Canon 1Ds Mark II review at luminous-landscape.com

[Olegis]

Enjoy yourselves 8)

http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/Canon-1ds-mkii-p1.shtml

[timmyquest]

Thanks, i'm asking for one for xmas but i'm not sure it'll happen.

[cmM]

I REFUSE to click that link. I really need my car :P

[Scottes]

I REFUSE to click that link. I really need my next 2 mortgage payments.

[DocFrankenstein]

I have NO PROBLEM on slicking that link. :twisted:

I don't have a car, house or a disposable income. :lol:

[chris.bailey]

Clicked it, read it, dont want one, really, well maybe......

[Olegis]

dont want one......

Somehow I do not believe you ... Any idea why ? :lol:

[Tom W]

I REFUSE to click that link. I really need my next 2 mortgage payments.

Next two???

Its about 10 for me.

[daveh]

Next two???

Its about 10 for me.

That's what I thought too - and then I looked at the location - Boston. Gulp!

Nice place to visit though! :D

[jhankins]

I've been checking BHPhoto every day, I see some folks saying the 20th is the release date. I'm traveling at the moment and hoping they don't release it before I get a chance to run and place my order and get lost in the shuffle for weeks. I want to put it to use immediately! :)

[Longwatcher]

Reliable rumor has it that it shipped from Canon to stores yesterday (Monday). I just wish I knew if it was UPS, FEDEX, USPS or something even slower.

Something changed though; BH went from "coming soon" to "out of stock" today. So it must be on its way.

Patience, must have patien.....Arghh, give me my camera, I want it now!!!!


P.S. It is about 14 house payments or 8 months of not spending.
Thank goodness I am still single.

[robekert]

I saw a post on another board about the 1DsMkII being in stock at B&H. I went to the site and the camera was "In Stock". My finger hovered over the "Buy" button. I fantasized about selling my 1DMKII and rolling the proceeds into a 1Ds. Only thing is I came up about $4500 short. I hit the refresh button for the page at some point and the stock status switched to "Comming Soon" Whew! I need my head examined. Ah, dare to dream. Somehow I will have to pacify my self with my ancient 1DMkII and a few "L" lenses.
Cheers,
Rob

[roanjohn]

.................its too heavy. NEXT!!!

:twisted:

Ro1

[BearSummer]

.................its too heavy. NEXT!!!

:twisted:

Ro1


Pah, its 50g lighter than the 1Ds, thats a good reason to get it. Solid blocks of unobtanium aren't automatically light.

Best Wishes

BearSummer

[CyberDyneSystems]

Aaaargh...

Now I'm fighting "The Click" :shock: :oops:

[cmM]

Aaaargh...

Now I'm fighting "The Click" :shock: :oops:

I bet $20 on "the click" :P

[Scottes]

I REFUSE to click that link. I really need my next 2 mortgage payments.

Next two???

Its about 10 for me.

You think that's bad? I refinanced about 6 months ago and knocked $800 off the monthly payment. Each month.


Oops: Just realized it was the 1Ds - make that 3 payments.


I really do have to move out of Boston. I hear about warm places, and want to go... But then I think about what I have - 2000+ miles of shoreline within 2 hours drive. 3 sets of "mountains" within 2 hours drive. 2 of the top 50 birding spots in the US with 2 hours drive. 2 more within 5 hours. The best darn foliage in the world. 2 of the best sports teams in the country, and the Bruins are *still* undefeated this year. Some of the oldest places in the US, and full of history. Simply gorgeous countryside once you get away from the city.

I have yet to find a part of the country that can give me the beauty of New England, and I'd miss this place every October.

[CyberDyneSystems]

There's still affordable property in Maine... :wink:


Oh yeah.. I clicked... :roll: :oops:

But I did NOT add one to the Shopping Cart :shock: :shock: :P

[johneo]

Thanks, i'm asking for one for xmas but i'm not sure it'll happen.

