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Apr 23, 2018 13:14:44   #
bsprague wrote:
NIK is very popular here on UHH. I think I'll start a topic....

So 'NIK' is more popular than 'DxO'? I hadn't realized that - but the thread you started does seem to be drawing more attention than this one. Personally, I'm always fascinated by DxOMark test results.
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Apr 23, 2018 11:16:13   #
bsprague wrote:
http://www.canonrumors.com/industry-news-dxo-labs-goes-into-receivership/

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/23/dxo-labs-facing-severe-financial-difficulties-dxomark-unaffected/

" A new version of Nik Collection software was being planned by DxO Labs after the suite was acquired from Google just last year, but that looks uncertain now. "

I worked for a defense contractor that was acquired by a previous competitor. Several years later management amazed engineers by admitting integrating the two organizations was much more difficult than they had expected, and eventually I was laid off along with many others {for awhile, the informal slogan was "cash is king"}. I wonder how often this sort of thing happens.
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Apr 23, 2018 08:59:42   #
I can't post a link right now because of management's "do not post verified info where people might see it policy", but apparently DxO Labs is having financial issues. Is some of this entity's cash inflow used to keep DxOMark going?? - that could partially explain why we've heard nothing from DxOMark about the Pentax KP, which has been out for a year now.
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Apr 22, 2018 23:24:40   #
Soul Dr. wrote:
Those Pentax Qs are pretty amazing little
mirrorless cameras.
I have the original Q, got it when it first came out. I have fun using it with my Pentax K lenses and my Pentax Auto 110 lenses.

I originally got my Q-7 for situations like this after seeing what Linda From Maine and others were able to accomplish with their SX-50's
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Apr 22, 2018 22:10:43   #
Today, my wife and I went to a county park where a pair of eagles have been nesting in recent years. The authorities (*) have it carefully arranged, with a path from the back leading up to a small shelter quite some distance from the nest, so the presence of people won't cause the eagles to abandon their nest {and the fledglings in it}. My K-30 + 55-300mm lens {giving '35mm equiv' of 450mm} wasn't up to this task, but I had brought my 4.65-crop Q-7 with me, giving me '35mm equiv' of nearly 1400mm with the 300mm lens. I backed it off to a '35mm equiv' of more like 1100mm, because I wanted to show the massive nest in its entirety; when I looked at these images on my computer screen, I discover that I had also caught the "eagle cam", at the very top center of this image.

(*) the path starts in the park, but the nest and viewing shelter seem to be on property belonging to an environmental research arm of Notre Dame University.


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Apr 22, 2018 07:40:25   #
Winslowe wrote:
If Walgreens starts selling them, they'll be next to the Geritol!

MILC? I don't understand your comment. You need to use 'Quote Reply' to provide context. We old guys, who have been using (D)SLR for thirty or more years, seem to be most attached to the mirrored cameras.
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Apr 21, 2018 20:07:24   #
broncomaniac wrote:
It was made for Sears for Canon fit, in Korea. The ring is indeed the one in question. It doesn't come close to fitting my camera and does in fact fit inside the mount.

Most likely this is an FD-mount, the Canon mount that preceded EF-mount. If Sears is involved I'm thinking that you'd be better off sticking with more modern stuff - but if this is a matter of curiosity ...
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Apr 21, 2018 19:19:53   #
broncomaniac wrote:
I have no idea. I cant answer any of those questions as I was given this lens. There is a ring at the mount, which rotates and clicks. I believe that ring is what you speak of. I qspotted the letters MD on the lens just now. Thank you for your involvement, truly.

An 'aperture ring' would have numbers like 5.6, 8, 11 on it.

Does the lens actually say 'Canon' ... or 'Minolta' .... on it?
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Apr 21, 2018 18:20:18   #
broncomaniac wrote:
The inside of the rear cap says "M" so I'm guessing it is an M mount lens. It is smaller than my EF-S. It would fit inside of my 77D mount. Unfortunately all I can find are adapters to use M mount cameras with EF-S lenses and nothing to do the opposite. I know nothing of this lens nor does the original owner, and I'm flying blind. Might be beating a dead horse, too.

Maybe there is no such adapter because the results would be unwelcome. I'm truly ignorant on this type of thing. Pardon.
The inside of the rear cap says "M" so I... (show quote)

If it would fits inside the mount on your 77D, it is not a EF lens.

Does this lens have an aperture ring?

How large was the original body?

Roughly how old was the original body?
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Apr 21, 2018 17:32:07   #
broncomaniac wrote:
I have a lens that was mounted to a Canon Elan Ii EOS body. I'm wondering if anyone can direct me to an adapter that will permit use on an Canon EF-S mount camera. I've attempted some research to no avail. Any tips would be greatly appreciated, if there is such a device. I've got nothing invested in the lens but it's interesting-looking and I'd like to try it out if possible. Thank you.

