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The 5d is bigger than the 40d. Having said that, the 40d is quite bright and larger than the

20d/30d - enough to really notice the difference. Why not go to a cam shop and look

through them yourself?

Bob, quick question: in your tests, with noise reduction turned on, did resolution suffer or

hold up? I know it handles chroma noise mostly, but I'm still wondering how it affects detail

and resolution.

How bout if you wanna use auto thrystor mode for some situations and e-ttl(II) for others?

all in one flash...

"Modern Japanese photography descends primarily from four photographers - Araki,

Moriyama, Tomatsu, and Eikoh Hosoe"

Huh?? What do you mean by "modern" Japanese photography anyway? A lot of what I'm

seeing here these days is coming from influences outside of Klein and the four you

mentioned.

"well i lost a roll of film at knife point. gone for good. but when someone else insisted i

delete pix on my card, i just pulled 'em back with recovery software. film is risky - i've lost

loads of shots for a myriad of reasons."

hehe - true stories from the crypt :D

"On the other hand, I'd lost almost everything that really mattered, maybe a thousand family

snaps, when a drive failed on a PC...

Digital sucks if longevity is your concern."

Sorry to hear that man. Gotta be smart about how you archive - there are risks no matter

what medium you use :P

"Why bother even writing that"

or better yet, why bother even reading popphoto.

and you had to start a thread to...verify that?

Talking about rumors before a product is supposedly supposed to come out is one thing.

You just moved the game to another level...congrats.

"Antonin Kratchovil's point with these photographs may be to express his experience of

torture -- he dedicates them to his father who was tortured. If this is the case these

images are as true ot Abu Grahib as they are to Stalinist Russia , Nazi occupied Europe,

Iranian prisons, or any situation where torture is allowed as a way of controlling someone,

the Orwellian nightmare of torture used purely for the sake of torture, an exercise of

power for power's sake. These images may as relevant and true in psychological terms to a

molested child or a kidnap victim as they are to a POW or political prisoner."

that train of implications is a flight of fancy if the photos don't get that experience across

- no matter how true the feeling is for him personally.

doesn't do it for me...too literal in its blur, shadow and light, ambiguity, yada yada yada...

would be great on a penguin book cover tho.

"The Canon 1dsmk11 files have lousy colour simple as that. As in lousy skin tones

compared to the DMR or even Nikon, as in any red or pink in particular require a LOT of

muckin around to get to look even vaguely natural. other colours are ok - red hues -

blaaaaaahh phtewey. Canon files are also over smoothed in camera - I actually prefer teh

noise from teh DMR and Nikon to the over processed file you get from Canon...I just prefer

a full frame sensor to teh cropped stuff that leica or Nikon deliver which is why I am

reluctantly putting up with Canon's view of what red should look like"

Everything needs workarounds (Nikon, Leica, or Canon) and there are workarounds for

everything. If throwin money at it don't work, then you'd better cope with it. "Simple as

that."

Or check William Klein's New York. The opening shot of that book as well as a few others in

it are done with a long tele.

"Can you point us to a body of work that supports this?"

Why? It either works for ya or it doesn't.

Raoul,

You're pics are much more interesting than any list of rules could be, joke or not :P

Sorry guys - can't believe this thread is still going :P

Jeff, the battery life really depends. Someone posted that it was for 235 shots and I remember reading the same somewhere. I haven't tested it or anything but I've used it for a day of full on shooting without any probs. If you turn of the LCD in back it'll last longer. There is a function to do this is you are using the external VF.

It's quite small. Not gr-1 small but it's still a small pocketable cam - way smaller than the Hexar AF. The grip/feel of it is great too. RAW does take a while, but I, as well as a friend of mine who uses it quite a bit, find the jpegs to be fine. You can turn off the noise reduction so there's no smearing. I'll check back if there are any more q's.

Thanks guys. D White - at high ISO's, you can turn off the noise reduction. BTW, the A4

prints came out fine. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to print beyond this either.

Ian, you can see some more here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keinak/sets/72057594087660318/