christopher_diao1 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>As I posted previously, I was in the process of getting my first FF. I almost pulled the trigger on 5Dii.<br>What a shocker to find out that 5Dii has only +/- 2 stops for exposure compensation! That's not enough to do a decent HDR!<br>I will have to spend $3500 just for a decent and basic camera!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjoseph7 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>"<em>What a shocker to find out that 5Dii has only +/- 2 stops for exposure</em> <em>compensation!"</em><br> <br />About the same as the 5Dc, I guess they want you to use the ISO ?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_diao1 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>that's ridiculous! i need 3 stops for AEB to do HRD</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zml Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p><strong>M</strong> as in <strong>Manual</strong>... You can compensate until your family bovines decide to come home :-)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_diao1 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>no, I need AEB to shoot continuously ... with hand held.... so i can do a HDR without a tripod</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon_dragon Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>Are you sure there isn't a setting in the camera to vary the bracketing?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>Any of the 1D(s) series DSLRs all th eway back to the original 1D will give you up to 7 frames bracketing in steps of up to 3 EV. That gives you a potential 18 EV range. The 5D MkIII is the same. The 7D (and 60D) will do three shots at up to 3EV steps (6EV range).</p> <p>The 5D and 5D MkII are both 3 shots at up to 2 EV steps (4EV range).</p> <p>BTW EC and AEB aren't tied together. The 5D MkIII has +/- 5 EV EC but AEB is only up to 3EV per step.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon_dragon Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>I found this <a href="http://www.hdr-photography.com/aeb.html">link</a> that might give you some useful information. I think you are right though.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <blockquote> <p>What a shocker....<br> ...decent and basic...<br> that's ridiculous! i need 3 stops for AEB to do HRD</p> </blockquote> <p>What a pity, the Canons are so incapable and crippled. Thank goodness you found out before you bought one.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kahn Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>A 5-stop range isn't enough for HDR? Who knew? ;-)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddler4 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <blockquote> <p>I will have to spend $3500 just for a decent and basic camera!</p> </blockquote> <p>That was tongue in cheek, no?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_dale Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>It's April Fools day is it?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_wu6 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>Where to buy a $3500 5DMkII?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esfishdoc Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>Friends don't let friends do HDR.... much less handheld HDR.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Ian Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>+1 Richard.</p> <p>- Which is the only reason you'd need to rely on AEB. Personally, I'd just shoot M, or RAW (if I felt it was a problem), which gives considerably more latitude in post (which you've got to do anyway)... and more than enough to make up the diff.</p> <p>...my understanding is the only reason Canon expanded the AEB options on the 5D3 was because the sensor had no improvement in DR over the 5D2... ;-)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_diao1 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>$3500 for 5Diii, I meant!<br> 5Dii is sub-normal and sub-decent!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>I don't think the problem lies with the camera...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_diao1 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>a normal decent camera should at least do +-3 stops compensation!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathangardner Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <blockquote> <p>decent HDR</p> </blockquote> <p>Oxymoron.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_diao1 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>decent camera should do +/- 3 stops on compensation.<br> My canon eos 3 could do that almost 15 years ago. Canon is playing us for fool</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>And it appears they are winning. Canon appear to be selling a lot of indecent cameras.</p> <p>Nevermind 3 stops of EC, if it won't wake me up in the morning with a cup of coffee, I'm just not buying one.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>Christopher, maybe you need to look at Nikon. I mean how would you ever be able to trust Canon after this shocking indecency on their part?</p> <p>There was another post earlier today, however, on the Nikon forum where somebody decided that some Nikons can't focus properly, so I don't know where to tell the two of you to go. On the other hand, .....</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike dixon Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 "a decent and basic camera" Maybe I'm showing my age, but I think of a decent and basic camera as something like a Pentax K1000. A camera that automatically cocks the shutter, shifts the exposures, and takes multiple frames (so they can be combined later) in a fraction of a second goes way beyond "basic." What's your idea of decent and basic transportation? A vehicle that can parallel park itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <blockquote> <p>" What's your idea of decent and basic transportation? A vehicle that can parallel park itself?</p> </blockquote> <p>Only if it has an electric parking brake and steers by voice command. "<em>A little bit to the left, no, a little more..and now back to the right please</em>". That's almost essential when you need both hands to text.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_harvey3 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 <p>Can we say "double-digit midget"?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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