Canoemagic wrote:
PROS AND CONS WHO HAS EXPERIENCE AND OPINIONS CANON EOS 6D MARKII VS. EOS R8.
EOS R8 vs.6D MarkII )want R5 with bottom and lots of lenses but have little money for cameras
First...welcome to the forum. It can be a helpful place, but it is important to understand the strong biases here before spending money based on the answers you get. I do not use Canon equipment, but do have a couple of suggestions that may be helpful to you.
Folks here are pretty strongly biased towards cameras that cost a lot and that have the most pixels or that do the best in low light. I would suggest that you think about why you want a full frame camera. If it is "just because," that is fine. Just make sure that you and we understand that.
The most current full frame cameras tend to have lots and lots of pixels. That is many times perfectly OK, but sometimes it is just an unnecessary burden. I have and use both full frame and crop frame equipment, but when I stop and choose intelligently, it's not the 45 mp full frame camera most of the time.
Full-frame offers real benefit when shooting wide angle. Is that what you do or want to do?
Gaining the benefits of a full frame camera will require new lenses. Any crop lenses you have will not mount on a full frame Canon. If money is tight, can you manage new lenses?
So my suggestion is to sit down and think about what you want to do. Your head is literally about to be twisted first one way and then another in response to your question. The good news is that the used market is flooded right now with nice used mirror box (DSLR) cameras. Once you decide, you should be able to get a pretty good deal on whatever camera you choose. Unfortubately, I have not found the same bonanza on lenses.
Best wishes as you search.
frangeo wrote:
I fully understand your position. Maybe we should have a separate section for pro's to eliminate some of the weird stuff I see on this site from photo demigods for not understanding what it takes in the real world rather than sitting in a blind waiting for the right bird to come by.
I would never want to banish the professionals. There are many important things to learn from them. They also are willing to undertake many unpleasant jobs so that I can decline requests politely.
But you are correct that as enthusiasts or amateurs, or whatever term you would choose to apply to the rest of us, we do face challenges that they do not, and, in fact, should not be required to. For instance, I have in the past worked very hard to find just the right spot to photograph trains...interesting surroundings, good quartering or three-quartering angle, sun on the engineer's side (the right side), and all the other things that matter. The only problem is that no one got word to the railroad that I was ready and waiting, and no trains came by until afternoon. But hopefully I can share some helpful safety tips, weather awareness, or even rattlesnake compatibility hints that might be useful.
I've learned over the years that the ideal friend is a person who shares enough interests to be compatible, but is enough different to be interesting. None of my friends are clones, and I wouldn't want folks on the forum to be clones, either. I can't imagine if I had to deal with someone like me for very long at a time.
So no, I don't support dividing us all up. We need to stick together and learn all we can from each other.
With apologies to the original poster, this question has provided me with several days of both humor and despair. It is remarkable that simple questions of procedure ALWAYS turn almost immediately into extended tirades of personal philosophies and almost scriptural sermonizing.
OP--I suggest you give it a try and see what works. Check for vignetting and make sure your polarizer still does what it needs to do. If you are still able to do your indoor shots, who cares if you've had to give up a stop or two?
We're doing photography here. There's absolutely no reason for that to come with all the grief and stress that this forum brings. It's intended to be fun.
alemorkam wrote:
Any recommendations for a flash kit for my Nikon D-500. Do mostly landscape photography but am getting into more portraits. Thanks.
I don't do many portraits, but still use my SB-800 with its diffusion dome on a CB-JR flash bracket when I do. This also requires a short hot shoe extension cable. I'm not sure that the bracket is still available new, but they can be found with some looking. Other brackets are available and work fine, but the Custom Bracket Junior has a nice range of adjustments to work properly in both horizontal and vertical orientation. I even use my SB-400 on the bracket sometimes. The secret is not so much the flash as getting it up and off the camera a foot or so and softening the light.
Rainman wrote:
Sorry, I can upload the error message if anyone’s interested. There’s no error with the battery that accompanied the camera, but all of my older batteries produce the error. I don’t think it’s a camera issue.
That is helpful information. It certainly sounds like your camera thinks your other batteries are incompatible, regardless of experiences that others may have had. My suggestion is your best next step is to call Nikon.
BassmanBruce wrote:
Launch at 8:07 pm, moonrise 6:39 pm so that works. But, what was the weather?
Photo pills to get close to the that is view desired, then visually line up while rocket is waiting go ahead. If photog has witnessed numerous pad 39-a launches this gets a little easier.
Shoot video and extract desired image. Possible? yes. Probable? Above my pay grade!
Weather would have to be mostly clear for a launch. The illumination of the moon looks pretty much correct for two days past full. So yes...it could be real. I am a little bit suspicious, however, of the perfect match of the size of the rocket to the diameter of the moon. It's just almost too good.
DaveyDitzer wrote:
Thank you to all of you (all y' all). Turned out it was the manipulation of the OK button (duh!) and I'm good now.
Wishing all of you the very best in the New Year.
Thanks for all the times you all have helped me in 2023 ... and have been patient for the times when I was technically a little behind the curve.
I always appreciate those times when there is a straightforward solution.
DaveyDitzer wrote:
This worked for the SD card, but not the CF Express Card. I can't find anything on the CF Express card that looks like a write protect tab.
I have two questions...why was your camera at Nikon for service, and what size is your CFE card? A bonus question would be whether the firmware got updated while the camera was at Nikon.
Architect1776 wrote:
I understand that we all have various amounts and types of photographic equipment.
Where do you keep the equipment? Some have 1 camera and others have a collection of every camera body from each brand and associated lenses.
So from a small bag in the corner to a dedicated vault with alarms.