I was going to ask for one for Xmas too. Then I started thinking ... what if she starts getting curious about how much I've spent so far on my camera equipment? :shock:

I decided I'd ask for a few little, inexpensive, non camera things instead and have a Merry Xmas :lol:

[johneo]

I really do have to move out of Boston. I hear about warm places, and want to go... But then I think about what I have - 2000+ miles of shoreline within 2 hours drive. 3 sets of "mountains" within 2 hours drive. 2 of the top 50 birding spots in the US with 2 hours drive. 2 more within 5 hours. The best darn foliage in the world. 2 of the best sports teams in the country, and the Bruins are *still* undefeated this year. Some of the oldest places in the US, and full of history. Simply gorgeous countryside once you get away from the city.

I have yet to find a part of the country that can give me the beauty of New England, and I'd miss this place every October.

Geeee, you got me to feeling that I should move, that I was missing all that, then I realized I live only about an hour or so away from all the times you listed (except the shoreline ... that's minutes from my house :D )

Hmmmmm, 1Ds MkII minus travel and moving expenses? No, I really can't, should I?

You're right about living in New England! :D

[Tom W]

I don't want it - no popup flash.

come to think of it, where's the popup flash on the 1D-2? :)

[Scottes]

(except the shoreline ... that's minutes from my house)

Yeah, I spent 37 years with 1/2 mile of the ocean, and the last 10 years on a cove in Salem Harbor.

You're right about living in New England!

Ayuh! Love the place, hate the winter.


And yet there's some canuckleheads around here who live even further north! "10 months of winter and 2 months of lousy snow-shoeing."

[Tom W]

...
And yet there's some canuckleheads around here who live even further north! "10 months of winter and 2 months of lousy snow-shoeing."

What is this "snow" thing?

OK, we do get it here once in a while. Had plenty of it when I lived in Northeast Ohio.

[Jon]

Scottes - you considered down towards Providence? Winters seem milder south of the Cape and, while you may be further away from Plum Island, you're closer to Block Island.

I wish I was back in New England!

[Scottes]

Scottes - you considered down towards Providence? Winters seem milder south of the Cape and, while you may be further away from Plum Island, you're closer to Block Island.

I wish I was back in New England!

I don't like Rhode Island. It's too flat.

If I moved anywhere in NE it would be someplace like Rochester, NH. Only an hour to the White Mountains, Plum Island, or Portland, ME. That covers a lot of scenery and wildlife, no doubt.

Alas, being in the computer industry I'm much better off near Boston. You don't find many computer jobs in the White Mountains, and I like the freedom to pick and choose.

[booggerg]

I'd take a 1DMKII over this anyday...

wait I take that back...

but.....the high megapix count is a pain in the butt though... anything other than huge poster sized prints, such abundance of pixels are not needed, and it just eats up memory cards and is more taxing on the comp to post process.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I'd be happy to suffer through all that excess resolution.. :lol:

But I totally agree with you re: post processing horse power! When I switched from 10D ad 1D to the 1D MkII's 8.2 MP RAW files.. my workflow started to grind to a halt! A 16 bit tiff at that res is nearly 50 MB. Add a dupe layer and your near 100MB...

If I hadn't blown all this $$ on lenses I'd be in the market for a new PC right now just to keep up :)

With the 1DsMkII.. at DOUBLE the res of the 1D MkII??? :? :(

Definately time for a DUAL Opteron!

[Jon]

Rochester's not in the White Mountains, not by a fair piece. It's (was, 35 years ago, any way) a nice place though. Spent s aummer there in summer stock. And have you looked in the NW part of RI? I don't recall a lot more hilly terrain around Boston - just the same drumlins and moraines . . . Plus, not totally out of range of 128.

[johneo]

Scottes - you considered down towards Providence? Winters seem milder south of the Cape and, while you may be further away from Plum Island, you're closer to Block Island.

I wish I was back in New England!

