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Jan 11, 2019 08:29:41   #
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Dec 30, 2018 11:10:15   #
JD750 wrote:
I was sitting outside on my patio, during the changing light / sweet light time, and this chopper flew over so I grabbed my camera (I make sure to ALWAYS have a camera within reach) and this is the result. It might not be 5-star or even 4-star but I thought, hmm it fails to suck. So I will post here and solicit comments.

All comments are welcome including "it sucks dude".


Overall I like it but I would consider some edits: adjusting the light to emphasize the helicopter (in Apple Photos this would be increasing the Brilliance), adjusting the darkness to darken the trees a little, and cropping some on the left side so the trees are still there but occupy less space in the image. I think that comes down to getting more emphasis on the ‘copter but having something in the foreground to give it context.
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Dec 1, 2018 09:37:15   #
grberg wrote:
I’ve read a lot of recent comments on various compact cameras here, but I may have missed feedback on the
Canon g5 x. I’m interested in a small travel camera. It seems to have everything I want in terms of focal range, viewfinder, manual and touch controls, etc. It’s a little big for most pockets, but I wear cargo shorts mostly so I think it’s size would be ok. Its getting a bit dated, but I’d like to hear from anyone who has used it. Thanks.


I don’t own one but have rented it several times. It’s a very nice camera. One small complaint is that the button for movies is under the thumb rest and I keep accidentally switching modes. It is getting on in camera years, so I’ve been looking for news of a MkII version. Two of its 1” stable mates—G7X and G9X have been updated so I figure the G5X should be due.

In classic UHH fashion, let me suggest you consider the G7X MkII. No built in EVF (and attachment) but the same optics and a newer processor that the G5X.

Good luck.
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Nov 14, 2018 08:02:30   #
I live close enough to the BorrowLenses east coast office to pick up in person so I use them most often. I use LensRentals when BL doesn’t have the camera or lens I am interested in. I have had excellent service from both and routinely recommend them in posts here to people trying to decide between two cameras.
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Nov 10, 2018 10:11:58   #
jerryc41 wrote:
I never heard about that war reparations story, but I guess anything is possible

On a related note, I was surprised to learn that at the start of WW II, the U. S. government was appealing to citizens to turn in their optical glass - lenses from cameras, binoculars, telescopes.


Not surprising about the military needing donated optical equipment when the war started. The U.S. Army went from about 270,000 in 1940 to 1,462,000 in 1941 and over 3 million in 1942. The Navy’s growth was a little slower, but personnel went from 161,000
in 1940 to 640,600 in 1942 and 1.7 million in 1943.

Going the other way, I was told that there was a boom in amateur astronomy after the war when a lot of the Navy’s big 50 and 70mm binoculars were sold as surplus.
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Nov 9, 2018 08:49:40   #
donwal wrote:
Would like to buy em-10 mark II or III
what lens should i buy with it....i would like to take some action
shots of boat races ....as well as other pictures
I could be as far as 300 feet from the action
and like most folks....i do not want to break the bank
Also ....are the refurbished cameras ok
Thanks to all for your help


I have an EM-10 Mk II and love it. I often use their 14-150 f4-5.6 II lens—not super fast, but nice reach and a good physical match for the M10 body. I can’t speak to your intended use for action shots, but if you’re going to be using a large telephoto lens or even the 12-40 f2.8 Pro I would suggest looking at a used EM-1 MkI (assuming you don’t want to spend $1500 for a MkII). The EM-10 body is pretty small and hard to handle if you mount a heavy lens. One other advantage of the EM-1 (either version) is that it’s weather sealed and probably better if there’s any chance of getting splashed. In any case, good luck.
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Nov 8, 2018 09:07:38   #
Wonderful music. Thanks for posting it.
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Nov 4, 2018 09:19:44   #
DelRae wrote:
I have a Canon T6i I want a second camera I have been doing Grand kids and other kids high School Soccer and Basketball games I am looking at the 77D and the 80D Which one is better for sports and just taking pictures.
1. I don't understand DIGIC 6 Image processor for 80D DIGIC 7 for 77D ???
2. 16xAPS-C for 80D or APS -C Image Sensor for 77D ????
3. 1/8000 to 30 sec for 80D and 1.4000 to 30 sec ???
I do have the Canon Lens that help out---
1. EF 70-200 f 2.8 L IS II USM this one I have been using for sports
2 EF 24-70mm f2.8 L II USM for pictures
3. EF 50 mm f/1.4 for pictures too
I just would like to get better pictures
I have a Canon T6i I want a second camera I have b... (show quote)


