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I would also recommend an Elan7. It's the closest in everything to a 10D.

Looks like an ElanII to me.

No, they said that for them it's the same speed as always.

I have the macro version and it's excellent. I love it because I'm not restricted on how close I want to get. To the poster of the focusing problem, the macro lens has an AF limiter switch which is what fixes that issue. Remember that its focusing range is huge, so whenever you're not using the Macro range, you just limit it to the regular focusing range (.49m ~ infinity) so that it only uses the normal range. It's quite fast and I haven't experienced losing focus when tracking my Siberian Husky when he runs around. This is with an Elan7E using Eye Focusing.

That's quoting material right there Andrew! <writes it down for future use>

"That's not what reportage/documentary photography is about."

 

Agreed. Although I don't think this theme should only be about de-politicising photography, but documentary photography should not be de-anything. It should be presented in its raw form since it's about documenting, and not about transmitting whoever's ideals or point of view. That would be personal, and should not be attached or related in any way to news reportage/documentary photography.

"My kit is:

Elan 7E

dRebel

24 MM f2.8 Prime

50 MM f1.4 Prime

18-55 E-FS Zoom

28-135MM IS Zoom

70-300MM IS Zoom

Two 550 Flashes

One 420 Flash "

 

William, here I thought I was crazy for using a 24mm on a wedding!!

 

To Tom, I'm also doing some weddings, mostly to friends. It's a hobby and a couple of times a year I do a wedding for someone I know. Real cheap as a favor to them.

 

I started with a Rebel 2000, 50 1.8, 28-80,75-300 and asked the couple to pay for a 420EX. That was my payment for the gig, a 420EX. So I ended up paying for the film, but you're starting out and you're bound to not make that much or not make anything. I only used the 50 1.8.

 

I now use an Elan7E w/24 2.8, 50 1.8, 100 2.8 macro, and the 420EX. I still take with me the Rebel and the cheapo lenses just in case. I've known photographers who got their equipment stolen on the wedding so I always carry my stuff if I'm alone or have my wife assist me.

You're just used to the way A-TTL works. Just as Nikon users are used to the way their flash system works and don't get the same results with Canon gear and vice versa. Personally, E-TTL is all I know and it works for me because of all the bouncing I do. Looking forward to E-TTL II and how it implements distance data.

Is there anything that could be done with an Elan7E viewfinder? I know it's not interchangeable, just wondering if there was anything that could be done.

Forgot to include this: click <A HREF="http://www.eos-magazine.com/News_47_EOS30V.html"><B>Here</B></A> to go the article.

Well the release also states that the AF is on par with the EOS 1v/3, uses E-TTL II, and has a better viewfinder. Which are the real improvements although not many.

This is what *I* would do. Remember I'm not a pro just an amateur like lots of others. I would ask them if they did any kind of practice with the actual lighting that they'll use the day of the gig and just meter from what I want. Once I get the exposure I want, I'd use M mode the day of the gig to remove as much of the guesswork and metering issues as possible. That way you won't get sudden flashes of light confusing the meter and such.

I don't think you will get a single bad response from this lens.

Didn't know that the flashes didn't play a part on the exposure calculation. In any case, the important part is that there won't be a different batch of lenses with distance information, a la Nikon, in order for it to work. So it could be just a matter of flashing the body's firmware. Can't wait!

Let me add something to that; Some Canon bodies have DEP mode, so indeed they can and do use the distance information because it is required to calculate the hyperfocal distance in DEP mode. If current bodies/flashguns can be 'flashed' with new firmware then tell me where to send the body :D

The way I understood the distance information was that indeed Canon's lenses could report the information, but that it just wasn't allowed to be used in flash exposure calculations because of the patents. So I guess that the lenses will work as usual but for E-TTL II you would need a new body and flash. Unless current bodies/flashguns can be firmware updated to the new calculations.

 

This is all just speculation and guesswork of course.

I just tried mine with different apertures and it was always spot on too! I bought mine in October also so it does look like they fixed it. My serial number is (21) 72005***. I got a friend with lots of FD lenses that he's not using so here I go!

I just bought my Elan7E 3 months ago!

LMAO!

What Charles said. I've seen that happening before when cameras are not used that frequently.

None whatsoever in my case. I have the hoods for the EF 75-300 pseudo-USM, EF 100 2.8 Macro USM and the EF 50 1.8 II. The only one I don't like as much is the one for the fifty because it's a screw mount. The other two are just perfect.

From what I've read so far, the moving speed is also the same. The only thing is for faster speeds, like 1/4000, what the shutter does instead of generate speed, is move a small slit at the regular speed. so instead of having a fully open shutter moving real fast, we have a small slit between the two curtains moving at regular speed. The slit is to emulate the amount of light of a fully open shutter moving real quick.

 

Did that make any sense?

That is exactly what I'd get. A 28 and a 50. Or if budget allows, a 24mm.

You will need to keep the shutter pressed down or press it for each frame. I would press the shutter for each frame instead of leaving it pressed down.

 

You have to always take the 3 pictures. If you take two pictures, then the next one regardless of what you point it at, will be the third frame of the AEB series. So once you start the series, you have to finish it.

I agree with Yakim. I bought the 100mm 2.8 macro for a special project I was working on (eye macros for advertising). I have realized that I use it very much if only because it allows me to close in as much as I want. I almost never shoot at 1:1, but I love being able to just close in exactly the amount I want, without having to fiddle with the magnification and focusing range of diopters and having to switch them to get what I want. I've been using it lately as a walkaround lens actually and I'm very very happy with it. The quality is also exceptional. Haven't used my 75-300 ever since I got it either.