I keep my current camera in a backpack along with a couple of lenses, a flash and a few accessories including cleaning materials. Tripod in the back of the Jeep. The rest is in 2 drawers in a small dresser. The " rest" are older cameras I have for collection, not all are functioning but fun to look at. Then a couple of very old ones on display on a bookshelf as conversation starters.
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I have two active full frame cameras and two (soon three) active DX cameras. The cameras, one each with a general purpose zoom and a trinity zoom, sit on a shelf ready to grab and go. The other FX lenses are in a rolling 40 liter camera case, and the other DX lenses (including a couple of full frame lenses assigned to DX service) are in a 20 liter Mind Shift backpack. Flash equipment, Pentax Spotmeter, and incident meter are in a separate "flight case." My tripod is in an umbrella stand by the door to the garage. There's a space for each of the cameras (well, maybe each but the one being added) in the respective case or pack.
robertjerl wrote:
OK, I have a strong hunch my wife thinks I mentally qualify as a pediatric patient.
You do realize that only two letters must be changed to get from pediatric to geriatric...
robertjerl wrote:
When I went to the RF system I got the RP for full frame (I don't do a lot of full frame.), simplified but not stunted and takes good pictures.
Then I got the R7 (R equivalent of 7DII) for my bird photography, and it is Excellent+.
I still have EFs= 5Div, 7DII, 80D, 90D. I will be thinning the herd, starting with the 90D. I may get rid of all the EFs, unless someone in the family wants one. All my EF lenses work on the RF bodies with the adapters, I have two.
I have been thinking just now (dangerous habit to get into) and maybe this year I will just get rid of all the EF bodies, some of my EF lenses-the ones I also have in RF and upgrade the RP to one of the higher end RF bodies. Should I keep the 5Div as a backup? Or maybe give it to our daughter. Jasmine has been using a T2i since it was her 2012 High School Graduation gift. Now she is a Pediatric Resident and mostly uses her cell phone. After residency, her life will not be so hectic and she might get back into photography as a hobby.
That will leave me using R7, a high-end RF FF and Sony RX10iv with my two adapters (one is the control ring model) and a pile of mixed EF lenses and my RF lenses. I also have 3 older bridge cameras I got from Good Will for $20 each=one in my car, one in my wife's car, one in the lock box on my street legal mobility scooter. Be out and about when suddenly a picture opportunity pops up-I have "a camera", besides my almost antique Panasonic ZS6 that lives in my shirt or jacket pocket full time.
Then there is my Wife's Canon SX50, now a few models behind but still a great bridge camera.
I think I need to make a cup of coffee and read or watch TV before I make some camera dealer a new millionaire. I am not going out photographing in the chilly rain today.
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Lots of folks are quite happy with their switch to mirrorless. A few, however, have expressed some second thoughts and misgivings. There might be some benefit taking an approach with somewhat less energy than a bison stampede. Plus, from what I can tell, the bloom is off the rose for selling right now. I think there is some wisdom in taking a couple of deep breaths first.
btbg wrote:
So the filter kept your lens from getting wet grass on it. Wow. Some protection. Use what you want, but the reality is unless you are in something like blowing sand that might really cause damage to a lens then all filters do is waste money and possibly degrade image quality.
Exception when a polarizing filter may stop glare or reflections as that is worth the risk of degrading the image quality. Same thing with neutral density filters as they make shots possible that you couldn't do otherwise. Clear and UV filters don't really do anything but make some people feel better, but it that's what you want go ahead. I don't use them but you are welcome to. Whatever floats your boat.
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Also read slowly and carefully and pay attention to what I say about UV filters vs. clear glass.
Good night, and may God bless.
btbg wrote:
Was there any damage to the filter? Because if there wasn't your anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything. Even if the filter was damaged, the little piece of flimsy metal that the filter glass is in bends and breaks much more easily than the end of a lens. Bend the metal the glass in the filter breaks.
Didn't say the filter saved anything. But the grass that was stuck to it could have been a rock that scratehed it. If you read what I have written, I clearly state and stipulate that a filter us not going to save a lens or anything else from catastrophic damage. That absolutely is not the same as saying that it provides no protection at all.
JD750 wrote:
Mine must be defective, it has very limited options and a ridiculously complex mechanism. Am I missing something here? I was expecting much more. I wish I had the option to buy the Z8 without it. I would rather not have a back screen, save the space and the potential unreliability, than have to put up with the abortion that is there now.
Full disclosure: I have many Nikon cameras and lenses I am a fan of the Nikon cameras and lenses. But Nikon's articulating screen design is just plain stupid.
Olympus has had a TRUE articulating screen for many years. Please see attached images for a proper articulating screen design.
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I may have missed something somewhere along the way, but I'm unaware of any high-tier Nikon camera, mirror box or mirrorless, that has ever had a fully articulating screen. Tilt screen only. That goes back at least to the D500 and D850. (The D810 had a fixed rear screen.)
With a little experimentation, I suspect that you can find an operating sequence that will provide easier movement of the screen. Try pulling it out a little at the bottom, then pull from the top.
Articulating screens are something of a mixed blessing. Many like them, but my friend who had the camera repair shop and worked on Canon, Sony, and Nikon cameras said that almost 80% of his repairs involved the rear screen. Replacement usually involved complete camera disassembly to access the main circuit board.
robertjerl wrote:
Yes, that would work. Though, Jasmine is too busy to do anything but carry her cell phone as a Pediatric Resident at one of LA County's larger medical centers (Harbor UCLA - one of UCLA Med School's teaching hospitals). And she says she will be able to afford whatever she wants when her career takes off. If she even wants to do photography as a hobby anymore by then. So I should just sell or trade for the RF gear I want as part of thinning the herd.
Her life will likely change significantly when she finishes her residency.