willio

what about 16-35/L or 24-70/L?

Why don't we see it in a more conservative way?

 

If you're comfortable shooting with your prefered brand you have more confident

shooting, more control, and more predictability with your results, regardless of Nikon/

Canon or many other brands out there, lens is one part of that process to help you

visualize--where most of the time technical specs are just no longer that relevant.

 

I know someone who uses all top Nikon lens/body and still ended up nowhere in his

shooting career, and one guy who uses a standard sigma zoom lens on an amateur canon

camera body shooting commercially virtually everywhere.

 

I believe there are more to this story somewhere in the world, this just one which coincides

with our topic of discussion.

 

Cheers,

Tom,

 

Wonderful shot you took there, could you share us your setup in more details, skin tones

look beautiful.

 

Ellis, sorry for interrupting the discussion, may seem out of place, but I'm grateful Lucas

posted his well thought setups, would you care sharing your SB setups?

 

Thanks.

Thanks for the tricks guys,

 

I guestimated that the e-ttl was the problem, so now we have the solution, I'll go get some

work done! :)

Peter,

 

This probably wont help much on the technical concerns but here's what I learned:

 

The extra budget of the high ends gives you far more possibilities and potential of any

image, it will bring you new paradigm of shootings, not only the qualities of the glass but

also the extra stops of the opening that makes it different sometimes.

 

Now for the question, I without doubt will get an 85/1.8, you simply dont need to zoom

when shooting portraits in studio and/or outdoor that much, and believe me you will want

a longer zoom for this, and 85 seems to be the normal lens for 1.6x cameras.

 

Hope this will help.

Thanks again G,

 

I believe you are right, so I think i'll make some calls to a local publishing house that

might have that calibration tool and will do what you suggested. At least it's worth the

look considering the switch option :)

 

Looking forward for that shots G, I'll keep checking your gallery for updates.

 

Cheers.

Lucas,

 

How does 550ex's TTL cope with the Photek Softlite? could you share your 500ex setups?

I'm considering of investing into portable flash instead of studio monolites could probably

use some of your experience on this. Thanks.

I did try to trigger basic studio lights (3-light setup) with a 550ex set as slave from my

camera mounted ST-E2, and to my disappointments there are apparent underexposure

despite the flash that fires from all 3 lights (one set as master others as slave).

 

I shot in e-TTL mode, and points the 550ex to my subject--as a fill light. I'll perhaps try

another setup and see how it works.

Giampiero,

 

Thanks for the kindly respond...we are looking forward about those suggestions you have

as well as others regarding this issue, however we realize somehow that it's a suicide

mission somehow, better off leveraging the two systems and sticks into one single brand

for the future.

 

As for the lighting modifiers, could you post some more pictures on your flash lighting

setups? We're looking into investing to that direction too, so might as well find some

precious insights from the expert?

 

Thanks again.

 

PS. I've checked your portfolio, brillian work!

Thanks everyone,

 

Phil, we do realize that we are asking almost the impossible here, we do found that we

were able to at least closely match the two with a bunch of adjustments in Photoshop, but

we don't want to do that for every picture out of hundreds.

 

Giampiero, appreciate the pointers, it gave us a new insight on how we can explore the

camera's potential, however what we were encountering were not inconsistency over one

camera, perhaps I should only point that it's a matter of color inconsistency over two

systems, just like what Phil suggested, wanted to learn if somebody else had this problem

to this, and what was their solution.

 

I saw your portfolio, you seem to have a good 550ex setup, what kind of power loss do

you experience with the Photek Softlighter setup? Does it have a flash mount or you need

a custom bracket? How well does it work?

 

Ilkka, I see that is one of an alternate ways we have thought of, but we would have to

shoot RAW in order to employ such solution from my understanding, we'll try that.

Hi everyone,

 

We're having serious color consistency issue with our cross-system workflow. Me & my

partner uses both Canon & Nikon, and have found that it's almost impossible to get

consistent results from the two cameras, in terms of color reproduction and exposure

consistency.

 

Cameras are Canon EOS 10D, 20D, D100 & D70, shoots mostly JPEGs and RAW, processed

with the two system's proprietary RAW processing system. We uses AdobeRGB exclusively.

