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How about more and more fun with Canon...

dmeckert

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picked up a canon 5D yesterday. i'm a nikon shooter, but i've always been curious about it. i think of it as sort of a landmark camera, for what it accomplished and represented. it was too good a deal, and i'm currently transitioning nikon bodies (d700 --> ???).

went out with a model i met recently to test out the camera, have a little fun, and bulk up his portfolio a little.

i'm AMAZED primarily at how different it is working with canon files. it's like speaking a different language. ISO 1600 is pretty impressive for a camera released when it was...nowhere near d700 level imho, but very good none the less. the canon files have a different rendering as well...i'm using a 50/1.8 version 1 (SO MUCH DISTORTION, but otherwise awesome). AF isn't as anything as bad as it would seem from the way people talk.

anywho...enough blabbering. photos:

















all shot at ISO 1600, f/2.8, and between 1/60 and 1/125. color graded, but not retouched.
 

jusu

New member
All seems to have jumped to nikon section but i will continue posting still here pictures taken with canon even im going jump mf club.

 

dmeckert

New member
The school I teach at was changing light fixtures in the gym. I saw the huge white parabolic shells just laying there, ready to br recycled into pencil sharpeners or something, and something clicked. So I rescued a couple. Had a buddy who does metal work modify them to take a balcar/PCB mount.

Here's the beast:



And here's the light it throws:



Photo, apart from crop and 3 zits removed, is straight out of the camera (5Dc + LR3 with no adjustments). I'm completely smitten.
 

dmeckert

New member
Nice Daves. Great idea. How about a pic of the back of "the beast.


:D

as far as attachment, it's just got four screws with washers clamping on a standard speedring mount adapter...similar to the mola adapters. i plan on sanding the outside and painting it a semi-matte black.

In the ground is a diffusion panel of some sort. Softens the specular highlights a bit, but retains a very similar feel.
 
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