That's why I don't mind the winter. It's not so bad as "up north" yet we do get some cold weather and some snow, just not a huge degree of either ... just enough! (then again, ask me about March ... :lol: )

I live just south of the middle of R.I. and I'm a couple minutes from the bay, 20 minute to Newport, 20 minutes to Providence, a little better than 2 hours to the NH mountains, a little better than 2 hours from New York (if I ever want to go there ... :? )

My favorite is being around the water and Narragansett bay ... the lighthouses, sailboats, beaches ... yet I live in the country even though I'm only minutes from the shore.

[Scottes]

Rochester's not in the White Mountains, not by a fair piece.

...like Rochester, NH. Only an hour to the White Mountains,...


And have you looked in the NW part of RI? I don't recall a lot more hilly terrain around Boston - just the same drumlins and moraines . . . Plus, not totally out of range of 128.

No, not much in the way of mountains or even hills where I am, but I'm a lot closer to them than RI. And I camp near Foster, so I'm fairly familiar the area. But I gotta have the mountains...

In any case, if I'm going to move it will be to some place with less winter and more spring & fall I guess. Moving 50 miles or 500 miles is pretty much the same in my book, so I might as well make it worthwhile.

[Jon]

Scottes - you considered down towards Providence? Winters seem milder south of the Cape and, while you may be further away from Plum Island, you're closer to Block Island.

I wish I was back in New England!

That's why I don't mind the winter. It's not so bad as "up north" yet we do get some cold weather and some snow, just not a huge degree of either ... just enough! (then again, ask me about March ... :lol: )

I live just south of the middle of R.I. and I'm a couple minutes from the bay, 20 minute to Newport, 20 minutes to Providence, a little better than 2 hours to the NH mountains, a little better than 2 hours from New York (if I ever want to go there ... :? )

My favorite is being around the water and Narragansett bay ... the lighthouses, sailboats, beaches ... yet I live in the country even though I'm only minutes from the shore.

I know - my father's from Cranston, so we spent vacations either in Meshanticut Park or around the cousins on Charlestown Pond. Then grad school at URI (lived on Ten Rod Road for one year, Wakefield the other 3). Gotta find some way to convince Ann that it's better than the South. She's got this strange thing about "cold"?

Scottes - think about the Blue Ridge and Appalachians of NC. Highest mountains in the East. Techie opportunities in the Piedmont at Charlotte, Winston-Salem, or the Research Triangle. Bit of a commute (4 hr. from RDU to the Blue Ridge; little over an hour from Winston-Salem).

[johneo]

... grad school at URI (lived on Ten Rod Road for one year, Wakefield the other 3).

OK ... I live about 3 miles from URI (wife works there, Math Dept) and about 4 or 5 from Wickford ... out near the turf farms.

Unfortunatly, it's the fastest growing area here in RI. It was very rural when we moved here in '76. Now it's getting very busy.

[Jon]

There goes the neighborhood! I used to bike in in the summer.

We musta overlapped; I finished in '77.

[Scottes]

Scottes - think about the Blue Ridge and Appalachians of NC. Highest mountains in the East. Techie opportunities in the Piedmont at Charlotte, Winston-Salem, or the Research Triangle. Bit of a commute (4 hr. from RDU to the Blue Ridge; little over an hour from Winston-Salem).

That is about the only area that I could consider. But what about birds? I'm sure that wildlife is plentiful, but there's no birding hotspots in NC...

I could deal with NC, just have to find some birding spots...


I once traveled to Raleigh NC for business. By the time I landed it had snowed about an inch, and the city started shutting down when it hit 2 inches. I was almost alone on the highway, doing about 65 mph while the 3 cars in the right lane were doing 25mph and the drivers were staring at me like I had 3 heads...

[Jon]

Shore birds you'll have to head for the coast - Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks. Pretty good range of climate-appropriate birds as you move through the zones up into the mountains, although no real hot spots, you're right. Still, lots of other wildlife from striped ground squirrels to bears, coyote, and elk. Research Triangle would have you 4-5 hours from either end of the state (it's a big state!) (Texas, no comments please or we'll let out all your natural gas and helium!).