant 500 GB capacity.
I currently use 2x 750 GB disks for travel image storage and usually bring along an additional 500 GB disk just in case.
So my ipad is off by an order of magnitude for the space that I want.
carstenw wrote:
Luka, there is a new 35 Lux ASPH. The old one is really nice in some situations, I have a chrome copy. It isn\'t a Zeiss though. The Leica boke and sharpness is more subtle than the Zeiss Pictorial Sledgehammer I love the Zeiss look, but sometime it is really nice to return to the subtlety of Leica. It lets the subject dominate, rather than the rendering.
I know, it was the new 35 Lux asph I was talking about. And I would disagree that the Zeiss 35/1.4 is less subtle. On the contrary, the 35 Lux asph rendering is quite vulgar and crude compared to the Contax/Rollei Zeiss 35/1.4 which produces a quite unique medium format look. There are Leica lenses that I really like. The 35 lux asph is definitely not one of them. The 50 lux asph on the other hand I\'m impressed with
I love the Zeiss look, but sometime it is really nice to return to the subtlety of Leica. It lets the subject dominate, rather than the rendering.