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<p>I would like a "depth of field priority" mode, in addition to Aperture. Where I could set the depth of field, for example 1 foot, and the camera will use the distance to the current focus point and current focal length to set the aperture.<br>

It would be a bonus if it also adjusted the shutter and iso so I can get an exposure without hand held motion blur.</p>

<p>I'm telling my recent experience, in case someone will find it useful.</p>

<p>I've had my 5DII for almost 3 years. During that time, I would get occasional Err 20, maybe once every other month and didn't think twice about it. 10 days ago, the camera stopped working with a persistent Err 20.</p>

<p>I sent it to Canon repair in Irvine. FedEx said it got there on Tuesday morning, but it did not show up as "Received" until Friday noon. When I called the repair facility, they said it takes 3-5 days to show up in the system and there is nothing they can do until then.</p>

<p>An hour later, I got a repair estimate of $180 + $20 for shipping. I approved it right away and Monday morning I got a notification that it was fixed and shipped. Tuesday I got the FedEx tracking number and it says it will be delivered today.</p>

<p>In summary, it took 1 week and $200 to repair at the Canon service center in Irvine.</p>

<p>Just a note, the date in their emails is 0 (December 31, 1969), so it may be in the bottom or top of your inbox, depending on how you sort it.</p>

<p>Ryan,<br>

When I hear high contrast, I think of one of the following:<br>

1) unsharp mask, 35% effect, 250 radius, 0 threshold.<br>

or<br>

2) duplicate layer and set blending mode to soft light.</p>

<p>Anthony,<br>

You probably already know this, as you expressed interest in a partial moon, the dramatic full moon posters is the merging of two half moon images. During a full moon, the surface is flat, while it has the most contrast at half moon.</p>

<p>I wanted to buy some shirts at the flea market, $20 for 3 was the asking price. I asked my cousin if I should negotiate and get the price down to $18 for 3. He told me that you got to give something to get something, so make it $24 for 4, that way both parties win.</p>

<p>The first poster suggested offering a perk, such as a free 16x20 print. Instead, offer it at a discount, that way both of you get a little more out of the deal.</p>

<p>I did not read all the posts, so I may be repeating something already said....<br>

B is a standard size at 11x17.<br>

I heard it was Epson who first introduced the super B paper size, adding 1 inch margin to B size paper (13x19), so that B size prints are guranteed to print correctly.<br>

The other printer vendors followed.</p>

I would get guess that's it a failure in the imaging sensor, looks like a whole line is stuck at one pixel value.

Like someone wrote, don't send it to repair, exchange it where you bought it, you will get a camera back sooner.

TIFF files have 24 bits per pixel, or 3 bytes. 6M pixel * 3 bytes / pixel = 18M bytes.

RAW files have 14 bits per pixel and are lossley compressed, say 1.3 bytes. 10M pixel * 1.3 bytes / pixel = 13M bytes.

I hope that explains the file size difference.

To answer your question of which file has more information, the RAW files have more information in less bytes than the Nikon TIFF. Canon and Nikon sensors record one color per pixel and interporlate the other 2 colors to create a jpeg or tiff file. Ignoring the interpolated data, the TIFF files provide 6MP at 8 bits per pixel, compared to 10MP at 14 bits per pixel with RAW.

Half a year ago, my cousin asked me to photograph her wedding, I declined. However, I started reading this forum in an effort to learn more about wedding photography.

On the day of the wedding, I talked with the pro photographer, and he did not have any objections to me taking photos. I made an effort not to be in his way. As he was posing for the formals, I resisted the urge to ask my cousin to pose for me. I realised that the formals are covered, so I photographed other people. I did not resist, however, asking the photographer to photograph me with my cousin :)

After the wedding, I used snapfish to print a couple of albums, and gave one to my cousin. She loves it.

The moral of my story is, go to the wedding, have fun, take pictures and make an album for your friend.

This is how I create a white background.

I place my subject about 6 feet away from a whitish wall. I set the lights for the model at about 1/4 power and adjust the camera iso/exposure/f-stop until i'm satisfied with the exposure.

I turn off the lights on the model and take two additional lights and place them behind and to the side of the model. Without modifying the camera settings, I take pictures of the white wall (without the model), adjusting the output of the background lights until the histogram is all the way to the right.

I hope this helps.<div></div>