60D users, friends and their random OT B.S. (II)

MakisM1 wrote in post #16493352
I'll give you one guess!
Click on the attachment links!

Congrats! Not much choice for us on the very wide end. Did you describe your selection process or did I miss it? (i.e. the 8-16 vs Canon's 10-22 or the Siggy 10-20?)

rpadula wrote in post #16498375
Best use of Velcro - EVER!

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=N9uxxqKGmYg

MakisM1 wrote in post #16498387
That's legendary!!...

Heh, I'm almost positive that was the very first Late Night with David Letterman I ever saw (when I was in high school). I was instantly hooked!!

vinmunoz wrote in post #16501218
it's my birthday today. I welcome anyone who will send me an 85L or 135L as a gift. I don't mind at all, promise.

Sorry I missed this, bud. Happy Belated birthday wishes.

But yeah, everything starts going downhill or falling off after 40.

Thanks. And yeah i start to feel the aches. But its my fault, i dont eat the right food all the time.

Finally got back to this shot that had a bad yellow color cast due to the ambient lighting. Couldn't figure out a way to deal with it in DPP but Vinz fixed it up in LR with an HSL adjustment. The first shot is his work and the yucky yellow cast is gone!

A lot lot better. You're welcome. I'm glad to be of helped.

I think a few pages back someone was talking about straps and quick releases; this is how I made my strap easily removable:

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rpadula wrote in post #16507611
Congrats! Not much choice for us on the very wide end. Did you describe your selection process or did I miss it? (i.e. the 8-16 vs Canon's 10-22 or the Siggy 10-20?)

Thought process! Yes, I had one...

The choices were

Canon EF-S 10-22 (FF FOV equivalent 16-35), takes filters, has a FF equivalent (2 if you count the less expensive but very capable EF 17-40)

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 has FF equivalents, f 2.8 a plus for night shots, reputation for flaring

Sigma 8-16 (FF FOV 12-25) has no rectilinear FF equivalents (Canon's UWA zoom is a fisheye), very well corrected distortions, con is it doesn't take filters easily (need home made solution).

I liked the fact that it was the widest rectilinear zoom I could get, that there is no equivalent in FF and that is a VERY SHARP lens!

I love it!

MakisM1 wrote in post #16508425
Thought process! Yes, I had one...

The choices were

Canon EF-S 10-22 (FF FOV equivalent 16-35), takes filters, has a FF equivalent (2 if you count the less expensive but very capable EF 17-40)

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 has FF equivalents, f 2.8 a plus for night shots, reputation for flaring

Sigma 8-16 (FF FOV 12-25) has no rectilinear FF equivalents (Canon's UWA zoom is a fisheye), very well corrected distortions, con is it doesn't take filters easily (need home made solution).

I liked the fact that it was the widest rectilinear zoom I could get, that there is no equivalent in FF and that is a VERY SHARP lens!

I love it!

Ah, but there is a FF equiv. of the 8-16. I have the Sigma 12-24, which is actually a bit wider on FF than the 8-16 is on a Canon APS-C (12.8-25.6 mm; it's 12-24 equiv. on the 1.5x crop sensors).

Guys, I need some help... From Amazon buyers.

I ordered (through my wife, in her account) some hardware from Amazon. It was supposed to be delivered in a window closing last Wednesday.

We got nothing.

She looked at her account yesterday and it shows delivered on Monday (left on our front door). Apart from the fact that we live in a gated community which is kinda hard to get to our front door, we've been checking every time we drove in and saw nothing.

Amazon is impossible to get on the phone.

How do I complain?

i have no such experience. todate the deliveries are being dropped in our door and stays there sometimes for an hour or more and nothing were loss eversince.

i hope you'll get this sorted out. I would call anyone. just say whatever you have to say. call amazon and/or courier.

Jon wrote in post #16508546
Ah, but there is a FF equiv. of the 8-16. I have the Sigma 12-24, which is actually a bit wider on FF than the 8-16 is on a Canon APS-C (12.8-25.6 mm; it's 12-24 equiv. on the 1.5x crop sensors).

jon that sigma 12-24 looks good. thanks for sharing. expensive though but i think it's worth it.

will it accept ND filters though?

Jon,

Mounted on the crop the FOV of the 12-24 is equivalent to 19.2-38.4.

I wanted something wider than this. There is a lot of real estate between 8-12 mm

8mm

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vinmunoz wrote in post #16508562
jon that sigma 12-24 looks good. thanks for sharing. expensive though but i think it's worth it.

will it accept ND filters though?

Yep, in back of the lens (so grads aren't too practical). Or you could get the Lee SW-150 (150 mm x 170 mm) size and hand-hold them in front if you want grads.

MakisM1 wrote in post #16508582
Jon,

Mounted on the crop the FOV of the 12-24 is equivalent to 19.2-38.4.

I wanted something wider than this. There is a lot of real estate between 8-12 mm

I was addressing your contention that there's no FF equivalent of the 8-16. As your examples make clear, the 12-24 would be a rectilinear FF equivalent in the sense you used it.

MakisM1 wrote in post #16508425
Thought process! Yes, I had one...

The choices were

Canon EF-S 10-22 (FF FOV equivalent 16-35), takes filters, has a FF equivalent (2 if you count the less expensive but very capable EF 17-40)

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 has FF equivalents, f 2.8 a plus for night shots, reputation for flaring

Sigma 8-16 (FF FOV 12-25) has no rectilinear FF equivalents (Canon's UWA zoom is a fisheye), very well corrected distortions, con is it doesn't take filters easily (need home made solution).

I liked the fact that it was the widest rectilinear zoom I could get, that there is no equivalent in FF and that is a VERY SHARP lens!

I love it!

MakisM1 wrote in post #16508553
Guys, I need some help... From Amazon buyers.

I ordered (through my wife, in her account) some hardware from Amazon. It was supposed to be delivered in a window closing last Wednesday.

We got nothing.

She looked at her account yesterday and it shows delivered on Monday (left on our front door). Apart from the fact that we live in a gated community which is kinda hard to get to our front door, we've been checking every time we drove in and saw nothing.

Amazon is impossible to get on the phone.

How do I complain?

Have you tried the # on this page? http://askville.amazon​.com …wer.do?requestI​d=73552278

Otherwise, try the customer service # for the carrier.

What a bummer. Hope you get it sorted soon.

Edit: another CS # listed here: http://askville.amazon​.com …wer.do?requestI​d=75260538