 

Our questions are:

 

On-camera:

1) Can anyone share tips/pointers on what kind of on-camera settings/parameter that

leverage the two system's characteristic

 

Post production:

2) What processing method/workflow to get the closest possible match of color rendition

and overall image consistency

 

Any pointers would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Jim,

 

On the contrary, it doesn't work as good in outdoor, especially in bright sunlight area,

somehow it intereferes with the lightbeam, but condition is pretty much rare. I would say

that this is one of our smartest investment yet, 2nd to the canon system that we have for

more than 10 years...although I could be biased :)

Since you do have a full frame 1DSMII, I'd go with the 16-35/L, the only reason you should

consider 35f1.4 is either you dont have the 50/1.4, and/or using a camera with a 1.3 or

1.6 crop factor like the rest of us here.

 

16-35 is Godsend, it stays on with me 99% of the time.

You don't need cords at all, just equip yourself with enough batteries and clamps/

monopods to hold the 580s, with careful setups and time, you can match those $$$ studio

lighting at a fraction of the weight and size.

Looks promising, where in China did you buy it, and how much RMB was it? Could you also

share us some pics on the adapter? Kinda curious how a 10D fitted with a nikkor...

Randall,

 

I was a longtime user of the B&W film lucky (Lekai), my favorite is their best selling ASA400.

 

The reason I was using it was because it was such a P-I-T-A to look for a continuous supply of leading brand b&w film/processing, it was either overly priced, or simply not available.

 

To my experience, when properly processed/treated lucky may please you as much as your pocket, the film + chemicals etc was estimated around RMB10/roll, I still have a 5+yr old negative archives/print which is still in a good condition. The only bottomline was that you need to find your own solution to process/mix the chemicals to suits your needs, as the reference manual doesn't help much. Good luck.

I was in the same situation before, and decided to opt for multiple wireless flash system for the following reason compact/portability, issues. So I bought myself a wireless transmitter, canon's ST-E2 and 2 550ex, another one is coming soon, these flash system uses regular AA batteries, so I can just bring bunch of them and not to worry for power issues. With my type of work, location portraits, it serves me quite well so far. If portability and convenience is more important to you, nothing beats this system, otherwise, if you have people to help you around when you shoot, choose a bigger/bulky more heavyweight lightings...

You might want to check out Guanlong Photographic Supplies in downtown Shanghai. They have a camera service center in the 2nd floor of the shop, which is located at the Nanjing West Road (a couple blocks from the street between the 2 Peace Hotel building), but the last time I check, the staffs there dont speak much english, so you might want to bring a chinese friend along.

 

Good luck.

Marc, Jeff.

 

You guys inspired me.

 

I never used any Leica M cameras before, but my experience with manual slr tought me that my eyes were not capable of determining whether the images are in focus or not--I'm short-sighted with glasses, so I've learned how to trust my EOS AF System more than my eyes.

 

So my question is:

How well do those Leica Ms deal with short-sighted people? Is it better compared to any AF system? What's the turnover of razor sharp + unfocused images for you guys? How do you deal with a moving subject?

Daniel, I was faced with the same problem before, and I decided to give 550ex a go and never regret, it worth the dollars!

 

But It all comes back to your budget, and how would you use your flash. If you don't mind using a 3rd party flash which might not be compatible with future canon cameras, Sigma seems to be a winning choice. Otherwise 420ex is powerful enough if you plan to use it as a single flash on camera system.

 

If you are planning to use your flash more creatively, ie. wireless/multiple flash, a 550ex is a good early investment. YOu might also want to check out Metz 54 series flash, it's priced between 550ex and 420ex, and compatible with all cameras and uses its proprietary wireless system. Good luck.

Paypal doesn't include indonesia in the country list?!

Patrick,

 

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

 

After 6 years, I think it's time for me to contribute.

 

cheers,

BW

Patrick,

 

Yes it is. I'd like to use this account indeed. Thanks for the help!

 

ps. I'd have all my posting history merged too right?

 

cheers,

BW

Bob,

 

I understand about the possibility of those "screwups", that's why I recently logged in to all those accounts and updated the profiles to ensure that those are MY accounts. (the numbers represents each accounts' 'userid')

All,

 

Did somebody have multiple account problems in photo.net before?

 

I was registered back in Feb 1998, and was inactive since around 2000.

Having a comeback recently, i realized that one has multiple accounts.

I wonder how you dealt with it, and how can I consolidate my 4

accounts + forum posts, history, etc into one convenient place as the

FAQ page suggested? I've sent emails to webmaster-at-photo.net, and

feedback@.... but still no luck in consolidating those accounts.

 

I appreciate the help.

 

BW