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Yeah know what you mean bout craigslist. I sold my VW Touareg same day I listed it.

But then again, a guy in NYC got shot and dumped in his car trunk by a potential purchaser. Probably was trying to palm off a lemon

Some tax from yesterday.

https://photography-on-the.net …545187&stc=1&d=​1310851437

Cheers

Shane

PS Cant figure out how to link to a thread so if someone could help that would be great.

plusnq wrote in post #12772420
Some tax from yesterday.

https://photography-on-the.net …545187&stc=1&d=​1310851437

Cheers

Shane

PS Cant figure out how to link to a thread so if someone could help that would be great.

on the righthand side there is a post number, right click> copy link location > paste

very nice photo

You guys have been busy!

Back from my mountain climb this weekend! Still trying to dry out... this wasn't exactly the summer camping that I expected.

This was the "lake" we camped at...

MDJAK wrote in post #12767866
Here we go again, around and around the merry-go-round.
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So, fellas, all this talk about stunning and no comparison is a bit blow out of proportion, no?

There, I knew you'd agree.

+1

I've owned pretty much all of the Canon lenses, and have found them generally excellent. I've wished that I could blame my crappy pictures on equipment, but unfortunately that's not the case.

With as good as Nikon/Canon/Sony/Zeiss lenses are, any debate between them is really splitting hairs and generally irrelevant to the quality of our images (content).

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12771881
gotta love craigslist, i posted my kid's *** tonight, i just finished confirming the post and i had a buyer, they wanted to buy it for their pastor somewhere, i find the nicest people on craigslist

Craigslist is great. My wife decided we needed a new dining table one morning, found one and we bought it within a couple hours. Posted our old dining room table for sale that afternoon, sold it within a couple hours for exactly the same amount we bought the new table for. By the end of the day we had a new dining table (nicer too!) set up in our dining room for no money spent at all.

Sheldon N wrote in post #12773207
You guys have been busy!

Back from my mountain climb this weekend! Still trying to dry out... this wasn't exactly the summer camping that I expected.

This was the "lake" we camped at...

this was what the mountain looked like while we were climbing it, about the time that we turned around because of sleet/driving rain.

and it finally showed itself as we were leaving.

+1

I've owned pretty much all of the Canon lenses, and have found them generally excellent. I've wished that I could blame my crappy pictures on equipment, but unfortunately that's not the case.

With as good as Nikon/Canon/Sony/Zeiss lenses are, any debate between them is really splitting hairs and generally irrelevant to the quality of our images (content).

Craigslist is great. My wife decided we needed a new dining table one morning, found one and we bought it within a couple hours. Posted our old dining room table for sale that afternoon, sold it within a couple hours for exactly the same amount we bought the new table for. By the end of the day we had a new dining table (nicer too!) set up in our dining room for no money spent at all.

Wow, Sheldon.. pretty cool. You mean you didn't have a model and your lighting gear with you?

Sheldon N wrote in post #12773207
You guys have been busy!

Back from my mountain climb this weekend! Still trying to dry out... this wasn't exactly the summer camping that I expected.

This was the "lake" we camped at...

this was what the mountain looked like while we were climbing it, about the time that we turned around because of sleet/driving rain.

and it finally showed itself as we were leaving.

Pffft looks like where i live 10 months of the year , just kiddin, quite the adventure Sheldon

Sheldon N wrote in post #12773207
You guys have been busy!

Back from my mountain climb this weekend! Still trying to dry out... this wasn't exactly the summer camping that I expected.

This was the "lake" we camped at...

Looks great! Just got back from weekend in Norwegian mountains, just without snow

plusnq wrote in post #12772420
Some tax from yesterday.

https://photography-on-the.net …545187&stc=1&d=​1310851437

Cheers

Shane

PS Cant figure out how to link to a thread so if someone could help that would be great.

Looking good

Sheldon N wrote in post #12773207
You guys have been busy!

Back from my mountain climb this weekend! Still trying to dry out... this wasn't exactly the summer camping that I expected.

This was the "lake" we camped at...


this was what the mountain looked like while we were climbing it, about the time that we turned around because of sleet/driving rain.

+1

I've owned pretty much all of the Canon lenses, and have found them generally excellent. I've wished that I could blame my crappy pictures on equipment, but unfortunately that's not the case.

With as good as Nikon/Canon/Sony/Zeiss lenses are, any debate between them is really splitting hairs and generally irrelevant to the quality of our images (content).

Craigslist is great. My wife decided we needed a new dining table one morning, found one and we bought it within a couple hours. Posted our old dining room table for sale that afternoon, sold it within a couple hours for exactly the same amount we bought the new table for. By the end of the day we had a new dining table (nicer too!) set up in our dining room for no money spent at all.

Better you than me. I am a tropical person we do not do well in the cold.

Yeah for some reason furniture goes off well on that site.

sigma pi wrote in post #12773633
Yeah for some reason furniture goes off well on that site.

people actually list furniture in the photo/video section as it gets 50% more traffic than the rest of the site

they get almost as many posts as the Eli thread

I need to look on there for some furniture... I'm wanting an old victorian chair for senior pictures....

plusnq wrote in post #12772420
Some tax from yesterday.

https://photography-on-the.net …545187&stc=1&d=​1310851437

Cheers

Shane

PS Cant figure out how to link to a thread so if someone could help that would be great.