The picture quality is pretty much the same from both cameras. The 77D is noticeably lighter and the controls are closer to what you're used to on the T6i. The 80D has weather sealing and a few more dials. Your L-series lenses are fairly heavy so they might balance a bit better on the 80D. However, as EF lenses they also designed for full-frame cameras with larger sensors than the cameras you have mentioned. Although they are excellent lenses, I have usually found them a bit disappointing when I tried them on my old T1i and my 80D. (I hasten to add that lots of people would disagree me about the L lenses being disappointing on cameras like the 80D.)

If it is within your budget, I would suggest renting both cameras to see how you like them and in particular to see if you think the pictures you take are better than what you have now. I would also consider renting several EF-S lenses such as the 18-135 USM and/or the EF-S 17-55 F2.8 as possible replacements for your EF 24-70. The EF-S lenses are designed for the smaller APS-C sensors on the T6i, 77D and 80D.

Good luck.
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Nov 2, 2018 10:05:36   #
PHRubin wrote:
I mostly use my 80D. In both chimping or in DPP4 I can view the focus points with the one used highlighted. I have found, however, it is NOT highlighting where I focused in the field of view since I spot focus, then recompose. It is simply telling me which focus point I selected to spot focus with!

Is this true for all cameras and post processing programs that show and highlight focus points?


It seems to me that in effect you are composing the picture, focusing, then recomposing the picture and changing the focal point. As I understand it, locking the focus locks a focal range, but not a specific point. I think you need move the focal point to the desired position within the composition and then focus rather than creating a new composition after you focus.
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Oct 29, 2018 09:52:38   #
jaymatt wrote:
I have a Canon SL1, and I really like it because it’s so light to carry. It does not, though, do well at high ISO because of excessive grain. I’m wondering if anyone with an SL2 has the same experience, or is it also lacking at high ISO settings?

Or do I possibly need to move to a mirrorless to solve the problem?

Please don’t offer suggestions of moving to a heavier camera--I’m not interested because of some earlier health problems that have restricted my carrying capabilities.


The SL2 has the same sensor as the 80D that I own and a newer Digic 7 processor, so I assume high ISO performance is about the same. For my taste the images are great up to ISO 800, fine up to ISO 1600 and usually okay at 3200. I generally keep my maximum ISO settings at 1600, and I don’t do any noise reduction in editing. Of course you might be more demanding in your assessment or requirements. The Canon APSC M5, M6 and M100 mirrorless cameras all use this sensor/processor. The M50 has the same sensor but a Digic 8 processor. It will add to the total cost, but I always suggest trying to rent before buying. I use LensRentals or BorrowLenses and both are great.
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Oct 22, 2018 09:45:25   #
[quote=markwilliam1]With all the major players going mirrorless is this the slow end for DSLRs?[/quote

Of course there’s no way to know. To cite some more or less analogous technological changes: the car replaced the horse and buggy, but radios did not disappear with the advent of television, and jet engines replaced piston engines in some types of aircraft but not others, and as someone else said, the tablet did not replace the laptop or the desktop computer. In recorded music we went from analog to digital, and then through various form of digital, but oddly enough analog recording remain as a very high end niche market. You can choose which one you think applies to cameras.