You shouldn't need an adapter. As far as I know, every camera with an EF-S mount also can take EF mount lenses. Look at your camera body - it should have two index marks ..... a white one for mounting EF-S lenses and an orange one for mounting EF lenses.

added: I had/have an original Elan. When I finally went digital, I purchased an EF-S mount camera, a Rebel, because the 'kit' lens from that camera plus the EF lenses from the Elan gave what I needed at the time. Regrettably, I had two Rebels in a row fail me, so both ended up in the dump, so I cannot show you a picture of how EF lenses mounted - but they did.
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Apr 21, 2018 15:56:38   #
mwsilvers wrote:
I was not referring to mirrorless technology as a niche market. I was referring specifically to professional level Sony cameras as still a niche market due to its current market saturation. It's quite reasonable that over time Sony will become the professional market leader assuming that Canon and Nikon are unable to compete effectively in the mirrorless market. Since Sony currently has a great advantage there, Nikon and Canon have a lot of catching up to do. And if ultimately Sony's cameras are adopted by consumers and Pros because they are superior products, there's nothing wrong with that. I am not a Canon or Nikon fanboy and have no emotional attachment to either company.
I was not referring to mirrorless technology as a ... (show quote)

As far as I know, Nikon the company is still recovering from their recent financial issues - they have the toughest path. Sony has more MILC experience; Canon has all those wonderful EF lenses out there. I believe MILC will be the eventual "winner", but at age 70 I may not live long enough to see how it all shakes out.
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Apr 21, 2018 15:27:32   #
Just about three years ago, I found myself looking at lots of cameras in a short period of time, because my Canon Rebel had unexpectedly died. I ended up getting a Pentax {DSLR, of course} for several reasons:

(1) my first two SLR's had been Pentax, and I retained fondness for the brand

(2) my first two SLR's had been Pentax, and I still had useable K-mount lenses

(3) I felt very comfortable with Pentax controls

but my second choice was Sony. I haven't looked at cameras since then, but my sense is that their controls have improved since then. If I were younger {I'm 70 now}, with no or little history, neither fond of Pentax nor wounded by Canon {I had processor issues with two straight Rebels} I'm not certain what kind of decision I would make today.
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Apr 21, 2018 13:03:07   #
billnikon wrote:
I shoot with a Canon guy here in Florida that has just semi switched to a Sony with a 100-400 mm lens and it shoots at 20 FPS, it is hard for me to get my head around that speed. Plus, he can switch to silent mode and you don't hear a thing, kind of weird.

I could go for silent if it truly is a global shutter, but nothing in my world happens in 0.05 second. My camera does 6fps, but most of the time I have it down to 3fps if I use burst mode at all - I just don't need the bother of a bunch of nearly identical images to page through.
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Apr 21, 2018 08:40:20   #
Reinaldokool wrote:
Tiny sensor. When they zoom, it is by cutting off pixels. Image quality suffers. But most of those folk will be sharing their snapshots in tiny jpeg that will be viewed, at best, on a portion of a laptop screen. They will be happy. A photographer will not.

This is not what the OP asked, but since you just had to say this ..... a true photographer is interested in the overall picture, and looking at it with a magnifying glass is not appropriate. People periodically say "It's the photographer, not the equipment", and then we get bogged down in one of these silly discussions.
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Apr 20, 2018 21:07:35   #
CHG_CANON wrote:
I just finished posting some examples from the Butterfly Haven at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. I've only been once before and when checking hours on their site, I found Thursdays are free for IL residents. I figured maybe more crowded, but 10am to mid afternoon, it was a continuous stream of pint-sized visitors. I can see how some of the winged ones might have felt like the toys in the daycare in Toy Story III...

I've rented a Sony A7II for the week and purchased a Metabones FD - E mount T. I have several FD L lens that are just not getting the work. I'm finding I favor my EOS 1v for film work with EF lenses. Seeing what the manual focus lenses will do on a digital body is an effort to either divest of the FD mount equipment or to see if they're a viable option mounted to Sony.

I'm impressed so far. The aperture is manual on the lens. For ISO and shutter, I can manage these with the camera to the eye with the details in the view finder. The biggest + is the subtle shimmer for the plane of focus in the EVF (electronic view finder). Although you can zoom the focus in the EVF, I found the zoom shaky and not stabilized making the focus via the manual lens a bit problematic. But, getting the focus "right enough" via the EVF zoom and then watching the simmer zoomed out via the EVF, I found the results from this set-up to be comparable, if not interchangeable, to my AF lenses and EOS 5DIII. I think with some more practice, I've found a viable platform for the manual focus lenses.

The images shared in the Photo Gallery are all but one from the New FD135mm f/2. The Sony doesn't capture the aperture so you have to guess at the approx aperture from the DOF of the image. I used a Canon Extension Tube FD 25mm to reduce the minimum focal distance to about 30 inches on the FDn 135, good for when I could get near a butterfly or moth, but useless otherwise. The images mix between the tube off and on, I have no way to know except guessing. The final moth image is the New FD50mm f/1.2L that can focus much closer at about 18-inches.

Overall Pluses

The in-camera stabilization had every image sharp. Any failures / throwaways are my focus abilities, not camera shake. I was shooting 90% from a monopod and kept the SS around the 1/focal length. More testing will be needed on my ability to handhold at slower shutters.

The ability to manually tune the stabilization to the lens focal length is a wonderful tool.

The noise grain is manageable with LR and Topaz Denoise. Although, the settings needed to be tuned to the Sony characteristics that differ from my existing Canon presets.

The camera and lenses are smaller, even with the Metabones that adds some length to the lens.

Overall Minus

I'll have to learn the menus and see what I can customize. I haven't yet found a low-speed continuous shoot. I also couldn't figure out what nor why the EVF shows the last image sometimes and continues to shoot at other times. Too many times when I wanted a run of images, the camera wasn't shooting and instead was showing me the details of the last image.

Also, putting the lens to the Metabones to the camera takes a good deal of care to assure everything is aligned and properly locked together. Not recognizing some near misses, I had a lens falling off the camera more than once, but thankfully, each time was only a near miss and no actual disasters.

I'd also like the EVF zoom to jump straight to say 50% or maybe 75%. If I can't do this, I guess just more practice is needed with what the EVF can do.
I just finished posting some examples from the But... (show quote)

Two questions:

(1) Is the "shimmering" a form of 'focus peaking'?

(2)What do you think of the build quality of the Metabones adapter?
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