Cool pic! Love the lighting.

TMR Design wrote in post #12773254
Wow, Sheldon.. pretty cool. You mean you didn't have a model and your lighting gear with you?

Thanks, it was a pretty fun time!

I seriously thought about bringing some gear along, unfortunately all my buddies wouldn't be very cooperative models.

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12773665
people actually list furniture in the photo/video section as it gets 50% more traffic than the rest of the site

they get almost as many posts as the Eli thread

Yeah, there's a lot of photo gear that gets sold on Craigslist, sometimes you can find pretty good deals.

Just got to be careful not to buy anything that looks like it "fell off the back of a truck" somewhere.

aaron.dunlap wrote in post #12773769
I need to look on there for some furniture... I'm wanting an old victorian chair for senior pictures....

1000 posts! We're 1/10 there in just a week.

That would be pretty cool to have some furniture props like that. Something like a cool old chair or couch you could drag out to the middle of a field somewhere.

@ Shane, beautiful shot of your daughter, was that a stripbox?

@ Sheldon / Oskar, I really wish sometimes that I could trade the beaches for mountains / breathtaking scenery. We're really quite deprived for that type of scenery here, but we are very spoilt with some beautiful beaches / water systems.

I guess I was going a bit crazy with the brand swap idea, it's just it was extremely frustrating that I pay near $5000 for a flagship model, matched with top of the range lenses and a shoot is ruined due to a technical problem. I understand that not everything can be perfect, but it's the second time this camera has been back to Canon with less than 10,000 clicks on it.

Hopefully it comes back this week and I can rely on a camera that I really love and lose this feeling that something "might" go wrong.

Sheldon N wrote in post #12773207
I've owned pretty much all of the Canon lenses, and have found them generally excellent. I've wished that I could blame my crappy pictures on equipment, but unfortunately that's not the case.

With as good as Nikon/Canon/Sony/Zeiss lenses are, any debate between them is really splitting hairs and generally irrelevant to the quality of our images (content).

Nice adventure! Between picking mountains and beaches, i'm a beaches sort of guy but i do love mountains, preferably in the heat, when everyone is off to the beat Sheldon goes to the ice haha nice.

You know, i don't even bother really looking at the optical comparisons much, theres only 3 really important things that i notice and care about in a lens.

3-Corner/Center sharpness, some lenses are quite severe in this departement... but thats not a deal breaker....
2- CA, i can live with some but dislike it... so its 50/50 to tip the scales.
1- Inconsistent AF, this is not my fault, i was standing still pointing at their faces with enough light and click, oh its OOF, onetime shot, check, soft shutter check, oh there its back in focus. I gotta take 3 shots with refocusing just to be sure.

#%#@^%# Hate inconsistent focus, focus shifting is annoying but not nearly as annoying, i can sorta understand that and work around it, inconsistent focus is just a PITA. In the studio i now MF with a LCDVF, and go back to the VF via anglefinder for rapid successions.

TwoShoes wrote in post #12773906
@ Shane, beautiful shot of your daughter, was that a stripbox?

@ Sheldon / Oskar, I really wish sometimes that I could trade the beaches for mountains / breathtaking scenery. We're really quite deprived for that type of scenery here, but we are very spoilt with some beautiful beaches / water systems.

I guess I was going a bit crazy with the brand swap idea, it's just it was extremely frustrating that I pay near $5000 for a flagship model, matched with top of the range lenses and a shoot is ruined due to a technical problem. I understand that not everything can be perfect, but it's the second time this camera has been back to Canon with less than 10,000 clicks on it.

Hopefully it comes back this week and I can rely on a camera that I really love and lose this feeling that something "might" go wrong.

Csae wrote in post #12773977
Nice adventure! Between picking mountains and beaches, i'm a beaches sort of guy but i do love mountains, preferably in the heat, when everyone is off to the beat Sheldon goes to the ice haha nice.

You know, i don't even bother really looking at the optical comparisons much, theres only 3 really important things that i notice and care about in a lens.

3-Corner/Center sharpness, some lenses are quite severe in this departement... but thats not a deal breaker....
2- CA, i can live with some but dislike it... so its 50/50 to tip the scales.
1- Inconsistent AF, this is not my fault, i was standing still pointing at their faces with enough light and click, oh its OOF, onetime shot, check, soft shutter check, oh there its back in focus. I gotta take 3 shots with refocusing just to be sure.

#%#@^%# Hate inconsistent focus, focus shifting is annoying but not nearly as annoying, i can sorta understand that and work around it, inconsistent focus is just a PITA. In the studio i now MF with a LCDVF, and go back to the VF via anglefinder for rapid successions.

We've got both beaches and mountains within a hour and a half drive, so we're lucky that way! Nothing warm and tropical though...

I totally agree on the AF issue, if the camera can't nail autofocus then it doesn't matter whether the lens has no CA and super sharp corner performance.

If your 1D IV isn't hitting focus consistently in a relatively static shooting situation, then I'd agree that something is definitely wrong. Hopefully Canon will get it sorted out for you properly.

Or you could sell the 1D IV, keep a little cash and buy a 1Ds III.

I think you have me confused, i was complaining about my 24-70 focus, i could only wish to have a 1d 4, if only to sell it and buy a 1ds3 or 1ds2 5d2 combo. I probably would never buy a 1d series, i don't do sports.