All about Canon

[Bob Wright]

I have a new canon 50D and use RAW. What is the best Adobe package - just for basic photography, not video , etc? Elements 6 does not seem or wan to work. Should I upgrade to Elements 8 or buy a full CS3 or CS4 package? Any advice much appreciated.

[Inspeqtor]

Originally Posted by Bob Wright

I have a new canon 50D and use RAW. What is the best Adobe package - just for basic photography, not video , etc? Elements 6 does not seem or wan to work. Should I upgrade to Elements 8 or buy a full CS3 or CS4 package? Any advice much appreciated.

For good advice on Elements (any version) go to www.elementsvillage.com

Don't give up on Elements just yet.

[Canon4Ever]

Whats the real reason for Discontinuing the Canon PowerShot Digital Camera's I Loved them

[Ridgy]

Thanks for taking the time to do the research on this

[hando]

Is this one on your list somewhere?
http://www.gallery1.co.uk/Canon_Reference_Data/

[ThatTeenPhotographer]

Thank you for the pictures styles link, I shoot raw, but I use DPP so that'll be nice to have those extra few

[sophierazi]

Thanks for sharing... helpful for beginners

[Inspeqtor]

Originally Posted by warnerbob18

I am new in this field and i even do not know how to blur image using Camera but i love blurred images.
i am currently using Canon EOS Rebel T3. Can any one tell me how to blur image using this camera..?

READ THIS.... that will help.

[lcsproductions]

I have a question about Cannon lenses and need some help. It is not for me as I am not a photographer but a production manager trying to solve a problem for a Director of Photography.

Question:

Do Cannon lenses say a 50mm 1.2- are they pre set to full open? As opposed to Nikon lenses automatic setting. He is looking to shoot full open and put his own ND's on.

Or if you get older lenses like a 50mm 1.0 or 50mm .95 can you alter the aperature on them so they are and remain full open? Would these be EF mount lenses?

Lots of questions for a newb and I might not understand your answers but I appreciate any help going forward.

Thanks
LCS Productions

[facedodge]

Originally Posted by lcsproductions

I have a question about Cannon lenses and need some help. It is not for me as I am not a photographer but a production manager trying to solve a problem for a Director of Photography.

Question:

Do Cannon lenses say a 50mm 1.2- are they pre set to full open? As opposed to Nikon lenses automatic setting. He is looking to shoot full open and put his own ND's on.

Or if you get older lenses like a 50mm 1.0 or 50mm .95 can you alter the aperature on them so they are and remain full open? Would these be EF mount lenses?

Lots of questions for a newb and I might not understand your answers but I appreciate any help going forward.

Thanks
LCS Productions

Not sure exactly what you are asking here.... When you take most cannon lenses off the camera, they will be at their largest aperture setting. There is a way around this by holding the Depth of Field Preview button while removing the lens. This will lock the aperture to whatever setting the camera had been set to.

When you put a lens on your camera, it will typically stay at wide open until you release the shutter or hold the DOF preview button, assuming you selected a smaller aperture on the camera. This helps focus and allows for a brighter optical viewfinder.

Did I answer your question?

Bottom line, if you want wide open shots, there is no trick to learn to do so. Set the camera to Av or M, Select the widest aperture (Lowest F-stop value), and shoot away.

[tonylong]

Originally Posted by lcsproductions

I have a question about Cannon lenses and need some help. It is not for me as I am not a photographer but a production manager trying to solve a problem for a Director of Photography.

Question:

Do Cannon lenses say a 50mm 1.2- are they pre set to full open? As opposed to Nikon lenses automatic setting. He is looking to shoot full open and put his own ND's on.

A Canon EF lens such as the 50mm f/1.2 "L" lens "communicates" with a Canon EOS camera to adjust the aperture and also to acheive Auto Focus (AF), all automatically.

So, the way it works is the lens is "wide open" when you view your scene through the viewfinder and half-press to meter the scene and to focus (assuming you are using the default shutter button focus). During this time the lens is working with the camera to do the AF. When you fully press to take the shot the lens then adjusts the aperture according to your exposure setting.

The one way of getting a "real-time" aperture setting is to press the Depth Of Field Preview button. You can then see through the viewfinder or on the rear screen using Live View the relative effect of the narrower aperture.

Or if you get older lenses like a 50mm 1.0 or 50mm .95 can you alter the aperature on them so they are and remain full open? Would these be EF mount lenses?

I've never used older lenses (non-EF lenses) but if you have one I believe you need a special adapter to fit an EOS camera. And like you supposed, everything would be manual -- changing the aperture as well as focusing, since an EF lens is required to "communicate" with an EOS camera.

Lots of questions for a newb and I might not understand your answers but I appreciate any help going forward.

Thanks
LCS Productions

Welcome to the forum! Hope we have helped!

[Tom Reichner]

Great post, but the title may be a bit misleading.

"All About Canon" infers that the post will provide a lot of information about the company. Yet when reading the post, I realized that you only include information about Canon's imaging division.

Canon is an enormous corporation, and making cameras and lenses is only a very small part of the corporation's overall production. They could ditch the whole photography division and it would only register as a small hiccup to their overall gross earnings.

A post that truly told "all about Canon" would include far, far more than info about their photographic products.

[JagdishMistry]

hi, i am new on this forum, i see your link about canon...all sites are so useful..

[recrisp]

Originally Posted by ssim

I have now updated the links in the original post. They are all working (at least for me) as of 01 October 09. If you find anything that is broken or you have something to add please send me a pm and I will put it in. A PM will ensure that I get it as I don't come back and read the thread all that often.

Sheldon,

I've been a member her for a while, but today's the first time I actually clicked on this link to see what it was. Seeing ALL of this information, and knowing how time consuming it can be to make, I really want you to know that I sincerely appreciate what you have done, you saved all of us a lot of searching, should we want, or need to know.
Only yesterday I was wondering about when a couple of the cameras came out, and lo, and behold...

Thank you, I mean it too, that is a nice thing that you've done.

Randy