I read Shutterbug monthly and like the product reviews, descriptions on how photographers made their images, and tips.
Used Va. repair site twice and experienced excellent service both times, once for repair and once to borrow a camera body to try out. Very helpful, prompt, and skilled. Never used NJ.
Anyone have experience purchasing camera batteries or camera grips from this outfit? Recommendations if you have?
I liked explanations of card sizes, types, speeds, what I need to match when choosing a card, and where card tech is headed next. As usual, enjoyed the service that B&H provides to keep us pic takers informed and current.
I use this lens with my Canon 7D as a "walk around." I like to take candids of friends, relatives and events. But with this lens, I can also capture an occasional landscape whenever my vision of the surroundings create the urge.The 7D has a 1.6 crop, which I keep in mind. I shoot in RAW. In my opinion, this is a sensational lens-- tack sharp images, great depth of field control, versatile. A bit heavy and bulky, as L lenses tend to be, but rock solid construction and operation.
Had the exact same problem. Read the link and followed through, but that did not help. Canon suggested that I send it in for warranty repair.
This is how I solved the problem for now:
1. Used a fingernail to gently pry the flash up while activating the flash button; the flash came up with this extra help (Canon tech suggested that the spring might be too weak to pop up the flash)
2. With a tightly rolled Q-tip, I sprayed a small amount of WD-40 on a piece of paper, dipped the Q-tip into the pool of WD-40 and then, gingerly, wiped the inside rails and pivot points of the pop-up flash mechanism that is visible without dis-assembly. For me, this did the trick. The pop-up flash now does just that, i.e. pops up, when the button is pushed and the camera is in appropriate mode.
I was very careful to ensure that the Q-tip was tightly rolled so that no fibers would be left on the flash assembly and I was equally careful to ensure that the barest minimum of lubricant was applied.
Hope this helps.
Have owned one of these for about three years and found it to be very reliable. Color is vivid. Black and white may leave something to be desired, depending on your standards.
Thanks, everyone. Until this point I did not need to install the canon software, but I now know why I should have when I first got the camera.
I used RAW to edit photos and found that I had lots of options that made each image a tad better than as shot. AFter editing, I wanted to go to jpg, which I am doing image by image after converting the RAW image files to DNG so that I can see the image as a thumbnail.
I really appreciated the timely responses. I hope that I can return the favor at some time in the future.
Just a hobbyist who feels that he has gotten in over his head! Read about the advantages of shooting in RAW format, so I did last weekend at a family wedding (Canon 7D, 16gb card,). Loaded the card onto my MacbookPro using Camera RAW and Elements 8 and I got a series of blank, white thumbnails with the upper right corner turned down with a .CR2 extension, but no image. I can open images individually, convert to .DNG and from there to .jpg, but that is really labor intensive, especially since I shot hundreds of pics. Is there a way to view the photos more easily as thumbnails? Is there a way to convert to JPEG in batch mode? I would like to share some of the shots by email. I don't know if the average person can open images in .DNG format. Advice, techniques, and thoughts welcome. I can use the help.