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She uses energizer batteries and she replaces them right before her shoot. Would nickel

batteries make a difference?

BTW, she said she tried opening the aperture up from 800 to 1600 just for kicks and that

didnt seem to help either.

My wife owns the 5D she just upgraded from the 20D. Shes having problem with the regeneration speed

on the 580EX. Shes using the canon 24 -70 and a tameron lenses. It seems she'll snap a picture and it

seems to take forever for the flash to regenerate. This was never an issue with her 20D. She shoots in M

and P mode.

 

I'm just trying to help the misses out, so any suggestions would be helpful.

I've been using the 20D for about 3 months and have about 6 weddings under my belt

with it, and have been impressed with the results until this weekend. There are only 2

things I can narrow it down to. It was pouring buckets and I'm wondering if moisture

may have played a role and secondly I used a brand new 580ex flash. I originally had a

580ex flash but I bought a new one for my assistant and ended up using the new one

myself. I was using the 28-70L which I use quite often.

I started at the brides house and all of those pictures came out great. It wasnt until I went

outside while it was drizzling that I ran into problems. I took a few umbrella shots, and

only a couple came out. Many (60) of my formals came out either soft or just plain out of

focused. I was using aperature priority setting.

I'm going to upload a few of the pictures here in a few minutes but wanted to see if

anyone has run into a moisture problem ( if its possible or just plain user error). Any

thoughts before I post the pictures would be helpful.

Is there an option yet for Canon cameras to do wireless like the nikon

D2X.

We are currently using noiseware using actions plugin in Photoshop on

our imac G5. I've tried running it on my dual 2Ghz G5 as well. The

problem is that it constantly crashes after 20 or so pictures during

batch automation. I downloaded the latest version and I still have

problems. I'm just wondering if maybe theres something just as good as

Noiseware that I can use to batch photos. Thanks

I just wanted to add I used a canon 10d without a flash for this shoot.

So I spent the money on this lens and tried it out all week. I did a

weddding this weekend and had trouble auto focusing. It was very slow

and sometimes did not auto focus at all.

 

Anyone else have problems with this lens or might it just be a defect

in the lens. The church was fairly bright and I was shooting from both

the balcony in the back and from about 20 feet back. I love some of

the shots I took but many were from manual focus.

I'd like to use this lens for some tighter shots in church where its

impossible to get up close. Just wondering if anyone else has used

this lens or possibly has other suggestions. I'm currently using a 10D

550ex flash. I'd probably use a monopod setup for these shots.

I agree on the highlight shadow feature. Wow, unbelievable tool. You'll love the new browser feature. I also love the batch rename feature. Absolutely worth its weight in gold. I wish we upgraded sooner.

We use pictage.com for our wedding clients. They charge .20 cents per picture upload. They do have an unlimited package if you have alot of uploads.

Other than Kodaks lustrecolor there isnt much out there. We are using Pictage because its more compatible with a mac but it is a very nice site and clients seem to like it. It is definitely expensive but your paying for the convenience. I'm sure overtime there will be other services at affordable prices but for now your choices are limited

Has anyone tried generic batteries for the canon 10D? I'm just looking

at replacement batteries on Ebay and looking for a good deal on new

batteries. Is there there any difference? I know some cameras can only

display battery life from its own cameras like sony. Are there any

extended life batteries that I should be looking at? Any battery info

would be helpful. Thanks in advance

Let's assume that the budget for the "lens" in on high end considering the one that I tried this weekend was closer to low and of course I'm expecting the highest quality and widest range of use. All sugestion are appreciated. Even grammar lessons.

I should have mentioned I had both focusing and subject motion problems in the previous post with the 28-80 lens instead of blurred pictures. Sorry. I would think an IS lense would be more suited for my needs for subjects moving from say 40 feet away in dark circumstances. Any info would be appreciated.

I'm using a Canon 10D. I'm basically interested in these two

lenses,24-70/2.8L and 70-200/2.8L IS. I like to be as unobtrusive as

possible. I'll be using this lense for Brides march in a

church,Parents dances, first dance and possibly some candids.

 

This weekend I used mostly some older canon lenses and I tried out a

Canon 28-80 f3.5-5.6 that I had lots of focusing and blurring problems

with. I got some excellent shots but there were a number of bad

blurred pictures from the 28 -80. The best lense I used was my 17 -40

wide angle that I just purchased I had absolutely no problems.

 

Any suggestions?

I have iphoto and osx panther. I took some pictures on my Canon 10D. I

can see them perfectly in the lcd display. When I try to import them,

some are imported but others I get an unrecognizable format error. Any

ideas?????

Nope, thats not helpful since she never opened the cf door in the first place. You notice the blank images immediately scanning through them via the camera lcd. We were playing around with it this evening and have noticed it a couple of times on rapid shot.

 

Great camera though. Extremely happy with after having it for a month now. The new wideangle lens is fast and takes great pictures. I was a bit dissapointed with the cheaper 50mm lens that we got. We had some focusing issues. Since we've been using the wideangle ($700.00 lens) its been a pleasure.

I'll forget the lens cap response. As far as the flash not charging fast enough, I dont believe thats the problem either. There is absolutely no picture, when viewing the picture after through the camera it is totally blank. If the flash didnt charge at least there would be something although dark. She wasnt shooting in total darkness.

I know this same scenario was posted from an earlier poster but I just

discovered the same problem. We just got our 10D about a month ago

with 1gig of Sandisk Ram. My wife took the camera to the zoo with my

kids only to find that about 7 to 10 pictures where totally black.

Today while shooting in the house on rapid mode. She shot about 7

pictures consecutively to find that about 2 of the pictures where

black. Absolutely nothing there. Any idea what might be going on here?

 

She is using the 550EZ flash with a 17-40 wideangle lens. However the

same problem happened with a 28-80 lens. Both times she had the flash

mounted

I've got a dual G5 Powermac running Jaguar. I bought a Dazzle USB card

reader for my 1 GB Sandisk Compact Flash however when I went to import

the pictures into iPhoto the pictures came out fragmented. No problem

importing from my Canon 10D however. Can someone suggest a good card

reader.

 

Many Thanks

Anyone have a recommendation for a wide angle lens. It would mostly be

used for wedding formals and potentially vacationing panorama's.

 

Thnx

Adobe makes Encore that is DVD authoring software. Its a professional product and expensive. I'm a mac user and this is a simple process. I'm sure there are a few cheapy products out there. Try versiontracker.com and type in a keyword word search DVD slideshow or something similar. Sorry

I'm wondering how much faster flash cards are over microdrives. If

using the Canon 10D for weddings would a microdrive be able to write

fast enough during candids or from a photojournalistic approach. I've

seen some interesting articles about the 4gig microdrive floating

around and I'm wondering if this would be a feasible idea or should I

stick with the non moving parts flash cards