For photography, I would say the move from film to digital was a revolutionary change, but DSLR to mirrorless isn’t, and film remains a high end niche. My guess is that DSLRs will keep a respectable market share as long as Canon, Nikon and/or Pentax are investing in continuously improving them. Of course that’s circular, since if/when DSLR sales don’t justify the ongoing investment from two or three companies, they’ll become another niche product. In other words, as I said at the start, there’s no way to know how this will end up.
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Oct 15, 2018 10:01:30   #
DaveMM wrote:
I don't know whether you are talking about photos taken with the iPad, but in my case I am taking photos on a camera or a smartphone, editing them in Elements and exporting the ones I want onto the iPad then organising them into albums. In this case, the Photos part shows the date on which I exported them to the iPad and the Album shows them in the date order in which they were saved after editing.


In my case the photos were loaded on the iPad directly from the camera and then edited so that probably accounts for the difference.
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Oct 14, 2018 09:53:24   #
DaveMM wrote:
I have just moved to an iPad and started to load my holiday pictures on it to show to friends. I have put them in different directories, so can select a single topic or area. However, using Apples built-in Photos App the photos in any directory display in file-date order, i.e. the date and time when when I edited them, not when I took them.

Can anyone please tell me how I can show the pictures in date-taken order (or at the very least filename order, as I could do on Android, as I always keep the IMG_XXXX of the original filename as the start of the edited filename). Can this be done in Apple's Photos, or can anyone recommend another App which does this.

Thanks in advance - UHH members have usually come up with solutions for my previous questions.

Dave
I have just moved to an iPad and started to load m... (show quote)


I may be missing something but on my iPad there are two indexing systems: Photos, which is chronological by date taken, or Albums, which shows the albums you have created plus a generic Camera Roll album. As far as I can tell, edited pictures in Photos stay in order of date taken, even if you create a duplicate for editing.
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Oct 1, 2018 13:33:40   #
Great shot. Thanks for posting.
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Sep 24, 2018 17:22:59   #
Desert Gecko wrote:
As others have so aptly answered, it depends. China is perfectly capable of producing high-quality goods -- and it does -- but a lot of junk comes out of China as well.

It depends on the name behind the product. Some manufacturers take advantage of cheap labor/costs and a generally favorable exchange rate while holding their manufacturer to a high standard of quality.

Until about 15 years ago, I managed a re-manufacturing plant here in the U.S. Many of the items we rebuilt were of Japanese origin with components made in China. When no U.S. components were available, I sourced them from a contact in Taiwan and direct-imported OEM components from China through this contact. In some cases, though, a poorly-designed OEM component was the cause of unit failure, and we would never replace a faulty component with an identical one destined for early failure, so we had them manufactured.

As an example, a best-selling, early '90s Japanese car used an ignition distributor with a sealed bearing that had been designed with balls too large and a race too thin. The bearing wore out prematurely, usually after 20-30k miles, causing the distributor to fail and the car to die until a replacement distributor could be had. As an emissions component, federal law mandated 50,000 miles warranty, so the auto manufacturer issued a recall and began replacing them by the tens of thousands. We had already been buying the cores of this distributor for a pittance to salvage components to use in rebuilding similar distributors, so we were sitting on tons of them, distributors that needed only a thorough cleaning and a new bearing to appear and to function as new.

The bearing was an odd size with unique ID/OD/W specs that nothing came close to matching, so we sent our specs to our Taiwanese contact to have them manufactured. Before long, we got our redesigned, high-quality bearings and started selling thousands of these distributors. Many dealers -- who would never buy a rebuilt product from a third party for its own brand -- bought these from us, and others bought them indirectly through a couple national auto parts chains we co-supplied because the distributors were on nationwide back order everywhere else, including from the dealer. For what it's worth, we did not adjust our price (no price gouging). As it was, I delighted in the already unusually large profit these units garnered at our regular price.

I left the company eight years or so later and don't recall even one of those distributors coming back with a bad bearing. So yes, there is good quality merchandise coming out of China. The problem isn't China per se, but it is those that source the merchandise.
As others have so aptly answered, it depends. Chin... (show quote)


One of the best things I have seen on this topic. Thanks for posting.
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