Canon 60D Users, Unite! (2)

nrowensby wrote in post #13308673
Do you have anything besides the 50/1.4?

Nope, only just picked up the camera with the lens this weekend.

AdamAsh wrote in post #13308654
Some fantastic shots here. I love looking through all these posts on the forum.

I need some further advice. I'm looking to purchase a wide angle lens now, to complement my 60d. I have the 50mm f/1.4 but need more image real estate.

The three main ones I've come across are, in price order, these:

Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM - around £400
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 - around £570
Canon EF 10-22mm F/3.5-4.5 USM - around £640

Can anyone give me some opinions on these? I've looked through the lens test forums at all three, but to be honest, to my--as yet--untrained eye, I don't notice too much difference in the quality. What I have read is that the Sigma could be prone to problems around image softness etc.

Thanks

i am currently using tokina 11-16 (was a bday present from friends), great lens, sharp, constant f2.8, but very flare prone, if i were to get a new lens now i would probably pick canon 10-22

You could try out a cheap 18-55 and see how much wider you feel you need... It's an easy sub-100 test.

Shot this last night. This was the best of the bunch. Hard to get a good shot from a moving boat. Did some PP to remove noise. 24-105MM L

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LaCeS OuT wrote in post #13308737
Shot this last night. This was the best of the bunch. Hard to get a good shot from a moving boat. Did some PP to remove noise. 24-105MM L

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I do not like how these came out. The WB specifically. I forgot my WB card and I used the garage doors for custom but even with some tweaking of the RAW I couldn't get it right. Criticism welcome.

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Like the statue of liberty!

It seems to me that all of the car shots have a green tint to them. I'd say shift to magenta a good amount in the RAW files and that might do the trick.

6 days till my first NHL credential!

Getting excited!

But I have a boring rehearsal dinner to shoot on friday...lame

triton3k wrote in post #13308087
wonderful pics Corey. Which lens was used for those pics?

Thanks! Used the 70-200mm 2.8 MKII.

Drewc2010 wrote in post #13308900
6 days till my first NHL credential!

Getting excited!

But I have a boring rehearsal dinner to shoot on friday...lame

Yea, school hockey starting up here soon too. The ice is in and open skating should start any time now. I just dread the evil recycling lights and my white balance, gets tiring fixing that.

Canon_Lover wrote in post #13308112
9 shot HDR panorama @ 10mm portrait position with 2 Lee ND grads

Only 4 hours to process.

Too bad this forum is pathetic when it comes to posting large images.

This thing puts medium format shots to shame in terms of resolution.

Why not upload to Flickr, Razzi, Google+, Picasa, Photobucket, etc and hotlink?

nrowensby wrote in post #13309303
Why not upload to Flickr, Razzi, Google+, Picasa, Photobucket, etc and hotlink?

See, on DPR you can upload huge files which get broken down into 3 sizes. The smallest one displays for everyone and people can click on them to see larger versions. For a web site dedicated to Photography, POTN is like 10 years behind the features other sites have.

I keep coming back for the good info and nice people like yourself.

Photo sharing sucks here though...

I did post it to flickr!

This shot isn't really anywhere as good as I thought it looked when working on it. I seem to be really hit or miss these days with stuff people actually like.

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mm ben & jerrys!!

Canon_Lover wrote in post #13309429
See, on DPR you can upload huge files which get broken down into 3 sizes. The smallest one displays for everyone and people can click on them to see larger versions. For a web site dedicated to Photography, POTN is like 10 years behind the features other sites have.

DPR is backed by advertising and has Amazon servers. Up until Amazon took over, you could even directly post an image. Amazon has oodles of server space and bandwidth, this site is not a commercial venture like dpreview and others.

kdizzle wrote in post #13308770
Like the statue of liberty!

It seems to me that all of the car shots have a green tint to them. I'd say shift to magenta a good amount in the RAW files and that might do the trick.

I just tried the plate on the truck for the WB and IMO looks a lot more what I imagine the color of that truck would look like. Now that I think about it, and I may be over thinking things, but I'd think that a white plate would be pretty good since it has that reflective quality and gathers ambient lighting and reflects the light from all over (kind of like a expo disc) rather than a white garage door where you might get a little off balance due to shadows and such.

wolfden wrote in post #13309160
Yea, school hockey starting up here soon too. The ice is in and open skating should start any time now. I just dread the evil recycling lights and my white balance, gets tiring fixing that.

Yea waiting to find out when our team here starts up and then I'll try and start shooting them as well